D&D 5E Survey: What should the next Magic the Gathering Campaign Setting be?

[Tonguez]

There is zero other D&D Cambodian inspired setting, other zero other D&D Vietnam inspired settings, other zero other D&D Tibet inspired settings, zero Indonesian inspired D&D settings, zero other D&D Siberian settings. Only Kara Tur had the vision and the guts to go beyond the usual China and Japanese settings for D&D fans.

The setting has soooo much potential.

And the lead designers and writers of Kara Tur had a huge amount of respect for Asian cultures, they did not just reduce it to stuff inspired by Kung Fu movies or Anime, which could easily have happened.

dont forget 3e Mahasarpa, although most people associate it with India in a 2001 tweet James Wyatt said "Fun Fact: For my own OA campaign, I set my adventures in the yuan-ti-infested ruins of Angkor Wat in a setting I called Mahasarpa"

I've also played in a Mahasarpa game inspired by Vietnam, so it does SE Asia pretty well

 

[gyor]

dont forget 3e Mahasarpa, although most people associate it with India in a 2001 tweet James Wyatt said "Fun Fact: For my own OA campaign, I set my adventures in the yuan-ti-infested ruins of Angkor Wat in a setting I called Mahasarpa"

I've also played in a Mahasarpa game inspired by Vietnam, so it does SE Asia pretty well

Honestly I think most folks think of Mahasarpa as fantasy India, but there is enough cultural similarities to expand beyond that.

Still, it's not updated to 5e and now that Legend of the Five Rings isn't apart of D&D anymore, I honestly don't know how Mahasarpa fits into the D&D cosmology any more if at all. Who has the rights to the setting? It never got a hardcover to my knowledge.

 

[Retreater]

How about Pokemon Island? Is that a Magic setting?

 

[gyor]

How about Pokemon Island? Is that a Magic setting?

No

 

[gyor]

I've actually suggested dropping Mahasarpa dropping into FR with some changes.

 

[Urriak Uruk]

So as a fun exercise, I've counted the number of MtG card "blocks" each plane has received, to compare to Ravnica/Theros.

Alara: 3
Amonkhet: 2
Dominaria: More than 10
Fiora: 2
Innistrad: 5
Ixalan: 2
Kaladesh: 2
Kamigawa: 3
Lorwyn/Shadowmoor: 4
Mirrodin/New Phyrexia: 6
Ravnica: 9
Shandalar: 1?
Tarkir: 3
Theros: 4
Zendikar: 5 (will be 6)
Eldraine: 1
Ikoria: 1

Interestingly, Theros being so new actually only has 4 sets (more than many, but less than some too). Ravnica has loads, more than anything but Dominaria (which was once Magic only setting).

I'm not really sure if this counting actually helps anything at all, except that it points out that Dominaria, Innistrad, New Phyrexia and Zendikar are the most visited settings in Magic. Of these, Zendikar probably makes the best setting book (although Innistrad would be great, if it didn't tread on Ravenloft so much).

 

[gyor]

So as a fun exercise, I've counted the number of MtG card "blocks" each plane has received, to compare to Ravnica/Theros.

Alara: 3
Amonkhet: 2
Dominaria: More than 10
Fiora: 2
Innistrad: 5
Ixalan: 2
Kaladesh: 2
Kamigawa: 3
Lorwyn/Shadowmoor: 4
Mirrodin/New Phyrexia: 6
Ravnica: 9
Shandalar: 1?
Tarkir: 3
Theros: 4
Zendikar: 5 (will be 6)
Eldraine: 1
Ikoria: 1

Interestingly, Theros being so new actually only has 4 sets (more than many, but less than some too). Ravnica has loads, more than anything but Dominaria (which was once Magic only setting).

I'm not really sure if this counting actually helps anything at all, except that it points out that Dominaria, Innistrad, New Phyrexia and Zendikar are the most visited settings in Magic. Of these, Zendikar probably makes the best setting book (although Innistrad would be great, if it didn't tread on Ravenloft so much).

I wonder why no one includes Kylem in Planes visited, it only got like a partial set, but it was really freaking cool.

