D&D 5E Strixhaven: Orientation

WotC has released an overview of the upcoming Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos, as adventurers of levels 1-10 uncover a plot against the university. Teased are activities like tavern games, a magical frog race, an improv festival, and other social encounters. You can also take exams to improve your skills, join clubs, or get jobs.

Also included is a bestiary of over 40 new creatures.

The Bibloplex contains most of the information in the multiverse. Plenty of other locations fill the book, such as Captain Dapplewing's Manor, a mansion built for the university professors. One adventure has the PCs breaking into the manor. Another adventure involves the main Strixhaven student sport, Mage Tower.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

… but I don't want to play the flunky janitor who gets to hang out with the cool kids.

I don’t know. It worked pretty well in Scrubs and Todd Vs the Book of Pure Evil.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

RWBY?

RWBY - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I agree, yet somehow, Strixhaven also has a Prom...

I’m not investigating the depths of the product, but are you sure it’s an actual “prom”? Is that the word used?

I ask, because the small private college I attended had a variety of social events, some of which were promlike…and some of which were most decidedly NOT.

 

[Keefe the Thief]

Well well well, if it isn't the book that makes knuckles go white because wizards in D&D have to be homeschooled, otherwise Harry Potter or something.

I am thinking about using the book to do a campaign like this:

Ikenfell is a great RPG about some happenings at a magic school. Interesting, dark, fun, gay, inspired and all around very creative. A great example for using a setting and filling it with intrigue and adventure.

I'm just happy that we get more settings for D&D about places that are interesting and colourful. Admittedly, if Ren o' the Blade turned up in Strixhaven, the campus police would disintegrate him, but is that really a negative?

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I’m not investigating the depths of the product, but are you sure it’s an actual “prom”? Is that the word used?

It doesn't really matter if the word is used, since "prom" has lost much of it's original meaning, and could refer to any kind of formal dance for late teens.

"Is it appropriate" depends entirely on the culture of the setting. If you are being informed by some sort of pseudo-medieval context, then colleges should be single sex, with no officially sanctioned socialising. Something to consider if you wanted to drop it into the World of Greyhawk, but otherwise not really an issue.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Well well well, if it isn't the book that makes knuckles go white because wizards in D&D have to be homeschooled, otherwise Harry Potter or something.

I am thinking about using the book to do a campaign like this:

Ikenfell is a great RPG about some happenings at a magic school. Interesting, dark, fun, gay, inspired and all around very creative. A great example for using a setting and filling it with intrigue and adventure.

I'm just happy that we get more settings for D&D about places that are interesting and colourful. Admittedly, if Ren o' the Blade turned up in Strixhaven, the campus police would disintegrate him, but is that really a negative?

Why would Campus police disintegrate him? He's a Rogue yes, but they have Rogues attending Strixhaven.

 

[darjr]

Further it occurs to me that the Candlekeep book is an awesome addition to a Strixhaven campaign!

 

[Ghost2020]

Further it II ours to me that the Candlekeep book is an awesome addition to a Strixhaven campaign!

Also the forbidden library by alligator alley entertainment

 

[Azuresun]

Well well well, if it isn't the book that makes knuckles go white because wizards in D&D have to be homeschooled, otherwise Harry Potter or something.

Just point out that a big chunk of A Wizard of Earthsea follows the protagonist at a magic school, where he encounters an overprivileged rival, a loyal best buddy and a wise, father-figure headmaster, and gets into trouble through using magic carelessly.

 

[Azuresun]

No, nothing like Harry Potter at all. These adult wizards are just very, very childish even though they're attending University. It's just a coincidence that as adults there's a coming of age story, childish hi-jinks, and a plot against the school that only the children, er um, adult students can resolve.

As we all know, university is a very serious place, with absolutely no childish hijinks from anyone who goes there, ever.