Zendikar: The greatest D&D setting never published

[I'm A Banana]

Makes me all warm and tingly inside, it does.

And I'm kind of lukewarm on a big chunk of 4e art.

This stuff, I really like.

 

[kyrand]

I have always agreed that Magic had some of the most interesting settings and stories. Even if Wizards never releases any D&D type products for them, couldn't someone (i.e. someone with more technical know-how and less general laziness than myself ) create a Wiki or something, compiling known information and artwork (assuming the artwork is legally usable, or permission is granted)?

I would love to be able to play in Dominiaria, or be a crew-member on the Weatherlight during its journey through Rath or Mercadia. Didn't really keep up with the settings after that, but the artwork of this new block looks awesome.

 

[Badwe]

i'm fairly confident there's a wiki out there somewhere. the art might be a bit squirrely, but if starcitygames.com is any indication, posting the full card images should be legit.

If someone could legitimately post something as simple as a 4e style delve in ANY of the magic settings (bonus points if all the monsters are named after creatures from that set), i would pay through the nose to use it.

 

[jeffh]

Why in the world would you want to introduce such derivitive crap?

Because it's fun, and because it gives people reference points. I don't want to write, nor do any plausible group of players I'd be dealing with want to read, a dissertation in anthropology (especially when I'm already gearing up to write one in a different field, quite literally, and so are some of them); I want to get on with the damn game.

People know, or think they know, what a "druid" or "ninja" is, and that facilitates gameplay. Innovation is overrated; there's nothing wrong with doing creative new things but it's rarely a good idea for that to be all you do.

 

[Rechan]

Because it's fun, and because it gives people reference points. I don't want to write, nor do any plausible group of players I'd be dealing with want to read, a dissertation in anthropology (especially when I'm already gearing up to write one in a different field, quite literally, and so are some of them); I want to get on with the damn game.

People know, or think they know, what a "druid" or "ninja" is, and that facilitates gameplay. Innovation is overrated; there's nothing wrong with doing creative new things but it's rarely a good idea for that to be all you do.

Not to mention that at least TO ME, there are two issues why someone would want to do it:

1) Casual gamers. Supposedly most D&D players are casual, right? So why would any casual gamer want to invest so much time in reading lots of junk just so they can pull up a chair and throw some dice with their friends?

2) People who are busy. I'm a grad student. I'm reading on average 100 pages per class per week. I don't have time to read, much less think up and write, a treatise on the Makow elf tribe's bathroom habits. Just say "They're mongols" and I know where I'm going.

 

[Rechan]

i'm fairly confident there's a wiki out there somewhere. the art might be a bit squirrely, but if starcitygames.com is any indication, posting the full card images should be legit.

If someone could legitimately post something as simple as a 4e style delve in ANY of the magic settings (bonus points if all the monsters are named after creatures from that set), i would pay through the nose to use it.

I wonder where the art and info on existing magic sets are? I know there's a computer program that has all the Magic cards in a database, that lets you build your own decks and play vs. people online; this database should have the Card art in it. But a more condensed place with art intended for RPG usage/inspiration/character portraits would be useful.

 

[Asmor]

I wonder where the art and info on existing magic sets are? I know there's a computer program that has all the Magic cards in a database, that lets you build your own decks and play vs. people online; this database should have the Card art in it. But a more condensed place with art intended for RPG usage/inspiration/character portraits would be useful.

There's a lot of decent-quality artwork out there. Not really "print quality," but we're talking decent size to be shown on a screen or even printed at small, but still larger than card, scale.

Good places to find it include artist's websites and the Magic website. Obviously that requires a lot of hunting, so a more compiled resource would definitely be helpful.

 

[Asmor]

Actually, here are some helpful links.

Pack a Lunch, It’s a Field Trip! : Daily MTG : Magic: The Gathering
List of Magic: The Gathering artists - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Woas]

See my perspective for 'good' fantasy art I guess isn't the norm. For my favorite piece of Magic art is Fay Jones' for that lovely old card Stasis.

Now, there's plenty of history to that card, but for me when I first saw that art I fell in love with it and it made want to make a deck from it. Boy, was I surprised when I did my research and discovered it was quite the card and there was such a thing as a 'Stasis Deck'. There really hasn't been any other art that I can remember that got my that interested in a card.