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<blockquote data-quote="Remathilis" data-source="post: 6780809" data-attributes="member: 7635">Interesting repsonses.I was in Target the other day and saw <a href="https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/167698/magic-gathering-arena-planeswalkers" target="_blank">Arena of the Planeswalkers;</a> a board game based off the Magic: The Gathering mythos. For those not in the know; in MTG a Planeswalker is a super-powerful wizard, in game the Player is assuming the role of a Planeswalker dueling another planeswalker via his spells and creatures (the cards). In the beginning, the story was never more complicated than that. However, over the years Wizards developed a collection of Planeswalkers who you could call in for aid (play as cards) that had names, origins, storylines, and whose actions affected the meta-story running through the different card sets. In short, they took the concept of the nameless, faceless player-Planeswalker and made it focus on these unique characters that filter throughout the MTG universe.I was looking at this game and realized that right now, D&amp;D has few options to do that. It doesn't have many characters that reach the level of in-world recognition that a Planeswalker does. On the hero side, there is a few characters from novels, comics, or games, and on the villain side a few from modules, novels, or other spinoffs. The closest D&amp;D got to this was the Iconics of 3e who appeared in every module and in most book art, but aside from a few mediocre novels and a sweet, but short, interactive movie (Scourge of Worlds, check it out if you haven't) never really made a group of heroes or villains that matched the level of what Planeswalkers mean to MTG, which limits D&amp;D right now in terms of marketing outside the RPG. So I was trying to see if there is a decent enough group of characters that could become the &quot;faces&quot; of D&amp;D like the Planeswalkers became the faces of MTG. Despite being a much older game with much deeper lore, its not appearing there are that many characters who can fill the role of &quot;character ambassador&quot; right now...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Remathilis, post: 6780809, member: 7635"] Interesting repsonses. I was in Target the other day and saw [URL="https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/167698/magic-gathering-arena-planeswalkers"]Arena of the Planeswalkers;[/URL] a board game based off the Magic: The Gathering mythos. For those not in the know; in MTG a Planeswalker is a super-powerful wizard, in game the Player is assuming the role of a Planeswalker dueling another planeswalker via his spells and creatures (the cards). In the beginning, the story was never more complicated than that. However, over the years Wizards developed a collection of Planeswalkers who you could call in for aid (play as cards) that had names, origins, storylines, and whose actions affected the meta-story running through the different card sets. In short, they took the concept of the nameless, faceless player-Planeswalker and made it focus on these unique characters that filter throughout the MTG universe. I was looking at this game and realized that right now, D&D has few options to do that. It doesn't have many characters that reach the level of in-world recognition that a Planeswalker does. On the hero side, there is a few characters from novels, comics, or games, and on the villain side a few from modules, novels, or other spinoffs. The closest D&D got to this was the Iconics of 3e who appeared in every module and in most book art, but aside from a few mediocre novels and a sweet, but short, interactive movie (Scourge of Worlds, check it out if you haven't) never really made a group of heroes or villains that matched the level of what Planeswalkers mean to MTG, which limits D&D right now in terms of marketing outside the RPG. So I was trying to see if there is a decent enough group of characters that could become the "faces" of D&D like the Planeswalkers became the faces of MTG. Despite being a much older game with much deeper lore, its not appearing there are that many characters who can fill the role of "character ambassador" right now... [/QUOTE]

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