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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[Marandahir]

Is it an ironic use of the word Delight, and it's actually a horrible place?

Can I offer you a ride to the Isle o'Smiles? Where you can wash away your torment with drink and merry festivities until the eternal night where
WE WILL SACRIFICE YOU AND YOUR CHILDREN TO THE DREAD LORD MORTAMOR MAY HE RISE AGAIN

 

[Faolyn]

Actually, during the Next Playtest, that is how Subclasses originally were: you could pick the Class of Fighter, and the Theme of Necromancer if you wanted to. People wanted tighter flavor, however.

Really? I wasn't playing D&D during the playtest period so I didn't know that. That sounds like it would have been pretty cool.

 

[Weiley31]

Is it an ironic use of the word Delight, and it's actually a horrible place?

The way Fae view things never agree with how everybody else view things.

 

[Weiley31]

Can I offer you a ride to the Isle o'Smiles? Where you can wash away your torment with drink and merry festivities until the eternal night where
WE WILL SACRIFICE YOU AND YOUR CHILDREN TO THE DARK LORD MAY HE RISE AGAIN

It's all fun and games until your PC gets the honorary "privilege" of being the Wild Hunts' prey for the annual festival.

 

[Weiley31]

Can I offer you a ride to the Isle o'Smiles? Where you can wash away your torment with drink and merry festivities until the eternal night where
WE WILL SACRIFICE YOU AND YOUR CHILDREN TO THE DREAD LORD MORTAMOR MAY HE RISE AGAIN

Forever may he reign

 

[Parmandur]

Really? I wasn't playing D&D during the playtest period so I didn't know that. That sounds like it would have been pretty cool.

No joke: they got very experimental in the playtest, and got to where they ended up after a lot of feedback. I think the problem they had with universally applicable Themes was that they were somewhat watered down, so that every Class could use them. 5E Subclasses ended up much meatier in the end. But, this approach could open up design space pretty well.

 

[Weiley31]

You mean Shamans in 4e were Primal. Bards were Arcane.

I blame my lack of 4E playing on that goof.

 

[Weiley31]

Really? I wasn't playing D&D during the playtest period so I didn't know that. That sounds like it would have been pretty cool.

5E Next Sorcerer was probably the best thing from the playtest. Sadly, the current 5E Sorcerer got none of it.

 

[Mind of tempest]

5E Next Sorcerer was probably the best thing from the playtest. Sadly, the current 5E Sorcerer got none of it.

I heard it was a class worth having instead of the wisdom tooth of the classes we got.

 

[TwoSix]

It's a translation of the themes of the cards, not the names.

And it always going to be difficult to do exact mappings from MtG concepts to D&D concepts, especially when the combinations in this set are enemy colors. Like Clerics generally align to White and Warlocks to Black, but the White-Black school (Silverquill) has thematics that scream out for Bard. There's no perfect way to square that circle. Going by thematics instead of trying to map MtG mechanics to D&D ones is exactly the right choice.