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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Marandahir" data-source="post: 9856151" data-attributes="member: 6803643">Fair -- though I would note taht the "additional products" are not products but free web enhancements for the setting.I agree that the mechanical identity of Strixhaven: Curriculum of Chaos was a bit of a last minute bait and switch because the "cross-class subclasses" did NOT go over well.I think it does Magic School Setting pretty well, but then again, I read the free webnovellas and enjoyed the freely available card art and the Planeswalker Guide in addition to the D&D book itself.I do think that it was what showed WotC tho that MtG settings aren't always the best on-brand crossport to meet the genre needs. It's very much a magic school setting, but it's very a particular Liberal Arts college/university magic school focused on dichotomies and the push-pull of each discipline (representative of the 5 Enemy Color pairings featured – WB Silverquill is the Eloquent Arts (theatre, debate, treatise, scrivening), with a tension between light and shadow, illumination and deception; UR Prismari is the Fine & Performing Arts (but not Theatre), with a tension of structure/systems and chaos/inspiration; BG Witherbloom is the Natural & Chemical Sciences with a tension between Life and Death (between Herbalism and Poisons; between Botany/Plants and Zoology/Bones); RW Lorehold is Archeology with a tensions between Collectivist Movements Theory and "Big Man" theory; and GU Quandrix is Math & Physics with a tension between Empiricism and Rationalism, between the observable Naturals Laws and the Quantum Math underpinning that visible reality). These are fascinating research centers to represent the real tension within Liberal Arts institutions, especially ones that focus on interdisciplinarity and learning Broader points of view in education. But I get that they're less useful if you're looking for HP with the Serial Numbers filed off; Strixhaven was made for MtG first and adapted to D&D second because it's a homegrown Magic School IP. But they might have done better fleshing out one of the magic school articles from 4E's Dragon issues for folks who want a less real-world inspired university and more strictly classical Wizard tropes.</blockquote>

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