D&D 5E Two New D&D Books Revealed: Feywild & Strixhaven Mage School

Amazon has revealed the next two D&D hardcovers! The Wild Beyond the Witchlight is a feywild adventure due in September, and Curriculum of Chaos is a Magic: the Gathering setting of Strixhaven, which looks like a Harry Potter-esque mage school, set for November.

Amazon.com: The Wild Beyond the Witchlight: A Feywild Adventure (Dungeons & Dragons Book) (9780786967278): Wizards RPG Team: Books

Amazon.com: The Wild Beyond the Witchlight: A Feywild Adventure (Dungeons & Dragons Book) (9780786967278): Wizards RPG Team: Books

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The Wild Beyond the Witchlight is D&D's next big adventure storyline that brings the wicked whimsy of the Feywild to fifth edition for the first time.

The recent Unearthed Arcana, Folk of the Feywild, contained the fairy, hobgoblin of the Feywild, owlfolk, and rabbitfolk. UA is usually a good preview of what's in upcoming D&D books.

Strixhaven: Curriculum of Chaos (D&D/MTG Adventure Book) (Dungeons & Dragons): Wizards RPG Team: 9780786967445: Books

Strixhaven: Curriculum of Chaos (D&D/MTG Adventure Book) (Dungeons & Dragons) [Wizards RPG Team] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Strixhaven: Curriculum of Chaos (D&D/MTG Adventure Book) (Dungeons & Dragons)

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Curriculum of Chaos is an upcoming D&D release set in the Magic: The Gathering world of Strixhaven -- a brand new MtG set only just launched.

Strixhaven is a school of mages on the plane of Arcavios, an elite university with five rival colleges founded by dragons: Silverquill (eloquence), Prismari (elemental arts), Witherbloom (life and death), Lorehold (archaeomancy), and Quandrix (numeromancy). You can read more about the M:tG set here.

You will be able to tune into WotC's streamed event D&D Live on July 16 and 17 for details on both, including new character options, monsters, mechanics, story hooks, and more!

D&D 5E - Here Is The Full & Alternate Cover Art Of The Wild Beyond the Witchlight

Here is the cover art for The Wild Beyond the Witchlight, the hardcover D&D product revealed this weekend. Cover art by Tyler Jacobson Alternate cover by Hydro74 https://www.enworld.org/threads/two-new-d-d-books-revealed-feywild-strixhaven-mage-school.680500/

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D&D 5E - And Here Is Strixhaven's Cover Art!

It's not just The Wild Beyond The Witchlight's cover art being revealed today! We also have Magali Villeneuve's cover art for Strixhaven: Curriculum of Chaos! Strixhaven is an upcoming D&D setting based on the recently released Magic: the Gathering world, and features a mage school -- as Theros...

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[FitzTheRuke]

I had to look up what Feywild is.

It's exactly what it sounds like it is.

 

[Lidgar]

Planejammer confirmed!

Too soon?

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Strixhaven of all places? Zendikar feels like a better fit for a DnD book.

Corporate synergy trumps all I guess.

They specifically call out the magic school genre. All of the MTG setting books have been about adding new play styles to D&D.

"The Isle of Dread, but make it a whole plane" isn't a bad setting, but it's not adding a new genre to the mix.

 

[Parmandur]

So here's my thought. The Strixhaven book might be tagged a MtG crossover, but it's kind of not. When you consider the amount of lead time a book or card set takes, and how closely this book is following the first Strixhaven card set, they had to be in development at the same time. And they're not going to be happening in isolation from each other. Which makes this look way more like a collaborative project between the MtG and D&D offices at WotC than it does the D&D side taking a MtG created setting and converting it for D&D.

What that results in is going to be interesting to see.

Well, the period for making a D&D book is about 12-13 months, so this would have been started late last year. The Magic cards have a much longer buildup, with the world creation parts being finished first, so the world would have been ready to go when they came up with the book tie-in.

 

[Minigiant]

That's a big fat meh from me on the MTG book. I cant see what I'd want from a magic school setting.
I don't need more wizard spells and magic items. Likely pass. I like Harry Potterish schools and talking animal people but I woudn't play a whole campaign in it if the setting wasn't built for D&D.

The Feywild adventure is a maybe.

 

[el-remmen]

It's exactly what it sounds like it is.

Yeah. I just wasn't sure where it came from. Was it a MTG setting? A reference to something from a classic source I didn't recognize? Etc. . . The fact that it emerged in 4E explains why it was new to me.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Both of these are a must-buy for me. I already told my wife we should count on the whole family playing the Feywild campaign, once my daughter (who switched her tabaxi to a rabbitfolk when the UA came out) finds out it's a thing.

I also have a goth Harry Potter nut former coworker who's interested in trying D&D, so now we can either do Ravenloft or Strixhaven, or make her character the gloomiest Witherbloom ever.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Yeah. I just wasn't sure where it came from. Was it a MTG setting? A reference to something from a classic source I didn't recognize? Etc. . . The fact that it emerged in 4E explains why it was new to me.

Yeah, for some reason, they wanted to jazz up the Plane of Shadow and Planes of Faerie, which were kicking around AD&D books previously, with new branding for 4E, when they (wisely) made it a priority to have planes that players could adventure on at low levels.

 

[Faolyn]

So, knowing nothing about Strixhaven beyond that the name implies owls, I looked up the cards. And found one called "Burrog Befuddler." When, oh when, are they going to have an official frogfolk PC race?!

 

[Parmandur]

Yeah, for some reason, they wanted to jazz up the Plane of Shadow and Planes of Faerie, which were kicking around AD&D books previously, with new branding for 4E, when they (wisely) made it a priority to have planes that players could adventure on at low levels.

They wanted something that they could trademark for merchandising.