WotC Strixhaven sounds like it'd be a nice mini-setting for D&D

[Weiley31]

I want the setting from Kaldheim with the subclass options from Strixhaven and the monsters from Ikoria.

That sounds like it would be awesome!

 

[Parmandur]

IIRC Planeshift was retired when Wyatt rejoined the D&D team

It was retired when they realized people would buy the full thing.

 

[Parmandur]

There's a decent chance we'll be getting another MTG setting this year as part of the kinda-sorta-promised setting books. I know it's probably too soon for one based on a brand-new MTG card set (and maybe even soon soon for something like Eldraine, although that seems like a place they could use the Hexblood race, if it's not used in a Ravenloft/Gothic horror book), but Strixhaven sounds like a fun mini-setting, maybe as part of a book of new magic at some point. (Not that there's a lot of homeless UA spells floating around, to my knowledge. The ones that haven't been published at this point seem to be unlikely to reappear in their last-seen forms.)

From Kotaku:



Throw in some suggestions on how to run a magical school campaign, suggestions on how Strixhaven connects to various campaign worlds (planar gates, magical trains that travel the planes, etc.), a slew of new spells and arcane-focused subclasses and monsters, and there you go.

I can't see it being part of the 2021 schedule, though. Still, the last major magic school release for D&D, to my knowledge, was Redhurst: Academy of Magic, which had the bad fortune to be released between 3E and 3.5, when there wasn't much interest in third party books.

So, I thought the Setting looked neat, but didn't think much of this possibility until the suspicious "Fey" Lineage UA with Owlfolk.

The Setting is pretty mysterious at this point, but it strikes me that it could be more than a mini-Setting for D&D. There is the magical academy angle, which is a rich genre that could cover all the Adventure generation material and PC options of any of the other Magic books, bit it also strikes me that this is a multiverse spanning hub for the Magic Metasetting. Neither Ravnica not Theros really got into Planeswalkers or the Mana wheel...but a book focused on an advanced magical academy for Planeswalkers might be an ideal place to explore that area from a D&D perspective.

Bonus points if the next classic D&D Setting coming down the pipeline is Planescape: two Metasettings, mix and match as desired.

 

[bedir than]

It was retired when they realized people would buy the full thing.

Also true

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

I have said several times I guess WotC's strategy is to produce multimedia franchise, not only for the card and tabletop games, but also future novels, comics, toys, videogames, T-shirts, merchandising and cartoons or action-live productions for streamer services.

* Bearfolk are canon in Dragonlance, the ursoi.

 

[Weiley31]

I mean, with the supposed increase in book releases, we could still get three classic settings AND another MtG setting book.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I mean, with the supposed increase in book releases, we could still get three classic settings AND another MtG setting book.

Going from about four releases to a year to about eight releases a year would be a big one-year jump. We'll see. I would expect a more gradual ramping up -- maybe six books this year, at most.

 

[Urriak Uruk]

Going from about four releases to a year to about eight releases a year would be a big one-year jump. We'll see. I would expect a more gradual ramping up -- maybe six books this year, at most.

I'm thinking only 5... even if we get a book release every two months (Candlekeep in March, Ravenloft in May, a book in July, September, and November), that's only 5 books. Any release schedule faster than that would surprise me.

I feel like I'm a broken drum on this, but I find Strixhaven very unlikely... it seems like a very big leap of faith for WotC to release a new plane in MtG and give it a big D&D book at the same time.

 

[Parmandur]

Going from about four releases to a year to about eight releases a year would be a big one-year jump. We'll see. I would expect a more gradual ramping up -- maybe six books this year, at most.

I wouldn't expect the three Classic Settings Winninger has suggested on one year, but over a couple years.

 

[Parmandur]

I'm thinking only 5... even if we get a book release every two months (Candlekeep in March, Ravenloft in May, a book in July, September, and November), that's only 5 books. Any release schedule faster than that would surprise me.

I feel like I'm a broken drum on this, but I find Strixhaven very unlikely... it seems like a very big leap of faith for WotC to release a new plane in MtG and give it a big D&D book at the same time.

I agree 100% that it would be shocking and bold, and not what I would expect. However, it fits the current evidence, and is not impossible, merely improbable.