I'm particularly intrigued by Draw Steel, as of late.

I want to incorporate more dragons into my campaign, but I'm struggling to integrate what the D&D manual says with the Ravnica lore. Are there any intelligent dragons besides Niv-Mizzet? Are their personalities respected, or are they independent? Do metal dragons exist? I have some knowledge on the subject, but I'd like to hear other people's opinions.

If you're Morvar, Mamta, Zret, Chalzee, Orvala or Mortal, stop reading lest you be spoiled!

I'm running my Ravnica game for a few years already. The first part of the campaign was relatively straightforward: the bbeg was Hauc (from the original Ravnica novels), who was stuck in the schism, and from there was able to influence people, creating a fake religion that ultimately was intended to revive him into a dragonegg. In defeating him, the schism became some sort of portal between planes.

Now, the party is in Ixalan (I couldn't be bothered to have them go through a war of the spark thing), where the plane portal had attracted the attention of Emrakul. I want to tie in the Zendikar arc and the Planeswalkers that were involved in the initial capture.

But at some point, when researching the lore, I can get quite.. annoyed. It's mainly the fact that due to the attempt of having recurring characters, all of the planes history has become more and more unbelievable. Take Ravnica for example. For 10000 years, nothing much of note has happened. And then, in the course of only 80 years, the guildpact was broken, was mended again with a living guildpact, the plane was invaded by bolas and was invaded by Pyrexia only 2 years later! Same for Ixalan. In a short amount of time, the search for orazca reached a conclusion, with the golden sun gone, pyrexia invaded, and then suddenly out of nothing the core is rediscovered and an ancient god escapes it.

It's not that I don't understand that such big events can be good to shape a set around. It's just that it becomes increasingly less believable that not two, but even 3 events take place that significantly alter life on such planes only in the course of a few years.

So, question to my other mtg dms: how do you deal with it? Do you just accept it and build around it? Or do you ignore it, and shape the lore to your own fitting?

Hello there!

Recently, I got an idea to run a campaign with strong usage of Cthulhu by Torchlight and Bound by Blood - or maybe only Bound by Blood, everything is still WIP. However, I'm not sure if such idea would work within the setting. Discovering ancient ruins, artifacts, abandoned laboratories of sorts, and stuff like that. All while trying to find a way to stop a threat of a Lovercraftian-like horror and/or Vampiric blood-thristy creatures from plunging Ravnica into chaos. Vampiric courts and / or societies are something I'd like to incorporate as well. I'm still working on why and how this is even happening, and how is it tied to any official lore.

I'm mostly unsure because after all, Ravnica is an ecumenopolis, and even the Underdark/Undercity is quite populated by the Guilds.

Thanks in advance and have a good rest of your day!

Edit 1: Added some details I forgot to mention.

Hello, everbody.

I'm searching for a setting to DM, that is familiar to Night City from the Cyberpunk series.

What I mean is, what I love about Night City and the stories from there is, there is a huge city with lots of lots of wars.

Companies fighting against companies fighting against gangs fighting against privat armys fighting against police against mercenary and somewhere inbetween is a single mother that get bombed on the way from her 12h shift to home and there her child only get the visit from the police.
And despite the many dramatic individual stories, in the grand scheme of things, it’s like a child burning ants with a magnifying glass.
Into that hell i want to put my players. Either as mercenaries, working for companies. Maybe able to make career there or get betrayed. Or as gang members that fight against others.

That's the kind of stories (with varying degrees of brutality) i want to tell.
The setting, whether it’s cyberpunk or fantasy/steampunk, is secondary here. I can imagine myself in either one.
My question is simply to find out whether stories like that would be possible in Ravnica before I dive down the rabbit hole and delve into the lore and source material.

A bit I read about Ravnica and its guild setting. Maybe they can be the counterpart of the corporates in Night City. But not sure if something like gangs or scavengers do fit into that city

Edit: Thanks for the first impressions. I see, it could be difficult to tell the kind of stories, I want to tell. But I think, I gonna take a look more into Ravnica. The setting at all looks interesting and maybe, there are other stories I find interesting and that are fitting more into Ravnica

So, my party is heading to a time laboratory that the gruul destroyed, causing the "paradox engine" to explode, turning the landscape into a desert in some kilometers around.

I want the laboratory's ruins, a dungeon, to have some issues with time flowing in weirs ways, like water running uphill, rooms with time running very fast.

I need more ideas, not only for the ambience, but for dangers and things the party has to think their ways out.

Thank you for reading ^^

Lfg

So I’m planning a campaign that will involve getting a powerful object from Ravnica. My knowledge of the setting is moderate at best, so I figured I’d post on here and pick the brains of those more knowledgeable.

What is the biggest McGuffin of Ravnica? I need to send the party in to pick up a very powerful artifact to help with their quest. I could just make something up but I feel it’d be more fun if it was something from the lore that all the guilds would want to have or keep secret. Something big.

Anyone have any ideas?

Hi there. I'm a long time GM whose starting a Ravnica Pf2e game. Any reccomendations to help players who might be new to Ravnica?

