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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[Enevhar Aldarion]

No, no... I'm absolutely 100% correct. Absolutely. No ifs, ands, or buts about it. No psionics or Planscape. Guaranteed. 100%. In fact, OVER 100%. 106.49 % if I'm being honest. I know things.

Right, no psionics OR Planescape, because it will be psionics AND Planescape. In the same book.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Oh I agree. A magic school setting is great for D&D. My point is that it would be 10 times easier designing from scratch than attempting to bend Strixhaven to match D&D adventures. Strixhaven isn't like Ravnica or Theros where D&Disms are already in and all over the setting.

I suspect they designed the Strixhaven setting bible knowing this was coming. I'm guessing it'll be a better fit than we may guess.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

The grungs are oficially PC race, but not the bullywugs.

I imagine the feywild like a scenary for stories with a mixture of epic and comedy, or something closer to popular folklore about the faeries (here the influences by Changeling: the Dreaming and Changeling: the Lost can be very strong). Or some supernatural romance (Pride, Predjudices and Hags, Sense, Sensibility and Redcaps, Sluaghts in Northanger Abbey..).

We should remember the potential impact of the new settings being added in the DM Guild. Let's imagine lots of ideas by the players about demiplanes (updated old known or totally new..and bizarre) or adding new PC races and monsters to Dark Sun...(then the dessert is not so empty), for example the Spynewyrm as a true dragon with age categories, or about the lairs from "the Black Spine".

If the event of the M:tG+Forgotten Realms works, maybe the next will be Planescape.

 

[Yaarel]

Strixhaven will have new Races, that's what the Fey UA Race options was about: as I pointed out at the time, the options on hand fit in Strixhaven an not any existing D&D Setting, particularly the focus on anthropomorphic animals.

Are you saying, Strixhaven creatures are fey?

If so, that is excellent.

In my games, I treat the Feywild as moreorless like the Potterverse wizard realm, including culture revolving around the academic life of wizardry schools.

I am super-excited about both of these products.

I might use the Strixhaven setting as is, or merge it as a regional setting within the 5e Feywild planar setting.

Either way, wizard schools everywhere is a wetdream!

 

[Blue]

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.

shrug I don't need anything else, either running or playing in several superb 5e games.

So if they come out with something I want, it's a bonus. They don't need to have anything for me-in-particular except keep the edition the same as not to shrink the pool of players.

I've found both of the Everything books to be great round-ups of the material I'd want from other settigns, so I kow I can get that. And the settings I want I purchase. Love Eberron so I got the book, even if I'm not running in it. Played a Ravnica campaign reflavored to Ancient Greek, and it intrigued me enough to pick up the book. Picked up monster books like VOlovs and Mordenkainen's because I run multiple games. All good.

 

[Blue]

I haven't been following this so this may have been put to rest a while ago, but with everything going on I was expecting new Dragonlance novels and a tie-in Setting book. Which seems right up James Wyatt's alley and the definition of a classic setting. But I don't see a single hair of that here. Has that previously been put to rest so it's not worth talking about?

 

[Retreater]

shrug I don't need anything else, either running or playing in several superb 5e games.

So if they come out with something I want, it's a bonus. They don't need to have anything for me-in-particular except keep the edition the same as not to shrink the pool of players.

I've found both of the Everything books to be great round-ups of the material I'd want from other settigns, so I kow I can get that. And the settings I want I purchase. Love Eberron so I got the book, even if I'm not running in it. Played a Ravnica campaign reflavored to Ancient Greek, and it intrigued me enough to pick up the book. Picked up monster books like VOlovs and Mordenkainen's because I run multiple games. All good.

Yeah. I guess I'm at that place where I am getting diminishing returns the more products I get. And I really don't know what I'd need in the vein of the books they're releasing. Adventures? Class options? Monsters?
I don't use campaign settings. Fey are not interesting to me.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Oh I agree. A magic school setting is great for D&D. My point is that it would be 10 times easier designing from scratch than attempting to bend Strixhaven to match D&D adventures. Strixhaven isn't like Ravnica or Theros where D&Disms are already in and all over the setting.

Actually Strixhaven has alot more D&Disms then you think. It has classes like Warlocks, Clerics, Rogues, Wizards, Artificers, Druids, Monks, Shamans (not sure how they translate into 5e, but they were a class in previous editions of D&D), it's has traditional D&D races like Elves, Humans, Dwarves, Trolls, Orges, Giants, Dragons, Merfolk (Tritons), Dryads, Vampires, plus less traditional races like Kor, Loxodons, Leonin, Bearfolk, Turtlefolk, Frogfolk, Treefolk, etc...

And Lorehold is big on Exploring ruins, aka Dungeons. The other colleges have less obvious adventure hooks.

 

[Faolyn]

I haven't been following this so this may have been put to rest a while ago, but with everything going on I was expecting new Dragonlance novels and a tie-in Setting book. Which seems right up James Wyatt's alley and the definition of a classic setting. But I don't see a single hair of that here. Has that previously been put to rest so it's not worth talking about?

There was never any official info on a Dragonlance setting. What happened is they put out the most recent dragon-themed UA and one of the spells was named Fizban's something or other, so everyone said "Dragonlance confirmed!" Even though all the other named spells were named after Forgotten Realms or Greyhawk dragons.

They may still put out a Dragonlance setting, of course, but there's been no official word yet.

 

[Faolyn]

Actually Strixhaven has alot more D&Disms then you think. It has classes like Warlocks, Clerics, Rogues, Wizards, Artificers, Druids, Monks, Shamans (not sure how they translate into 5e, but they were a class in previous editions of D&D), it's has traditional D&D races like Elves, Humans, Dwarves, Trolls, Orges, Giants, Dragons, Merfolk (Tritons), Dryads, Vampires, plus less traditional races like Kor, Loxodons, Leonin, Bearfolk, Turtlefolk, Frogfolk, Treefolk, etc...

And Lorehold is big on Exploring ruins, aka Dungeons. The other colleges have less obvious adventure hooks.

Wait, classes like PC classes, or classes like "Summoning Your Patron 101"?