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Is mastery of art a matter ofhoning precise techniques to a point of perfection or immersive experiencesof perfectly expressing a raw emotional state? 2 Electrovisionary, wielding the forms of ExpressionPERFECTION AND EXPRESSION lightning as a paintbrushPrismaris two deans carry the titles Dean of Per- 3 Flamesinger, combining fire and music Expressionfection and Dean of Expression, and they often 4 Ceosculptor, using earth and lava in Expressionexpress the fundamental conflict of their philosophy volatile emotional displaysas perfection versus expression or, sometimes, as 5 Heartrager, turning inner creative fire Expressionintellect versus emotion. and it needs to be let out somewhere! adopt for your character.Skill Proficiencies: Intimidation, Persuasion SILVERQUILL PERSONALITY TRAITSLanguages: Two of your choiceEquipment: A bottle of black ink, an ink pen, a d6 Personality Trait book of poetry, a school uniform, and a pouch con- 1 I ll say whatever I need to in order to maintain my high social status. Enter Fain (neutral human Silverquill the Silverquill campus. The Quick Build section for your characters Speed. No more than one Student Die can be rolled per check. The Silverquill Personalityminate or conceal is joined with the literal ability of Traits table suggests a variety of traits you mightmagic to do the same in your academic pursuits. If an how to use the adventure in this way. And Ill prove it, even if no one asks me to. Upload PDF to create a flipbook like D&D 5e Strixhaven - A Curriculum of Chaos now. ..96 Oracle of Strixhaven 206 36 Oriq Blood Mage 206 Silvery Barbs 37 .Ch 4: Hunt for Mage Tower Oriq Recruiter 208 Vortex Warp Pest Mascot 208 Wither and Bloom 32 Running This Adventure 97 Prismari ApprenticeMagic Items Prismari Pledgemage .209 Bottle of Boundless Coffee 32 Back in Session 98 Prismari Professor of Expression .209 Cuddly Strixhaven Mascot Prismari Professor of Perfection Lorehold Primer 32 Mascots Everywhere! and Eberron: Risingfrom the Last War. KCREDITS StrixHaven World Designers: Doug Beyer (creative lead), Taylor Ingvarsson (art director), Jess Lanzillo (creative director), MerisLead Designer: Amanda Hamon Mullaley (creative producer), Fox Allison, Annie Sardelis, EmilyAssistant Lead Designers: Jeremy Crawford, James Wyatt Teng, Andrew Valias, James Wyatt, Ari ZirulnikArt Director: Emi Tanji Project Engineer: Cynda Callaway Imaging Technicians: Kevin YeeDesigners: Bill Benham, Makenzie De Armas, Dan Dillon, Steve Prepress Specialist: Jefferson Dunlap Kenson, T. Alexander Stangroom D&D STUDIOAssistant Designers: Sydney Adams, Taymoor RehmanRules Developers: Jeremy Crawford, Ben Petrisor Executive Producer: Ray WinningerEditors: Judy Bauer, Michele Carter, Scott Fitzgerald Cray, lanara Game Design Architects: Jeremy Crawford, Christopher Perkins Design Manager: Steve Scott Natividad, Christopher Perkins, F. Wesley Schneider Design Department: Sydney Adams, Judy Bauer, Makenzie DeGraphic Designers: Trystan Falcone, Emi Tanji, Trish Yochum Armas, Dan Dillon, Amanda Hamon, Ari Levitch, Ben Petrisor,Cover Illustrators: Hydro74, Magali Villeneuve Taymoor Rehman, F. Wesley Schneider, James WyattCartographers: Francesca Baerald, Sean Macdonald, Mike Schley Art Department Manager: Richard WhittersAdditional Art Directors: Ovidio Cartagena, Taylor Ingvarsson, Kate Principal Art Director: Kate Irwin Art Department: Trystan Falcone, Emi Tanji, Shawn Wood, Irwin, Thomas Jenkot, Zack Stella, Sarah Wassell Trish YochumInterior Illustrators: Steve Argyle, Jinho Bae, Cristi Balanescu, Mike Senior Producer: Dan Tovar Producers: Bill Benham, Robert Hawkey, Lea Heleotis Bierek, Zoltan Boros, Alex Brock, Filip Burburan, Dmitry Burmak, Director of Product Management: Liz Schuh Product Managers: Natalie Egan, Chris Lindsay, Hilary Ross, Ekaterina Burmak, Paul Scott Canavan, Manuel Castanon, Jehan Chris Tulach Choo, Billy Christian, Chris Cold, Justine Cruz, Alayna Danner, Jonas De Ro, Olga Drebas, Piotr Dura, Jesper Ejsing, Anna Fehr, MARKETING Tony Foti, Caroline Gariba, Ilse Gort, Johan Grenier, Yeong- Director of Global Brand Marketing: Brian Perry Hao Han, Josh Hass, Hydro74, Izzy, Tomasz Jedruszek, Jihun, Global Brand Manager: Shelly Mazzanoble Jason Kang, Igor Kieryluk, Mathias Kollros, Yigit Koroglu, Kekai Senior Marketing Communications Manager: Greg Tito Community Manager: Brandy Camel Kotaki, Andrey Kuzinskiy, Luiza Laffitte, Lius Lasahido, Ryan Alexander Lee, Lie Setiawan, Daniel Ljunggren, Lindsey Look, Titus Lunter, Howard Lyon, Slawomir Maniak, Antonio Jose Manzanedo, Joseph Meehan, Viko Menezes, Robson Michel, Francisco Miyara, Scott Murphy, Marta Nael, Hector Ortiz, Adam Paquette, Alessandra Pisano, Steve Prescott, Chris Rahn, Jason Rainville, Andreas Rocha, Denman Rooke, Sean Sevestre, Liiga Smilshkalne, Bryan Sola, Craig J Spearing, Raymond Swanland, YWTang, Viktor Titov, Jokubas Uogintas, Randy Vargas, Svetlin Velinov, Raoul Vitale, Johannes Voss, Sara Winters, Bayard Wu, Kieran Yanner, Andreas ZafiratosON THE COVER ON THE ALT-COVERThree Strixhaven students find distractions from their studies Hydro74 shows off the Strixhaven star, a symbol of unity and magical fellowship. They can be seen striding through the The star arches are a mystery left over from the wilds, exploring sources of magic with their manybirth of the world. The Principlecan summon creatures made of fractals or turnabstract theories into towering, spiraling patterns. Even though the characters studies imposes a cost: the character gains 1 level of ex-include the trappings of academic lifeattendinglectures, participating in labs, reading textbooks haustion that takes effect at the start of the day ofthose everyday academic activities mostly take place the Exam. Chapters 3-6 provide a campaign meant to ad- orator, a scientist, or some other profession whilevance characters from 1st to 10th level as they prog- using magic to enhance ones studies. column notes which side of the substance-theory conflict a scholar more likely aligns with.They love to expand and multiply; they can increase QUANDRIX SCHOLARS Principletheir knowledge or size by bending numbers. Auto Flip. 7 Leafbinder, using medicinal herbs toWitherblooms curriculum shares some overlap with soothe woundsQuandrixs analysis of the mathematical patterns 8 Pestcatcher, harvesting life energyin nature. View flipping ebook version of Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos published by That D&D place on 2021-12-08. book about plant identification, an iron pot, an herbalism kit, a school uniform, and a pouch con- 3 Im going to befriend every single monster in this taining 15 gp swamp if its the last thing I do.FEATURE: WITHERBLOOM INITIATE 4 Everything in this world dies eventually. 99 Quandrix Apprentice 210 Prismari Primer 38 211 Quandrix Primer 38 Scrivening and Symbology Quandrix Pledgemage 212 Silverquill Primer 3g Quandrix Professor of Substance 214 Strixhaven Pennant 3g Exam: Glyph of Warding. 106 Quandrix Professor of Theory 214 Witherbloom Primer 38 Relic Sloth 215 3g Advance to 5th Level! random monster encounters that crop up on cam- pus. Clerics (often with the Knowledge or Light If you do choose one of these backgrounds, you domains) are also quite common. halves of a schools dichotomy, but a mage must learn at least the rudiments of those halves. Share. If study of magical writing and symbols. Students from other colleges often take 3 Inkcaster, summoning living inklings Radiance to serviceSilverquill courses to improve their communicationskills, learning to speak and write more effectively 4 Lumimancer, bringing light to bear on shameful situations and holding cor-about their primary field of study. In addition, if you have the Spellcasting or Pact 6 Dont interrupt me; I m brooding.Magic feature, the spells on the Witherbloom Spellstable are added to the spell list of your spellcasting Witherbloom Trinkets. WITHERBLOOM PRIMER In addition, if you study the primer at the end ofa long rest, you can choose one lst-level spell from Wondrous Item, Uncommon (Requires Attunementthe bard or sorcerer spell list. Youathleticism of Prismari performance. Quandrix mages who embrace this Kianne believes in using mathematics to betterview use magic to bring numerical concepts to life, understand nature. The typical life span of a player character in D&D is about a century, assuming the character doesntStrixhaven Backgrounds presents a background meet a violent end on an adventure. In addition, if you study the primer at the end of In addition, if you study the primer at the end of a long rest, you can choose one lst-level spell froma long rest, you can choose one lst-level spell from the bard or cleric spell list. The player can wait game, consider holding a session zero to introduce until after rolling the d20 before rolling the Student the rules to the players. The dragons stat blocks are presented in chapter 7.Forgotten Realms, scholars describe the fabric of FOUNDER DRAGONSmagic as a Weave that allows spellcasters to inter-act with the worlds underlying magical reality. Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos, which was released in the US earlier this week, is a sourcebook based on the Strixhaven: School of Mages expansion released for trading card game Magic: The Gathering. ects a recording of an old mathematics lecture 6 A round bread roll cut so that someone could 4 I believe Im always the smartest person in the spread butter on both halves without ever lifting room. Bards thriveto enter one of Strixhavens colleges. When Lisette speaks, her words are soft and full of colorful metaphors.most essential principle in the cosmos. With the collegesliterature, and the power of words, both magical and intense standards looming over them, Silverquillotherwise. