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

[Paul Farquhar]

My son is a math/science prodigy who wanted to play a wizard but who found the damage per round too low. (Math guy, go figure. Instead, he went with a swashbuckler rogue murder machine.) I figure he'll want to play a Quandrix character some time, Strixhaven or no Strixhaven.

The Dunamancy subclasses in Wildemont do magic-as-quantum-mechanics so much better.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

It would be a real missed opportunity if they do that. The rest of the Strixhaven world is lightly sketched, but there's enough there for me, as a DM, to already have several ideas of what I'd want to do for adventures outside of school grounds.

On the other hand, you might want to drop Strixhaven into some other world.

 

[Azuresun]

Most definitely--beyond the obvious Harry Potter / Wizard of Earthsea inspiration, it also lets me tap into other "school for the gifted" types series, such as My Hero Academia, X-Men or Percy Jackson.

 

[cbwjm]

Well I'm definitely buying the book, I'll may run Strixhaven in the future but more likely I'm going to mine it for ideas for one of the mage guilds in my homebrew world. I've always wanted to run an all mage game though, might have to see if people in my group want to run a one shot wizard campaign.

 

[Weiley31]

BOTH.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

On the other hand, you might want to drop Strixhaven into some other world.

That's the approach Redhurst took. I suspect Strixhaven will have lots of planar gates instead, so they can keep the MTG planar brand strong.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

The Dunamancy subclasses in Wildemont do magic-as-quantum-mechanics so much better.

I didn't get a quantum mechanics vibe from the Quandrix subclass at all, but more about applying math and physics models to the universe around the wizard.

 

[Parmandur]

That's the approach Redhurst took. I suspect Strixhaven will have lots of planar gates instead, so they can keep the MTG planar brand strong.

Planar Gates aren't a thing in modern Magic lore: Planeswalkers alone cam cross the barriers between world, not even gods can match that. There are only four Planeswalkers at Strixhaven, two faculty and two students in Prismari, but the School is familiar with the concept academically.

 

[Weiley31]

The Dunamancy subclasses in Wildemont do magic-as-quantum-mechanics so much better.

Your Quandrix spell caster can always still take Dunamancy spells as well.

 

[TwoSix]

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.

I think you're playing up the "cheesecake" portion of the TV show a little heavily; it definitely hits some pretty dark downbeats during the show. It's not the Leftovers, but it's pretty far from a 90210 reboot or some other CW show as well.