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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[whimsychris123]

I’m going to have to join the chorus in expressing my disappointment in the cover of The Wild Beyond the Witchlight, if that actually is the cover. I want my journey into the Feywild to include tropes like Fairy Queens and corrupted pixies, redcaps and beastlords and wild hunts, not the circus.

Can we judge a book by its cover? Yes, to some extend. Every D&D book cover evokes the overall mood and content of the book. It suggests major themes that might be found. I guess I was hoping for a world of fantastical wilderness, but the cover suggests more “Something Wicked this Way Comes.” It may end up being a great adventure. It just wasn’t what I was hoping for when I heard “Feywild Adventure.”

Maybe I’m wrong and the book will still have plenty of those fey tropes. Maybe that isn’t even the cover. The title still gives me hope. I’ll still wait and see. If that’s the cover, though, it just feels a bit disappointing.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I want my journey into the Feywild

It seems to me that the protagonists in this story are ordinary Feywild folk, not from some strange "prime material" plane.

to include tropes like Fairy Queens and corrupted pixies, redcaps and beastlords and wild hunts

This stuff is just everyday life.

not the circus.

This is the thing that is out of whack.

 

[Ghost2020]

Agreed on the comments regarding the Witchlight cover.
Not interested in a "spooky or weird" circus.

The MtG setting....ehh...have to see.
I've yet to come back to Ravnica sine the purchase.

 

[Thunder Brother]

I'm genuinely flummoxed by the cover for the Feywild book. I know that I shouldn't judge a book by it's cover, but nothing about it conveys fey and faeries to me, especially given the whole late 19th/early 20th century aesthetic.

 

[Mind of tempest]

I'm genuinely flummoxed by the cover for the Feywild book. I know that I shouldn't judge a book by it's cover, but nothing about it conveys fey and faeries to me, especially given the whole late 19th/early 20th century aesthetic.

yeah, that is an odd cover.

 

[Weiley31]

Eh maybe it's just me but I feel like the Bard is a Shaman as well. One could alway refluff the Bardic Inspiration as the Spirits intervening. shrugs

 

[Undrave]

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. Tune into D&D Live 2021 presented by G4 on July 16 and 17 for details including new characters, monsters, mechanics, and story hooks suitable for players of all ages and experience levels.

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. Tune into D&D Live 2021 presented by G4 on July 16 and 17 for details including new characters, monsters, mechanics, and story hooks suitable for players of all ages and experience levels.

Well, if that cover is any indication, time to bust out the weirdest Cirque du Soleil soundtrack you can find!

I suggest Kumbalawe from Saltimbanco, as it is all made up words.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I've just notices something. Trying not to lift too much from VGR, "archfey named Zybilna"...."a traveling fey carnival that served as a gateway to Zybilna’s domain." This is the Feywild being talked about here, not Ravenloft - i.e. it's saying the Feywild has domains.

Also points to Zybilna being the Big Bad of the adventure.

 

[DEFCON 1]

It's not just the player options. It's the lack of Artificers, Magewrights, Warforged and Shifters in the Monster Manual (Changelings at least can be modeled pretty solidly by their cousins the Doppelgängers). Telling DMs to homebrew content is assuming DMs have the time to homebrew and playtest options that haven't been professionally balanced, let alone letting them risk throwing their game off the deep end if it's unbalanced. There's a reason people play published modules more than homebrew games: it's less work! Being a DM is HARD and TIME CONSUMING. When you want to just get to the fun, especially if you're playing in someone else's sandbox - like Keith Baker's - you want the Legos already built for you, not requiring a 48-hour construction project ahead of the fun and games with said Legos.

Well, except for the people who like to do that, but the point is that the Setting books exist to streamline the process and let people get to the fun.

Yes, setting books streamline the process. Agreed. But they are not necessary. Especially if you REALLY want to play in a setting. If playing in Planescape really means THAT MUCH to you... moreso than just using any of the settings that we already have or that you've homebrewed for yourself... then any complaints from that person that it's "hard" or "time consuming" to do so rightly deserves others here to tell that person "If you can't handle adapting a game of Planescape using the tools you already have, maybe you shouldn't be playing in Planescape." Especially if that person has the time to come onto ENWorld to complain about it.

And that's what this is about. If you can't be bothered to make up a 5E version of Planescape using presumably all the other Planescape material from editions past that you should have at your disposal to pull from... then it seems to me that you really don't want to play in Planescape that much. And thus your complaints that it hasn't been made yet can indeed receive blowback from other people here.

 

[Parmandur]

Which UA was Strixhaven-looking?

The "Fey Races" that included Owlin (one of the most prominent Raves in Strixhaven). Also, the other "Fey" options looks like MtG characters to me, which is why I called it, but time will tell.