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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[Disgruntled Hobbit]

In the image of the actual product I provided to you in the first post.

Telling me to go back through 20 pages of posts for something vague you wrote isn't as helpful as you think

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.

Are you seriously arguing that the definition of official is something that is official?

And it's clear from the product itself it's not official, just compatible with it.

Something can be official AND compatible
That was clearly so people didn't mistake it for a MtG product as that logo was much larger

It's made by WizCo staff, published by the WizCo, and was hosted on the official site
It's as official as ONE GRUNG ABOVE or the TORTLE PACKAGE or the ELEMENTAL EVIL PLAYER'S COMPANION
And it's a hell of a lot more official than EXPLORER'S GUIDE TO WILDEMOUNT that wasn't playtested and wasn't actually written by any WizCo staff (even the editors were mostly freelancers)

If DRAGON magazines that weren't published by WizCo can be "100% official" then the various PLANESHIFT products must be 110% official

 

[Henadic Theologian]

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").

Perhaps, but I still think the Feywild UA is for the Witchlight book, although Owlfolk/Owlin will clearly do double duty. I think there could be a UA for Strixhaven book yet, for Bearfolk, Frogfolk, Vampires (or they reuse Dhampyrs), Kor, etc..., with reprints for Leonin, Loxodons, Triton/Merfolk, Orcs, Goblins..., the billion dollar question is will James Wyatt's book be announced this week? And which of these books will explore Lorendrow and Aevendrow?

 

[Parmandur]

Perhaps, but I still think the Feywild UA is for the Witchlight book, although Owlfolk/Owlin will clearly do double duty. I think there could be a UA for Strixhaven book yet, for Bearfolk, Frogfolk, Vampires (or they reuse Dhampyrs), Kor, etc..., with reprints for Leonin, Loxodons, Triton/Merfolk, Orcs, Goblins..., the billion dollar question is will James Wyatt's book be announced this week? And which of these books will explore Lorendrow and Aevendrow?

It may do double-duty, but I still think it's primarily a Strixhaven UA. We will know soon enough.

 

[Parmandur]

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.

Some people argue about what counts as "real" D&D the way others argue about religious traditions.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

It may do double-duty, but I still think it's primarily a Strixhaven UA. We will know soon enough.

I'm the opposite, I think the only part that will appear in Strixhaven is the Owlfolk, because the rest don't appear in the card set, and if they were going to do a UA for Strixhaven you'd have ones that actually appear in the card set. Yes there are a bunch of animalish races, but none of them are rabbitfolk, and a bunch that do appear in the card set don't appear in the UA. Keep your eyes open for a Strixhaven UA, both for races and maybe subclasses and spells. I think this could be a player options heavy book like Eberron, just from the card set and Planeswalker Guide. Given its a magic school with the Mythic Archievses it'd be weird if it didn't have new spells as the instants and sorceries focused set.

 

[Eyes of Nine]

Hoping Strixhaven has a bunch of new spells; and that we get a new pack of spell cards to cover the new spells that have been released since Xanathar's (Wildemount, Tasha's, Strixhaven).

btw, are there threads on here that correlate D&D 5e spells with known spells from Harry Potter-verse?

 

[Kurotowa]

It may do double-duty, but I still think it's primarily a Strixhaven UA. We will know soon enough.

On the one hand, I can't recall any previous UA combining material from more than one book. (Cue someone popping up to prove me wrong from one UA five years ago.) On the other hand, precedents exist to be broken, so maybe they did jam together Strixhaven owl people with some feywild focused races and slap a deliberately misleading title on it. Time will tell.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

Hoping Strixhaven has a bunch of new spells; and that we get a new pack of spell cards to cover the new spells that have been released since Xanathar's (Wildemount, Tasha's, Strixhaven).

Ditto. Tasha's had less spells than it had subclasses (even if you take out all of the reprinted subclasses and still count the reprinted spells, too!), while Xanathar's had around 100 new spells. Strixhaven would be a great way to rectify this, IMO.

btw, are there threads on here that correlate D&D 5e spells with known spells from Harry Potter-verse?

Not sure about this. Side note: Isn't it strange that there isn't a disarming spell yet?

 

[Parmandur]

Side note: Isn't it strange that there isn't a disarming spell yet?

Heat metal.

 

[Parmandur]

On the one hand, I can't recall any previous UA combining material from more than one book. (Cue someone popping up to prove me wrong from one UA five years ago.) On the other hand, precedents exist to be broken, so maybe they did jam together Strixhaven owl people with some feywild focused races and slap a deliberately misleading title on it. Time will tell.

Nearest I can think of since the Xanathar's tests (the dawn of the regular UA era), is the Bard & Paladin for Theros that also ended up in Tasha's. If the UA is for only one or the other, I'm calling it for Strixhaven. But, why not both...?