WotC Strixhaven sounds like it'd be a nice mini-setting for D&D

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

There's a decent chance we'll be getting another MTG setting this year as part of the kinda-sorta-promised setting books. I know it's probably too soon for one based on a brand-new MTG card set (and maybe even soon soon for something like Eldraine, although that seems like a place they could use the Hexblood race, if it's not used in a Ravenloft/Gothic horror book), but Strixhaven sounds like a fun mini-setting, maybe as part of a book of new magic at some point. (Not that there's a lot of homeless UA spells floating around, to my knowledge. The ones that haven't been published at this point seem to be unlikely to reappear in their last-seen forms.)

From Kotaku:

Witherbloom is the school for the bio nerds who like poking at things living or dead and definitely have a collection of taxidermied pets. Quandrix is the school that has somehow managed to make magic boring by adding math to it. Prismari is the school for the drama kids—at all hours of the day, at least one person can be heard singing “Seasons of Love.” Lorehold is the college of history and is populated entirely by kids who read at lunchtime, recess, and while on the toilet. Finally, Silverquill is for literature nerds who think wearing black is a substitute for having a personality.

Throw in some suggestions on how to run a magical school campaign, suggestions on how Strixhaven connects to various campaign worlds (planar gates, magical trains that travel the planes, etc.), a slew of new spells and arcane-focused subclasses and monsters, and there you go.

I can't see it being part of the 2021 schedule, though. Still, the last major magic school release for D&D, to my knowledge, was Redhurst: Academy of Magic, which had the bad fortune to be released between 3E and 3.5, when there wasn't much interest in third party books.

 

[RangerWickett]

I like the aesthetic, and the diverse student body.

(And there will be some versions of famous spells with variant art, for collectors.)

 

[Twiggly the Gnome]

I like the aesthetic, and the diverse student body.


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Player race write-ups for dryads and the bear and owl folks would be cool.

 

[Weiley31]

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Player race write-ups for dryads and the bear and owl folks would be cool.

Well if they did a Planeshift article for it, the Owl would probably be a refluff/reskin of the Amonkhet/Dominia Aven.
And if you don't mind 3PP, we already have options for Dryads and Bearfolk.

 

[Vael]

You can probably use the Aven rules from Amonkhet right now for Owl Folks, they might end up being Aven anyway.

 

[cbwjm]

This would be a cool mini setting, something that could perhaps even be slotted into another setting as a mage school.

I think they did a Viking type setting, not sure how big it was but I wonder if that is going to be the next crossover.

 

[Weiley31]

This would be a cool mini setting, something that could perhaps even be slotted into another setting as a mage school.

I think they did a Viking type setting, not sure how big it was but I wonder if that is going to be the next crossover.

The Viking setting(Kaldheim) is currently the latest set. I could see that, Strixhaven, or Throne of Eldraine as being a crossover setting book.

 

[cbwjm]

The Viking setting(Kaldheim) is currently the latest set. I could see that, Strixhaven, or Throne of Eldraine as being a crossover setting book.

Oh yeah, Eldraine looked like it would be perfect for a setting. After it came out I thought it might have been the next setting crossover. Sounds like they have a few good options actually. I wonder if they will flesh out any of the planeshift settings into a proper book, I'm thinking they might be fairly low on the list since they already exist in some form, but maybe they'll get a showing.

 

[Dausuul]

I want the setting from Kaldheim with the subclass options from Strixhaven and the monsters from Ikoria.

 

[bedir than]

Well if they did a Planeshift article for it,

IIRC Planeshift was retired when Wyatt rejoined the D&D team