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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[Henadic Theologian]

No proof of that at this time, and the Owlfolk, at the very least, are definitely for Strixhaven.

I agree about the Owlfolk, but not the rest and they can reuse the Owlfolk for both, like they will likely reuse Leonin from MOoT.

 

[Parmandur]

It seems odd to use "no proof" and "definitely" in the same sentence!

No proof that any element of that UA was for the Feywild Adventure on the one hand (maybe, maybe not), but separately the Owlfolk are absolutely Owlin from Strixhaven.

 

[Parmandur]

I agree about the Owlfolk, but not the rest and they can reuse the Owlfolk for both, like they will likely reuse Leonin from MOoT.

I'm skeptical of the Raves being for the Adcenture at all, but it's a possibility. There is a decent possibility they are all for Strixhaven, and maybe both.

 

[DEFCON 1]

Your jumping to the wrong conclusions, both Darksun and Planescape are top tier in popularity for settings,just because they aren't coming this year, doesn't mean they aren't coming.

No, no... I'm absolutely 100% correct. Absolutely. No ifs, ands, or buts about it. No psionics or Planscape. Guaranteed. 100%. In fact, OVER 100%. 106.49 % if I'm being honest. I know things.

 

[Minigiant]

Yeah, it's a shame a book cover tells us everything that is inside the book. Cause that's the saying, right? "Always judge a book by it's cover".

I'd hope a Fey book has Fey stuff on the cover and not circus stuff.
Take all the words of the cover and no one knows it's a Feywild book. Cover art is supposed to hint focus of the content within.
The saying is totally "Tell, don't show."

 

[Parmandur]

The thing that worries me about Strixhaven is that it's 2 elements (MTG and Magic School) are not exactly friendly to D&D adventure.

Magic Schools are usually all wizards which is a strike against D&D. They'll have to teach DMs to run all arcanists. And their adventures are usually wizard battles or big honking wars.
Then you have MTG which leans to wizard battles and all out war. The stories are all about warring factions and planeswalkers.

So unless everyone is run "Chamber of Secrets" adventures, there are few adventures that stay in the school environment. A D&D Magical School setting really needs to be built with D&D in mind from the start. To keep in mind for fighters and dragons and dungeons. So my confidence in a Magical School port to D&D is rather low.

I mean, dedicating an entire book to genre tropes for magical schools seems like a fantastic idea. The abstract nature of Setting material in the card game gives the RPG team a lot of freedom to build for D&D specifically. Based on the cards, there is definitely room for non-Mages: Wizards, Warlocks, Clerics, Druids and Shamans get the lions hare of characters here, but staff and security play a role just in the cards, let alone a full Setting book potentially.

 

[Parmandur]

I'd hope a Fey book has Fey stuff on the cover and not circus stuff.
Take all the words of the cover and no one knows it's a Feywild book. Cover art is supposed to hint focus of the content within.
The saying is totally "Tell, don't show."

Well, the carnival certainly implies liminal space, socially and cosmically, which is the bread and butter of Fey things.

 

[Faolyn]

Nope. Cause none of the psionics fans could agree on what kind of psionics they needed... and you can already play Planescape by using all of your 2E material, you don't need a 5E book. So they're making other stuff instead.

To be fair, the factions could use some updating, and they should probably be done like either the guilds in Ravnica or the piety of Theros (or both, considering). Obviously a DM could do this on their own, since the info is in the DMG, but I think a lot of people would want an "official" version.

 

[Minigiant]

I mean, dedicating an entire book to genre tropes for magical schools seems like a fantastic idea. The abstract nature of Setting material in the card game gives the RPG team a lot of freedom to build for D&D specifically. Based on the cards, there is definitely room for non-Mages: Wizards, Warlocks, Clerics, Druids and Shamans get the lions hare of characters here, but staff and security play a role just in the cards, let alone a full Setting book potentially.

Oh I agree. A magic school setting is great for D&D. My point is that it would be 10 times easier designing from scratch than attempting to bend Strixhaven to match D&D adventures. Strixhaven isn't like Ravnica or Theros where D&Disms are already in and all over the setting.

 

[Blue]

On the DM's Guild they're listed as "from Wizards of the Coast" and they were originally on the official website
What more does it take to be "official?"

Well, when the product itself just claims it's "Compatible with the Dungeons & Dragons Tabletop Role Playing Game", that's pretty clear that it's not official D&D material.