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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Weiley31" data-source="post: 8482252" data-attributes="member: 7017196">I think the main issue with the whole thing about Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos, being less of a setting book and more of an adventure book for a good number of its pages is because of the actual setting of Strixhaven, Arcavios, being pretty much bare bones. The only major details, IIRC, about it is that Strixhaven itself is located there and that a majority of its landscape is dotted with ruins or what not.(perfect for Magic School Bus style Strixhaven Field Trips) And that is pretty much it. The entire focus of the entire Strixhaven set is the five colleges. They could have expanded it by filling in a bit more of the blanks, like how Theros actually got a legit map of its world that was introduced in the Mythic Odysseys of Theros book. And yet, they made it still bare bones/blank in order to allow it to be swappable in whatever campaign/world/whatever you want. So for a setting style book, yeah it probably would score low.However, I do enjoy the crunch in it specifically for cherry picking. The Strixhaven Backgrounds are a great model that you can pretty much refluff/redo when you want to do something similar or a Background that gives you a feat. (Even as a replacement for allowing a Feat at Level 1.) You have the Relationships points, Jobs, Student Dice, and a number of other things that can be reskinned to something that doesn't specifically deal with Strixhaven.I also like the various stat blocks of monsters and NPCs in Chapter 7 of the book. As somebody mentioned before on here, or in another thread, the various Apprentices/Pledgemages/Professors of the five colleges can be used as variant NPC Wizards/Sorcerers/Druids. The Oriq Recruiter/Blood Mage is a great stat block base for making an NPC Soul Knife/Warlock. In fact, I do love the fact that each of the magic user stat blocks adds in exactly what spell caster they are. Not only does this help out with letting you know spells from which spell list you can take (if you choose that route) you can also argue that it also helps with letting the DM decide to give such stat blocks the main features of the respective spell caster classes. So if you wanted to, you could have an Oriq Blood Mage/Recruiter have a Warlock Invocation or two. Maybe Shadrix Silverquill, since he has Bard listed in his stat block, can have acess to Bardic Inspiration that he can use on his Inkling Minions after using the Flash of Inspiration legendary action. I think it would be neat. Although, I'm not sure how many Sorcery Points Prismari students/professors would have though or what Wizards would get as a feature.The useable crunch is probably the best part of the book and where it probably scores higher on.</blockquote>

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