The World of Ravnica | The Innkeeper
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- Опубликовано: 20 авг 2024
- The Guildmasters Guide to Ravnica is D&D's final supplement for 2018 and their first official campaign setting! But what is the world of Ravnica and what does the book hold in store for us? Find out in this episode of The Innkeeper!
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My group's main DM has been trying to recreate Ravnica for a campaign since the original MtG came out. We are thrilled with this release and can't wait for the new ca,paign start (we're planning to launch in January). Wizards apparently did know what we wanted...
*Plays Ravnica as a Gruul tribe member- Hack and Slash has been activated* "DOWN WITH SOCIETY!"
Guilds of ravnica provides a cool new place to set a Roleplay heavy investigation thing. Hunting for clues, balancing your guilds needs with your own
Ian Gratton Not getting killed by a giant Worm or Beast rampaging trough the City, etc.
I started off a D&D player but I was also a MTG player So I got exposed to Ravnica before this and was excited about it. I love the guilds.
If you want a hack-and-slash campaign, a Boros vs. Gruul vs. Rakdos war could make a good context. Simic, Golgari, Dimir, Rakdos, Orzhov, and Izzet could all make a megadungeon in the Undercity if that's your style. If you like wilderness exploration/hex crawls, then there are vast tracts of rubblebelt (overgrown ruins) on the surface, or the vast and dangerous Undercity. The setting is extremely versatile (way more than you'd think for an ecumenopolis), which is why M:tG keeps going back every few years.
I like that even this is proof that this setting is packed with cool things to do.
Fantastic ideas! How did I not draw the megadungeon link between the Undercity and the Undermountain myself... Dungeon of the Mad Mage could easily be translated into this setting - The Innkeeper
@@TheDungeonInn The Undercity is more of an analogue to the Underdark, but some of the guild halls down there (I'm thinking Rix Maadi, guildhall of the Cult of Rakdos in particular) could be a pretty reasonavle adaptation of Undermountain, but it would take some work. There are also far older and more dangerous things than the guilds in the depths of the Undercity which could build something that would be an easier transition than making it related to the guilds (the Primordials or the Nephalim, for example). I'm in the process of adapting Lost Mine of Phandelver at the moment. It's been quite an interesting process.
Selesyna farmlands and forests are 3-D structures big enough to hex crawl through.
Does the Rubblebelt move with the Gruul or is it like Central Park?
I'm pretty excited for Ravnica.
Ravnica is the best setting for a ready made D&D setting
The book's focus really is on the guilds, with much less info on the setting than I expected. As a DM I feel like its a great resource, as you can rename and plant these guilds into most other settings (though all the tech stuff clashes in more traditional worlds).
ve-dal-ken. not velkaden.
good attempt at explaining the guilds. But you should know there is no Dimir House. Pure fabrication.
I actually noticed this when I was editing and totally forgot to fix it 😂 thanks for pointing it out though you are right. As for Dimir they are treated as a guild in the Guildmasters Guide to Ravnica, but I have been told that this is new to the canon as previously they weren't as you said.
@@TheDungeonInn Okay, the story behind that is when the first Guildpact was made House Dimir was not officially part of the Nine Guilds of Ravnica. It was instead a secret tenth guild that most people believed to be a children's tale whose purpose was to maintain the guildpact by opposing it. After the dissolution of the first Guildpact during, it's decamillennial anniversary and the following dissention that nearly wiped half the guilds out it was completely exposed and is now an open secret.
However, players like to perpetuate the belief that House Dimir doesn't actually exist. In fact, this story is, in fact, an elaborate hoax made by people who want you to believe in House Dimir when in reality it is all a lie. House Dimir doesn't exist and is not in fact currently looking through your letters, dreams, and internet search history.
There is no war in Ba Sing Sae
So when I look at the giant guildpact symbol on the floor, and see that spidery one with the eye in it, the one between the eclipse and the dragon, who is that?
@@williambarnes5023 you don't see anything.
I will be DMing Krenko's Way soon. Reading through GGR I am excited to have adventures influence the politics of Ravnica.
New to DnD only getting into it because of this. Would love to see more videos on this book!
Interesting technology in the artist concepts, I'd like to hear about the different kinds of weapons of Ravnica.
If you want to play a combat focused campaign you can put the players in the undercity or the rubblebelt (the gruul territory which filled with ruins and wilderness)
Great voice, great vid!
