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WotC New M:tG set announced: "Adventures in the Forgotten Realms"
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The Mirrorball Man
Aventurier
I'm unfamiliar with the setting. What is it about?
MockingBird
Hero
Really wish we could get some old school settings for a bit.
The Mirrorball Man
Aventurier
Thank you !
ersatzphil
Hero
I don't have anything against the M:tG settings - I can only conclude that they're selling quite well - but I agree that two in the span of a year would feel a bit much.
The Mirrorball Man
Aventurier
Wouldn't it be nice if Magic: The Gathering had a D&D-inspired expansion?
AliasBot
Explorer
Zendikar would be a fundamentally weird place to get a D&D setting book for, because of how much of the plane's creative DNA comes from D&D - the introduction to Plane Shift Zendikar in the link above says as much. It's not that it wouldn't work, it's just that its shtick as a Magic world is "adventure plane," which means it wouldn't stand out nearly as much in a franchise where wide-ranging adventure is the default: it's the closest thing to "D&D plane" that Magic has, and "D&D plane" isn't much of a hook in actual-factual D&D.
...though since Zendikar puts the most emphasis on the exploration aspect of adventuring, it might actually have a mechanical niche in 5E as a book where it makes sense to put much more in-depth exploration rules, so it does have that going for it.
(My crackpot prediction is that this is actually a tease for an adventure book set on Zendikar, rather than for a Zendikar setting book. There are a number of logical reasons why it probably wouldn't make sense, but something about the concept just feels right, somehow: an adventure across the adventure plane!)
...though since Zendikar puts the most emphasis on the exploration aspect of adventuring, it might actually have a mechanical niche in 5E as a book where it makes sense to put much more in-depth exploration rules, so it does have that going for it.
(My crackpot prediction is that this is actually a tease for an adventure book set on Zendikar, rather than for a Zendikar setting book. There are a number of logical reasons why it probably wouldn't make sense, but something about the concept just feels right, somehow: an adventure across the adventure plane!)
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