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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[Minigiant]

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

I mean how Strixhaven is a school and schools tend to try to keep students out of danger.

Most magical school settings in tend to involve chosen ones, training for war, or leave the school quickly. Because it's school.
And it's not just fantasy school. Strixhaven is magic school with heavy use of full casters. DMing or designing an adventure for all full casters isn't for the newly inducted or faint of sanity.

 

[Yaarel]

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

Greyhawk is only a town, and Nentir Vale is only a small rural valley with a handful of villages, and Potterverse is only one person.

If the setting derives its name from a prominent wizard school, that seems reasonable enough to me.




Regarding the Goblin, if I recall correctly, the 4e Goblin is fey. In any case, I played the Goblin that way and have since. When I became more aware of the reallife British fairytales about goblins, they are magical beings, essentially disgruntled sprites, have magical powers, like turning invisible, making potions, and so on. They are dangerous, yet not quite right in the head, and often appears as objects of humor in the stories.

The best reason to make Goblin and Hobgoblin fey (besides being fay in reallife), is it makes them so different in flavor from Orc.

 

[Disgruntled Hobbit]

Hardly an official word, but Mangianello does claim to have early access to official stat blocks for draconians here.

Or, because he's friends with the staff, they spent 5 minutes homebrewing them for him...

 

[Urriak Uruk]

Mostly because Wildemount is the 19th best selling gaming book at this time and SCAG is 20th, with a five year head start

Sorry, that measures current sales, which doesn't mean a lot for total sales if one book had a much bigger initial sales number (within the first couple months of release). I suspect the Wildemount book sold far more than the SCAG on their respective release dates (Wildemount did insanely well at launch) so if they are both selling equally today it doesn't mean much.

 

[Parmandur]

I mean how Strixhaven is a school and schools tend to try to keep students out of danger.

Most magical school settings in tend to involve chosen ones, training for war, or leave the school quickly. Because it's school.
And it's not just fantasy school. Strixhaven is magic school with heavy use of full casters. DMing or designing an adventure for all full casters isn't for the newly inducted or faint of sanity.

One assumes the book will have advice for this, similar to Rabenloft.

 

[Urriak Uruk]

I haven't heard much speculation on what "Witchlight," means. It's not a term I've heard before.

 

[ersatzphil]

Or, because he's friends with the staff, they spent 5 minutes homebrewing them for him...

Oh, totally. Given the D&D design blog talked about how much stuff gets left on the cutting room floor, they could also be stats that someone was working on for awhile for official publication, but the project got cut. Who knows.

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

I haven't heard much speculation on what "Witchlight," means. It's not a term I've heard before.

Witchlights are a type of Will'o'Wisp.

 

[Minigiant]

One assumes the book will have advice for this, similar to Rabenloft.

It will need way more advice than Ravenloft does as it's a mechanical, adventure, and flavor change.

 

[Benjamin Olson]

SCAG, by itself, has outsold Wildemount.

Not only has it been out much longer, and not only was it available at a time when there were radically fewer other setting books to demand someone's 5e setting book dollar (originally none, in fact), but it also was sold at a moderately lower price point than every other 5e book.

That said, yeah Forgotten Realms, and the Sword Coast region thereof in particular, is almost certainly the most heavily played setting. I don't think Exandria is going to claim that crown anytime soon unless they start producing a bunch of official WotC campaigns set in Critical Role land.