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Dungeons & Dragons Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica (D&D/Magic: The Gathering Adventure Book and Campaign Setting) Hardcover – Illustrated, November 20, 2018
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Print length256 pages
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PublisherWizards of the Coast
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Publication dateNovember 20, 2018
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Dimensions8.6 x 0.7 x 11.2 inches
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ISBN-100786966599
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The First D&D Book to Take On Magic: The Gathering
With the Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica, you can create characters and run adventures on Ravnica, one of the richest, most beloved settings in Magic: The Gathering.
Ravnica is a worldwide cityscape, teeming with intrigue, driven by conflict between 10 powerful guilds, each with its own identity and interests.
D&D fans will love exploring the book’s additions to D&D, with new classes, races, and magic items to delve into, while Magic fans will love bringing their favorite cards to life in the world’s deepest roleplaying game, with all the rules needed to play a Loxodon Smiter, a Goblin Electromancer, or any other Ravnican characters you can imagine.
Inside the Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
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Explore The World of Magic: The GatheringWhen you build your character, you’ll not only choose a race and a class—you’ll choose a guild. Defend nature with the Selesnya Conclave or spread the vengeance of the underworld with the Golgari Swarm—each guild has a unique identity and motivation. |
Run a Ready-Made Adventure for Level 1 CharactersTake players through 'Krenko’s Way': a ready-made adventure for level 1 characters. The notorious goblin crime boss Krenko has escaped confinement in the Udzeo prison under suspicious circumstances. Now he plots to reestablish control over his criminal enterprise, raising the specter of a goblin gang war that could jeopardize the tenuous peace among the guilds. |
Enrich Your D&D GameExplore 5 new races, specific to Ravnica, plus 2 new subclasses, 78 new monsters, and 17 new magic items. Among these additions to D&D are recognizable icons of the Magic: The Gathering universe, from the elephantine race of Loxodons to Ravnican artifacts like guild signets and Sword of the Paruns. |
The leader in providing contemporary fantasy entertainment, Dungeons & Dragons is the wellspring for the entire modern game industry, digital as well as tabletop. Fifth edition D&D draws from every prior edition to create a universally compelling play experience, and exemplifies the true spirit of a game that holds captive the hearts and minds of millions of players worldwide. The core rulebook series consists of three books: the Player’s Handbook, the Monster Manual, and the Dungeon Master’s Guide.
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- Publisher : Wizards of the Coast; Illustrated edition (November 20, 2018)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 256 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0786966599
- ISBN-13 : 978-0786966592
- Item Weight : 2 pounds
- Dimensions : 8.6 x 0.7 x 11.2 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #5,484 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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When one is writing color and backstory for what is essentially a trading card game, the story can be piecemeal and ephemeral -- hints and suggestions which don't even have to have any internal consistency or hang together with any semblance of substance. This is not the case for an FRPG, where the entire point is story. A trading card game is, at the end of the day, a game. An FRPG is a kind of immersive literature. Details matter. Substance matters. Ravnica is 100 percent whimsical.
It is an incredible creative effort full of fantastical ideas, but there is no substance which really ties any of it together. It looks like the product of creative sheltered children who have essentially no real world experience in anything but game playing. It is astonishing to consider a creative team, funded by a relatively successful publisher of FRPG's could put together a group of "creatives" not one of whom seems to exhibit any familiarity with any knowledge of substance in any fields useful for designing a campaign milieu -- fields of study such as: Astronomy, Cosmology, Mythology, Geology, Evolution, Meteorology, Climatology, Sociology, Anthropology, Geography, Economics, Logistics, Botany, Zoology, Ecology, Politics, Linguistics, Religion, History, etc. Yes, we are talking a fantasy world here, but somewhere there has to be some sort of substance which ties the whimsical together in a way that sustains the suspension of disbelief, or at leas has something interesting to say that resonates with some kind of human experience, so that coherent dramatic stories may be erected on the framework. Ravnica is woefully lacking in this crucial category.
Ravnica is a hodge-podge of a dozen playable races, plus who knows how many non-player races, but at least dozens more are intimated. Where do they all live? Why so many different forms when Ravnica is essentially a mono-biome? Why did all of these cultures decide to essentially live cheek-by-jowl in a world-spanning megalopolis? What essential material reality drove such an outcome or sustains it? The creators of Ravnica offer the reader nothing along these lines.