I also need to make a lot of NPC's, so please send character ideas! For any guild or guildless individual!

So I was thinking about making a map for Ravnica (bad idea, I know). Not just a map of the Tenth District, but an actual, world-spanning map. So here I come to learn from the wisdom of the people, since I have a few questions.

1) I'm almost sure it's just a retcon, but the Ravnica novel is set in the center of Ravnica and also what seems to be the Tenth District, which is a little bit suspicious since one is on top of a mountain, and the other has a Zonote. How do you adjudicate this?

2) How big is your Tenth District? In actual measurements and in population. The way I wanna do this is make ther Tenth the smallest district, but with comparable population to the others.

Also just tell me anything that you have come up with in your games regarding the Ravnica at large, and I might copy that to my map!

hey! I love Ravnica, and want to DM a camp there- but baby steps. I have 4 level 11 characters having an outer plane adventure.

the meat will be the Abyss (Graz’zt as the final)- but Im having them go into Bytopia and Ysgard as well. for Bytopia, I was struggling how to make an adventure hook there- but hearing about the plane, it felt custom made for the Gruul Clans.

There’s a mapmaker there, Melvin Manyroads- so it would be easy to explain a Gruul Clan fell into Bytopia through an accident.

i know one half of the layer is rugged dangerous nature, which they would love- and the other is basically the Shire, which they would loathe and attack. I know as DM I can kinda do however I want, but I really want to get their flavor right. if they wouldn’t raid the gnome cities and villages, then I’d come up with something else. and also, is 11 too high a level for them?

I've been researching the topic of Fiends in D&D and wanted to ask a question: which do you think fits the Rakdos better, Demons or Devils? Because the manual implies you can use both, but which do you use more often? Do you use Balors as Rakdos generals? Where do Yugoloths fit in? In my campaign, I have a Wizard Bladesinger who uses Performance to convince the Fiends he summons to help him. Any suggestions to spice things up?

In real life, intelligence agencies exist to serve the interests of the the state which exists to serve the interests of the ruling class. In Ravnica, the Dimir seemingly just like knowing secrets for the sake of knowing secrets. You would imagine that they would be working for the Azorius or the Orzhov, but they seem to have their own interests. I'm just not sure what those interests are.

They kind of remind me of the cabal from odyssey block, but those guys were greedy demon worshipers or something. Their motives made more sense to me.

I like to use Ravnica versions of Wildshape beasts when I can, but after searching I can't find a good substitute for a Giant Badger. I'm already using the Ferox as a bear substitute. I was thinking a Nodorog, but those look like large beasts based on the card art, and they don't really look like burrowing creatures. Any suggestions would be much appreciated, thanks!

Hello Ravnica DMs,

I am looking for suggestions for any published content or adventures that you may have adapted for an underwater adventure in Ravnica.

For contact, my party is headed deep into the underground oceans of Ravnica to an ancient merfolk city. They are using a submarine and have purchased diving equipment.

I was wondering if anyone has adapted any published (official or homebrew) to do anything with the deep ocean of Ravnica? I’m thinking something like an Atlantis style adventure. I am capable of coming up with something myself, but also like to support pre-existing content. Also the merfolk lore in both the GGtR and mtg wiki is very minimal.

Any suggestions?

So, I have started Krenko's Way with my group and everyone has been enjoying it.

I did create a homebrew campaign I was calling Blight of the Gateless, where a specific guild caused a blight to destroy the gateless and the adventurers have to stop the blight and then expose the guild.

But my players where less than interested (sad but oh well)

One of my players had provided me with a link that had a module for ravnica, that was free but I cannot find it for the life of me though I SWEAR I saved it.

Does anybody know where it is or where I can find something like that. If I have to make the maps n stuff, I'm just doing my homebrew, but it was a compleate module for ravnica w maps and tokens and all and quitefrankly I'm lazy when I can be.

Help?

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so far it’s have found the dungeon masters guild that sells third party adventures-honestly feel kind of dumb for not looking their first but if anyone knows of where I may find some free ones please let me know here’s the link I found for others:

https://site.dmsguild.com/browse.php?keywords=Ravnica&filters=45469_0_0_45747_45759_45462_0_0&manufacturers_id=8957&sort=6a&x=18&y=16&author=&artist=&pfrom=&pto=

Asking DMs who've had Dimir spies in the party & had to reveal it one way or another later on. How did you go about it? How long was it kept secret? How did the party react?

I'm struggling to understand how crime happens if the Guildpact exists. For example: how do Ochran Assassins kill victims without disrupting the Guildpact and it's magic? How does Krenko murder a Shattergang Brother? How do Gruul riot in the streets? (I run a campaign where Jace is the Living Guildpact)

Hello!

I am looking for some suggestion on a dungeon I am working on. My party will need to recover an artifact from an Azorius evidence vault located deep beneath New Prahv before the BBEG does.

However the catch is this artifact was recovered by the Azorius more than 2 thousand years ago, placed in evidence deep under Old Prahv and over the centuries this particular sub basement has been long forgotten and become part of the Undercity somewhat.

