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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[Hexmage-EN]

I hope the Feywild book doesn't have a large section detailing a city in the Forgotten Realms like Descent into Avernus did.

 

[Disgruntled Hobbit]

No we don't know the full schedule, because neither of these books is the book that James Wyatt is working on, and that one is coming out before the Strixhaven book, but when we don't know.

How do you know that?

And "including new character options, monsters, mechanics, story hooks, and more!" So yeah the Strixhaven book likely has races at minimum, probably spells too like Summon Inkling.

Someone pointed out on Facebook that some of the Fey options could have been for Strixhaven as well
Testing two books at once

Remember this wasn't supposed to come out like this, we weren't supposed to know about Witchlight until July, and Strixhaven was likely being saved for announcement in September. Amazon really, really screw this one up BIG time, even by Amazon's standards. So it's no surprise that they didn't spoil the middle book, none of thos was planned.

The Amazon link for Strixhaven explicitly calls out the DnD Live show "for more information"

 

[Parmandur]

I called it that they were testing Strixhaven options.

 

[Parmandur]

Looks like we know the full schedule now.
September, adventure in the Feywild with the new fey races tested earlier (a surprise)
November, MtG crossover. Likely no new races or subclasses

They might have a fifth book on dragons, maybe for December. But that's a lot of content
Suppose Strixhaven could have the dragon options

Strixhaven will have new Races, that's what the Fey UA Race options was about: as I pointed out at the time, the options on hand fit in Strixhaven an not any existing D&D Setting, particularly the focus on anthropomorphic animals.

 

[Parmandur]

I hope the Feywild book doesn't have a large section detailing a city in the Forgotten Realms like Descent into Avernus did.

I mean, we know it will. I'm guessing either Neverwinter or the Moonshaes.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

James Wyatt used to work on Magic
The Strixhaven book is probably his baby more than Hammon's
(And everyone is still assuming those products are physical RPG books and not other D&D branded products)

And how would people be misled about classic settings? We know they're working on two more (or were planning them, because they could always decide to cancel it if it's not working out) but that doesn't mean they're all coming out within 18 months of each other.

Nope, look at the UA James Wyatt leading on, it's the Draconic Options one, that fits FR lore well, but has nothing to do with Strixhaven lore. Strixhaven's Founder Dragons are very different from Metallic, Chromatic, and Gem Dragons. Strixhaven has no Kobolds. Of course it also has no Rabbitfolk, Fairies, or Hobgoblins. It occurs to me that aside from Owlfolk (which might do double duty for Witchlight and Strixhaven) we might not have gotten a Strixhaven UA yet at all, it's not supposed to be out till November!

And yeah folks were lead to believe we were getting 2 to 3 classic settings this year.

 

[Parmandur]

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

Corporate synergy trumps all I guess.

The Zendikar book already exists, and it is free.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

I mean, we know it will. I'm guessing either Neverwinter or the Moonshaes.

We don't know that it will, BG: DiA wasn't actually original supposed to be a BG book at all, it was changed to tie into BG3. Don't get me wrong,it could tie into Neverwinter, we will see.

 

[Burnside]

I mean, we know it will. I'm guessing either Neverwinter or the Moonshaes.

Likely Neverwinter. They seem content to leave the Moonshaes to Baldman Games' AL adventures.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Strixhaven will have new Races, that's what the Fey UA Race options was about: as I pointed out at the time, the options on hand fit in Strixhaven an not any existing D&D Setting, particularly the focus on anthropomorphic animals.

But the Strixhaven set has no Rabbitfolk, Fairies, or Hobgoblins (it barely has Goblins, who while having no creature card, are depicted on Rejected).

I don't think we actually got a Strixhaven UA yet at all, it's not supposed to be release till November! I think the Feywild races were extended for Witchlight, although the Owlfolk will likely make a second appearance in Strixhaven. The Strixhaven UA is likely still coming.