Strixhaven as a starting point

Have any of you considered using Strixhaven as a starting point for your campaign, instead of your typical tavern?

My ideas are to use it to go to Candlekeep as a request of one of the professors, or go to the Witchlight Carnival who arrive at the campus or simply to Ravenloft as all roads lead to Ravenloft.

Have you done it? Ir so, how did it go?

I love the idea of having the carnival at the campus, I may steal this one! 

In regards to having it as a starting point, it would be good to know what year the players would initially be in. If they are first years then travelling away from campus for a while may not be something they'd want to do. They may need a very motivating task to get them to essentially quit the college. While if they were in their final year they'd already be around level 7/8 or higher. You'd have to jump into another module at a later level. 

I do think it's a great idea to have it as a starting point for a campaign, just needs some understanding on their starting levels.

Those are good suggestions TazzerB. I think I will be testing the waters with Candlekeep Mysteries, Harry Potter Style. They do one adventure per year as favor/punishment for a professor who have ties with Candlekeep, by the time they graduate they could be offered a position on Candlekeep as a reward for all their services.

PS If you run the carnival on Campus please let me know 👍

I have been curious about tying the Candlekeep mysteries into the Strixhaven academy, but given that I know nothing about the lore of either of them I was not sure how well they would mesh. 

Like, what if you just reflavored the stuff about Candlekeep to be the Strixhaven library? 

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If your players like a reskinned Harry Potter as a starting town Strix could work, it would work exceptionally well with a group of 6-12 year old's.

 Is that player age or character age!?