D&D (2024) STORMBREAK: A TARKIR ADVENTURE & THUNDER OVER FORSAKEN ISLESA FORGOTTEN REALMS ADVENTURE

[Yaarel]

Perhaps a bit more like the Etheral? But also different from either?

If it is ether, the Astral would still overlay it. Anywhere that has thought is part of the Astral Plane.

The Magic The Gathering cosmology may have its own Ethereal Plane, unconnected to the Great Wheel Ethereal Plane?

At any rate the big D&D push at MsgicCon 2025 is interesting.

I am enjoying the contributions of Magic The Gathering to the D&D multiverse. I love Strixhaven ... and Ravnica ... and all of the 5e MTG settings so far add useful content.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

I doubt Tarkir was enoughly interesting for D&D players. A better option could be Kaldheim or Kaladesh, now renamed Avishkar.

How would be Tarkirian dragoborns?

A possibility is an adventure working as "prequel" of a future crossover event.

Other option is after the arc a third timeline is created and this new Tarkir would be like mixing Dark Sun and Kara-Tur. Or a new plane was discovered from Tarkir and then this "new world" is settled by Tarkirians from two previous timelines. (Yes, it sounds strange).

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Apologies, "Blind Eternities" rather. And that is the Magic the Gatherijg term for the transitive plane between world ls that Planewalkers move through when they transition from realm to realm. If yoy can term the traditional D&D cosmology as "The Great Wheel," then the traditional Magic the Gathering cosmology is "The Blind Eternties."

Basically, I am suggesting a Magic the Gathering general multiverse book would make sense, and allow them to bring the Msgic D&D books from before they started working on 2024 to come forward mechanically.

I'm very curious what The Edge is given it's outside the Blind Eternities given the Blind Eternities & the planes suspended within it were suppose to be were supposed to be the entire cosmology.

 

[Parmandur]

I'm very curious what The Edge is given it's outside the Blind Eternities given the Blind Eternities & the planes suspended within it were suppose to be were supposed to be the entire cosmology.

I believe that he is the guitarist fir U2.

Though seriously...if they are putting out some sort of Magic book in October, it could answer questions like that, which the Magic team doesn't want out quuuuuuuite yet.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

I guess WotC wants the future planes could be used as D&D setting, to power up the IP.

D&D needs a new setting style "Councyl of Wyrms" working like a "Jurasic Park" where you can add all the dragons from all the editions.

Other option could be to create a new "transitional setting" where characters, factions and creatures of both multiverse could meet in a same plane.

Why not to mix Ravnica and Duskmourn? It would be like a "haunted megalopolis" where most of people could live a relatively normal, boring or happy life but in the "underground", behind the curtains a lot of things happen. Of course you could exit and explore outdoors, not like in Duskmourn.

* Or they could invent some fool idea about "pocket universes" traveling between worlds, and then some island could appear in Krynn, and a decade later in Faerun or Flanaes.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

I guess WotC wants the future planes could be used as D&D setting, to power up the IP.

D&D needs a new setting style "Councyl of Wyrms" working like a "Jurasic Park" where you can add all the dragons from all the editions.

Other option could be to create a new "transitional setting" where characters, factions and creatures of both multiverse could meet in a same plane.

Why not to mix Ravnica and Duskmourn? It would be like a "haunted megalopolis" where most of people could live a relatively normal, boring or happy life but in the "underground", behind the curtains a lot of things happen. Of course you could exit and explore outdoors, not like in Duskmourn.

* Or they could invent some fool idea about "pocket universes" traveling between worlds, and then some island could appear in Krynn, and a decade later in Faerun or Flanaes.

Yeah, for what ever reason magic settings have a hard time selling beyond the card game, D&D crossover being the exception.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

I have said several times in the past the weak point of 5e system is not to can be omni-genre. You can create a d20 Star Wars, Doctor Who d20 or a d20 Modern but D&D is not designed for compatibility fantasy settings with others of sci-fi genre or superheroes. If you add firearms or modern technology then you may break the power balance easily.

A collab for Magic is relatively short time, but a licence for a TTRPG means a partnership deal for a long time.

WotC could publish TTRPGs of famous Hasbro franchises, but they didn't want and those were licenced to Renegade Games (and My Little Pony before to other publisher).

 

[Mecheon]

If it is ether, the Astral would still overlay it. Anywhere that has thought is part of the Astral Plane.

The Astral has all of its hangups, though. The Blind Eternities doesn't. Astral's chock full of things, its all timeless and whatnot, this is all stuff that doesn't apply to the Blind Eternities. It isn't a place you visit and have adventures in, its a place that tears you to shreds unless you've a Spark because its antithetical to life and really doesn't want you it in there.

If anything, its more like the Far Realm, especially given everyone's favourites the Eldrazi come from there and are the only life at all there

 

[Yaarel]

The Astral has all of its hangups, though. The Blind Eternities doesn't. Astral's chock full of things, its all timeless and whatnot, this is all stuff that doesn't apply to the Blind Eternities. It isn't a place you visit and have adventures in, its a place that tears you to shreds unless you've a Spark because its antithetical to life and really doesn't want you it in there.

If anything, its more like the Far Realm, especially given everyone's favourites the Eldrazi come from there and are the only life at all there

But does the Blind Eternities have all of the Aberration monsters that Far Realms does?

If it is "blank", but hostile, it might be its own kind of "Deep Shadowfell" (similar to the Black in Dark Sun) as a Negative Void. Or perhaps it is a kind of "Deep Feywild", where the Positive Energy is overwhelmingly dangerous.

If it the "Blind" Eternities has "stuff" in it, it might be Elemental, more like the Elemental Chaos?

 

[Yaarel]

@Mecheon

I googled Eldrazi, I see what you mean about the Aberration vibe. Still, Astral has squick too.

It is the description of the plane itself, the Blind Eternities, that would suggest which region of the Wheel to correlate.