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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Marandahir" data-source="post: 8296115" data-attributes="member: 6803643">OH, I agree 100%. We're stuck with the term Shaman in Strixhaven, but they don't need to make a D&D class for it. Bards have long had primal associations in addition to the modern portrayal as Arcane Casters; the intersection of the Divine, the Primal, and the Arcane is the wheelhouse the Bard lives in. In 4e there were Paragon Paths that required Bards to take multiclass feats that dabbled in other power sources. You had the Mythic Skald, which was a Primal Bard, for example. You also had the Bards of Wolfstone from the Nerathi Legends campaign setting, and those are definitely more primal feeling. Now we have the College of Spirits Bard in Ravenloft. Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if they just outright reprint the College of Spirits and instead of leaning into spirit medium ghost-channeller tropes they lean into channellers of primal spirits and mythic storytelling. I REALLY wish that in the College of Spirits list of Spiritual Focus items there was "ceremonial mask that is held in one hand" in addition to "candle, crystal ball, skull, spirit board, or tarokka deck" so that we could play as a Griott with this subclass. I certainly am houseruling that addition in my games.I can only imagine that they either didn't think of it in time, or they were afraid people were going to see Mask and say "hey I can cast with this focus and duel-wield at the same time, it's a mask!"Long story short, the five mage classes in Strixhaven will likely be Cleric (Arcana Domain), Bard (College of Spirits or something new), Druid (Circle of the Geometer), Warlock (The Undead or something new), Wizard (Order of Scribes or something new) with just 2 new subclasses and a few reprints or suggestions from other recent books. I doubt they would tell you to buy Ravenloft to play as a Bard or Warlock in Strixhaven, so I'd guess a reprint is in order if either of those subclasses are the suggested ones. I would also guess a reprint of anything from any other campaign guide like SCAG. But if it's Order of Scribes for Wizards, then they'd just say go buy TCoE because why would they not? That's the big expansion to the core game for the 2020-2021 season. And that's what they did in Theros - they told you to go buy XGE to play as a Forge or Grave Domain Cleric.</blockquote>

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