D&D 5E Two New D&D Books Revealed: Feywild & Strixhaven Mage School

Amazon has revealed the next two D&D hardcovers! The Wild Beyond the Witchlight is a feywild adventure due in September, and Curriculum of Chaos is a Magic: the Gathering setting of Strixhaven, which looks like a Harry Potter-esque mage school, set for November.

Amazon.com: The Wild Beyond the Witchlight: A Feywild Adventure (Dungeons & Dragons Book) (9780786967278): Wizards RPG Team: Books

Amazon.com: The Wild Beyond the Witchlight: A Feywild Adventure (Dungeons & Dragons Book) (9780786967278): Wizards RPG Team: Books

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The Wild Beyond the Witchlight is D&D's next big adventure storyline that brings the wicked whimsy of the Feywild to fifth edition for the first time.

The recent Unearthed Arcana, Folk of the Feywild, contained the fairy, hobgoblin of the Feywild, owlfolk, and rabbitfolk. UA is usually a good preview of what's in upcoming D&D books.

Strixhaven: Curriculum of Chaos (D&D/MTG Adventure Book) (Dungeons & Dragons): Wizards RPG Team: 9780786967445: Books

Strixhaven: Curriculum of Chaos (D&D/MTG Adventure Book) (Dungeons & Dragons) [Wizards RPG Team] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Strixhaven: Curriculum of Chaos (D&D/MTG Adventure Book) (Dungeons & Dragons)

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Curriculum of Chaos is an upcoming D&D release set in the Magic: The Gathering world of Strixhaven -- a brand new MtG set only just launched.

Strixhaven is a school of mages on the plane of Arcavios, an elite university with five rival colleges founded by dragons: Silverquill (eloquence), Prismari (elemental arts), Witherbloom (life and death), Lorehold (archaeomancy), and Quandrix (numeromancy). You can read more about the M:tG set here.

You will be able to tune into WotC's streamed event D&D Live on July 16 and 17 for details on both, including new character options, monsters, mechanics, story hooks, and more!

D&D 5E - Here Is The Full & Alternate Cover Art Of The Wild Beyond the Witchlight

Here is the cover art for The Wild Beyond the Witchlight, the hardcover D&D product revealed this weekend. Cover art by Tyler Jacobson Alternate cover by Hydro74 https://www.enworld.org/threads/two-new-d-d-books-revealed-feywild-strixhaven-mage-school.680500/

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D&D 5E - And Here Is Strixhaven's Cover Art!

It's not just The Wild Beyond The Witchlight's cover art being revealed today! We also have Magali Villeneuve's cover art for Strixhaven: Curriculum of Chaos! Strixhaven is an upcoming D&D setting based on the recently released Magic: the Gathering world, and features a mage school -- as Theros...

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[Henadic Theologian]

BTW Amazon screwed up in another way the world (or plane) is not called Strixhaven, that is only the name of the University.

 

[Parmandur]

Off-flavor for classic DnD
But that doesn't matter now. Because they're designing for new players. They can add bunnyfolk and feygoblins if they want
It's just another change

True, they can: but at the time of the UA, I made the case that all of the options on offer felt like various MtG archetypes, especially the Strixhaven style Owlfolk, because they feel like Magic universe versions of these things. Now, we know they were working on a Magic universe Setting book, so it is reasonable to think all of the Fey options were intended for Strixhaven.

 

[Disgruntled Hobbit]

True, they can: but at the time of the UA, I made the case that all of the options on offer felt like various MtG archetypes, especially the Strixhaven style Owlfolk, because they feel like Magic universe versions of these things. Now, we know they were working on a Magic universe Setting book, so it is reasonable to think all of the Fey options were intended for Strixhaven.

If the adventure was literally anything else, sure
But they're also working on a fey adventure
It makes sense than some or all of the fey options would be in the fey book

 

[Disgruntled Hobbit]

BTW Amazon screwed up in another way the world (or plane) is not called Strixhaven, that is only the name of the University.

Amazon didn't write the copy
They don't have staff doing product descriptions
They print what they're sent

 

[Disgruntled Hobbit]

He keeps mentioning that 2 more classic settings are being worked on currently, one might have gotten bumped to next year, but clearly another is intended for this year.

Clearly how?

 

[Henadic Theologian]

True, they can: but at the time of the UA, I made the case that all of the options on offer felt like various MtG archetypes, especially the Strixhaven style Owlfolk, because they feel like Magic universe versions of these things. Now, we know they were working on a Magic universe Setting book, so it is reasonable to think all of the Fey options were intended for Strixhaven.

I'll give you Owlfolk, but that's it.

MtG D&D crossover books have only ever explore creatures that appeared in the card sets for both Ravnica, Theros, and even the Planeshift articles, they don't add races that don't appear in the card set. If that article was entirely for Strixhaven Bearfolk would be in it, not Rabbitfolk, but they weren't.

Rabbitfolk are likely chosen for Witchlight adventure as a White rabbit, from Alice in Wonderland type figures.

 

[Thunder Brother]

Anyway, time to widely speculate on the contents. I tapped out of Magic before Kaldheim was released, so I am admittedly somewhat ignorant about Strixhaven as a whole. Would this setting work well as means to introduce a framework for detailed factions that a player could advance through?

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Amazon didn't write the copy
They don't have staff doing product descriptions
They print what they're sent

Then someone at WotC screwed up.

It occurs to me that it might have been James Wyatt's book might have been the one they extended to leak, but they screwed up and instead it's the only one that didn't ended up leaking!

 

[Twiggly the Gnome]

BTW Amazon screwed up in another way the world (or plane) is not called Strixhaven, that is only the name of the University.

I think that's a branding issue. I mean, "The World of Greyhawk" isn't a world called Greyhawk.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Anyway, time to widely speculate on the contents. I tapped out of Magic before Kaldheim was released, so I am admittedly somewhat ignorant about Strixhaven as a whole. Would this setting work well as means to introduce a framework for detailed factions that a player could advance through?

Yes, there are 5 Colleges and 1 group of terrorists (the Oriq).

Lorehold (R/W Anthropolgy and theology)
Quandrix (U/G math and physic)
Silverquill (W/B literature, PR and drama)
Primari (R/B Drama/Threatre)
Witherbloom (Medicine and Biotechnology).

The Oriq seem to be mostly failed students looking for revenge).