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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[Demetrios1453]

Just been thinking.

This is also the time of the Volcae Tectosages' invasion of Greece and Anatolia under Cambaules and his three generals: Brennos, Bolgios, and Cerethrius, likely forming the base myths for many of the most popular Celtic myth archetypes that we see echoing all the way into medieval Grail cycles in the form of the Fisher King, the Mabinogion in the form of Bendigeidfran and , and the Irish sagas. Their sacking of the Temple of Delphi and the cursed gold of Tolouse may even have been the basis of the Andvarinat/Rhinegold in the Nibelungenlied/Volsungr Saga (taken a step further, it's possible that the only reason why the gold from the Temple of Delphi wasn't cursed during the Hellenic and Hellenistic periods was because the Apollonian priesthood integrated the Python-worship of the cthonic oracle into the Apollonian rites and established the Pythian Games - the curse on the Temple's treasure goes back to the invasions of the Greeks into Minoan lands, when Python was likely created as a concept fusing the chaoskampf dragon Typhaon with the local iteration of the Minoan serpent mother goddess, Delphyne (elsewhere in the region known as Rhea). At the same time, the invasion story is also the origin for the Galatians in Anatolia.

It's a great period for exploring with D&D fantasy tropes.

The whole Diodochi period from Alexander's death (323 BC) to the time frame you mention here (the Celtic invasions of Greece and Anatolia in the 270s BC) is criminally underused in fiction (both historical and fantasy) in my opinion. Powerful generals and family members scheme to grab as much power as possible in a world empire whose conqueror died young and whose heirs are too young or mentally disabled, while outside forces along the edges look to take what they can? It's like a real-life Game of Thrones, and was actually far bloodier (only Ptolemy and Antipater manage to die of old age in their beds, Cassander dies young of a wasting disease, and every other major player, even Alexander's mother and sisters, is murdered, executed, dies in battle, or commits suicide)

 

[Yaarel]

Would you trust a magic cop if all they had completed beforehand was magic high school?

Thank Boccob Strixhaven has higher level learning before sending their students off into the world. Aurors should have more training than that.

Magic cop ...

Are you talking about the Paladin?

 

[mach1.9pants]

I'm very disappointed that a) both of these are basically steampunk looking, and b) they're not a classic setting. I though we were getting one(2?) of those this year. I'm probably just an oldy minority, but these will join the modernistic Acquisitions Incorporated as the only books I haven't purchased

 

[Mind of tempest]

The whole Diodochi period from Alexander's death (323 BC) to the time frame you mention here (the Celtic invasions of Greece and Anatolia in the 270s BC) is criminally underused in fiction (both historical and fantasy) in my opinion. Powerful generals and family members scheme to grab as much power as possible in a world empire whose conqueror died young and whose heirs are too young or mentally disabled, while outside forces along the edges look to take what they can? It's like a real-life Game of Thrones, and was actually far bloodier (only Ptolemy and Antipater manage to die of old age in their beds, Cassander dies young of a wasting disease, and every other major player, even Alexander's mother and sisters, is murdered, executed, dies in battle, or commits suicide)

that is a fairly good set-up for an era of warlords and crazy stuff.

 

[Rikka66]

I'm very disappointed that a) both of these are basically steampunk looking, and b) they're not a classic setting. I though we were getting one(2?) of those this year. I'm probably just an oldy minority, but these will join the modernistic Acquisitions Incorporated as the only books I haven't purchased

I can't say steampunk comes to mind for either of these. They said 3 classic settings in the next two years. So basically by the end of 2022.

 

[THEMNGMNT]

Both of these books look great. Unfortunately, neither appear to be to my taste, so I probably will not be buying them. Kind of a bummer.

 

[Parmandur]

I'd be surprised if they meant to leak the titles this early. I'll add, none of the larger news sites (Polygon, IGN, etc) have reported on the leak, making me think that this leak is very much not intended and these sites have pre-scheduled articles meant to release based on prior info given to them by WotC.

I think they've learned to accept that they cannot trust Amazon on street date, so it looks like they designed this to be something they could live with if it leaked a bit early.

 

[mach1.9pants]

I can't say I steampunk comes to mind for either of these. They said 3 classic settings in the next two years. So basically by the end of 2022.

Maybe just modernistic, with top hats & pocket watch on one, and Napoleonic era uniform & spectacles on another

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Maybe just modernistic, with top hats & pocket watch on one, and Napoleonic era uniform & spectacles on another

More Alice in Wonderland
vibe.

 

[Parmandur]

More Alice in Wonderland
vibe.

Alice in Wonderland is a favorite of Chris Perkins.