Wholesome lovely adventures. I've owned these for a while but haven't had a chance to run them, am thinking I'll do so next Pride month.

Ravnica Pride 2 Queer Adventures in Ravnica

These are beautiful, important adventures! Their wonders and simply gorgeous gay artwork have been melting my soul with joy and I can’t wait for more folx to experience their awesomeness!

There are reasons why this pair of adventures about these pairs of characters to the backdrop of the City of Guilds, there’s a good chance you know what they are and, if not all you need to know that there need to be more cheerful queer stories and adventures. That’s it.

“Ravnica pride adventures includes 2 adventures set on Ravnica, focusing on queer couples in the city of guilds. In The Perfect Date, characters will help the pyromancer planeswalker Chandra Nalaar, arrange a date with the elven animist Nissa Revane, despite any of the potential setbacks that the chaotic city life of Ravnica could put in the way. In Labors of Love, characters will help the heavily overworked viceroy of the Izzet League, Ral Zarek, in completing the tasks on his schedule to make time for a date with his boyfriend, Tomik Vrona. At the same time, characters will face a bitter Orzhov debtor, who could throw Ral and Tomik’s plans into jeopardy with a plot of revenge against the Izzet League.”

The Perfect Date by Beatriz T. Dias (@BiaTDias19)

This was a really hard adventure to review...I was going to do a whole sarcastic bit riffing on the general awfulness of the description of Chanda’s crushes in War of the Spark, but it just made me too nauseous...so after meandering back to the punchline which is I found this adventure so hard to review because of the artwork of Chandra holding Nissa in the pink-purple cloud above the skyline, which is truly one of the most beautiful, gorgeous and gay things I have ever seen and I. am. HeRE. FOR. IT!!! Stickyhunter has absolutely knocked it out of the park in such a spectacular be gay, do crimes fashion that they will be eternally hounded by the Azorious Senate. Seriously though, I hardly make a secret of how much I adore Steph’s art, but this is them at their heart-stopping, breath-taking best.

“In this short adventure for all levels, a group of adventurers is asked to help out planning the date between Chandra and Nissa. The pyromancer is the one asking for help, and she wants nothing less than the best for her girlfriend.” Honestly, I made my attempt and bailing out on a joke up top, about this being a really hard adventure to review, and then I went and read through the adventure again, and I’m not ashamed to say that I broke down in tears and had myself a little sob. This is the kind of loveliness queer folx rarely get to experience, especially in fiction and pre-written TTRPG adventures. It truly floored me and this old queer enby felt truly touched and emotional reading this.

So, you have the hopeless romantic Chandra wanting to plan the perfect date for her girlfriend, Nissa, who hires a party planning company to make the date go off without a Hitch... Unfortunately, the vedalken she’s hired, Loofan, is shorthanded and desperately needs a handy ground of adventurers to lend a hand.

The adventure surrounds the party coming up with the perfect date and dealing with complications as they come up to ensure the ladies can have the time of their lives together.

There are a variety of suggestions from Chandra at Planning stage, from “dinner flying above the city on “some invention thingy”...A walk around some private woods near Vitu-Ghazi, to dinner at “some of the pools tended by the Simic”. It’s the party’s job to look into these ideas and come up with the details, food, drinks, etc to make the date just right. From here they just make it happen and roleplay, guided by the DM, in what could be a whole involved thing shopping up and down the Central District, or simply coming up with a plan and moving on to the Execution.

The Execution is the date itself happening, while the DM throws setbacks at the party for them to overcome to keep the date going swimmingly (possibly quite literally if they go to the Simic Pools). The DM can come up with their own inspired by the party’s specific plans and/ or they can use the three random tables provided.

One table is for general setbacks, including dealing with Gruul anarchs, convincing Nissa not to head back to Zendikar without spoiling the surprise or even finding party planning duties for Vraska, who doesn’t want to be left out. Another table is for cooking setbacks, including dealing with a “scummy Orzhov Merchant” taking advantage of the scarcity of an essential ingredient, and the genius “The chosen cutlery is made from a very weak metal. If Chandra is holding them, and gets even mildly flustered, the cutlery will definitely melt in her hand.” The last table is for building setbacks, including a drake swooping by and flying off with something essential, and an old lady with poisoned sleep muffins! Between them there are a great many suggestions and combinations to inspire your own, which could have characters running around, fighting, fixing, filching and fu-riously making sure everything goes as planned!

Love Wins and, victorious, the party head back to Loofan to spill the tea on everything that has gone down and get paid in some shiny new magic items, and even more importantly an adorable note from Nissa that gave me the warm fuzzies and goosebumps.

This is a ridiculously fun and wholesome adventure and I love it!

