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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[Eyes of Nine]

Just going to drop into here that I'm pretty jazzed about both of these new books.

The Strixhaven one is in a good way.

And guess what, in that other thread, I don't think a single person guessed either of these. (Not sure if Feywild qualifies as a "classic" setting - I wonder if that's still in the offing; maybe for 2022?)

 

[guachi]

Double Pass. But I hope others find the books useful and fun.

 

[Marandahir]

Just going to drop into here that I'm pretty jazzed about both of these new books.

The Strixhaven one is in a good way.

And guess what, in that other thread, I don't think a single person guessed either of these. (Not sure if Feywild qualifies as a "classic" setting - I wonder if that's still in the offing; maybe for 2022?)

I really don’t think it’s a setting - it’s clearly the big September Adventure that will have an AL season running concurrently to it. It explores a new area of the setting but Baldur’s Gate: Descent Into Avernus was not a classic setting, despite depicting classic settings of Baldur’s Gate and the Nine Hells layer of Avernus in its pages. Settings are not Adventure Modules first and foremost; they’re separate D&D book types.

Feywild works best when you don’t fully define it because then you steal away some of its magic by shrinking it into something that reflects your defined spatial boundaries. The Feywild map and lore of 4e were great, but they should be seen as a starting off point, and even then it never got a full setting book treatment like the Astral Sea, the Elemental Chaos, the Abyss, and Gloomwrought did (and note that Gloomwrought was not the originally pitched setting book for all of the Shadowfell; like the Feywild, the more you define it, the less power you give it).

So I’m psyched we’re going there with an adventure module. Icewind Dale and Elemental Evil had player character write ups in their Adventure modules, so the Feywild lineages could end up in an appendix for the book.

I’m guessing, then, that the Dragon material is for Q1 or Q2 2022 big book of monsters + player options release, akin to Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes release in May 2018.

 

[darjr]

I don’t think they worry about mixing content from different books in UAs. I mean why would they?

 

[Marandahir]

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

Did he mean he has access to the Dragonlance Draconian stats or was he playing coy with us? Matt Mercer previous published a Dragonborn ancestry he called Draconians in the Tal’Dorei Campaign Setting; when updating the ancestry for an official WotC-published setting book in Explorer’s Guide to Wildemount, WotC made him change the name of that ancestry to Draconblood instead. It’s got the same flavour text, it’s just that WotC doesn’t want people to confuse them with DL Draconians.

Which leads me to wonder if Joe is just running with the Draconian from Mercer, where I’m sure they use the original term at his table and only changed the name for publishing purposes.

 

[Rikka66]

The Witchlight Fens was a location name on the map of the 4th edition's Nentir Vale. That solo adventure – Ghost Tower of the Witchlight Fens – set the stage for DUNGEON 182's The Dungeon of the Ghost Tower (by Robert Schwalb). Basically, it's a riff on C-2: Ghost Tower of Inverness, just being a little smaller dungeon, a little less "funhouse dungeon", and with a decidedly darker theme. In the solo adventure there's a case (like a physical box) you and the elf Sareth are seeking from goblins which, in the DUNGEON adventure ends up being the Anarusi Codex. The Anarusi Codex is a pretty cliche necromantic tome penned by an evil noble named Anarus Kelton that gives you the power to change your spell damage type to necrotic & to turn your slain foes into zombies, basically.

Also the namesake for a small set of dungeon tiles.

 

[Parmandur]

I don’t think they worry about mixing content from different books in UAs. I mean why would they?

I cannot recall them doing so, however.

 

[Parmandur]

Just going to drop into here that I'm pretty jazzed about both of these new books.

The Strixhaven one is in a good way.

And guess what, in that other thread, I don't think a single person guessed either of these. (Not sure if Feywild qualifies as a "classic" setting - I wonder if that's still in the offing; maybe for 2022?)

ahem various folks guessed both of these books, the yearly Adventure being Feywild related was actually pretty popular. I called Strixhaven after the Strixhaven looking UA article.

 

[R_J_K75]

What would happen if Shri%x*t $hut down?

 

[Disgruntled Hobbit]

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

Also a possibility