It's my favorite setting.
The Guildmaster's Guide to Ravnica can be used for a wealth of legacy content, as the races and subclasses can be reskinned and reused for other settings. Simic Hybrid? Just rename it for a different setting. As for alternatives for using it as written, take the mini-adventure at the end, for instance. You can homebrew an alternative ending if the players decide to align themselves with Krenko, the goblin mob boss... instead of getting him arrested or killed. Maybe you can change the canon and have the players save the third Shattergang Brother.
I really enjoy having a 5e setting in actual physical hardcover, for those times when the internet isn't as reliable.
Lol "got to hand it to you Wiazrds, you really know what we want" ... How do you know you do or don't want something knew unless you try it. If all they did was give more of what the majority of people want , then the game would grow stale and lose fans ... New and fresh settings based on established properties help to introduce a new market into this fun adventure we love to take. Now magic players can try some DnD with stuff they are familiar with.
I liked your video very much! It helped me understand more about Ravnica.
At 8:05, that's not a guy from the Simic guild. It is a blue-green card in Magic and people usually call all blue-green cards Simic even if they aren't from the Simic guild specifically. Ravnica was a very popular set so the guild names became the names for color pairs.
It's Ezuri after he was taken over by the Phyrexians. The robot arms should be a clue it's not Simic :P They'd install tentacles or something haha
I was originally set on ghosts of saltmarsh but having flicked through the book Ravnica is cool as hell
I have the same view regarding setting books as Web DM: if you want to play in Eberron, Dark Sun, Spelljammer, Planescape or still-not-Forgotten Realms....a GM able to think beyond recreating what's exactly on the page can set that game, just by using the previously published books. GGTR allows a whole new setting to join the family, so that twenty years from niw, people can complain there hasn't been a shintly new edition of Ravnica in 13 years. Besides, this book has so much actionable function it can be useful to a GM at the table regardless the setting they are playing in. (Also, Guildless party acting in the shadow of the omnipresent Ten Guilds in an urban storyscape = Shadowrun D&D...Simic and Izzet do the body augmentations and cybernetics, Dimir does the hacking, Boros does private security, Azorius does Big Brother, Orzhov and Gulgori do evil merchant corporation stuff, one via Soylent Green and one via Wallstreet Mafia. Selesnya is the anti-machine new age megachurch, Rakdos is the ravers and rocker punks, and the Gruul.....gangland bikers, of course. Sons of Gruul.
The book fills more of a niche than simply as a setting encyclopedia because of it's "quirky" implementation, which is mostly why it's the only official 5e supplement I've felt the lasting urge to purchase. However, I come to the book as a fan of the setting so I may be biased [but not wrong ;)]
A side note - dont put your camera on the same table you're leaning on. It makes video all shaky, every time you move.
Hey Innkeeper, since this video have you dm’d or played more in the Ravnica setting?
I think its about to get us Magic-Fans into DandD.
You forgot to reference that the Rakdos ar kindof like the circus people of ravnica
Quite frankly at this point I don't want WoTC to go anywhere near my old beloved settings like Dark Sun or Dragonlance, they'd just fuck them up / change them beyond recognition.
Ravnica was pretty decent though i would have liked a bigger map (as in world space) to have been included.
Does anybody know a good Adventure for Ravnica? Im in love with the setting but im looking for something i can start off with.
The Guide has a starter adventure in it called Krenko's Way.
Hope in future videos you find somewhere more stationary spot for your camera, the shaking as you speak animatedly is a bit distracting. I’m glad for a decent overview of the guilds and a little of the world. We start our Ravnica campaign in a few weeks from now and I’ve been a little overwhelmed by the change in world. Thank you for this.
Ezuri may be Simic colors, but he is NOT Simic. He’s been perfected all the way in Argentu-uh I mean Mirro-no no....new phyre- YES! New Phyrexia.
I wonder where I can post idea on how add more traditional elements of DnD into Ravnica. Like Dwarfs.
Ravnica NEEDS dwarves.
While some races like Dwarfs are not native to Ravnica (Yet*), the setting acknowledges their are other worlds (Planeswalkers). Nothing says Dwarfs used magic as perhaps conquerors to claim new worlds for their kingdom. Maybe they are refugees from another world seeking a new start. Perhaps they were brought here due to some magical experiment. Ravnica has some established lore but its a homebrew setting at its core due to its expectations to make you write the story/adventure.
