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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[Whizbang Dustyboots]

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

Or they're left over from a project that was cancelled.

 

[Tonguez]

Hmmm interesting that the feywild book is using a Carnival - I wonder if there will be a Ravenloft crossover (and how much the a new Feywild book will reflect the Van Rcihtens format)

Strixhaven looks more Winx Club than Harry Potter - but I’m probably not the target audience

I do like Loxodons though

 

[Hexmage-EN]

Hopefully the alternate cover art will be significantly more fey.

Yeah, this is the first cover I've seen for a book I definitely want that I am not at all a fan of the default cover for.

 

[Parmandur]

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

I mean, a whole book's worth seems about right.

 

[Demetrios1453]

Do you think the Feywild book is considered "classic"? It originated in 4E.

Not saying that Wyatt's book won't be a classic though.

It has origins earlier than that - there has always been a "Faerie realm" that could be reached through the various planes on chaotic side of the Outer Planes (as well as the Material Plane, of course). Like the Demiplane of Shadow, it just grew in importance over editions until it got promoted to its own plane.

 

[Tonguez]

Witchlights are a type of Will'o'Wisp.

Witchlights been used a few times in DnD - theres the Wizard summoned Willowisp but Spelljammer also had a huge Witchlight Marauder.

 

[Marandahir]

Strixhaven makes a LOT of sense. D&D has dabbled into Potter-esque fantasy before but it's never given it front and center. Much better an in-house IP that WotC own than to license out something that's popular but problematic. I'm actually kind of surprised that we're getting a MtG book in 2021; they've been 2018 and 2020, so I would have bet on another MtG book in 2022. But maybe they want to get to 1 a year not one every two years…

As for Feywild ancestries, I wouldn't count a separate Feywild book out yet…

 

[Parmandur]

Strixhaven makes a LOT of sense. D&D has dabbled into Potter-esque fantasy before but it's never given it front and center. Much better an in-house IP that WotC own than to license out something that's popular but problematic. I'm actually kind of surprised that we're getting a MtG book in 2021; they've been 2018 and 2020, so I would have bet on another MtG book in 2022. But maybe they want to get to 1 a year not one every two years…

As for Feywild ancestries, I wouldn't count a separate Feywild book out yet…

I would expect a MtG Setting every year for the future now: 2019 was the gathering information phase after the Ravnica experiment, and Theros would have been started around around time Nate Stewart was talking about how well Ravnica had done.

 

[Demetrios1453]

I'm thinking (as have others in previous threads) we're in a 2018-type situation here, where Dragon Heist was released in September, and Dungeon of the Mad Mage and Ravnica were released in November. They've said we'll have three more releases for this year, and it seems reasonable that it will follow the 2018 pattern, with an adventure in September and a M:tG setting in November. There would be, presumably, the hypothetical dragon splat book (instead of an adventure) in November as well.

(And with it happening this way, as it inevitably does, they will be able to talk about the already known releases at the upcoming event, while being able to tease us with something new).

 

[Parmandur]

I'm thinking (as have others in previous threads) we're in a 2018-type situation here, where Dragon Heist was released in September, and Dungeon of the Mad Mage and Ravnica were released in November. They've said we'll have three more releases for this year, and it seems reasonable that it will follow the 2018 pattern, with an adventure in September and a M:tG setting in November. There would be, presumably, the hypothetical dragon splat book (instead of an adventure) in November as well.

I mean, Volos Guide to Dragons and Strixhaven would be about as different as can be. Makes sense to me.