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The Gruul Clans combine fiery emotion with a connection to the natural world expressed through barbarian clans. The Izzet League is home to inventors and conduct grand experiments. The Orzhov Syndicate are a combination of organized crime, bank, and church. House Dimir consists of spies and assassins. The Selesnya Conclave is a cult speaking in one voice and trying to convert others. The Golgari Swarm are sewer dwelling elves living in darkness, using insects, and wielding necromancy. The Boros Legion are paladins, armored mages wielding fire, and military forces. James Wyatt gives brief guild descriptions. The players‘ guild choice combined with the advice for DMs provides a solid direction for a campaign. Advice covers good guilds to serve as adversaries, plots to oppose the PCs, typical NPCs and monsters to use, and what locations would fit the campaign. The DM looks at all of the PCs’ guilds and builds a campaign around opposing guilds.

Guilds provide skills, special abilities, and NPC contacts.

Guilds are more about exploration and interaction than combat. A player may select a guild in place of a background. The guild is the lens through which the PCs see the world. The guildpact currently flows from one man and he is often on other planes, leaving Ravnica open to guild intrigue and tension filled conflict. The traditional magical power keeping the peace is the guildpact. They clash with opposing philosophies and goals.

Ravnica’s ten guilds serve as both government and voluntary organizations. An image that is grounded in D&D game play. An example is new full page art depicting an adventuring party in the rain with four different guild members on a bridge behind them.

The setting focuses on adventurers, not MtG play. Guilds are defined based on philosophy not color. The colors would be meaningless in a D&D world. Magic the Gathering uses colors in the metagame but flavor text on cards do not mention colors. Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica, releasing in November, is thoroughly a D&D book for D&D players.

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