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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[ccs]

Remember this wasn't supposed to come out like this, we weren't supposed to know about Witchlight until July, and Strixhaven was likely being saved for announcement in September. Amazon really, really screw this one up BIG time, even by Amazon's standards. So it's no surprise that they didn't spoil the middle book, none of thos was planned.

Sure they did....
*WoTC knows damned well that the info will leak to the public as soon as it's provided to Amazon.
*You're all excited for these books, right?
*You're all going to watch the WoTC show regardless.

 

[Maxperson]

Woohoo! I get to not spend money on D&D hardcovers for a while.

 

[Rikka66]

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?

That was Ravnica's gimmick, wasn't it? Strixhaven was a faction world, and that will certainly play a heavy role in this book. But advancing in school is quite different from advancing in something like the FR factions.

 

[TwoSix]

I'd give Strixhaven a chance, it's a compelling setting.

Read this short story before deciding The Mentor

I like its potential to plug and play into other settings as their de facto "magic academy". Especially for homebrew settings, but it could make an interesting replacement for Arcanix in Eberron.

 

[Parmandur]

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

Maybe, Mayne not.

 

[Parmandur]

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.

The sample size is two, and this is the first time a D&D project coincides with the formation of a Magic Setting.

 

[Parmandur]

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?

It's a magical Wizqrd college, so it's sort of Harry Potter by way of Narnia (serious, so many of the students and faculty are talking animals of various sorts). The card set focused on big Spells, so lots of magical mechanics such as new Spells.seems likely. This book might bring the Magic metaphysics into the book, unlike Ravnica or Theros.

 

[Parmandur]

Looking at the blog: Who We Are And What We Do | Dungeons & Dragons
It says:

Later in the year, Chris will return with our big summer adventure, James Wyatt will deliver a substantially improved version of a concept that I initiated myself, and Amanda Hamon will close us out with a project that was jointly conceived by herself and several other studio members. As usual, Jeremy Crawford is working with all of our leads, overseeing mechanical content and rules development.

Does Strixhaven sound more like "a substantially improved version of a concept that [Ray Winniger] initiated" or "a project that was jointly conceived by [Amanda Hamon] and several other studio members"?

Especially as Wyatt is the MtG lore guru. He does lore more than mechanics. He was likely brought back onto the DnD team to do annual MtG books. Winniger initiated Stryxhaven and Wyatt polished it.
Then we have something else coming in December or January by Hamon that may or may not be a book. It's a project. Who knows?

Then in 2022 we have one or two classic settings. Likely one with a third in 2023

Strixhaven could fit either description, honestly, and we know.James Wyatt has been working on material that is not in this book (Dragonborn, Kobold, and Forgotten Realms deities spells are not for Strixhaven). Wyatt is the author of thebDMG, so he is a mechanics guy, as well, and the main d&D Lore guy during the buying of 5E.

 

[Parmandur]

I remember disagreeing vehemently with you, believing that it had to be a Feywild adventure instead.

So congrats, the rare instance when people who disagree both win!

It was an unusually polite disagreement to begin with, so it's nice to see a harmonious resolution. I was feeling g the Feywild vibes, too, so this all just makes sense.

 

[Parmandur]

Lets not also forget that there have been Fey Owlfolk in DND via the Hsiao. AND in both Plane Shift articles, there were Aven. Hawk/Ibis headed ones in Amonkhet and Owl headed ones in Dominia, both had Plane Shift articles.

Strixhaven's Owls could be the Aven stats as an official player option "now" with Strixhaven, being promoted from its slot in the Plane Shift articles. The Owlfolk in the Fey UA would mostly likely be the Lineage and in a way represent the Hsiao.

Both of these would fit Strixhaven/DND's trend of crossovers with MtG settings and with an existing creature in DND.

The Owlfolk I'm UA were nothing like the Hsiao, however, but were precisely like the Aven. So, it does turn out it was an Aven writeup after all.