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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[Henadic Theologian]

Well, the Subclasses would probably fit with the Dragonsguard security in Strixhaven, but the races and Spellsnwoth FR names...not so much.

Unless the Spells were actMtG Spells, with the FR and Dragonlance names being misdirection.

The spells mostly don't resemble anything in Strixhaven, no Strixhaven spell turns you into a Dragon or summons a Dragon Spirit, etc..., the designs fit FR lore. And most of all Strixhaven doesn't have metallic/chromatic/gem Dragons nevermind Dragonborn or Kobolds. The Dragonborn mechanics fit the lore given, not Strixhaven's lore. For one thing, if it was for Strixhaven it would have five Dragonborn races, one for each founding Dragon, not 3.

It's an interesting theory, but it's not supported by the fluff or mechanics.

 

[cbwjm]

Theros would have been started about a year after that UA, so I tend to doubt it.

I'd say the bulk of it would have been, but I wouldn't be surprised if they have a timeline that looks ahead more than a year. They may have well known that they were going to have Theros while they were making Ravnica, even if they didn't do much in the way of options for Theros until later.

 

[Marandahir]

The spells mostly don't resemble anything in Strixhaven, no Strixhaven spell turns you into a Dragon or summons a Dragon Spirit, etc..., the designs fit FR lore. And most of all Strixhaven doesn't have metallic/chromatic/gem Dragons nevermind Dragonborn or Kobolds. The Dragonborn mechanics fit the lore given, not Strixhaven's lore. For one thing, if it was for Strixhaven it would have five Dragonborn races, one for each founding Dragon, not 3.

It's an interesting theory, but it's not supported by the fluff or mechanics.

Some UA are not designed for just 6 months out. Some UA are designed for a year plus time.

Clearly the Big Book of Dragons is Q1 or Q2 2022. Alternatively. it's the mysterious final project to close out 2021.

In any case, I don't think we need to figure out how the Dragons article fits into Strixhaven. We know they've been working on a project to release Gem Dragons in for a long time - the Sapphire Dragon showed its face in 2019 after all on those premium Sapphire dice for the 45th anniversary.

 

[Blue]

Great
Where???

Not that I'm expecting much. Talking with someone dismisses the potential of a counterargument and claims absolute truth is generally like holding a conversation with a brick wall

In the image of the actual product I provided to you in the first post. The one you have ignored and ignored and then have the gall to try to say I'm the one who is dismissing counterargument. You keep coming up with a list of "what about" that aren't the question - they don't make it official. Being official makes it official. And it's clear from the product itself it's not official, just compatible with it.

 

[darjr]

Wait. The two of you are arguing weather or not Zendikar, a skunkworks experiment by WotC, is “official” D&D or not?

why does it matter? I mean is it really important enough for this debate? An acrimonious one? H*ck it isn’t worth me typing this.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Some UA are not designed for just 6 months out. Some UA are designed for a year plus time.

Clearly the Big Book of Dragons is Q1 or Q2 2022. Alternatively. it's the mysterious final project to close out 2021.

In any case, I don't think we need to figure out how the Dragons article fits into Strixhaven. We know they've been working on a project to release Gem Dragons in for a long time - the Sapphire Dragon showed its face in 2019 after all on those premium Sapphire dice for the 45th anniversary.

Or it's simply not spoiled yet. Witchlight and Strixhaven were not supposed to be spoiled yet, it was an accident, so it's entirely possible that accident did not occur with James Wyatt's book. We know 3 are coming out this year, one is Chris Perkin's Summer Adventure, which the Feywild UA was clearly intended for, James Wyatt's book with some Draconic themes, which is unspoiled, and finally Cirriculim of Chaos the Strixhaven setting book, with Amanda Hammon as project lead closing out the D&D year.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Looks like news-ish at 9a Pacific each day this week.

Perhaps we will learn more about James Wyatt's book.

 

[Parmandur]

Or it's simply not spoiled yet. Witchlight and Strixhaven were not supposed to be spoiled yet, it was an accident, so it's entirely possible that accident did not occur with James Wyatt's book. We know 3 are coming out this year, one is Chris Perkin's Summer Adventure, which the Feywild UA was clearly intended for, James Wyatt's book with some Draconic themes, which is unspoiled, and finally Cirriculim of Chaos the Strixhaven setting book, with Amanda Hammon as project lead closing out the D&D year.

My suspicion at this point is that when she joined the team and was asked to pitch a new book, Hammon saw all the Strixhavem art in the office and felt that needed to be in D&D. That would fit the development timeline for the book (UA in March, publishing in November) and her onboarding in November 2020, as well as Winninger's hint about her proposing it with help from other studio members (Folk of the Feywild in March was written "By Taymoor Rehman, Ari Levitch, and Jeremy Crawford, with input from the rest of the D&D design team").

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Harry Potter goes to college ...

Even better!

The perfect title for a Harry Potter/Van Wylder/American Pie 2/Revenge of the Nerds/Scholomancy crossover movie

 

[Yaarel]

The perfect title for a Harry Potter/Van Wylder/American Pie 2/Revenge of the Nerds/Scholomancy crossover movie

I am so going to play up this angle now.