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 was to Greece, Strixhaven appears to be to Harry Potter!

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...

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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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[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Is this at all like The Folly from the Rivers of London series?

There's too many people in the cover image alone (assuming Gary is a person and not a construct) for it to be the Folly.

 

[ersatzphil]

Extremely on-brand for magical school stories.

For those who haven't read A Wizard of Earthsea -- I was shocked that no one on an episode of Um, Actually appears to have -- Ged does some very ill-advised magic at wizard school and then has to spend the rest of the novel fixing the damage.

Honestly, an idiot showing off for a girl with fire spells in the library is just another Tuesday.

I had the same reaction to the episode - don't get me wrong, I love Tolkien as much as the next guy, but it's always mindblowing to me how few people seem to know about the Earthsea books.

...don't even get me started on Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser.

 

[Older Beholder]

The cover art is gorgeous.
I'm looking forward to seeing the alternative cover as well but the standard is going to be hard to beat for mine.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I had the same reaction to the episode - don't get me wrong, I love Tolkien as much as the next guy, but it's always mindblowing to me how few people seem to know about the Earthsea books.

...don't even get me started on Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser.

I'm confident that A Wizard of Earthsea was in their elementary school libraries. Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser they'd have to actually seek out (especially the later ones).

But hey, it wouldn't be an entertaining show if they got all the questions right.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

There's too many people in the cover image alone (assuming Gary is a person and not a construct) for it to be the Folly.

The Folly is a typical British police station - understaffed.

 

[Mind of tempest]

I am not seeing much I would honestly want from this book, does it have anything other than owls and not harry potter as I have always disliked that setting since I was small, plus it never really made sense.

does it have classes or something?

 

[Paul Farquhar]

does it have classes or something?

Sure, you can take Herbology, Potions, Divination, Care of Magical Creatures, Defence Against the Dark Arts...

 

[Urriak Uruk]

You know, one consistent complaint I've heard here is "Why doesn't WotC create new entirely new settings instead of making books for legacy or MTG setting?"

Well, considering Strixhaven was very likely made by both teams jointly, and is entirely new to 2021, I would say Strixhaven really is the first totally original setting made for D&D since Eberron.

 

[Marandahir]

You know, one consistent complaint I've heard here is "Why doesn't WotC create new entirely new settings instead of making books for legacy or MTG setting?"

Well, considering Strixhaven was very likely made by both teams jointly, and is entirely new to 2021, I would say Strixhaven really is the first totally original setting made for D&D since Eberron.

True, it is a new setting made specifically for D&D! What about Golarion, Nerath, and Exandria, though?

 

[Urriak Uruk]

True, it is a new setting made specifically for D&D! What about Golarion, Nerath, and Exandria, though?

Well Golarion is made by Pathfinder (not WotC), Exandria was made by Critical Role... but you're right, I totally forgot about Nerath. I usually do, it's pretty forgettable to me (apologies to its fans).