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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[Faolyn]

Edit: I just realized (per a comment here) that both of these are billed as adventures, not settings. That makes me think there's room for another setting book. I'd put money on a classic Dragonlance setting.

They both seem to have very similar text describing them ("Tune into D&D Live 2021 presented by G4 on July 16 and 17 for details including new character options, monsters, mechanics, story hooks, and more!") so I'm willing to bet that the Strixhaven book is a setting book like Theros and Ravnica were, and that the Amazon listings just don't have the correct info yet.

 

[Minigiant]

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

Hey nothing is guaranteed. They just need to realized how Strixhaven will be played.

D&D is vastly more flexible than you seem to be suggesting here, and there are...5 arcane spellcasters, and 4 more non-arcane spellcasters, in 5e. And every class has highly magical subclasses.

I'm not saying D&D isn't flexible.

I'm saying "Roll Initiative. Fireball Fireball Fireball Counterspell Fireball Fireball I attack Fireball " "Barry Hotter You are EXPELLED!" is a type of campaign you really have to prepare a DM to run.

The main villains are terrorist black mages. The PCs will be students and teachers. It likely won't be a standard D&D campaign.

 

[Kurotowa]

They both seem to have very similar text describing them ("Tune into D&D Live 2021 presented by G4 on July 16 and 17 for details including new character options, monsters, mechanics, story hooks, and more!") so I'm willing to bet that the Strixhaven book is a setting book like Theros and Ravnica were, and that the Amazon listings just don't have the correct info yet.

The text blurbs seem different for the two to me. Beyond the Witchlight is "D&D's next big adventure storyline" and Curriculum of Chaos offers "details including new characters, monsters, mechanics, and story hooks". I'd trust the blurb details more than the product tags at this point, and those make it seem like CoC is more likely a setting book.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

I'd bet a fair penny that they'll reprint the Arcana Domain from Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide.

Oh sure, that would make perfect sense!

If they put any new subclasses in, I’d love to see an Arcane Fist Monk with all the cool “hand” spells as well as magic stone and catapult, or a Monk that redirects energy and negates magic effects. Something involving group buffs after absorbing magical damage would be cool as hell, and fit that monk card someone posted upthread.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

4e Goblin wasn't fey, but they were featured prominently in depictions of the Feywild in Heroes of the Feywild and I believe also in Manual of the Planes. That book was like the Player's Guide to a Feywild Campaign Guide that was never published, but it had a lot of juicy player-oriented details about the 4e assumed Feywild setting.

The Practical Guide to Faeries, a 4E counterpart to the 5E Young Adventurers Guides, has a lot of (kid-level) details about the Feywild as well, for those looking for more semi-official material. (It's from WotC, and it's for D&D, but it has no D&D stats so it's ... kinda?)

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Well, for me, my D&D pretty much is all mages.

I want to DM for your groups. My groups are super-heavy of various flavor of rogues. It's a lot of fun, but I would love to throw some wizardry in the mix. As it is, I have to rely on sidekicks for that.

 

[Minigiant]

Well, for me, my D&D pretty much is all mages.

But know from your pleas for modules, your campaigns are mainly martial characters. So I understand your concern.

I have one group of all martials and warrior/casters and one of all full casters.

All the fights the the second group is variations of matches between Sligh, Izzet, and Draw Go.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

Hey nothing is guaranteed. They just need to realized how Strixhaven will be played.


I'm not saying D&D isn't flexible.

I'm saying "Roll Initiative. Fireball Fireball Fireball Counterspell Fireball Fireball I attack Fireball " "Barry Hotter You are EXPELLED!" is a type of campaign you really have to prepare a DM to run.

The main villains are terrorist black mages. The PCs will be students and teachers. It likely won't be a standard D&D campaign.

As others have pointed out, there are people other than full casters in the school. One card that is clearly a teacher is a monk.

Beyond that, even if it were only full casters, that wouldn’t be so far outside D&D’s norm that it couldn’t be done in a book dedicated to it.

 

[darjr]

I didn't know there was a solo 4e adventure to follow the 4e red box?! I wonder if it has any clues?

https://media.wizards.com/downloads/dnd/Ghost_Tower_of_the_Witchlight_Fens.pdf

 

[Minigiant]

As others have pointed out, there are people other than full casters in the school. One card that is clearly a teacher is a monk.

Beyond that, even if it were only full casters, that wouldn’t be so far outside D&D’s norm that it couldn’t be done in a book dedicated to it.

I not saying there aren't non-full-casters in Strixhaven. I'm saying that the setting is gear to full casters and players will play full casters in high percentages than normal games. And running a game of 75%+ full casters in 5e is no picnic despite all the nerfs. And the main villains are casters and darker ones with forbidden magic too.

Magic school settings if they get violent devolve to Rocket Tag conflicts if you don't out your way to prevent it somehow. However Strixhaven is a MTG setting using D&D magic.