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]

PC classes, most of the creature cards have them aside from the most monstrous like Demons

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

 

[bedir than]

The other colleges have less obvious adventure hooks.

Silverquill is pretty easy to have adventures around. They're trying to find the best tale to tell.

 

[Bitbrain]

Not a fan of the cover art, if that’s actually what they are going with.

 

[Disgruntled Hobbit]

Well, when the product itself just claims it's "Compatible with the Dungeons & Dragons Tabletop Role Playing Game", that's pretty clear that it's not official D&D material.

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Or it's trying to make it clear that it's a DnD product and not a MtG product

It's published by WizCo. Written by WizCo and someone who helped write DnD 5th Ed
What more does it need to be official?

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Not a fan of the cover art, if that’s actually what they are going with.

Hopefully the alternate cover art will be significantly more fey.

 

[Disgruntled Hobbit]

Strixhaven is literally a brand new set and looking into it on wiki James Wyatt wasn't apart of the design or vision teams that created it, so he'd have no more insight into that setting then Amanda Hammon would.

Still by jointly conceived by Amanda Hammon and other members of the studio likely included James Wyatt, but she is the project lead because James Wyatt likely has a much more difficult assignment then a regular MtG setting book, that would require an experienced hand at the till then the Strixhaven book.

I believe that Ray Winninger actually initiated a Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting Book last year in response to the setting scandals if 2020, the fruits of which include Lorendrow, Aevendrow, and the new less cowardly Kobolds.

And he turned to his most experienced setting book designer who wrote the FR setting book for 3.5 edition, James Wyatt, who also wrote the 3.5 update of FR book, the Draconomicon, and other FR setting books. James Wyatt also has experience with bigger settings then the MtG settings, helping twice with Eberrons Setting books.

So when Ray Winninger needs someone to handle WotC's most popular, profitable setting, the Forgotten Realms, which is the Throughbred Stallion of WotC settings, who else would he turn to in the D&D studio, especially in a time of such controversy?

The most popular and profitable setting is now Exandria
The Realms was last generation's setting

And we already have a Realms setting book
SWORD COAST ADVENTURER'S GUIDE
It has everything you'd see in a modern setting except monsters and an adventure. More really as there's far more setting detail in that book than in VAN RICHTEN'S GUIDE or RAVNICA and THEROS

 

[cbwjm]

Cool, I love the feywild and mage colleges so I think both of these will be a buy for me

 

[bedir than]

The most popular and profitable setting is now Exandria

SCAG, by itself, has outsold Wildemount.

 

[Tales and Chronicles]

Magic Schools are usually all wizards which is a strike against D&D. They'll have to teach DMs to run all arcanists. And their adventures are usually wizard battles or big honking wars.

You how I love low-magic and martial things in my D&D, but an all wizards (or spellcaster) in 5e, is pretty easy to do, since about 80% of the archetypes use spells.

But yeah, I agree that playing the few 5e's non-caster in a Stryxhaven campaign will be dull as hell (or maybe very unique, depending if the setting give a place to non-mage)

 

[Parmandur]

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 don't see why this would be different from building from scratch, or how Strixhaven isn't D&D friendly already?