I am looking for some interesting ideas on what to populate this dungeon with.

Thanks in advance!

TL;DR Who are the current Guildmasters of Ravnica? My current understanding listed below. Open to corrected information. Thanks :)

Title is my question. I've done a lot of scouring through the internet to find answers, but nothing seems totally conclusive enough to me.

I want to start a new campaign in Ravnica but want to be up-to-date with the current events. I like the idea of the rise of guildless as a plot for my prospective players to navigate.

From what I have found, this is what I understand to be the current roundup:

Azorius Senate: Lavinia

Boros Legion: Aurelia

House Dimir: Lazav (?)

Golgari Swarm: Izoni

Izzet League: Ral Zarek

Orzhov Syndicate: Teysa Karlov (now a spirit)

Cult of Rakdos: Rakdos (Judith manages day to day operations?)

Selesnya Conclave: Emmara Tandris

Simic Combine: Vannifar

Gruul Clans: Yarus (?)

Please correct me if I am wrong. Perhaps I need to actually thoroughly read through all the stories that Wizard has posted, but as a full time adult who is also veryyyy behind in Magic lore overall, I don't have a ton of time. I'll keep researching while also trying to put some bones in for my campaign.

During the hype cycle of the Guilds of Ravnica block, they showed off the style guides for the guilds, which are/were indeed linked in this sub, at least before the website expunged those documents.

However, one thing I could never track down, even to this day, was a slide from one of the Boros style guides presented at a panel at some convention (I want to say GP Las Vegas 2018?). I've included the image, and while it looks like the other more well-known Boros style guide, even referencing Guilds as "Spaghetti," I've never been able to find a proper file of this image specifically. Has anybody here ever seen it?

The first novel, when Argus Kos fights a ghost, the book explains that the boros are the only guild to destroy spirits. From that and various other snips from that cycle, i gathered that each guild has different in uses and practices for dealing with spirits. Its a cool allegory for how diffrent religions/cultures have differing burrial practices/views of the afterlife. The Orzhov are the most obvious ectomancers, but here is my speculation on everyone.

Azorius: traps them as knowlage repositories/employs them as guards and investigators.

Boros: just bloody destroys them

Selesnya: offers them to the collective if given consent

Orzhov: ectomancers frequent the ranks of the orzhov, so they do a lot with them, but mostly they indenture them if they have debts upon death or use ghost hood as a way to prolong life after death.

Izzet: ???

Golgari: trap in undead flesh as thralls or trap in undead flesh as a way to prolong life after death

Simic: ??? Momir vig uses ghost energy in his big bad guy plan at the end of the book, but i thought that was a one time event, not common simic practice. In my head, they are life mages, so they do nothing with ghosts. Maybe call another guild to get rid of them if they must.

Gruul: accept their presence and respect them as wise ancestors

Rakdos: ??? I like to think they just view them as confetti

Dimir: employ them as operatives. Maybe occasionally use vampirism as a way to escape becoming a ghost.

I could have sworn there was a card that referenced each guild having a kiosk where they they often recruit new members. I thought it was the Transguild Promemade, but apparently not. Anyone know?

I have been slamming my head into a brick wall trying to come up with something that will tie seemingly unrelated plot threads together in the campaign I am DMing, and I would love some help. (Azi, Farlos, Drek, and Drak, STOP READING!)

To set the stage: I have four players, all at level 2, and this is more of a mystery and political intrigue type story. There has been one combat out of about 5 sessions, and it was quite small. To make a long story short, one player is involved in the Selesnya Conclave and just got a new boss whom they suspect to be a vampire (spoiler, they are), another player was recently fired from the Izzet League and has taken up new employment working with a scientist trying to crack time travel, and a third player is a Boros Soldier that is actually a Dimir sleeper agent, though they don't know that yet.

I am trying to connect these three threads to each other. What I have so far is that Lazav, the Dimir guildmaster, is the one funding the scientist's time travel research with money from the Orzhov Church, the scientist ended up figuring it out and traveled forward in time bringing the vampire back with him, but I don't know how this vampire can connect to the Dimir. It's a little lame to just say "They're working for Lazav", I want there to be some sort of Orzhov Church connection. So basically my question is twofold: Why would a vampire from the Orzhov Church be undercover in the Selesnya Conclave; and why would the Orzhov Church and the Dimir be teaming up to discover the secrets of time travel? Bonus question: why would they send this vampire back in time to infiltrate the Selesnya Conclave?

I've been stuck for a week trying to figure out something interesting. I backed myself into a corner by not having an ending in mind and pieced the plot together as my players explored the clues that I had given them, but now I am stuck. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

was wondering how many here have read the series and consider it good inspiration for adventures / a whole campaign. (and a recommendation for anyone who loves fantasy noir)

for the unaware, the book series takes place in a city the size of New York in a high fantasy setting. the books follow a non-magical human detective and the wild cases he gets from semi mundane to high magic threats.

i was thinking it was, but i haven't run a city style game let alone ravnica, and would like some second opinions.