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<blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 8459888" data-attributes="member: 6704184">You say that as if it's only a technicality that Strixhaven isn't a boarding school. You know college isn't boarding school, generally speaking, right? They're very different, and the boarding school aspect is...central to the storytelling of all but the last couple books, and even then the final battle happens at the school for a reason, and that reason is very much that it is home for all these people. Every character slept in a House dorm for many of their formative years, identified by force or by willful choice or both with a house, soaking the walls of the place with their most foundational memories. Most people don't feel that way about the 4 to 8 or so years they spent at college. I'm sorry, but y'all are seeing &quot;a school with magic&quot; and letting your confirmation bias run absolutely hogwild. If Strixhaven is &quot;Harry Potter DnD&quot; then it is literally impossible to make a school with magic in DnD and have it be anything else, at which point the comparison is completely useless.The character I'm most excited to run if my friend goes through with running a Strixhaven campaign next year is a mundane scholar of the arcane, who at most will have some feat based magic. I'm leaning toward Cobalt Soul/Inquisitive Rogue, especially since my Eberron PC that is that had to become a DMPC (which in my games, is never the main character, always support staff and occasionally a quest giver), so I haven't been able to see the build fully unleashed.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="doctorbadwolf, post: 8459888, member: 6704184"] You say that as if it's only a technicality that Strixhaven isn't a boarding school. You know college isn't boarding school, generally speaking, right? They're very different, and the boarding school aspect is...central to the storytelling of all but the last couple books, and even then the final battle happens at the school for a reason, and that reason is very much that it is home for all these people. Every character slept in a House dorm for many of their formative years, identified by force or by willful choice or both with a house, soaking the walls of the place with their most foundational memories. Most people don't feel that way about the 4 to 8 or so years they spent at college. I'm sorry, but y'all are seeing "a school with magic" and letting your confirmation bias run absolutely hogwild. If Strixhaven is "Harry Potter DnD" then it is literally impossible to make a school with magic in DnD and have it be anything else, at which point the comparison is completely useless. The character I'm most excited to run if my friend goes through with running a Strixhaven campaign next year is a mundane scholar of the arcane, who at most will have some feat based magic. I'm leaning toward Cobalt Soul/Inquisitive Rogue, especially since my Eberron PC that is that had to become a DMPC (which in my games, is never the main character, always support staff and occasionally a quest giver), so I haven't been able to see the build fully unleashed. [/QUOTE]

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