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Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica is a sourcebook that details the Ravnica campaign setting for the 5th edition of the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game published in November 2018. [1] The world of Ravnica was originally created for the Magic: The Gathering collectible card game and first appeared in the card set Ravnica: City of Guilds ...
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space is a boxed set for the 5th edition of the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game.The boxed set includes three sourcebooks: the Astral Adventurer's Guide (a Spelljammer campaign setting guide), the Light of Xaryxis (an adventure module), and Boo's Astral Menagerie (a bestiary of Wildspace and Astral Sea creatures).
Adds four new player races (Pallid Elves, Lotusden Halflings, Draconblood and Ravenite Dragonborns), and reprints twelve player races (Aarakocra, Aasimar, Bugbears, Firbolgs, Genasi, Goblins, Goliaths, Hobgoblins, Orcs, Sea Elves, Tabaxi, and Tortles). Adds a new fighter subclass, Echo Knight, and two new wizard subclasses, Chronurgy and Graviturgy
On the changes to player races, Stretch wrote, "one of the major things that you'll notice picking up this book is that a lot of the greater context about a race and its history in the world is no longer included, what was previously almost a page worth of information teaching you about a race's place in the world is now a brief paragraph.
Kenku can now only speak through precise mimicry of voices and sounds in the environment; they can never produce sounds of their own nor extrapolate other sounds to speak independently. They were also stripped of their creativity, and thus can never create original works and ideas; they are described as condemned to a life of "hopeless plagiarism".
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Shannon Appelcline, in the book Designers & Dragons (2011), highlighted that in 1989 Spelljammer was the first of a host of new campaign settings published by TSR. It was created by Jeff Grubb and "introduced a universe of magical starships traversing the 'crystal spheres' that contained all the earthbound AD&D campaign worlds.
Bleeding Cool gave a positive review, appreciating the addition of sub-races to Tieflings and details on conflict within Elf and Gith society, also allowing Gith PCs to become a viable option. [ 14 ] Rpg.net gave a rating of 83% with a positive response to the tone captured in the book and the planar background and resources which it gives to DMs.