Other essential questions, whose answers would have given Ravnica some sort of depth also remain puzzlingly unasked or even considered: Where do all of these different races and creature types live? From where did they come? How did their languages, religions, cultures, politics, etc. evolve?
Ravnica is astonishingly two-dimensional. What does their environment and history contribute to their physiology, culture, practices, beliefs, society etc.? Why do the guilds exist? The ideologies of these guilds are entirely abstract and disconnected from any material reality or cause and effect. It was mentioned that religion was once a factor on the planet but no longer. Why? Did the gods just give up?
Similarly economics and material reality are entirely neglected, or more accurately, remained unsuspected, by the writers. From Where do the raw materials come? Where do they grow chocolate, or wheat? Where do they brew beer or distil whiskey? Do oranges and sorghum grow in the same biome? Apparently, they do, right in the middle of world-spanning urban environs. Where do they mine iron, or molybdenum, or silver, or platinum or gold? Is it evenly distributed throughout the planet's crust? How does that happen? Does Ravnica have continents or plate-tectonics? If all of the oceans are subterranean, how does that affect ocean ecology? Where do the different kinds of trees grow? How can everything, the entire planet, be a uniform urban megalopolis when different resources are grounded in different essential characteristics? For example, you cannot seriously imagine a wine grape plantation growing on rooftop gardens. Similarly, it takes a certain climate and water resources and land to grow coffee beans. Ravnica gives zero consideration to this. It is entirely whimsy.
Commerce is mentioned but it has no substantial rooting in material production. Why do the Orzhov practice pseudo-capitalist syndicalism and the Selesnya embrace a simplisticly unrealistic agrarian socialism when there is essentially no material difference in outcomes, as presented? There is practically no reason to trade, as production and distribution are after-thoughts, at best. Everything is produced everywhere, in equal amounts, for all that the book says on the economy of Ravnica. Things just "happen"...because, reasons. For no reason other than that something needs to be going on in the background to provide color. This would also mean that all trade and exploration are essentially tourism. Of course, one would also have to question what the tourists would be travelling to see. What would be the point?
This is a Kardashev Type II Civilization but it's technology is a mix of whimsical high fantasy and quirky steampunk. How did this world civilization even evolve, much less be sustained? No thought was given to this. A globe-spanning megalopolis would severely impact the natural ecology of such a world. No effort is made to handle or explain this, or account for it. The text claims that there is very little in the way of natural wild spaces and yet the world is full to the gunwales with enormous herbivorous and carnivorous megafauna. What supports them? Apparently, they live on air. How does primitive technology handle the waste products build up that a city-world full of such beasts would produce? Nineteenth century New York city was careening toward a full-scale disaster due to only horse manure until the advent of the internal combustion engine. Even given "magic," such a clean up by the Golgari, a guild notably lacking in either magic or tech, would require at least a little explaining, if it is to have any substance or the story any coherence. The book offers the DM nothing in the way of help for extracting any kind of coherent story rooted some sort of consistent system.
All of the cultures are crammed together into a multiculturally diverse mix of ethnicities which extend from horizon to horizon and pole to pole. The effect of this is that the entire planet Is not "multi-cultural;" it is entirely uniform in its crazy-quilt distribution of everybody everywhere, such that, as Gertrude Stein said of Oakland, California, "There's no 'there,' there. That is to say, once one has seen one corner of Ravnica one has seen it all, as the setting's authors present it. The multiculture has been essentially stagnant, and its history, geography, and uniformly diverse (an oxymoron) cultural mix, practically featureless and unchanging for ten thousand years. How is this conducive to any kind of drama? Clue: it isn't. There's no history, only monotony. There is no substance upon which to found a lasting campaign. Once the DM has exhausted the two dozen or so tropes that a setting like Ravnica will support, there's nothing left to see, without an enormous load of work on the DM's part. Good luck with that.
This is a great book for a Magic: The Gathering player who wants to read lots of lore about the world of Ravnica.
This is NOT a great book for a D&D player. It only has 2 new subclasses and a handful of races. There are new backgrounds but they are specific to the world of Ravnica.
What this book does:
- Explains the world of Ravnica and its backstory; especially dives into the backstory for the races, places, and guilds of Ravnica. This is 80% of the book.
- Provides gameplay details for the races of Ravnica.
- Provides 2 new subclass options (Cleric: Order Domain & Druid: Circle of Spores).
- Provides gameplay details for the guilds of Ravnica (treated as backgrounds).
- Provides lots of information about how to craft a D&D adventure within Ravnica.
