Okay, so looking back at the previous releases for settings over the past two years, WotC put out Ravnica, followed by Aquisitions Inc, then the Eberron book, and now we have the Crit Role book coming out followed by this Theros setting. If there's any sort of pattern to what I'm seeing, they might announce an older setting after Theros gets released. Planescape perhaps? Or maybe even that Numenera book that was Kickstarted a while back?
Maybe this whole year will be only campaign settings?
Planescape will be Xanathar's two, if my analysis is true.
That could be true with the amount of DM material that was in Xanathar's, they can reprint all the vehicle rules from the Ghosts of Saltmarsh, Descent to Avernus, Acquisitions Inc. throw in a little spelljammer info, maybe the sidekick rules. Then go into Players stuff new subclasses and spells things along those lines would fill a book.
Maybe this whole year will be only campaign settings?
Planescape will be Xanathar's two, if my analysis is true.
That could be true with the amount of DM material that was in Xanathar's, they can reprint all the vehicle rules from the Ghosts of Saltmarsh, Descent to Avernus, Acquisitions Inc. throw in a little spelljammer info, maybe the sidekick rules. Then go into Players stuff new subclasses and spells things along those lines would fill a book.
Those are great ideas! I'd also love to see a deeper delve into the varying planes than they have in the PHB/DMG, similar to how MToF expanded on creature backgrounds.
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Hjalmar Gunderson, Vuman Alchemist Plague Doctor in a HB Campaign, Post Netherese Invasion Cormyr (lvl20 retired) Godfrey, Autognome Butler in Ghosts of Saltmarsh into Spelljammer Grímr Skeggisson, Goliath Rune Knight in Rime of the Frostmaiden DM of two HB campaigns set in the same world.
Maybe this whole year will be only campaign settings?
Planescape will be Xanathar's two, if my analysis is true.
I want this so bad. Most of the planes have barely more than a paragraph of information on them. I'd like a full chapter per inner plane, sigil, and the outrealms. The outer planes should get at least a decent full section description of key locations in each.
Reprint sidekicks and expand them up to level 20, and vehicles including additional land and air vehicles we are still waiting on.
Then yeah new player options: extra planar races probably including reprints of genasi, aaracokra, and gith. Spells possibly including psionics. Subclasses including path of the wild soul, circle of stars, way of the astral self, oath of the watchers, fey wanderer, aberrant mind, clockwork soul, noble genie and again possibly psionics.
Maybe this whole year will be only campaign settings?
Planescape will be Xanathar's two, if my analysis is true.
I want this so bad. Most of the planes have barely more than a paragraph of information on them. I'd like a full chapter per inner plane, sigil, and the outrealms. The outer planes should get at least a decent full section description of key locations in each.
Reprint sidekicks and expand them up to level 20, and vehicles including additional land and air vehicles we are still waiting on.
Then yeah new player options: extra planar races probably including reprints of genasi, aaracokra, and gith. Spells possibly including psionics. Subclasses including path of the wild soul, circle of stars, way of the astral self, oath of the watchers, fey wanderer, aberrant mind, clockwork soul, noble genie and again possibly psionics.
The books have been longer lately, too. Rising from the Last War and Wildemounte are all over 300 pages. If they make it double the size of Xanathar's Guide to Everything they should be able to fit everything in.
Well, back to topic.
I don't care for this book. I'm going to buy it. Didn't really want another campaign setting, but it isn't a big deal. I'm sure I'm going to use some of the stuff inside it. Might eventually start a Theros campaign, as soon as I finish my current ones.
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I don't care for this book. I'm going to buy it. Didn't really want another campaign setting, but it isn't a big deal. I'm sure I'm going to use some of the stuff inside it. Might eventually start a Theros campaign, as soon as I finish my current ones.
My friends and I have been playing MTG for years longer than D&D and we love the setting and lore of Theros. My copy is paid for and I will probably be running a campaign set in it (we are 100% playing it, but I don't know if someone else wants to DM).
I already bought it. My girlfriend is a massive fan of Greek mythology creatures so if there’s any chance to play as something from that setting, I’m sure she will have fun doing so.
