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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[Kurotowa]

I know next to nothing about Harry Potter and even less about MtG but what I briefly perused about Strixhaven after Googling it this morning gave me the same impression. I could be very wrong but seems like a finite concept for a campaign insofar that it seems the players will always have to be affiliated with or members of one of the colleges to make it worth playing in the setting.

"Life at magic school" is an old, broad genre. There's British wizard boarding school stories from decades before Harry Potter came along. There's an entire Japanese anime sub-genre of magic high school battle series; everything from medieval fantasy with wizard bloodlines to modern day with super martial arts to near future with mech suits. It's all the drama and hormones and emotions of a bunch of teenagers but with a magnified scale of magic powers and wizard duels.

That's why I'm curious to see how much of the book is going to be focused on details specifically about Strixhaven and how much is going to be more general genre tools like the new Ravenloft book is heavy on.

 

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And like that my interest is gone.
I was hoping for the wicked madness of faeries not the circus.

 

[Parmandur]

So, based on this cover going around, I am reminded of this tease from the latest D&D Studio blog post:

"Isolde, leader of the Carnival, has ties to more than one group of otherworldly entertainers. What could have become of her former crew?"

From the Ravenlodt book, we know that Isolde used to run a Feywild carnival, and traded carnivals with a shady couple of Shadar-Kai.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

"Life at magic school" is an old, broad genre. There's British wizard boarding school stories from decades before Harry Potter came along. There's an entire Japanese anime sub-genre of magic high school battle series; everything from medieval fantasy with wizard bloodlines to modern day with super martial arts to near future with mech suits. It's all the drama and hormones and emotions of a bunch of teenagers but with a magnified scale of magic powers and wizard duels.

That's why I'm curious to see how much of the book is going to be focused on details specifically about Strixhaven and how much is going to be more general genre tools like the new Ravenloft book is heavy on.

True.

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[R_J_K75]

"Life at magic school" is an old, broad genre. There's British wizard boarding school stories from decades before Harry Potter came along. There's an entire Japanese anime sub-genre of magic high school battle series; everything from medieval fantasy with wizard bloodlines to modern day with super martial arts to near future with mech suits. It's all the drama and hormones and emotions of a bunch of teenagers but with a magnified scale of magic powers and wizard duels.

That's why I'm curious to see how much of the book is going to be focused on details specifically about Strixhaven and how much is going to be more general genre tools like the new Ravenloft book is heavy on.

Same I was surprised with the new RL. I was able to put together an adventure in Lamordia with minimal reading ih a few hours.

 

[Morrus]

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There is an official frogfolk race, the grung and the bullywood, bullywugs.

Where did you find that?

 

[Parmandur]

"Life at magic school" is an old, broad genre. There's British wizard boarding school stories from decades before Harry Potter came along. There's an entire Japanese anime sub-genre of magic high school battle series; everything from medieval fantasy with wizard bloodlines to modern day with super martial arts to near future with mech suits. It's all the drama and hormones and emotions of a bunch of teenagers but with a magnified scale of magic powers and wizard duels.

That's why I'm curious to see how much of the book is going to be focused on details specifically about Strixhaven and how much is going to be more general genre tools like the new Ravenloft book is heavy on.

The Ravnica, Eberron, and Theros books were similarly genre focused, that's how Setting books in 5E are organized.

 

[Demetrios1453]

I mean, we know it will. I'm guessing either Neverwinter or the Moonshaes.

Or Silverymoon, which is close to the High Forest.

 

[Demetrios1453]

So, based on this cover going around, I am reminded of this tease from the latest D&D Studio blog post:

"Isolde, leader of the Carnival, has ties to more than one group of otherworldly entertainers. What could have become of her former crew?"

From the Ravenlodt book, we know that Isolde used to run a Feywild carnival, and traded carnivals with a shady couple of Shadar-Kai.

I'd say you probably hit the bullseye here. Not only will it be the Feywild adventure that's been rumored for a couple of years, but also tie into a recently-released setting book as well.

 

[Retreater]

Seeing releases like these and the last few, I have to wonder what WotC has left for me. It's been a while since I've been excited about a product, but I hope others enjoy them.