D&D 5E Strixhaven Release Date Updates

WotC posted updated release dates for Strixhaven: Curriculum of Chaos on social media. North America gets it first, with much of the rest of the world getting it a week later. The original release date was November 16th, but it has been pushed back to December.

Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos (English release) will launch in the following regions:
NA – Dec. 7
ANZ – Dec. 10
EMEA – Dec. 14
SEA – Dec. 16

NA is North America, ANZ is Australia & New Zealand, EMEA is Europe & Middle East, and SEA is South East Asia.

 

[Mind of tempest]

Makes sense. For me it comes down to whether the setting is interesting enough to buy, as I like to buy good setting books to gather dust on my shelves (and occasionally earn a browse).

same man same.

Well at least Fizban’s did not get delayed a second time.

it was the more important book.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

some more info on the book.

 

[Zarithar]

I pre-ordered this, but I have to admit nothing about it that's been revealed so far really interests me. Maybe there will be some magic items and/or monsters I can use. I liked Harry Potter but a Hogwarts style campaign doesn't really appeal to me.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I pre-ordered this,

Why, if you are uncertain you want it? There is no befit to pre-ordering, you could wait and see until after it's out.

 

[Zarithar]

Why, if you are uncertain you want it? There is no befit to pre-ordering, you could wait and see until after it's out.

I'm a completionist - I own every 5e hardcover currently.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I'm a completionist - I own every 5e hardcover currently.

Fair enough.

 

[Li Shenron]

This "setting" strongly sounds like Hogwarts, which I can imagine can be very divisive...

However, because it is a M:tG setting (and I am not at all expert of M:tG even if I have played it sometimes) my first thought was that all right of course there's 5 factions in the school of magic, one per color. Instead I was surprised that the 5 factions are based on two-colors combinations rather than single colors, and even more interestingly they are enemy-colors combinations i.e. combinations of colors that are normally opposed, instead of colors that have some vicinity. So with the color wheel (or whatever it is called) being white->blue->black->red->green->white, there are for example white+black and blue+red schools, and so on...

Of course this is not a new idea specifically from this D&D book, it is inherited by the corresponding M:tG cards expansion, but I find this choice a lot more intriguing that the obvious school = color.

 

[DEFCON 1]

Oh, it's Southeast Asia. I saw 'SEA' and thought "Why is Seattle getting the book so late? Wizards of the Coast is right there! People should just walk over to their office building and pick it up!"