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<blockquote data-quote="AliasBot" data-source="post: 8296904" data-attributes="member: 7021806"><p>With the UA dropping soon enough, might as well take a shot at predicting what'll be in it:</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Circle of Patterns Druid. Could also see a Numeromancer Wizard, but Wizards in general already line up well with esoteric magical research (best Wizard subclass fits are Conjuration, Transmutation, and Graviturgy), and the archetypal "Green Mage" class doesn't really have any strong flavor fits for Quandrix, so a more quirky, analytical Druid subclass is my pick.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">College of Expression Bard. Flavorfully, Glamour Bards are a great fit for Prismari (and Creation Bards aren't too shabby either), but visually, the college leans on a very <em>elemental</em> flair that the baseline Bard doesn't pull off very well.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Similarly, even though it's literally called the college of eloquence, the visual identity of Silverquill leans toward the sorts of effects that the Bard spell list isn't heavy on: shadow, light, and ink. So a College of Literature Bard with an Inkling familiar and inky magic wouldn't surprise me, though it's not as glaring a hole as the Prismari Bard.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A Hedge Wizard, maybe? I remember seeing a discussion a little while back about the lack of a really flavorful "Witch" character option, and Witherbloom is <em>very</em> witchy, so taking a swing at another subclass to play in that space would make sense.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Probably no Lorehold-themed subclass: I could see another "spirit-friendly" mage subclass (an Ancient Hero Warlock patron, perhaps?) or another attempt at a scroll-focused Artificer, but really, Lorehold's about as well-set on existing flavorful subclasses as you'd expect given that its main shtick (delving into ancient ruins and discovering their secrets) happens to be exactly what D&D is about. (I'd already started working on a "what subclasses fit well with each college?" list before the UA announcement, and Lorehold is not struggling for options.)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">I could also see a Dragon Warlock patron to represent the favor of one of the founders (Strixhaven Warlocks will likely have patrons more in the traditional sense than in the magical sense, barring the rare desperate Witherbloom making a deal with a Daemogoth, or a student having a strange encounter with an Archaic), or another magical martial subclass, but Ravnica's subclasses (both the 2 that made it in, and the 1-2 that didn't) were focused on ensuring each faction had a solid suite of flavorful options, and that seems like the most likely approach for Strixhaven as well.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Maybe some non-subclass stuff? iirc, they usually split up class/subclass stuff from other material in UAs, but there's not a <em>ton </em>of time before Strixhaven needs to be locked in, so it's possible we also get some spells, feats/gifts, and/or lineages in the same batch (the UA's called "<em>Mages</em> of Strixhaven," so caster subclasses feel like a given). Lineages are pretty straightforward (the most common and/or prominent peoples of Arcavios that aren't already playable), but I don't have much idea about the rest beyond what already got mentioned above.</li> </ul><p><strong>Predictions tl;dr:</strong> Quandrix Druid (math/patterns), Prismari Bard (elementalist), Witherbloom Wizard (witch), possibly some lineages (Kor, Dryad, Bearfolk, Owlfolk if WotC thinks they need another pass) and/or spells (more visually-focused Bard spells for Prismari and Silverquill, and probably some "math-flavored" spells for Quandrix).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AliasBot, post: 8296904, member: 7021806"] With the UA dropping soon enough, might as well take a shot at predicting what'll be in it: [LIST] [*]Circle of Patterns Druid. Could also see a Numeromancer Wizard, but Wizards in general already line up well with esoteric magical research (best Wizard subclass fits are Conjuration, Transmutation, and Graviturgy), and the archetypal "Green Mage" class doesn't really have any strong flavor fits for Quandrix, so a more quirky, analytical Druid subclass is my pick. [*]College of Expression Bard. Flavorfully, Glamour Bards are a great fit for Prismari (and Creation Bards aren't too shabby either), but visually, the college leans on a very [I]elemental[/I] flair that the baseline Bard doesn't pull off very well. [*]Similarly, even though it's literally called the college of eloquence, the visual identity of Silverquill leans toward the sorts of effects that the Bard spell list isn't heavy on: shadow, light, and ink. So a College of Literature Bard with an Inkling familiar and inky magic wouldn't surprise me, though it's not as glaring a hole as the Prismari Bard. [*]A Hedge Wizard, maybe? I remember seeing a discussion a little while back about the lack of a really flavorful "Witch" character option, and Witherbloom is [I]very[/I] witchy, so taking a swing at another subclass to play in that space would make sense. [*]Probably no Lorehold-themed subclass: I could see another "spirit-friendly" mage subclass (an Ancient Hero Warlock patron, perhaps?) or another attempt at a scroll-focused Artificer, but really, Lorehold's about as well-set on existing flavorful subclasses as you'd expect given that its main shtick (delving into ancient ruins and discovering their secrets) happens to be exactly what D&D is about. (I'd already started working on a "what subclasses fit well with each college?" list before the UA announcement, and Lorehold is not struggling for options.) [*]I could also see a Dragon Warlock patron to represent the favor of one of the founders (Strixhaven Warlocks will likely have patrons more in the traditional sense than in the magical sense, barring the rare desperate Witherbloom making a deal with a Daemogoth, or a student having a strange encounter with an Archaic), or another magical martial subclass, but Ravnica's subclasses (both the 2 that made it in, and the 1-2 that didn't) were focused on ensuring each faction had a solid suite of flavorful options, and that seems like the most likely approach for Strixhaven as well. [*]Maybe some non-subclass stuff? iirc, they usually split up class/subclass stuff from other material in UAs, but there's not a [I]ton [/I]of time before Strixhaven needs to be locked in, so it's possible we also get some spells, feats/gifts, and/or lineages in the same batch (the UA's called "[I]Mages[/I] of Strixhaven," so caster subclasses feel like a given). Lineages are pretty straightforward (the most common and/or prominent peoples of Arcavios that aren't already playable), but I don't have much idea about the rest beyond what already got mentioned above. [/LIST] [B]Predictions tl;dr:[/B] Quandrix Druid (math/patterns), Prismari Bard (elementalist), Witherbloom Wizard (witch), possibly some lineages (Kor, Dryad, Bearfolk, Owlfolk if WotC thinks they need another pass) and/or spells (more visually-focused Bard spells for Prismari and Silverquill, and probably some "math-flavored" spells for Quandrix). [/QUOTE]
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