I am glad they are bringing out more fifth edition books. When I first got into it, I was a bit dismayed by how few books there were that gave players even more options. Home brew stuff is cool but when you open up a can of peaches and find it they’ve gone sour, you’ll end up being paranoid about the next can and take a wary look inside.
That said, if people do not -like- what they see, they don’t have to get their wallets out. I’m not strong (or at all) in MtG lore but I have a good number of friends who are massive fans of it. If this persuades them to get into D&D then that makes me happy.
I already bought it. My girlfriend is a massive fan of Greek mythology creatures so if there’s any chance to play as something from that setting, I’m sure she will have fun doing so.
I am glad they are bringing out more fifth edition books. When I first got into it, I was a bit dismayed by how few books there were that gave players even more options. Home brew stuff is cool but when you open up a can of peaches and find it they’ve gone sour, you’ll end up being paranoid about the next can and take a wary look inside.
That said, if people do not -like- what they see, they don’t have to get their wallets out. I’m not strong (or at all) in MtG lore but I have a good number of friends who are massive fans of it. If this persuades them to get into D&D then that makes me happy.
Seriously, check out "Odyssey of the Dragonlords", too. It's a faux-Greek setting, but it's also a massive adventure path from 1st - 15th+ levels. I'm looking forward to adding stuff from Theros into it - though our plan is to actually start the campaign around Easter, so I'm not sure how far we'll get before Theros comes out.
Except that the MTG supplement is, itself, clearly based on Greek hero myth, so much so that Euripedes could have probably sued Wizards for plagarism were he alive. So, if your major problem with a Greek Hero supplement is that it came by way of M:tG but otherwise provides the same material, then it seems like your problems would be solved by getting a big black marker and redacting any times the words "planeswalker" or "mana" appears. Which will likely be 10 total times, going by the Ravnica supplement. Just because the gods ain't named Zeus and Hera doesn't mean the flavor isn't there. I mean, you've already reasonably admitted to the somewhat personal nature of your gripe, so I'm not trying to convince you out of that side of things, but I just don't see how this still isn't the supplement you were hoping for just because it might have some additional interest to Magic players.
I mean, if there ends up being a 5e medieval Asian supplement, and it ends up being called Kamigawa instead of Kara-Tur, would it really be that terrible, as relatively obscure as both realms are even within their respective games? "Rose by any other name", and all?
I am happy enough that we are getting Theros, though it's not in my list of most wanted, i'll still get it. What I would have prefered, in MTG settings getting the DND treatment, would have been Ixalan. Because there really isn't enough settings out there with Mayans/Incas conquistadors AND dinosaurs in them. Ixalan is awesome.
Would also love to get a proper Forgotten Realms book that isn't SCAG.
I don't care for Forgotten Realms, but I would much rather have Kara-Tur or Al-Qadim than anything m:tg has to offer.
I agree, but if it had to be M:tG, I guess Theros is equal in my mind to Ixalan, but because Tomb of Annihilation is so similar, I doubt Ixalan is coming any time soon.
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Okay, so looking back at the previous releases for settings over the past two years, WotC put out Ravnica, followed by Aquisitions Inc, then the Eberron book, and now we have the Crit Role book coming out followed by this Theros setting. If there's any sort of pattern to what I'm seeing, they might announce an older setting after Theros gets released. Planescape perhaps? Or maybe even that Numenera book that was Kickstarted a while back?
https://www.sageadvice.eu/2019/03/12/numenera-to-your-5e-game-monte-cook-kickstarter-is-now/
https://www.montecookgames.com/announcing-arcana-of-the-ancients/
Maybe this whole year will be only campaign settings?
Planescape will be Xanathar's two, if my analysis is true.
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That could be true with the amount of DM material that was in Xanathar's, they can reprint all the vehicle rules from the Ghosts of Saltmarsh, Descent to Avernus, Acquisitions Inc. throw in a little spelljammer info, maybe the sidekick rules. Then go into Players stuff new subclasses and spells things along those lines would fill a book.
Those are great ideas! I'd also love to see a deeper delve into the varying planes than they have in the PHB/DMG, similar to how MToF expanded on creature backgrounds.
