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

[Cadence]

I'm buying it for my 11yo MtG and DnD loving son. He's only playing so far, but I can see him DMing a multi-plane DnD game with it as one of them in a few years.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

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

I have seen it.

It's not really like HP in any way, shape, or form. It's more like True Blood meets Narnia but with sexy wizards. The magic-school is barely in it half the time, to the point where I literally had to think "Does it have a magic school in it?" despite having watched four seasons.

 

[Yaarel]

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

It is fun. And some adult themes. Mainly an invisible Wizard college, plus a kind of fairy realm.

 

[Mind of tempest]

I am still dying because of this.

But yeah I'm old and didn't like Harry Potter much - mumble grumble chosen one mumble grumble should have been Hermione at least she puts some effort in mumble grumble - I'm so old I grew up with The Worst Witch anyway - and I literally went to a school with "Houses" you were put into anyway IRL (hence zero excitement there lol) - so likely just sourcebook. If I was ten years or more younger though that might be different.

I was the right age for it but I never got into it, my sister did but I just hate the franchise with a burning passion for a likely dumb and ludicrously personal reason.

plus the setting seemed badly made as I had to watch the films.

 

[bedir than]

Winx is also a Wizard college show (professional reviewers hate it; viewers think it's fine)

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

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.

Yeah, in previous editions, we got smaller, more frequent, more tightly focused content. I agree that under the 5E paradigm, it's preferable to no leave no gnome behind.

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

Given how fast this was turned around, I suspect it was designed for both simultaneously.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

It's not really like HP in any way, shape, or form. It's more like True Blood meets Narnia but with sexy wizards. The magic-school is barely in it half the time, to the point where I literally had to think "Does it have a magic school in it?" despite having watched four seasons.

It's a much bigger deal in the books, which is basically about young adulthood ennui rather than attractive Canadians taking their shirts off constantly. The magic there is also much more magical, since they're not working off a pitiful SyFy special effects budget.

 

[Mind of tempest]

Winx is also a Wizard college show (professional reviewers hate it; viewers think it's fine)

what is good or bad about it and why the heavy split?

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

It is fun. And some adult themes. Mainly an invisible Wizard college, plus a kind of fairy realm.

The fairy realm is not-Narnia. Basically, the Magicians storyline, in both TV and the books, is "what if Narnia was real?" For legal reasons, the Wood Between the Worlds becomes an empty Italian Renaissance city with infinite piazzas filled with magical fountains that are portals to other worlds. Early on, Grossman actually wanted to use the Wood Between the Worlds, but the current Lewis estate is highly litigious and very mercenary. ("Let's put out a new edition in chronological order, rather than publication order, and pretend that the old man wanted it that way all along and, whoops, what a coincidence, the guy who rammed this through gets a big cut of the new proceeds ...")

In the book, the Narnia stuff is a gateway to talking about the disillusionment of adulthood after the promises made in high school and college. In the TV show, it's about being sexy on a very limited budget.

 

[bedir than]

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

I don't know that we can assume that. I expect the two departments coordinated heavily on this one