When Tasha's was leaked in its entirety, Fantasy Grounds I believe was the source. I mean, it is weird that Amazon can leak the titles for pre-order, meaning I can pay for it now, while the FLGS and digital edition purveyors like here and Fantasy Grounds can't* ... so I can sort of imagine the "leaks dept" or whatever responsible for this leak if in fact it was Fantasy Grounds sent this out as a sort of **** you to Amazon's tactics and Hasbro/WotC complicity in it. It's a sour grapes move taking the gas out of the D&D Live event where things are supposed to be official revealed, but capitalism isn't immune to emotional outburst if clearly disadvantageous play is involved.
That said, the cover is not what I was expecting based on the Folk of the Feywild UA I read (presuming there's a relationship, which seems likely). It's sorta odd because it strikes me as derivative of Hit Point Press's Heckna! adventure set that should be released a few months beforehand, demonic carnival and all. I tend to prefer the alt covers for game store pre orders anyway, but this art ... I dunno it's not what I'd expect for a Feywild book (adventure or not). Guess we'll have to see if this is in fact more of the cat out of the bag and if there's any clarification. Also wondering if WotC has sent any communique to the Fantasy Ground along the lines of "dude..." to which Fantasy Grounds will fire back its fair business practice manifesto.
*If it's in your means support your local game store, they'll have it and will likely be even willing to order one specifically for you in advance. Yes Amazon will likely sell this for much lower eventually, but supporting a bricks and mortar shop is literally supporting the infrastructure of the hobby. Thank you, I'll take my soap box with me now.
I will probably just cherrypick class stuff etc here on beyond from those two books, and definitely not buy paper copies.
The blurb text for Feywild points out that there are adventure "...for all ages...". So we have Feywild with cutsey rabbit- and owlfolks and a Harry Potter:ish magic school. With furry animalfolks. From a business perspective I totally understand that WotC now cater to a very young crowd that grew up with anime and Potter.
But as an old geezer I am really disapointed. I actually believed that they would release at least one classic setting this year as was talked about from Wizards.
Oh well, I guess I just have to cross fingers for classic stuff 2022, and grats to those of you who are looking forward to the two books.
I will probably just cherrypick class stuff etc here on beyond from those two books, and definitely not buy paper copies.
The blurb text for Feywild points out that there are adventure "...for all ages...". So we have Feywild with cutsey rabbit- and owlfolks and a Harry Potter:ish magic school. With furry animalfolks. From a business perspective I totally understand that WotC now cater to a very young crowd that grew up with anime and Potter.
But as an old geezer I am really disapointed. I actually believed that they would release at least one classic setting this year as was talked about from Wizards.
Oh well, I guess I just have to cross fingers for classic stuff 2022, and grats to those of you who are looking forward to the two books.
They did release a "classic setting" though. Did you miss the Ravenloft book release?
I will probably just cherrypick class stuff etc here on beyond from those two books, and definitely not buy paper copies.
The blurb text for Feywild points out that there are adventure "...for all ages...". So we have Feywild with cutsey rabbit- and owlfolks and a Harry Potter:ish magic school. With furry animalfolks. From a business perspective I totally understand that WotC now cater to a very young crowd that grew up with anime and Potter.
But as an old geezer I am really disapointed. I actually believed that they would release at least one classic setting this year as was talked about from Wizards.
Oh well, I guess I just have to cross fingers for classic stuff 2022, and grats to those of you who are looking forward to the two books.
They did release a "classic setting" though. Did you miss the Ravenloft book release?
Yep, while it looks like the Feywild adventure will be their "summer" book and the MtG will be the "holiday release" (or maybe I have it backwards), 3 Classic setting revisits were going to be over a two year period, and it was abundantly clear in the Ravensloft build up that it that was one of the three books from that presentation/panel. I imagine the second two (Probably Dragonlance which I think might be two novels into the fiction revival after the New Year, and who knows I don't really have a stake in arguing over what's made. I'd be more interested in a Planescape book or Spelljammer, but WotC isn't so much a "needs" from my perspective more an "interest" in what they put out).
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Was about to point that out myself. The cover wasnt leaked. Sage Advice did the reveal and people have spread the news out from the page on their own twitter posts.
Was about to point that out myself. The cover wasnt leaked. Sage Advice did the reveal and people have spread the news out from the page on their own twitter posts.