Hjalmar Gunderson, Vuman Alchemist Plague Doctor in a HB Campaign, Post Netherese Invasion Cormyr (lvl20 retired)
Godfrey, Autognome Butler in Ghosts of Saltmarsh into Spelljammer
Grímr Skeggisson, Goliath Rune Knight in Rime of the Frostmaiden
DM of two HB campaigns set in the same world.
I want this so bad. Most of the planes have barely more than a paragraph of information on them. I'd like a full chapter per inner plane, sigil, and the outrealms. The outer planes should get at least a decent full section description of key locations in each.
Reprint sidekicks and expand them up to level 20, and vehicles including additional land and air vehicles we are still waiting on.
Then yeah new player options: extra planar races probably including reprints of genasi, aaracokra, and gith. Spells possibly including psionics. Subclasses including path of the wild soul, circle of stars, way of the astral self, oath of the watchers, fey wanderer, aberrant mind, clockwork soul, noble genie and again possibly psionics.
The books have been longer lately, too. Rising from the Last War and Wildemounte are all over 300 pages. If they make it double the size of Xanathar's Guide to Everything they should be able to fit everything in.
Well, back to topic.
I don't care for this book. I'm going to buy it. Didn't really want another campaign setting, but it isn't a big deal. I'm sure I'm going to use some of the stuff inside it. Might eventually start a Theros campaign, as soon as I finish my current ones.
Please check out my homebrew, I would appreciate feedback:
Spells, Monsters, Subclasses, Races, Arcknight Class, Occultist Class, World, Enigmatic Esoterica forms
My friends and I have been playing MTG for years longer than D&D and we love the setting and lore of Theros. My copy is paid for and I will probably be running a campaign set in it (we are 100% playing it, but I don't know if someone else wants to DM).
I already bought it. My girlfriend is a massive fan of Greek mythology creatures so if there’s any chance to play as something from that setting, I’m sure she will have fun doing so.
I am glad they are bringing out more fifth edition books. When I first got into it, I was a bit dismayed by how few books there were that gave players even more options. Home brew stuff is cool but when you open up a can of peaches and find it they’ve gone sour, you’ll end up being paranoid about the next can and take a wary look inside.
That said, if people do not -like- what they see, they don’t have to get their wallets out. I’m not strong (or at all) in MtG lore but I have a good number of friends who are massive fans of it. If this persuades them to get into D&D then that makes me happy.
Seriously, check out "Odyssey of the Dragonlords", too. It's a faux-Greek setting, but it's also a massive adventure path from 1st - 15th+ levels. I'm looking forward to adding stuff from Theros into it - though our plan is to actually start the campaign around Easter, so I'm not sure how far we'll get before Theros comes out.
Except that the MTG supplement is, itself, clearly based on Greek hero myth, so much so that Euripedes could have probably sued Wizards for plagarism were he alive. So, if your major problem with a Greek Hero supplement is that it came by way of M:tG but otherwise provides the same material, then it seems like your problems would be solved by getting a big black marker and redacting any times the words "planeswalker" or "mana" appears. Which will likely be 10 total times, going by the Ravnica supplement. Just because the gods ain't named Zeus and Hera doesn't mean the flavor isn't there. I mean, you've already reasonably admitted to the somewhat personal nature of your gripe, so I'm not trying to convince you out of that side of things, but I just don't see how this still isn't the supplement you were hoping for just because it might have some additional interest to Magic players.
I mean, if there ends up being a 5e medieval Asian supplement, and it ends up being called Kamigawa instead of Kara-Tur, would it really be that terrible, as relatively obscure as both realms are even within their respective games? "Rose by any other name", and all?
I am happy enough that we are getting Theros, though it's not in my list of most wanted, i'll still get it. What I would have prefered, in MTG settings getting the DND treatment, would have been Ixalan. Because there really isn't enough settings out there with Mayans/Incas conquistadors AND dinosaurs in them. Ixalan is awesome.
Would also love to get a proper Forgotten Realms book that isn't SCAG.
I don't care for Forgotten Realms, but I would much rather have Kara-Tur or Al-Qadim than anything m:tg has to offer.
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I agree, but if it had to be M:tG, I guess Theros is equal in my mind to Ixalan, but because Tomb of Annihilation is so similar, I doubt Ixalan is coming any time soon.
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