Labors of Love by Frederic Walker (@korartificer)

“Ral Zarek hasn’t had a chance to see his boyfriend, Tomik Vrona, in two weeks. Work for the Izzet League has reached a boiling point...Ral still has a large workload left to complete today, but if he can find a party to help him finish his duties early, then tonight would be the perfect opportunity for a date with Tomik before the new workload hits tomorrow. But, with an unknown agitator stirring trouble in both Ral and Tomik’s guilds, aiming to create a conflict between the Orzhov and Izzet, a lot more could be at stake than the Advokist and Lightning Mage’s date.”

A wonderful summation of Ral Zarek and Tomrik Vrona, their relationship and their respective roles and duties in their guilds, is provided for anyone needing to be caught up to speed. Ending with this beautiful line: “The two keep an apartment together, far enough away from each of their guildhalls to give them a semblance of peace, or at least, as much peace as can be found outside of Selesnyan gardens.”

The rich backstory of “Vilkov...this adventure’s antagonist, a former member of the Orzhov, who lost a large amount of money by way of the Izzet League” is also provided.

The adventure comes in three chapters: • Chapter 1 - Morning in Nivix: Helping Ral and possibly getting blown up. • Chapter 2 - Across Town: Survive Azorius bureaucracy and find the boys somewhere to have a date. • Chapter 3 - Interrupted Dinner: Defend the construction site and battle Vilkov and his army of thrulls.

Hooks are provided linked to the two protagonists and their guilds, which lead you to Ral, becoming his helpers and getting to play with his lightning accumulator.

Chapter 1 - Morning in Nivix

This chapter really bring Nivix to life, as the party get to work charging up batteries for Ral, until the sabotaged battery overloads causing a dangerous skill challenge.

Chapter 2 - Across Town

This is a chapter of applying heist movie antics to admin and clerical situations...like a boss!

Ral needs planning permission so that means a lengthy bit of queueing...but this Ravnica and even in the Azorious side of town there are ways and means. Will you pay a “professional queuer” for a sweet space or use your various skills to take matter into your own hands?

Even more important and certainly more dangerous is trying to get the guys a booking in their chosen restaurant, despite it being fully booked. Do you sneaky beak and change the bookings, harass the doorman, get caught and rumble with the cops in the streets? Or do you give up and try to find somewhere else, despite their tastes being almost impossible to simultaneously satisfy?

A table of eight Ravnican restaurants are provided, including: “Krevgore’s - A chaotically loud Rakdos club, all patrons are guaranteed a good show, with some of the best food in the area.” “Lizrog’s Lounge - A Simic-run fish restaurant, where every seafood dish combines fish with something else - usually while it was alive! The food is beyond tasty, though its popularity means the restaurant is loud.”

Chapter 3 - Interrupted Dinner

Explosions at the Orrery Construction Site signal Vilkov is back up to his tricks trying to blow stuff up. He has a whole bunch of thrulls with him and it’s up to the party to hold him until the arrive and can help blast the guile and guildless goon into the Blind Eternities. This shakes out as the party needing to last a certain number of rounds against the attacking forces. This includes the new eviscerator thrulls, which are included in the appendix:

“formidable, weaponized variety of thrull, set aside by the Orzhov to typically only see use in open combat between guilds. They are quadrupeds with a pair of scythed limbs on their backs, capable of huge sweeping slashes that catch multiple enemies.”

As long as the party succeed, Vilkov is taken away by the Orzhov, corporeally or otherwise, they get paid, and the boys will get to spend the rest of the night together, walking off adorably in the rain with Ral making a magical umbrella. The Appendix contains the statblocks Chandra, Ral Zarek, Tomik Vrona, Vilkov and the eviscerator thrulls, which is a pretty awesome set of impressive NPCs and a new creature for Ravnica capers and beyond.

This is a fun adventure that allows to explore some of the city and get involved in a rivalry – nemesis situation, which is always fun. Plus, boyfriend date night!

These are beautiful, important adventures! They are also fun, silly adventures that work on their own or as part of a larger Ravnica or other big city game. Perfect for playing with a partner and just having some good, clean, queer fun! Their wonders and simply gorgeous gay artwork have been melting my soul with joy and I can’t wait for more folx to experience their awesomeness! I simply must take one last moment to absolutely gag at the perfection of StickyHunter’s art for this project. Good gods!

I cannot express just how much joy it brings me that these things exist, and I still can’t help getting all choked up writing this. Thank you.

Credits The Perfect Date was written by Beatriz T. Dias (@BiaTDias19) Labors of Love was written by Frederic Walker (@korartificer) Editing: Bace Jeleren (@BJeleren) Art: Stickyhunter (@TheStickyHunter) Layout: Anja Svare (@AnjaProductions)

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