The ability to do what you want is what makes the system so much fun. Now, granted, those decisions are usually terrible - like deciding to try out the forbidden soup or needing to wear the fancy new black ring you found - but they’re still an integral part of the RPG. The core of Dungeons & Dragons is decision-making. Story beats Choose your own Adventures Adventures in the Forgotten Realms cards such as Choose Your Weapon and You Come to a River add a hint of D&D's decision-making to MTG. There are plenty of these D&D characters throughout the set, and it’s interesting to see how they’ve been represented in a completely different game system. The star of the Icewind Dale novels is represented in the set as a creature with double strike who enters the battlefield alongside a cat token called Guenhwyvar, his panther companion. Then you’ve got the likes of Drizzt Do’Urden, a drow ranger who became a hero of the North and was famed for using two blades at once. Xanathar, Guild Kingpin, for example, is the beholder at the centre of the Xanathar Thieves’ Guild and here allows you to steal other people’s cards straight from their libraries. However, players who aren’t familiar with D&D’s wider lore might not realise that there are also many existing characters within the Forgotten Realms of some fame or infamy.Īdventures in the Forgotten Realms features a few of these well-known characters. Image: Wizards of the Coastĭungeons & Dragons is probably best known for the characters we all make for ourselves, along with the NPCs that our ever-patient DMs come up with to guide us through or hinder us in our adventures. The whole Adventures in the Forgotten Realms set is one big D&D reference, so instead of simply listing every single card in the set - which wouldn’t be very interesting - we’ve tried to distil the references into six main categories to help you get a feel for how this set manages to capture Dungeons & Dragons, and how it might well be your gateway into the world of tabletop RPGs or CCGs too.Ĭharacters Drizzt it obvious? Icewind Dale hero Drizzt Do’Urden makes a star appearance in Adventures in the Forgotten Realms. However, this is the first time we’ll actually get to see blatant references, characters and even more nods to Dungeons & Dragons’ world of the Forgotten Realms within Magic: The Gathering.ĭ&D references in MTG Adventures in the Forgotten Realms There have always been hints of D&D in MTG just by the very nature of their settings - what with elves, dwarves and goblins being an integral part of both. It’s not just any crossover either, as this is a set built from the ground up with the help of the Dungeons & Dragons team to bring the tabletop RPG into the card game for the very first time. Adventures in the Forgotten Realms is the latest Magic: The Gathering set and, alongside being one of the more cumbersome set titles (people are shortening it to Forgotten Realms, which isn’t too bad), it’s also the first major crossover set.
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