D&D 5E If you're buying Strixhaven, will it to be to run a campaign there, or as a crunch sourcebook?

[Parmandur]

Probably repurpose it as Arcanix in Eberron.

I don't doubt there'll be some talk of doing things the book

 

[Minigiant]

I am second only to Monte Cook in my love of wizard crunch. If you tell me WotC is publishing a book that's likely heavy on wizard crunch, my only question is when can I purchase it. I already anticipate using the new spells, at least some of the new subclasses and almost certainly other content in my regular game.

(Given that I also DM for kids in some of my games, I can almost guarantee I will run at least one Wizard School game over December break.)

Oh wizard crunch is fine.

However I like some balance in my introduced crunch so adding a bunch of wizard crunch without some martial, priestly, and roguish crunch with it give me reservations. So it's purely on a wait and see basis at the moment.

Especially Strixhaven wasdesigned for MTG first and not D&D first.

 

[tetrasodium]

don't know. I'm leaning towards "maybe glance at a copy someone else at the flgs has to see if I'm awed enough not to skip". I fully expect wotc will still be unwilling to really do anything to change things & the book will jut be a few additions that are still trying to pretend 5e does not have any problems in need of addressing. Being surprised would be nice, but I figure the odds of that are so low that I'd not go out of my way to check for a surprise.

 

[Yaarel]

Campaign all the way. Cant wait.

The only debate is whether to import it as a regional setting into my campaign, or else play it as-is, as a Magic The Gathering multiverse setting.

Will decide when I read it.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

I was juuuuuist old enough to be out of the target age range, and just young enough to not be sufficiently mature to feel comfortable reading "kid" stuff: I was too busy with the Simirillion or Amber (I was a weird teen). When I transfered from junior college to a big university, all my fellow literature majors were a couple years younger, and Harry Potter was the direct cause of their getting into books. It was an odd experience.

Oh wow I bet re: odd!

I was busy failing to complete my second degree when Pottermania began, and as a result of housemates on their first degree I was essentially "forced" to read it. I read the first four books before I'd had enough of the stupid little chosen one and I was getting weird vibes from the books generally (this isn't just hindsight - I literally have stuff I wrote back then to that effect - though I didn't detect what was to come, just a general disregard for people who didn't fit into a certain mould, which might have been hard to detect had I not gone to school with people like Rowling). But one of my housemates was a full-on Pottermaniac, so I saw that up close.

 

[Yaarel]

I would love a TV show about Wizard colleges.

Movies too.

It would be impossible for me to not watch them.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

I would love a TV show about Wizard colleges.

Hmmm.

It's kind of weird no-one has done this. Have they just tried and failed? I know The Worst Witch was on TV but that's more genuinely aimed at kids than HP so a bit different.

 

[Parmandur]

Oh wow I bet re: odd!

I was busy failing to complete my second degree when Pottermania began, and as a result of housemates on their first degree I was essentially "forced" to read it. I read the first four books before I'd had enough of the stupid little chosen one and I was getting weird vibes from the books generally (this isn't just hindsight - I literally have stuff I wrote back then to that effect - though I didn't detect what was to come, just a general disregard for people who didn't fit into a certain mould, which might have been hard to detect had I not gone to school with people like Rowling). But one of my housemates was a full-on Pottermaniac, so I saw that up close.

Yeah, never read past book two, since so many friends kept recommending them. They were okayish.

 

[Parmandur]

Hmmm.

It's kind of weird no-one has done this. Have they just tried and failed? I know The Worst Witch was on TV but that's more genuinely aimed at kids than HP so a bit different.

The Magicians. Haven't seen it, just ads, but it's a whole thing.

 

[Yaarel]

Hmmm.

It's kind of weird no-one has done this. Have they just tried and failed? I know The Worst Witch was on TV but that's more genuinely aimed at kids than HP so a bit different.

I am not ashamed to admit it. I watch the kid shows too. At least I give it a try to see if I can get into a particular show.

But a Wizard college show geared more for adults will be awesome.