They announced it today on their spoiler livestream. I’m a bit upset, since it tears apart the lore of both multiverses I’ve come to care a lot for. It feels cash-grabby. But how about you? Are you excited about the crossover, frustrated with it, or you couldn’t care less?
Simply put I am excited about it. A crossover like this does not damage either of the IP's and it could be a fun set of cards. Now if Wizards were to cross Transformers and Forgotten Realms, that may be pushing the crossover limit.
I don't see it as all that cash-grabby, more of them making the most of the intellectual properties they already own. I also see it as a way to help DMs that have players that want to use a class/race that is from a different setting. Warforged and Artificer in FR are the big ones, but I'm sure there are plenty of players that want to try and fit in Minotaurs, Loxodons, Satyrs, etc. Sure, it's not that hard for the DM to come up with alternate lore on why a single instance is in FR, but maybe that player was drawn to the original lore and would like to keep it without homebrewing a different origin.
They announced it today on their spoiler livestream. I’m a bit upset, since it tears apart the lore of both multiverses I’ve come to care a lot for. It feels cash-grabby. But how about you? Are you excited about the crossover, frustrated with it, or you couldn’t care less?
They announced it today on their spoiler livestream. I’m a bit upset, since it tears apart the lore of both multiverses I’ve come to care a lot for. It feels cash-grabby. But how about you? Are you excited about the crossover, frustrated with it, or you couldn’t care less?
What is exactly going on?
From the Twitter post
"Up next in the summer is something special people have been asking for for a long time. We're collaborating with @Wizards_DnD! It's a full black-bordered Standard-legal set featuring Dungeons & Dragons we're calling Adventures in the Forgotten Realms."
It doesn't take much justification to say that both the d&d planar system and the mtg one can both remain canon without breaking them.
The way I kind of run things in my game is that you have the great wheel with the inner and outer planes as the spokes and the prime material plane as the hub, however, other campaign settings function as alternate prime material planes with the same spokes around them. Some prime material planes may be more or less connected to the outer planes (accounting for lack of much dnd planes in mtg worlds), but they're still all loosely connected through aether.
Frankly, turnabout is fair play. The D&D crowd has to put up with weird, janky, poorly-fitting nonsense like the Ravnica book? The Magic folks can deal with a setful of D&D cards. Frankly I'm not sure the Magic folks would notice the difference.
Frankly, turnabout is fair play. The D&D crowd has to put up with weird, janky, poorly-fitting nonsense like the Ravnica book? The Magic folks can deal with a setful of D&D cards. Frankly I'm not sure the Magic folks would notice the difference.
Well there is the Godzilla set of cards in a previous Magic.
Frankly, turnabout is fair play. The D&D crowd has to put up with weird, janky, poorly-fitting nonsense like the Ravnica book? The Magic folks can deal with a setful of D&D cards. Frankly I'm not sure the Magic folks would notice the difference.
True, but DMs can always choose not to use the Ravnica/Theros books or settings. Most Magic players won't know or care about the lore, but the few who do won't have the option not to play with the D&D set.
They announced it today on their spoiler livestream. I’m a bit upset, since it tears apart the lore of both multiverses I’ve come to care a lot for. It feels cash-grabby. But how about you? Are you excited about the crossover, frustrated with it, or you couldn’t care less?
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Simply put I am excited about it. A crossover like this does not damage either of the IP's and it could be a fun set of cards. Now if Wizards were to cross Transformers and Forgotten Realms, that may be pushing the crossover limit.
I don't see it as all that cash-grabby, more of them making the most of the intellectual properties they already own. I also see it as a way to help DMs that have players that want to use a class/race that is from a different setting. Warforged and Artificer in FR are the big ones, but I'm sure there are plenty of players that want to try and fit in Minotaurs, Loxodons, Satyrs, etc. Sure, it's not that hard for the DM to come up with alternate lore on why a single instance is in FR, but maybe that player was drawn to the original lore and would like to keep it without homebrewing a different origin.
What is exactly going on?
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From the Twitter post
"Up next in the summer is something special people have been asking for for a long time. We're collaborating with @Wizards_DnD! It's a full black-bordered Standard-legal set featuring Dungeons & Dragons we're calling Adventures in the Forgotten Realms."
So legal Magic cards
It doesn't take much justification to say that both the d&d planar system and the mtg one can both remain canon without breaking them.
The way I kind of run things in my game is that you have the great wheel with the inner and outer planes as the spokes and the prime material plane as the hub, however, other campaign settings function as alternate prime material planes with the same spokes around them. Some prime material planes may be more or less connected to the outer planes (accounting for lack of much dnd planes in mtg worlds), but they're still all loosely connected through aether.
Frankly, turnabout is fair play. The D&D crowd has to put up with weird, janky, poorly-fitting nonsense like the Ravnica book? The Magic folks can deal with a setful of D&D cards. Frankly I'm not sure the Magic folks would notice the difference.
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Well there is the Godzilla set of cards in a previous Magic.
Huh. I did not expect this. I will look into this more.
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True, but DMs can always choose not to use the Ravnica/Theros books or settings. Most Magic players won't know or care about the lore, but the few who do won't have the option not to play with the D&D set.
Wizard (Gandalf) of the Tolkien Club
Would this not more accurately be titled Faerun is coming the MTG?