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

[Yaarel]

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

Domain in Feywild.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

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.

Well, I came to the show from the books. While they do have sex in the books -- they're adults, after all -- but it's not used as filler like it is in the show.

 

[tetrasodium]

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.

going to agree here, a lot of the show went pretty deep into magic is a drug without even getting into the pedophile/revenge stuff that eventually became known.

 

[Mind of tempest]

going to agree here, a lot of the show went pretty deep into magic is a drug without even getting into the pedophile/revenge stuff that eventually became known.

what show is this?

 

[Stormonu]

Getting it for the toolkit, not necessarily Strixhaven itself.

Had kids who played Wizard101 (and the wife still plays it as her primary video game), watched some Wizards of Waverly Place and love Disney's Descendants, and I'm a fairly big Harry Potter fan myself. Back in 2E there was the accessory College of Wizardry, so this isn't entirely a new thing, just a new attempt that isn't backing away from the high magic of what D&D has become.

I look forward to running some games using what I can.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Getting it for the toolkit, not necessarily Strixhaven itself.

Had kids who played Wizard101 (and the wife still plays it as her primary video game), watched some Wizards of Waverly Place and love Disney's Descendants, and I'm a fairly big Harry Potter fan myself. Back in 2E there was the accessory College of Wizardry, so this isn't entirely a new thing, just a new attempt that isn't backing away from the high magic of what D&D has become.

I look forward to running some games using what I can.

I doubt there's much chance they'd use any of the lore about Aleph or the Serpent in Strixhaven, but it's a shame that part of the D&D cosmology has fallen away. It's a lot more interesting than throwing the Forgotten Realms' rather uninspiring "Weave" over all aspects of D&D magic.

 

[tetrasodium]

what show is this?

The magicians. Syfy adapted it from some books. First season is a bit rough with laying groundwork and introductions but picks up

 

[TwoSix]

Well, I came to the show from the books. While they do have sex in the books -- they're adults, after all -- but it's not used as filler like it is in the show.

I dunno, I read the books first also and I can barely remember any sex scenes in the show; it wasn't like an HBO show or anything. We must have different standards.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

JKR's unwillingness to allow the Wizarding World to be used for an officially licensed RPG has long been a point of frustration at ENWorld and for tabletop gamers in general. As JKR has become more controversial in recent years (whether it's wizards canonically pooping on the floor and magicking their feces away for centuries or her political views), a bunch of not-Hogwarts alternatives have shown up in the tabletop space. I recall seeing three or so on Kickstarter in the last year, and I bet I've missed some.

I personally own Redhurst: Academy of Magic, Kids on Brooms and will be purchasing Strixhaven this winter.

With the publication of the UA, the focus is naturally on the mechanics of the setting (except for the excited MTG players who keep wanting to loredump everyone), but that reminds me that many people just view these player- and DM-facing hybrid books WotC puts out in the 5E era as books full of crunch, and little more.

So how about you? Will you be running a magic school campaign with Strixhaven (or your own setting) or will you just be using the crunch from it in other games?

It's a new set of tools, like every other RPG book I own. Even if I do ever run a Strixhaven campaign (not likely when I have my own alt history magical school setting), the main use I'll get from it is whatever it adds to the game, and potentially some ideas I can use in other games.

 

[jayoungr]

Might run a one-shot, but I doubt I'll run a whole campaign with Strixhaven.