doctorbadwolf
Heretic of The Seventh Circle
I think you can absolutely introduce players to both worlds in the space of a “gazetteer”.
D&D 5E Which Magic the Gathering setting would you want added officially to D&D?
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I think you can absolutely introduce players to both worlds in the space of a “gazetteer”.
Ratskinner
Adventurer
I think I'd say Kamigawa, just for the massive pile of new monsters, etc. I'm finding traditional D&D stuff to be a little done.
doctorbadwolf
Heretic of The Seventh Circle
You can introduce every single dnd setting in 25 pages. Full stop.
They don’t need to detail them, just introduce them. There are dozens of books out there for every setting.
I don't think any of the settings that got Planeshift articles will be much smaller then the Planeshift articles.
I would compare the Planeshift Articles to Wayfarer's Guide to Eberron, with this MtG D&D book being more like Rising From the Last War.
In fact this book might just be updated, improved, and mechanically expanded versions of the Planeshift aricles, with maybe a chapter tying them together and with D&D in general.
Perhaps even with a small section on with small paragraph blurbs on the more minor MtG settings.
I don't think Kamigawa will be one of them, because it will clash with any possible Kara Tur book, but instead Kamigawa might actually be mentioned in the Kara Tur book as an alternative setting to use it's mechanics in. Just a Hypothesis.
Introduce, yes, do justice to no.
Parmandur
Book-Friend, he/him
Most of the content in those articles would fit in Chapter 1 (PC rules), Chapter 5 (Magic items) or Chapter 6 (Monsters). Not Gazeeter material, mainly.
On a MtG side note, I think l Theros Beyond Death will not invovle Heliods death like most people think. Instead I think most of the plot will invovle the white knight Planeswalker chick (I forget her name) journeying through the Underworld, and instead of running into the regular Theros Gods she runs into their fallen predocessors, the Theros equivilant of the Titans instead, either as allies or threats or both. Just a prediction. Plus the quest or adventure keyword.
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Urriak Uruk
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Two things, one on the possibility of a "combined setting book" (one that puts multiple settings in one book), the other on the Rabiah scale.
I actually find a combined setting book unlikely unless it focuses on planes that are less popular, or at least smaller in scale/diversity compared to other settings. My reasoning is simply that Wizard's seems pretty comfortable in 5e, and their problem going forward could be that they'll want more content easily available to develop. So why make a combined book for Dominaria, Mystara, and Dragonlance when you could string out the development cycle longer and make three seperate books?
I don't think that standard extends to all Magic settings though; Kaladesh, Amonkhet, and Innistrad for example are all fairly small in geography, development and diversity (diversity used as how much the world changes from area to area). I could see the three of those in one book, simply because each one isn't strong enough to share a book of its own.
Now as to the Rabiah scale; it's interesting how few worlds actually are low enough in the scale to seem likely Magic will ever return to them, and I believe the "likelihood of return" strongly correlates to "likelihood of getting their own setting book."
Only three worlds have a "1," Ravnica, Innistrad, and Dominaria. Ravnica already has a book, but I find Innistrad strongly overlaps with Ravenloft; maybe they'll get a book together, but more likely Innistrad will never get a book unless it's shared with something else. Dominaria however is a strong candidate.
Zendikar comes up next with a "2," and then Tharos as a "3" (both are getting new Magic sets this year). I find both aren't quite as diverse as Ravnica/Dominaria, but at the same time are more diverse than almost every other Magic setting, so still possible they'll get their own books.
I actually find a combined setting book unlikely unless it focuses on planes that are less popular, or at least smaller in scale/diversity compared to other settings. My reasoning is simply that Wizard's seems pretty comfortable in 5e, and their problem going forward could be that they'll want more content easily available to develop. So why make a combined book for Dominaria, Mystara, and Dragonlance when you could string out the development cycle longer and make three seperate books?
I don't think that standard extends to all Magic settings though; Kaladesh, Amonkhet, and Innistrad for example are all fairly small in geography, development and diversity (diversity used as how much the world changes from area to area). I could see the three of those in one book, simply because each one isn't strong enough to share a book of its own.
Now as to the Rabiah scale; it's interesting how few worlds actually are low enough in the scale to seem likely Magic will ever return to them, and I believe the "likelihood of return" strongly correlates to "likelihood of getting their own setting book."
Only three worlds have a "1," Ravnica, Innistrad, and Dominaria. Ravnica already has a book, but I find Innistrad strongly overlaps with Ravenloft; maybe they'll get a book together, but more likely Innistrad will never get a book unless it's shared with something else. Dominaria however is a strong candidate.
Zendikar comes up next with a "2," and then Tharos as a "3" (both are getting new Magic sets this year). I find both aren't quite as diverse as Ravnica/Dominaria, but at the same time are more diverse than almost every other Magic setting, so still possible they'll get their own books.
Exactly although I'd argue most MtG settings are small that way, although a few are geographically large, but extremely low populations like Zendikar.
Dominara won't be in this book because it's, easily big enough for it's own book. And Ravnica has already been done. I also don't think Alara will be in as it seems big both in Geography and Lore and diverse areas, it's big enough to have it's own book.
In fact I think 2021 will be the year of Alara's own seperate Setting book. Just a prediction. I mean Alara has it's own major subsettings, the Shards.
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