D&D (2024) They are starting to sell MtG Secret Lairs on D&D Beyond as a hint that a D&D 50th Anniversay Secret Lair/s is coming.

[Marandahir]

Is it weird I'd rather a Duskmourn setting?

NOT AT ALL. Have you played Scorn? Do you like THE BACKROOMS?
Duskmourn seems to scratch that horror itch in a very different way from Innistrad. I'd love a Duskmourn book. It also wouldn't conflict with Ravenloft for its niche space, if ported to D&D.

 

[Parmandur]

I guess the DDB marketplace is becoming the Wizards of the Coast marketplace? Seems strange to sell non-D&D products via a D&D-specific store.

Probably makes a whole lot of sense in terms of business resources: why build two slick professional marketplaces?

 

[Parmandur]

I don’t care for secret lairs either, but I do think describing them as highly expensive is kind of misleading. They usually “pay for themselves” in terms of secondary market value. Like, buying singles of all the cards that come in a secret lair from TCGPlayer or Cardmarket or whatever would often be more expensive.

I'd maybe describe it as crowdfunding a limited run print of cards?

 

[Parmandur]

I just want them to release a Bloomburrow D&D setting once that set comes out.

I'm gonna ne real, not having a consistent and clear way for people to play Awakened Animals is one of the major content gaps of 5E.

 

[Stormonu]

I mostly agree, but I want one more product, a compendium of the Planeshift articles, polished and updated, that would also allow them for dmsguild. Maybe add a few more like Duskmourn, Tarkir, Kamigawa, or Bloomborrow.

Then with all.those open to dmsguild, folks can do what they want with them and D&D designers can completely move on from.MtG.

I could go for a Bloomborrow/Redwall/Mouseguard world of anthromorphs myself (Humblewood may be the closest to that right now) as well as a Kaldheim-like world (and an Egyptian-themed setting). But I'd rather they weren't taken from MtG and were instead developed from the ground up with D&D in mind instead of trying to shoehorn it to fit 5-color magic.

 

[pukunui]

Probably makes a whole lot of sense in terms of business resources: why build two slick professional marketplaces?

I just would have thought that M:tG would have its own online marketplace already.

 

[darjr]

I just would have thought that M:tG would have its own online marketplace already.

I think one of the points of the secret lair is it being sold in odd places.

 

[pukunui]

I think one of the points of the secret lair is it being sold in odd places.

Ah OK. That makes sense, I guess.

 

[Parmandur]

I just would have thought that M:tG would have its own online marketplace already.

I think it was just hosted on the Magic site. And still, I am sure they save money by having one team handle coding and logistics for both.

 

[Marandahir]

I could go for a Bloomborrow/Redwall/Mouseguard world of anthromorphs myself (Humblewood may be the closest to that right now) as well as a Kaldheim-like world (and an Egyptian-themed setting). But I'd rather they weren't taken from MtG and were instead developed from the ground up with D&D in mind instead of trying to shoehorn it to fit 5-color magic.

The nice thing about the 3 hardcover MtG X D&D books was that they used the 5 colors really only for factions / deities rather than trying to force alignment onto it or twice D&D alignment and elementals into the 5 colors.

The 5 colors are useful as an organizational principle, and these are settings that are less about good vs evil, law vs chaos, but that doesn't mean that the Temple of Heliod isn't Lawful and Good aligned.