Well we know Minotaur and Centaurs are in. Dryads, Loxodon,
Vedalken, Merfolk are likely. Viashino and Ravnica's pyshic vampires are possible. The rest are likely too monsterous.
D&D 5E What Gods and Monsters do you think will appear in Ravnica?
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Well we know Minotaur and Centaurs are in. Dryads, Loxodon,
Vedalken, Merfolk are likely. Viashino and Ravnica's pyshic vampires are possible. The rest are likely too monsterous.
As M:tG (the game, not the lore) defines the term, Ravnica does not have gods. There are two planes known to have gods, which are Theros and Amonkhet.
Pre-Mending planeswalkers were often worshiped as gods. Ravnica does not have any of those, either (they no longer exist, though Nicol Bolas is trying to roll back the clock).
I would expect that Rakdos would be a demon lord. The power level is about right, and Rakdos is textbook chaotic evil; the Rakdos guild's themes of madness, delusion, and destruction line up very well with the demons of D&D.
Pre-Mending planeswalkers were often worshiped as gods. Ravnica does not have any of those, either (they no longer exist, though Nicol Bolas is trying to roll back the clock).
I would expect that Rakdos would be a demon lord. The power level is about right, and Rakdos is textbook chaotic evil; the Rakdos guild's themes of madness, delusion, and destruction line up very well with the demons of D&D.
QuietBrowser
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Ravnica might not have "gods", in the mechanical sense. But, as Gyor so helpfully pointed out, there are plenty of native religions for Ravnican clerics and paladins.
The Azorius Senate has made a theology out of bureaucracy, sanctifying the status quo and elevating the preservation of what IS to a holy act.
The Boros Legion worships its angels and archangels as spiritual guides; their pursuit of justice is a theology that needs no named gods.
The Selesnya Conclave has its Worldmind, the embodiment of their beliefs that by taming nature and subjugating individual, the entire world of Ravnica can be made a singular entity - a gestalt being of flesh, plant and elements.
The Cult of Rakdos worships Rakdos the Demonlord - it's literally in the name.
The Golgari Swarm are literally based around a theology derived from the circle of birth, death, decay and rebirth; their magic-users are even typed as druids and shamans in the card game.
The Orzhov Syndicate has... some kind of theology based around worshipping ghosts, with the Ghost Council as its functional god? I don't know that much about the Black/White Guild.
Niv-Mizzet the Firemind is basically the god of the Izzet League.
So, yeah, there won't be "gods" as actual stated creatures, but I'm sure we'll get basic crunch religion writeups, much like how Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes gave us the Seldarine both light and dark, the Morndinsamman, Yondalla's Children and Garl's... I don't know what the official name of the gnomish pantheon is. They'll probably just amount to "what's is each faith's associated domains, symbol and area of concern", but even so, Ravnica has faiths enough to warrant some investigation of native religion.
MechaTarrasque
Hero
For monsters, just as a guess from plundering the MTG wiki (I will do the white now, and the other colors later, see https://mtg.gamepedia.com/White#White-aligned_tribes):
Firemane angels (angels of vengeance)
Angels of despair
I am not sure if Serra angels are different enough from MM angels to get separate stat blocks
Archons (kind of like celestial knights, some of which are one being with their mounts, probably more LN than LG, but Arcadia could use some outsiders too)
Avatars
Owl Avens (when your pet owl is a better wizard than you are)
I don't think the Phoenix is different enough to get a separate stat block
Ditto the Roc (what, the Roc says "know your role jabroni, I will lay the smack down if I don't get my own block")
Maaka (giant six-eyed cats)
Don't know if giants are different enough to rate separate stat blocks
lammasu (more D&D shedu)--I haven't included any "almost extinct on Ravnica" monsters, but I am making an exception in this case
I don't know if the Pegasus is different enough to rate a separate stat block
I don't know if the Ceratok is sufficiently different from a rhino to rate a separate stat block
Wood version of a Caryatid column
the spirits seem like they could be handled by the ghost stat block
Moroii (psychic vampires)
gargoyles with a thunder attack
magic resistant griffins (mounts, can anyone say find even greater steed spell?)
Thrulls seem like they could be handled with the zombie stat block
There are some zombies with weapons surgically attached to their bodies
Firemane angels (angels of vengeance)
Angels of despair
I am not sure if Serra angels are different enough from MM angels to get separate stat blocks
Archons (kind of like celestial knights, some of which are one being with their mounts, probably more LN than LG, but Arcadia could use some outsiders too)
Avatars
Owl Avens (when your pet owl is a better wizard than you are)
I don't think the Phoenix is different enough to get a separate stat block
Ditto the Roc (what, the Roc says "know your role jabroni, I will lay the smack down if I don't get my own block")
Maaka (giant six-eyed cats)
Don't know if giants are different enough to rate separate stat blocks
lammasu (more D&D shedu)--I haven't included any "almost extinct on Ravnica" monsters, but I am making an exception in this case
I don't know if the Pegasus is different enough to rate a separate stat block
I don't know if the Ceratok is sufficiently different from a rhino to rate a separate stat block
Wood version of a Caryatid column
the spirits seem like they could be handled by the ghost stat block
Moroii (psychic vampires)
gargoyles with a thunder attack
magic resistant griffins (mounts, can anyone say find even greater steed spell?)
Thrulls seem like they could be handled with the zombie stat block
There are some zombies with weapons surgically attached to their bodies
MonkeezOnFire
Adventurer
I'm wondering if it would be sufficient to utilize some of the existing races even if they don't share the same name. Triton could be an easy way to represent merfolk. Using dragonborn or lizardfolk for the Viashino might also cut it.
Personally, I'm really interested in the monster section. Ravnica has some weird stuff. Particularly I really dig the Nephilim and anything that comes out of a Simic lab.
Parmandur
Book-Friend, he/him
Per Crawford:
"It’s a nice mix of new stat blocks and “use X stat block for Y.” And a good number of the stat blocks are NPCs."
https://twitter.com/JeremyECrawford/status/1023244177629360130?s=19
The book seems, based on the info we have so far, to be a fair bit lighter than most 5E books. Sounds like it will largely because crunch.
"It’s a nice mix of new stat blocks and “use X stat block for Y.” And a good number of the stat blocks are NPCs."
https://twitter.com/JeremyECrawford/status/1023244177629360130?s=19
The book seems, based on the info we have so far, to be a fair bit lighter than most 5E books. Sounds like it will largely because crunch.
It's the same price as MTOFs, so I expect it to be roughly that size.
I think Viashino are too agile, but I could be wrong, maybe they will just reuse Lizardfolk, I don't know. I thought of Triton, but MtG Merfolk have subraces. Several of the MtG Planeshift articles did Merfolk and each had different subraces, maybe we will see then all, I don't know.
All I know is gods are mentioned in the book in passing at least, just because something didn't directly appear as a card, doesn't mean it won't be in the book, they are filling in the blanks as it were, clerics need something or someone to worship.
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