Eh, Sageadvice.eu isn't actually WotC. Zoltar is a (mostly) Twitter aggregator who also puts some other content into their blog. Zoltar doesn't, as far as I know have any formal relationship with WotC, any more than say Nerdimmersion who broke the story on my YouTube feed. It would be weird for WotC to "official" unveil the cover of their new book with Fantasy Grounds branding appended to it. That's why the cover reveal sounds like a leak.
All I know is that I'm going to play the Hell out of this adventure. Playing in a Feywild Campaign has been at the top of my wishlist since the days of 4th Edition.
If you need something to wet your whistle in the meantime, I recommend Tales of the Old Margreve by Kobold Press. It's a collection of 10 adventures set in an ancient magical forest that is very Feywildesque.
- Don't care for MTG so I'm not buying this Curriculum of Chaos. Doesn't look interesting to me. Not really a fan of MTG so I'm annoyed this takes up a slot.
- The Wild Beyond the Witchlight seems interesting. I won't buy it though as I have no interest in adventure books either. Although if the "leaked" cover is true, it looks to be more of a circus adventure than a feywild adventure. Personally, I think the best way to expand on the Fey is to just shove a ton of Fey into the next monster book with a chapter on them. I'll buy another Mordenkainen's or Volo's Guide in a heartbeat
Strixhaven sounds like... well... Hogwarts as a setting. I'm down with a how-to-magic-academy-in-D&D for a few ideas. Could be worth looking at for that angle alone.
As for the Feywild adventure... we did get the Ravenloft story before the Guide To Ravenloft, so hopefully we'll get the same treatment here? I don't know. The whole cover with a circus of all things is kind of putting me off the entire thing.
To bad they’re not doing a Draconomicon (I cannot spell that name to save my life), I was really hoping they would do one or a Dragonlance book after the UA draconic stuff. Feywild sounds cool, but I was hoping for a sourcebook, not an adventure, and the "for all ages" thing makes me very skeptical about it now. I’ve never been a M:tG fan, so I’m not gonna get the Curriculum of Chaos.
Also as to Strixhaven, it wouldn't be my first choice to do a MtG/D&D crossover book with (Kaldheim, introduced in the previous MtG set clearly has enough lore to fill a solid stand alone setting book) but I can see some possibilities there. While there are obvious similarities to Harry Potter (which I will point out for what feels like the millionth time is far from the first work of fantasy to feature or even focus on a school for magic), there are also some key differences. First, Strixhaven is a university for young adult students, not children. Second, a good bit of their curriculum (especially within the College of Lorehold) is geared toward preparing students to be adventurers and the plane of Arcavios has all the ingredients for D&D style adventures in dangerous wilderness and ancient, haunted ruins dating back to the Blood War a thousand years ago (said Blood War was supposedly ended by the collective actions of the five elder dragons that founded Strixhaven and are still around). Also there's the possibility of linking Strixhaven to other planes, as two of it's current students are planeswalkers, as is at least one alumnus-turned-professor (plus whatever the heck Kasmina's deal is) and the existence of the multiverse appears to be common knowledge there, at least among scholars.
The story content released with the Strixhaven set was honestly lackluster in most regards, both in it's brevity and rather generic nature, which many MtG lore fans found disappointing. It feels like a phoned in half-arsed filler arc done while they focused more on the next few sets, notably two set in the pre-existing and fairly popular gothic horror themed plane of Innistrad (which would be my next choice for an MtG/D&D crossover but they're probably not doing that due to it being aimed at the same audience as Ravenloft) and the Forgotten Realms crossover into MtG. I'm not sure there's enough material there for a proper setting book, but I am sure that a great adventure campaign can be based in Strixhaven.
To bad they’re not doing a Draconomicon (I cannot spell that name to save my life), I was really hoping they would do one or a Dragonlance book after the UA draconic stuff. Feywild sounds cool, but I was hoping for a sourcebook, not an adventure, and the "for all ages" thing makes me very skeptical about it now. I’ve never been a M:tG fan, so I’m not gonna get the Curriculum of Chaos.
There's actually another book coming out this year that James Wyatt has been working on, which is probably going to be a Draconomicon book similar to Volo's/Mordenkainen's. It's strange that these two books were leaked, and not the third one, but it is coming out, too.
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To bad they’re not doing a Draconomicon (I cannot spell that name to save my life), I was really hoping they would do one or a Dragonlance book after the UA draconic stuff. Feywild sounds cool, but I was hoping for a sourcebook, not an adventure, and the "for all ages" thing makes me very skeptical about it now. I’ve never been a M:tG fan, so I’m not gonna get the Curriculum of Chaos.
