Is that confirmed? I don't recall that being the case.Its a classic setting we know that much.
Is that confirmed? I don't recall that being the case.Its a classic setting we know that much.
That's the vibe I get from the Radiant Citadel if it was turned up to 12, but I guess that's not a campaign setting, it's a big location.I'm really surprised they haven't made exactly that yet.
A manga style setting would be an amazing idea as 'a' DnD setting.Hiring a Japanese team of artists to create a manga-style setting shouldn't be such a crazy idea.
I think it does have an unfair bad rep, having glanced through it - but I think it's partly the marketing, and partly that the central setting is supposed to be a Star Trek-like utopia, but actually reads as a slightly creepy place, like Picard and crew would visit and initially it would seem really cool then something bad would happen to one or some of the crew because the violated some unmentioned but vital rule, then there'd have to be some odd and unfair trial and Picard would have to make a speech or whatever. But then I think people are a bit afraid to call it out as being slightly creepy, because it's supposed to multicultural and lovely, according to the marketing.Radiant Citadel gets such an unfairly bad rep. There is a lot of conflict in Radiant Citadel, and that's something I think a lot of people have trouble groking due to the marketing the project had. But the conflict is intense, and the adventures themselves often present things like totalitarian celestial governments abusing their powers, incredibly creepy hauntings that terrorize entire realms, and straight up arcano-natural disasters threatening civilizations, and so on.
Streets of Fire is amongst my all time favorite movies - its got retro-dieselpunk weirdness but not quite sci-fi. It might be adapted to a cool DnD setting too - combine it with the Chinese movie Nezha Reborn (set in 1920s Shanghai) for the fantasy visuals too.New movie for my scifi mustsee list.
My read is that the Radiant Citadel is supposed to have conflict within it in addition to without. It is a faux-utopia; a bundle of hope that is also slightly rotting. There is something eldritch about the ancestor spirits that run it and imo that is intentional.I think it does have an unfair bad rep, having glanced through it - but I think it's partly the marketing, and partly that the central setting is supposed to be a Star Trek-like utopia, but actually reads as a slightly creepy place, like Picard and crew would visit and initially it would seem really cool then something bad would happen to one or some of the crew because the violated some unmentioned but vital rule, then there'd have to be some odd and unfair trial and Picard would have to make a speech or whatever. But then I think people are a bit afraid to call it out as being slightly creepy, because it's supposed to multicultural and lovely, according to the marketing.
I guess I'd rate it as a bit less creepy than several supposedly "good guy" cities in the FR, which actually have some really messed-up laws that pretty much no-one actually plays them as having.
Several of the adventures themselves, as you say, deal with some fairly serious and alarming conflicts. A couple of them feel like they chicken out of the like, real conflict they seem to be about, but that's nothing unique to Radiant Citadel - it's common with American corporation-produced media (c.f. the MCU - I think that's part why they're so afraid to introduce the X-Men in a real way, a whole bunch of AAA videogames - though not all, absolutely every single book written by Brandon Sanderson, and so on).