D&D 5E Strixhaven Has Exams, Jobs, & Extracurricular Activities

It's IGN's turn to preview part of Strixhaven: Curriculum of Chaos, taking a look at exams, extracurricular guilds, and jobs.

An example of an exam includes the Magical Physiologies exam, and a success gives them an advantage when fighting those creatures. The exams have a studying and a testing phase; the test itself is two ability checks.

Extracurricular activities include a LARP (live action roleplaying) guild, a Mage Tower (a game like Quidditch but not Quidditch) cheer squad, a drama guild, the Iron-Lifter's Society, and so on. If you do one of these activities you get a Student Die every long rest which bumps one of your ability checks.

Jobs allow you to work at the Bioblioplex, Bow's End Tavern, or Firejolt Cafe, or on campus grounds.

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It's that time in the D&D pre-release publicity phase where previews of the upcoming book start to appear across the web on various sites. It looks like each site is getting a different college to preview -- Screenrant has Prismari, and Polygon has Silverquill, for example. There are 5 colleges...

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D&D 5E - Strixhaven's Monsters: Groffs, Mage Hunters, & Oriq Recruiters

Gizmodo has a preview of Strixhaven: Curriculum of Chaos, showing off some of the new monsters in the book. The Oriq Recruiter is an agent of a dark mage cult; a Groff is a canine swamp creature; and a Mage Hunter is a spider-legged drone. The article also talks about trudges, daemogoths, the...

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[Scribe]

Work is so much better than school it's not even funny.

I mean, at least we get paid?

 

[J.Quondam]

To be honest, the best part of school was all the stuff I did while avoiding school.

 

[Charlaquin]

Christ, no. Whatever about university, **** school. If I never have to do another gruelling, three hour, prove it or lose it examination again, that requires me to know three years of material in my head, I will be happy.

Work is so much better than school it's not even funny.

Strixhaven is a university

 

[Charlaquin]

To be honest, the best part of school was all the stuff I did while avoiding school.

Yeah, the thing is, the consequences of blowing off school work are an uncomfortable conversation with your parents. The consequences of blowing off work work is unemployment. Bit higher stakes.

 

[ReshiIRE]

Strixhaven is a university

Oh, right. Huh; then it is closer to Strength of Thousands and the Magaambya then I thought.

At-least then the exams might actually test you on stuff you learned recently :V

 

[GMforPowergamers]

Now that we’re adults with jobs, schoolwork seems like an escape from work work. Especially when the subject is magic!

when I was 14 I thought nothing would be worse then being in school, having homework and required reading...

I am 41, I would trade with any 14 year old for my debt and work.

 

[Charlaquin]

when I was 14 I thought nothing would be worse then being in school, having homework and required reading...

I am 41, I would trade with any 14 year old for my debt and work.

When you’re a kid, you have only the vaguest notion that adults have to pay things called “bills.” You understand that this is an obligation they must fulfill, but you also understand that they have jobs, which give them a seemingly unlimited supply of money, with which they pay these “bills” and also buy whatever they want.

It’s a rude awakening the first time you move out. You look your paycheck. You look at your rent and utilities bills. And you realize “wow… those numbers are… almost exactly the same… And I also need to buy groceries.”

 

[Scribe]

When you’re a kid, you have only the vaguest notion that adults have to pay things called “bills.” You understand that this is an obligation they must fulfill, but you also understand that they have jobs, which give them a seemingly unlimited supply of money, with which they pay these “bills” and also buy whatever they want.

It’s a rude awakening the first time you move out. You look your paycheck. You look at your rent and utilities bills. And you realize “wow… those numbers are… almost exactly the same… And I also need to buy groceries.”

The amount of time I've spent attempting to get this to sink in for my son... Asmodeus help him for soon, I shall not.

 

[Charlaquin]

The amount of time I've spent attempting to get this to sink in for my son... Asmodeus help him for soon, I shall not.

I think Mammon would be the one to ask for help in this particular case

 

[humble minion]

Christ, no. Whatever about university, **** school. If I never have to do another gruelling, three hour, prove it or lose it examination again, that requires me to know three years of material in my head, I will be happy.

Work is so much better than school it's not even funny.

I’d cheerfully commit murder (at least, murder of someone I didn’t like anyway…) to go back to getting three months of holidays every summer though!

Only downside was that through University I earned my money tutoring, so they were three rather impoverished months..