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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 9856416" data-attributes="member: 11760">Yeah, trying to do a magic school and make it based on MTG magic was a lot to ask of the book.The 3E third party book Redhurst: Academy of Magic did more what I think most people would expect of a D&D magic school, and had each of the colleges correspond to one of the D&D schools of arcane magic.It was released in the transition between 3E and 3.5 and absolutely fell off a cliff as a result and is hard to find today, even digitally, but worth hunting down. It's horizontally oriented and written as an in-depth college brochure with (a then relatively novel idea) the "real" story scribbled in red ink on the pages throughout. The actually 3E crunch is limited to a few pages at the back, but it's otherwise systemless. (As I recall -- it's in my garage at the moment -- the crunch is a few spells and a few very minor monsters and NPCs.)If WotC tries this idea again, which I wouldn't count on, since corporations tend to take the wrong lessons from past misfires, aligning the magic school curriculum with standard D&D schools of magic would be the way to go, IMO. Save getting crazy with cosmology or interdisciplinary studies for a later book, after the basics have been handled well.</blockquote>