So I was just listening to the stream and saw some people saying there hasntbeen any playtesting for ravnica we can see like Eberron and it occured woul any UA stuff we had latley apply to Ravnica.
So far I have the following ideas:
New Races - Centaurs and Minotaurs
New Subclasses - Order Domain [Azorius guild?], Circle of Spores [Golgari?], Brute, School of Invention [Izzet]
I wonder if anyone had any other ideas what we could maybe see?
Starting at 33m08s, Jeremy Crawford confirms there will be backgrounds for each guild, and that they were “stealth play testing” the subclasses for the Order domain clerics (Azorius) and Circle of Spores druid (Golgari).
Looking at the UA PDF where circle of spores was introduced, it’s obvious in hindsight that they were playtesting the Brute fighter as a Gruul subclass and School of Invention Wizard as Izzet. Without that context, wow was that wizard class so very “not D&D” to me. But now? “Oh yeah, that’s Izzet. Makes perfect sense. “
Edit: oh yeah, and the centaur and minotaur race playtest too.
Edit 2: oops I forgot to say my guesses/hopes!
New races should include Viashino snake people, Luxodon elephant people. I’m hoping there’s some sort of playable undead things. I’d rather be a zombie rot farmer than an elf one, but I’ll make do if they don’t cross that line. Some new spells would be a dream come true. Maybe some summons to feel a bit more M:tG? I know they said they don’t talk about the colours of magic in the book because that meta element doesn’t mean anything to PCs. (48m55s into the video.)
I mean we know jeremy crawford and mike mearls were involved in this because they are the 2 key rules writers. We also know the guy who writes the planeshift pdfs is involved being one of the few staff who has worked on dnd (old eberron) and MTG. Seeing comments dnd has 1 team that works on books but they move between different books as different people are needed. With the exception of free lancers see keith baker for eberron or matt mercer for dragon heist.
But at the same time this is not the thread for discussing the qaulity of the book (there are enought threads for that) this is for people discussing what they think we are going to see.
“Stealth playtesting” as in they were publicly playtesting Ravnica material without revealing/announcing it was for Ravnica. We can tell from the interview that at the very least, James Wyatt and Jeremy Crawford were deeply involved in writing it.
Otherwise, I’m not sure if they have some hidden agenda or not. They say it’s a book for D&D players primarily. I assume they have enough marketing data from all the downloads and feedback from James Wyatt’s Planeshift articles over the last few years that this is a profitable and desired endeavour.
It’s unfortunate if it turns out to not be AL legal, but if there’s two campaign books coming out anyway in that release season, and AL is focused on FR content, so there should be lots to keep the community busy, right?
The Giant Soul Sorcerer relied heavily on the themes of the Ordning, and that's not something I'd expect in Ravnica. So, I'm going to say probably not.
I'm kind of hoping we get Guild Feats to mimic their specialties beyond just backgrounds.
So I was just listening to the stream and saw some people saying there hasntbeen any playtesting for ravnica we can see like Eberron and it occured woul any UA stuff we had latley apply to Ravnica.
So far I have the following ideas:
New Races - Centaurs and Minotaurs
New Subclasses - Order Domain [Azorius guild?], Circle of Spores [Golgari?], Brute, School of Invention [Izzet]
I wonder if anyone had any other ideas what we could maybe see?
Loex - A Lizardfolk Lvl 4/7/4 Hexblade Profane Blood Hunter/ Battlesmith Artificer/ Cleric of the Forge
Arborea - A Warforged Lvl 5 Hexblade Warlock
Archive - A Autognome Lvl 3 Old One Warlock
ER15 - A Autognome Lvl 7 Binder Warlock
DM - "Malign Intelligence"
We'll likely see new "Guild-centric" Backgrounds. Guild affiliation is very core to Ravnica.
https://youtu.be/_95EaQMvPmA
Starting at 33m08s, Jeremy Crawford confirms there will be backgrounds for each guild, and that they were “stealth play testing” the subclasses for the Order domain clerics (Azorius) and Circle of Spores druid (Golgari).
Looking at the UA PDF where circle of spores was introduced, it’s obvious in hindsight that they were playtesting the Brute fighter as a Gruul subclass and School of Invention Wizard as Izzet. Without that context, wow was that wizard class so very “not D&D” to me. But now? “Oh yeah, that’s Izzet. Makes perfect sense. “
Edit: oh yeah, and the centaur and minotaur race playtest too.
Edit 2: oops I forgot to say my guesses/hopes!
New races should include Viashino snake people, Luxodon elephant people. I’m hoping there’s some sort of playable undead things. I’d rather be a zombie rot farmer than an elf one, but I’ll make do if they don’t cross that line. Some new spells would be a dream come true. Maybe some summons to feel a bit more M:tG? I know they said they don’t talk about the colours of magic in the book because that meta element doesn’t mean anything to PCs. (48m55s into the video.)
Stealth playtesting????
Given the lack of comments or tweets from Mr. Perkins and bland comments from Mr. Mearls, I would love to know who wrote this...
Seems goal is get MtG players to try D&D... But switch from five color mana pools to vancian magic might be too big a change....
Does not appear to be AL support or even time to run it with Mad Mage on same date...
I fear this is first attempt to kill the golden goose. Interested in other comments...
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I mean we know jeremy crawford and mike mearls were involved in this because they are the 2 key rules writers. We also know the guy who writes the planeshift pdfs is involved being one of the few staff who has worked on dnd (old eberron) and MTG. Seeing comments dnd has 1 team that works on books but they move between different books as different people are needed. With the exception of free lancers see keith baker for eberron or matt mercer for dragon heist.
But at the same time this is not the thread for discussing the qaulity of the book (there are enought threads for that) this is for people discussing what they think we are going to see.
Loex - A Lizardfolk Lvl 4/7/4 Hexblade Profane Blood Hunter/ Battlesmith Artificer/ Cleric of the Forge
Arborea - A Warforged Lvl 5 Hexblade Warlock
Archive - A Autognome Lvl 3 Old One Warlock
ER15 - A Autognome Lvl 7 Binder Warlock
DM - "Malign Intelligence"
“Stealth playtesting” as in they were publicly playtesting Ravnica material without revealing/announcing it was for Ravnica. We can tell from the interview that at the very least, James Wyatt and Jeremy Crawford were deeply involved in writing it.
Otherwise, I’m not sure if they have some hidden agenda or not. They say it’s a book for D&D players primarily. I assume they have enough marketing data from all the downloads and feedback from James Wyatt’s Planeshift articles over the last few years that this is a profitable and desired endeavour.
It’s unfortunate if it turns out to not be AL legal, but if there’s two campaign books coming out anyway in that release season, and AL is focused on FR content, so there should be lots to keep the community busy, right?
Question do people think giant soul sorceror could be seen it is the only recent UA i can't figure out if it would work.
Loex - A Lizardfolk Lvl 4/7/4 Hexblade Profane Blood Hunter/ Battlesmith Artificer/ Cleric of the Forge
Arborea - A Warforged Lvl 5 Hexblade Warlock
Archive - A Autognome Lvl 3 Old One Warlock
ER15 - A Autognome Lvl 7 Binder Warlock
DM - "Malign Intelligence"
The Giant Soul Sorcerer relied heavily on the themes of the Ordning, and that's not something I'd expect in Ravnica. So, I'm going to say probably not.
I'm kind of hoping we get Guild Feats to mimic their specialties beyond just backgrounds.
Luxodon please.
Your wish has been granted.
I'm hoping to see some new spells. I love me some spells.