*Merfolk lore wise just recently resurfaced and were added to Ravnica after they were thought to be extinct
There are MANY ways to do it. It would be cool to see various activities of the guilds creating the missing races, either intentionally or by accident. I could see Rakdos Blood Witches or high-ranking Dimir agents giving birth to tieflings, or Izzet experiments going awry and turning people into dragonborn, gnomes or genasi. Dwarves could be the result of Boros metalworkers staying too long in the Sacred Foundry, and being altered by the powerful magics of the forge. Half-orcs could actually be Gruul or Golgari half-trolls (half-ogres work too, but the half-orc mechanics in-universe lean more towards troll than ogre). Halflings could be people who've been altered by longstanding exposure to Mat-Selesnya. Ravnican goblins could probably be mechanically any goblinoid or even full-blooded orcs. Most of Volo's other monstrous races or even goliaths and tortles could be the result of Simic bioengineering. Aasimar could be people blessed by the various kinds of angels present on the plane. Firbolgs can be re-skinned as dryads. The possibilities in this setting are actually nearly endless. Tritons could be Simic merfolk. Catfolk (like dwarves) are known throughout the Magic multiverse, but not on Ravnica, so there's a case for being some kind of planar refugee as a tabaxi. Basically, if it exists in D&D, there is probably a way to include or re-skin it to make sense in Ravnica.
I have an idea how to add a whole lot of the D&D races to the other parts of Ravnica. For Dwarfs hey mostly keep to their own part of the undercity. Despite living in the undercity they don't get along too well with the Golgari Swarm and instead provide guilds like the Boros Legion, Azorius Senate, and Orzhov Syndicate a foot hold in in the Under City.
I was not expecting a massive discussion on the existence of dwarves in Ravnica on this video, but those are all some fantastic ideas and 100% will plunder some of them if I ever end up running a Ravnica campaign in the future 😂 If people ever doubt Ravnica's flexibility as a setting, I'll show then this. - The Innkeeper
Too much of a good thing?
Back in the day when TSR was creating D&D products , I noticed a trend. They were releasing products and settings on a monthly basis. These products were great and provided the tools needed to help grow the game and support the player base (This was an obviously pre-internet time and paper was king). One unintended consequence of producing so much choice however was the introduction of a kind of cannibalism to their branded products. With a choice of so many settings , the AVERAGE dms' and players could only choose one or two settings and couldn't possibly have enough time or expendable cash to experience all the settings fully. TSR was supporting too many game settings with a catalogue of products for each world. TSR kept chugging out these amazing products and spending their money to develop and sell them but their fans only had so much money and time to spend on their game and so the company eventually ground to a halt. (there are other factors at play here as well). Today TSR is now owned by WOTC, who is owned by Hasbro. They have a lot more money for R&D and sales. I hope they plan well and avoid the mistakes of the past. I have been playing D&D since 1983-ish and have been playing MTG since 1999. I am excited for this crossover and I will enthusiastically dive into the lore and setting of Ravnica as a dm and player.
I wanted Ravnica cause I came from magic
Izzet is pronounced “is it,” Vedalken is pronounced “Velkaden,” it is Vedalken. Great video tho
I'm afraid Ravnica is a replacement for Planescape.
was just going to type that
That's exactly what I was hinting at towards the end of the video, the structure of the Ravnican Guilds and Sigil's Factions are uncomfortably close to each other... I don't believe Ravnica is a replacement fot Planescape, the setting has a lot of love on the development team and the community, and the sections in the DMG and Mordenkainens Tome of Foes on the planes have been fantastic. It just makes me think that they won't be releasing planescape in the next year at least, or else risk burning out fans by releasing too much of the same (unless of course Sigil just gets a lot less focus on the book, which is in itself worrying)
@@TheDungeonInn The most frustrating would be if they make a book that is very generalised about planes and planar travel. With Spelljammer being a footnote in there somewhere.
Yeet
So, in the first 13 seconds you say that Wizards finally gives everyone what they've been asking for... A NEW campaign setting. Then you complain about the fact that it's never been seen before. Am I missing something here?
This D&D setting sounds too self contained and linear. No wonder the fans are not "Big Fans" of this campaign setting. Not much of a Chaise beyond the factions and their political struggle, against each other!