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<blockquote data-quote="BB Shockwave" data-source="post: 8456505" data-attributes="member: 6799257">I guess the next book has to be a good one, given the current ratio&nbsp; - Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft was good, Witchlight was a chore to read, Fizban's Treasury of Dragons was super fun and informative, and this looks like another stinker. Weird how both D&amp;D and Pathfinder are churning out &quot;Harry Potter's Magic School&quot; style books with this and the Strength of Thousands PF adventure path coming out around the same time...In all my school years we only had the one such event when we finished school, after 4 years of secondary school. Thankfully, no stupid prom queen nonsense or such.I like to bring up that book as an argument on how &quot;REAL&quot; magic schools should be, not like the nonsense that was Harry Potter. Where learning magic is not just waving wands and saying the words, where everything has a true name you need to learn, and where your teachers do not give you ridiculously deadly tasks like pulling Mandragora or going to woods where giant spiders can eat you... And where the one magic 'prank' that our protagonist pulls has deadly consequences that follow him for much of his career, not brushed off immediately.But mostly, that they teach them wizards are meant to serve people, how to use their magic wisely to help where needed, and how the best use of demonstrating power is perhaps to not to use it at all (such as when Sparrowhawk drives the mother Dragon away by bluffing about knowing her true name).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BB Shockwave, post: 8456505, member: 6799257"] I guess the next book has to be a good one, given the current ratio - Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft was good, Witchlight was a chore to read, Fizban's Treasury of Dragons was super fun and informative, and this looks like another stinker. Weird how both D&D and Pathfinder are churning out "Harry Potter's Magic School" style books with this and the Strength of Thousands PF adventure path coming out around the same time... In all my school years we only had the one such event when we finished school, after 4 years of secondary school. Thankfully, no stupid prom queen nonsense or such. I like to bring up that book as an argument on how "REAL" magic schools should be, not like the nonsense that was Harry Potter. Where learning magic is not just waving wands and saying the words, where everything has a true name you need to learn, and where your teachers do not give you ridiculously deadly tasks like pulling Mandragora or going to woods where giant spiders can eat you... And where the one magic 'prank' that our protagonist pulls has deadly consequences that follow him for much of his career, not brushed off immediately. But mostly, that they teach them wizards are meant to serve people, how to use their magic wisely to help where needed, and how the best use of demonstrating power is perhaps to not to use it at all (such as when Sparrowhawk drives the mother Dragon away by bluffing about knowing her true name). [/QUOTE]

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