And Guildmasters Guide to Ravnica is set before the last three Ravnica sets so card count wise that sets Ravnica as less cards then Zendikar, especially if you couny Zendikar Expeditions, otherwise it would be way more then Zendikar.

If all the Ravnica sets are counted it's over 2000 card!

And of course Dominaria dwarfs all of them (but when it comes to lore many Traditional D&D setting would absolutely drown Dominaria).

 

[gyor]

So as a fun exercise, I've counted the number of MtG card "blocks" each plane has received, to compare to Ravnica/Theros.

Alara: 3
Amonkhet: 2
Dominaria: More than 10
Fiora: 2
Innistrad: 5
Ixalan: 2
Kaladesh: 2
Kamigawa: 3
Lorwyn/Shadowmoor: 4
Mirrodin/New Phyrexia: 6
Ravnica: 9
Shandalar: 1?
Tarkir: 3
Theros: 4
Zendikar: 5 (will be 6)
Eldraine: 1
Ikoria: 1

Interestingly, Theros being so new actually only has 4 sets (more than many, but less than some too). Ravnica has loads, more than anything but Dominaria (which was once Magic only setting).

I'm not really sure if this counting actually helps anything at all, except that it points out that Dominaria, Innistrad, New Phyrexia and Zendikar are the most visited settings in Magic. Of these, Zendikar probably makes the best setting book (although Innistrad would be great, if it didn't tread on Ravenloft so much).

You could probably fit Innistrad in as one of the larger Domains in Ravenloft, if it wasn't for the fact that it would have cosmological issues.

 

[Urriak Uruk]

I wonder why no one includes Kylem in Planes visited, it only got like a partial set, but it was really freaking cool.

And Guildmasters Guide to Ravnica is set before the last three Ravnica sets so card count wise that sets Ravnica as less cards then Zendikar, especially if you couny Zendikar Expeditions, otherwise it would be way more then Zendikar.

If all the Ravnica sets are counted it's over 2000 card!

And of course Dominaria dwarfs all of them (but when it comes to lore many Traditional D&D setting would absolutely drown Dominaria).

I don't really count Kylem as it doesn't even list as one of the planes on Magic's official website. It's not bad, and may be revisited, but really doesn't make sense in the context of becoming a D&D setting.

And Ravnica still has 9 sets, regardless of what timeline there in. Not counting the last block would be remiss.

I suppose you could count Zendikar Expeditions, but it really is just a part of the Battle for Zendikar set. If you count it, Zendikar has 7 sets.

You could probably fit Innistrad in as one of the larger Domains in Ravenloft, if it wasn't for the fact that it would have cosmological issues.

It'd be a fun way to reconcile the two, in a join Innistrad/Ravnica book. I doubt Wizard's is that bold however.

 

[Parmandur]

So as a fun exercise, I've counted the number of MtG card "blocks" each plane has received, to compare to Ravnica/Theros.

Alara: 3
Amonkhet: 2
Dominaria: More than 10
Fiora: 2
Innistrad: 5
Ixalan: 2
Kaladesh: 2
Kamigawa: 3
Lorwyn/Shadowmoor: 4
Mirrodin/New Phyrexia: 6
Ravnica: 9
Shandalar: 1?
Tarkir: 3
Theros: 4
Zendikar: 5 (will be 6)
Eldraine: 1
Ikoria: 1

Interestingly, Theros being so new actually only has 4 sets (more than many, but less than some too). Ravnica has loads, more than anything but Dominaria (which was once Magic only setting).

I'm not really sure if this counting actually helps anything at all, except that it points out that Dominaria, Innistrad, New Phyrexia and Zendikar are the most visited settings in Magic. Of these, Zendikar probably makes the best setting book (although Innistrad would be great, if it didn't tread on Ravenloft so much).

Interesting to compare this with the last reported rankings on the "Rabiah Scale" of how likely Magic is to feature an older Plane prominently again:

Rabiah Scale

The Rabiah Scale is a ranking of the likelihood that a given plane will be revisited as the setting of a future Standard-legal set. Planes are ranked from 1 (very likely) to 10 (very unlikely). As one of the Rosewater Scales, the Rabiah Scale is analogous to the Storm Scale for mechanics. The...

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