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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[Marandahir]

Did someone mention the Warlord?

Always been wondering, how do Warlords heal? What does HP actually mean if it can just get you up from being shouted at? I kid

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

They could do Grippli. They were supposed to get stats for player characters as them in Candlekeep Mysteries. This would be a nice way to bring that back.

Maybe they decided that before Candlekeep was released and then just royally screwed everything up by not letting the author know. And then they could not give the public an explanation because it would have tipped off this book way too soon.

 

[Mind of tempest]

I don't think that Mystic can or should be divorced from Psionics. Rather, I thought it was pretty profound of WotC to realise that western ideas of Psionics are deeply rooted in the cultural appropriation of mystic traditions they had come into contact with. They kinda realised this in 4e too when they decided to axe the Ki Power Source and move Monk into the Psionic Power Source alongside the Psion, Ardent, and Battlemind (though using an entirely different mechanic than those three Psionic classes, so really the only thing that the Monk benefited from there was being able to access features that required the Psionic keyword). I think the Psion or Mystic is essentially the Yoda to the Monk's Mace Windu. Now, Psionics have been distributed in part to other classes' subclasses, and I'm not sure there's much of a need for a Psionics core class in 5e. I don't think Psionics have to work significantly differently (especially when they've been defined all edition as basically just being magic cast without material components). I also think that subclasses like the College of Spirits Bard are occupying space that the Psion/Mystic would have. But if they DID make a Psion/Mystic, I would hope they would follow that trajectory a bit more fully to explore the occult themes of early psychic power stories.

it is mildly more complex than pure appropriation involving lots of syncretisms and half-remembered bits of pre- Christian mysticism and some of the odder bits of Christianity blended with lots of appropriation and just new madness all its own.

I would say it could have its own class as they are plenty of caster ideas that just do not fit in well with the present classes without basically lobotomizing the concept plus some of the old subclasses were not half bad just needing better vision.
it would be odd as far as theme goes but if wizard is formal since this is the stuff of the unknown, no cutting deals just knowledge and seeking to be more given form as a class.

Honestly, I'd be fine with the class being called the Psukhe. But psionics will always sound wrong to my ears. Perhaps it was due to all the New Agey art in the 2e Psionics Handbook, which was my first exposure to D&D psychic powers.

gods even I a new gaurd just found those so odd they were so difficult to work with.

 

[darjr]

And Beadle and Grimm have stepped up to the plate!

 

[darjr]

I hope they make wearable Displacer Beast tentacles!

 

[cbwjm]

The next Unearthed Arcana should be interesting, it is apparently meant to deal with some of the Strixhaven options.

 

[J.Quondam]

I hope they make wearable Displacer Beast tentacles!

Word is they're going to replace some of the displacer beast's iconic abilities:

Tentacle. Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 7 (1d6 + 4) cuddles plus 3 (1d6) awww!

 

[Yaarel]

I didn't, but I also think the name Wu Jen threw people off. Elemental psionics are a classic concept, and again, mystic tradition and psionics. But the term Wu Jen and it being a 5 chinese elements wizard that has to follow semi-arbitrary taboos was there because it's been in previous editions, and I don't think it NEEDED to be expressed that way. But I'd put it in the Mystic before I'd put it in the Wizard. Druid might be a better home, though.

Druids make awesome alchemists (African, Euro, and Asian). The original Alchemists are Egyptian Africans.

The druidry involving lifeforce, plant ingredients, and various elements, are spot on for various traditions of alchemy.

Dao elements are about ways of moving, Hellenistic elements are about kinds of substances, and places like Tibet and Japan have integrated both traditions.

Hellentistic substance ≈ Daoist motion
• Water ≈ Water
• Fire ≈ Fire
• Plant/Wind ≈ Air
• Metal/Crystal ≈ Earth
• Soil/Space/Nirvana ≈ Ether/Force/Spirit

The Druid class can handle all of these tropes.

 

[darjr]

 

[Mind of tempest]

Druids make awesome alchemists (African, Euro, and Asian). The original Alchemists are Egyptian Africans.

The druidry involving lifeforce, plant ingredients, and various elements, are spot on for various traditions of alchemy.

Dao elements are about ways of moving, Hellenistic elements are about kinds of substances, and places like Tibet and Japan have integrated both traditions.

Hellentistic substance ≈ Daoist motion
• Water ≈ Water
• Fire ≈ Fire
• Plant/Wind ≈ Air
• Metal/Crystal ≈ Earth
• Soil/Space/Nirvana ≈ Ether/Force/Spirit

The Druid class can handle all of these tropes.

it feels like a brute force solution plus the turn into a bear does not really fit.
assuming you mean the classic Chinese system metal also had to do with lighting if I recall correctly.
plus earth and void are not used in the same system.