- Provides some Ravnica inspired treasure/magic items.
- Provides stat blocks for the creatures/people of Ravnica.
The book quality is terrible. The copy I got has all the old trademarks of terrible print and binding quality that plagues all of the 5th edition books. The pages are wrinkled both along the edges and on the face of pages, specifically near the binding. WTF Wizards of the Coast, get your game together here, you have had this issue for 4 YEARS! It is unacceptable.
By Idahoan on November 30, 2018
The book quality is terrible. The copy I got has all the old trademarks of terrible print and binding quality that plagues all of the 5th edition books. The pages are wrinkled both along the edges and on the face of pages, specifically near the binding. WTF Wizards of the Coast, get your game together here, you have had this issue for 4 YEARS! It is unacceptable.
A few minor quibbles, tho, not enough in here about the plane and it’s history. It doesn’t give a proper sense of scale (even though the plane is a big damn city), so some might find that a stumbling block. Second, the focus on guilds is too prescriptive and you have to make your own grey areas. The character suggestions in guilds assume guild member to be very involved and seemingly higher up, which I feel is a detriment to beginning adventures. So I’ll change that if I DM it, I think it works better if the vast majority of the guilds are members who just pay their dues and get the most basic of benefits.
I’ve noticed some derangement syndrome from the usual D&D customers, I recommend ignoring them. If you don’t want to play in an MTG world, thank-you-very-much, then don’t buy it. It’s absolutely playable and doesn’t go nuts focusing on MTG lore and such.
By Amazon Customer on November 20, 2018
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It is does provide lore about Ravnica, one of the settings from Magic the Gathering, but it is not a massive tome just about the setting. It provides you with just enough information that you get a good impression about each guild, district and important NPCs. The writers expect you to research further details via a quick online search, there are several wikis that provide you with those details should you need them.
What this book really is a giant toolbox to build your own campaign. It is not a long running adventure like Curse of Strahd or Out of the Abyss. Instead it has hundreds of plot hooks, ideas and tables that all together work like a giant amount of Lego pieces. It is up to your as a DM to build something with those pieces and that means that you can make a campaign perfectly suited to your players. But the ideas in this book can be used in other settings as well. House Dimir is an organization of spies, assassins and shadow monsters. You could easily plant them in the Forgotten realms and use all the ideas for them for the Zhentarim instead. Or the Selesnya Conclave can be the inhabitants of a giant forest in your own homebrew world. The 10 guilds a re so diverse that they can serve as brilliant inspiration in any D&D world out there.
The book also has a fantastic section the create backgrounds for your players. With these rules backgrounds become a crucial part of the adventure and once again these rules can be used just as well in your own world or in a published adventure. Personally I am currently using these to create custom backgrounds for my players in Waterdeep Dragon Heist, so that all my players have a very strong connection to the city of Waterdeep and it's many factions before the campaign begins. This is another example that this book is not just useful for you if you plan to run a game in Ravnica itself.
The new subclasses and races are very fun as well. You can be a mushroom elephant druid. What more do want?
Lastly the bestiary: the art in the entire book is breathtaking, as you would expect from Magic the Gathering artwork. But the monsters in particular are stunning and a great way to really surprise your players. There are creatures in here that your players have definitely never encountered before, unless they are used to skittering horrors or steampunk cyclopses.
Overall, I can recommend this book to any DM that likes to be inspired by published books, to then create their own content. If you are a fan of Magic the Gathering, there is no reason to not get this. But I hope this review helped those of you who thought this book has no value to you unless you are running a Ravnica game. I don't run a Ravnica game but this book has greatly helped me in three different campaigns. Hopefully you will have fun with it too.
- è un'ambientazione del gioco di carte Magic
- non è la riedizione di una vecchia ambientazione di AD&D
In realtà Ravnica è una bella ambientazione, che unisce magia e tecnologia in maniera sapiente, discostandosi quanto basta dai Forgotten Realms da permettere al DM di osare e ai PG di provare cose nuove, senza finire nell'assurdo, complicare le regole base o spostarsi eccessivamente dal tono standard di D&D. Una buona scelta, quindi, con un'ottima esecuzione: buone razze, buone classi, tanti mostri e quel tanto di lore da permettere un paio d'anni di avventure.
Imperdibile per i fan delle Dieci Gilde, consigliato ai DM che vogliono un setting più focalizzato su politica, intrighi e avventure cittadine e meno sull'esplorazione.
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