Adding the ability to pull the material you need from the very rocks and earth lends to great flavor.
I would assume they all have a bit of lithomancy in their moveset as they mold the weapons this way.Īrtificer just makes sense with the forging tools and the infusions. Of course, Nahiri is also a Lithomancer, with natural abilities to manipulate the earth itself and we’re not sure if all of them have this. Following the text of the cards and the lore fiction that WotC puts out and using Zendikar’s planeswalker, Nahiri, as sort of an example, you get the flavor of a character that can forge weapons out of the stone itself. I see a lot of homebrew move toward sorcerer, but I think this would go better as an Artificer. I would suggest control, command and summoning spells to flesh out the Roilmage and charm, calm and abjuration spells for the lullmage.Īnother great subclass to work with would be Stoneforge Mystic. You can play the mage as a pacifier but also as an inciter. They are mainly a part of a tribe or adventuring party to protect others from the roil and their elemental attacks. No, they are taught the ways of the roil and study on their spells that effect the elements. They do not do this from some family bloodline, so they’re not sorcerers. Most of their kind manipulate the elements, calm them, suppress them or incite them. The roilmage never seems to build the power from within. A lot of the elemental subtypes in D&D seem to center on infusion of the elements within the sorcerer, wizard or druid etc. These shamen are native to Zendikar and have been taught in the ancient Zendikarian arts that vary greatly to any other elemental style subtype from any other setting. On top of that, studying and researching the roil would be a great focus for an adventuring party.Īn obvious choice for a subclass here would be a ROILMAGE ARCANE TRADITION. It gives the DM more storyline reasons for these creatures to be there. Any creature with an elemental stat block could be dropped into an adventure with ease. This makes for ready to play random encounters. Although most talk about the roil as if it was a momentary call to action against the now-destroyed Eldrazi horrors and that its actions now are those of an injured, tainted nature, most ancients would probably argue otherwise. There seems to be no rhyme or reason to their appearance, but it has been thought that the roil is Zendikar’s natural defense against threats or to ‘purify itself of corruption’. The roil are upheavals in the elemental makeup of the land that make traveling it deadly. The focus of concern of anyone adventuring in Zendikar begins and ends with the ROIL. Here you can build a varied set of NPCs and a setting that gives a DM a lot of room for amazing flavor. This will give a structure to begin all pursuits and a place for your adventurers to hang their hat. Like the guilds of D&D, they served as base, barracks and shop for all equipment and weapons needed to venture into the wild. On every continent, great Expeditionary Houses are the center of this quest for adventure. So much wild territory to cover, creatures to hunt and ruins to plunder. It is a wild place unpredictable and dangerous. It was a place where civilization can no longer take root because of the violent elemental ‘roils’. (Now, for some basic info look up the Planeshift write up for ZENDIKAR done a few years ago)įrom the first, WotC built the plane of Zendikar as an ‘adventure world’. I’m here to give you some reasons as to WHY PLAY D&D in ZENDIKAR! No, not one of our homebrew worlds like War of the Banks.
Of course, most of you know, the two companies are owned by Wizards of the Coast and they are making the most of merging the two with the Theros campaign setting earlier this year (awesome book) and, now, MTG announcing a whole set of cards based on the classic FORGOTTEN REALMS setting (check out my article on this HERE). But what has also had us excited is the mounting cross-product promotion between D&D and MTG. Spoiler season has been nonstop for awhile, but the introduction of the return to Zendikar and the new lore dump has had us very excited and VERY distracted. Sorry to all of the DMs and players of D&D out there, seeing that we have been quite busy with the new Magic the Gathering set #ZendikarRising.
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