There's actually another book coming out this year that James Wyatt has been working on, which is probably going to be a Draconomicon book similar to Volo's/Mordenkainen's. It's strange that these two books were leaked, and not the third one, but it is coming out, too.
YES!!! I can’t wait! Maybe they’ll do undead lore in it, too. I was hoping there would be some in VRGtR, but there wasn’t
The blurb text for Feywild points out that there are adventure "...for all ages...". So we have Feywild with cutsey rabbit- and owlfolks and a Harry Potter:ish magic school. With furry animalfolks. From a business perspective I totally understand that WotC now cater to a very young crowd that grew up with anime and Potter.
I'm having a hard time reconciling this approach with the leaked cover, which looks much darker. That guy looks like he eats rabbitfolk for lunch.
At any rate, my next campaign was going to be very gothic-fairytale and I'm hoping this book will have some stuff I can use. I did really like what they did with it in 4e. On the whole, I have liked the books they've released so far (although sometimes I feel like I'm the only one here that feels that way) so I'm feeling optimistic.
When Tasha's was leaked in its entirety, Fantasy Grounds I believe was the source. I mean, it is weird that Amazon can leak the titles for pre-order, meaning I can pay for it now, while the FLGS and digital edition purveyors like here and Fantasy Grounds can't* ... so I can sort of imagine the "leaks dept" or whatever responsible for this leak if in fact it was Fantasy Grounds sent this out as a sort of **** you to Amazon's tactics and Hasbro/WotC complicity in it. It's a sour grapes move taking the gas out of the D&D Live event where things are supposed to be official revealed, but capitalism isn't immune to emotional outburst if clearly disadvantageous play is involved.
That said, the cover is not what I was expecting based on the Folk of the Feywild UA I read (presuming there's a relationship, which seems likely). It's sorta odd because it strikes me as derivative of Hit Point Press's Heckna! adventure set that should be released a few months beforehand, demonic carnival and all. I tend to prefer the alt covers for game store pre orders anyway, but this art ... I dunno it's not what I'd expect for a Feywild book (adventure or not). Guess we'll have to see if this is in fact more of the cat out of the bag and if there's any clarification. Also wondering if WotC has sent any communique to the Fantasy Ground along the lines of "dude..." to which Fantasy Grounds will fire back its fair business practice manifesto.
*If it's in your means support your local game store, they'll have it and will likely be even willing to order one specifically for you in advance. Yes Amazon will likely sell this for much lower eventually, but supporting a bricks and mortar shop is literally supporting the infrastructure of the hobby. Thank you, I'll take my soap box with me now.
Jander Sunstar is the thinking person's Drizzt, fight me.
I will probably just cherrypick class stuff etc here on beyond from those two books, and definitely not buy paper copies.
The blurb text for Feywild points out that there are adventure "...for all ages...". So we have Feywild with cutsey rabbit- and owlfolks and a Harry Potter:ish magic school. With furry animalfolks. From a business perspective I totally understand that WotC now cater to a very young crowd that grew up with anime and Potter.
But as an old geezer I am really disapointed. I actually believed that they would release at least one classic setting this year as was talked about from Wizards.
Oh well, I guess I just have to cross fingers for classic stuff 2022, and grats to those of you who are looking forward to the two books.
They did release a "classic setting" though. Did you miss the Ravenloft book release?
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Yep, while it looks like the Feywild adventure will be their "summer" book and the MtG will be the "holiday release" (or maybe I have it backwards), 3 Classic setting revisits were going to be over a two year period, and it was abundantly clear in the Ravensloft build up that it that was one of the three books from that presentation/panel. I imagine the second two (Probably Dragonlance which I think might be two novels into the fiction revival after the New Year, and who knows I don't really have a stake in arguing over what's made. I'd be more interested in a Planescape book or Spelljammer, but WotC isn't so much a "needs" from my perspective more an "interest" in what they put out).
Jander Sunstar is the thinking person's Drizzt, fight me.
Was about to point that out myself. The cover wasnt leaked. Sage Advice did the reveal and people have spread the news out from the page on their own twitter posts.
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Eh, Sageadvice.eu isn't actually WotC. Zoltar is a (mostly) Twitter aggregator who also puts some other content into their blog. Zoltar doesn't, as far as I know have any formal relationship with WotC, any more than say Nerdimmersion who broke the story on my YouTube feed. It would be weird for WotC to "official" unveil the cover of their new book with Fantasy Grounds branding appended to it. That's why the cover reveal sounds like a leak.
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I wonder if there are going to be any playable fey races in this book that aren't elf sub races.
I dont mind if there is a elf sub-races, but it already feels like we have too many elves.
There was an UA about various fey races, mostly half-animal half human. So I would be very surprised if it did not include any of them.
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My guess is this is where we'll see the Rabbitfolk, Owlfolk, Fairy, and Fey Hobgoblin that were released as UA a bit ago.
The Ravnica sourcebook has the Rakdos Cult, which is literally a franchise of circuses ran by demon worshipers.
If you need something to wet your whistle in the meantime, I recommend Tales of the Old Margreve by Kobold Press. It's a collection of 10 adventures set in an ancient magical forest that is very Feywildesque.
Ah, well that's a MtG book so I've never perused its materials. I stand corrected.
My personal opinions is here:
- Don't care for MTG so I'm not buying this Curriculum of Chaos. Doesn't look interesting to me. Not really a fan of MTG so I'm annoyed this takes up a slot.
- The Wild Beyond the Witchlight seems interesting. I won't buy it though as I have no interest in adventure books either. Although if the "leaked" cover is true, it looks to be more of a circus adventure than a feywild adventure. Personally, I think the best way to expand on the Fey is to just shove a ton of Fey into the next monster book with a chapter on them. I'll buy another Mordenkainen's or Volo's Guide in a heartbeat
Strixhaven sounds like... well... Hogwarts as a setting. I'm down with a how-to-magic-academy-in-D&D for a few ideas. Could be worth looking at for that angle alone.
As for the Feywild adventure... we did get the Ravenloft story before the Guide To Ravenloft, so hopefully we'll get the same treatment here? I don't know. The whole cover with a circus of all things is kind of putting me off the entire thing.
To bad they’re not doing a Draconomicon (I cannot spell that name to save my life), I was really hoping they would do one or a Dragonlance book after the UA draconic stuff. Feywild sounds cool, but I was hoping for a sourcebook, not an adventure, and the "for all ages" thing makes me very skeptical about it now. I’ve never been a M:tG fan, so I’m not gonna get the Curriculum of Chaos.
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Also as to Strixhaven, it wouldn't be my first choice to do a MtG/D&D crossover book with (Kaldheim, introduced in the previous MtG set clearly has enough lore to fill a solid stand alone setting book) but I can see some possibilities there. While there are obvious similarities to Harry Potter (which I will point out for what feels like the millionth time is far from the first work of fantasy to feature or even focus on a school for magic), there are also some key differences. First, Strixhaven is a university for young adult students, not children. Second, a good bit of their curriculum (especially within the College of Lorehold) is geared toward preparing students to be adventurers and the plane of Arcavios has all the ingredients for D&D style adventures in dangerous wilderness and ancient, haunted ruins dating back to the Blood War a thousand years ago (said Blood War was supposedly ended by the collective actions of the five elder dragons that founded Strixhaven and are still around). Also there's the possibility of linking Strixhaven to other planes, as two of it's current students are planeswalkers, as is at least one alumnus-turned-professor (plus whatever the heck Kasmina's deal is) and the existence of the multiverse appears to be common knowledge there, at least among scholars.
The story content released with the Strixhaven set was honestly lackluster in most regards, both in it's brevity and rather generic nature, which many MtG lore fans found disappointing. It feels like a phoned in half-arsed filler arc done while they focused more on the next few sets, notably two set in the pre-existing and fairly popular gothic horror themed plane of Innistrad (which would be my next choice for an MtG/D&D crossover but they're probably not doing that due to it being aimed at the same audience as Ravenloft) and the Forgotten Realms crossover into MtG. I'm not sure there's enough material there for a proper setting book, but I am sure that a great adventure campaign can be based in Strixhaven.
There's actually another book coming out this year that James Wyatt has been working on, which is probably going to be a Draconomicon book similar to Volo's/Mordenkainen's. It's strange that these two books were leaked, and not the third one, but it is coming out, too.
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I'm having a hard time reconciling this approach with the leaked cover, which looks much darker. That guy looks like he eats rabbitfolk for lunch.
At any rate, my next campaign was going to be very gothic-fairytale and I'm hoping this book will have some stuff I can use. I did really like what they did with it in 4e. On the whole, I have liked the books they've released so far (although sometimes I feel like I'm the only one here that feels that way) so I'm feeling optimistic.
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