Steal this Setting: Vampires of Zendikar

The vampires in Zendikar have an interesting mechanical theme in that many of them get stronger when your opponent is at 10 life, 10 life being half the 20 life each player starts with in a game of Magic. Once I realized how similar that was to 4th edition’s bloodied mechanic, I realized that I [...]

No. Seriously. Steal this setting. Now.

I already made a post on Magic’s newest setting, Zendikar. However, the Daily MTG site just put up an article on the design for the look and feel of Zendikar that just blew me away, and warranted another post.
I feel pretty confident when I say that Zendikar may just be the greatest D&D setting never [...]

Steal This Setting: Zendikar

The latest set for Magic: The Gathering looks like it was tailor-made for 4th edition’s Points of Light philosophy. Zendikar is a magically-infused plane where there are no advanced civilizations and indeed even large cities are extremely rare, as they literally get ripped apart by the changing landscape.
There’s a great post on the Magic website [...]

Steal This Setting: Stormwind City

First, a quick note. Stormwind City is the capital of the kingdom of Stormwind in the world of Azeroth and the lore of the Warcraft universe. I will from here on simply refer to Stormwind City as Stormwind, which is technically not correct but it’s how I think of it. Blame WoW, which calls Stormwind [...]

Steal This Setting: Ravnica, Part 3

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Steal This Setting: Ravnica, Part 2

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Steal This Setting: Ravnica, Part 1

Today I’m posting the first in a 3-part series on using the Magic: the Gathering plane of Ravnica in RPGs. In this series I’ll also be giving some sample rules components for D&D 4th edition. At the end of the series, I’ll also release a PDF with all the stat blocks used in the series [...]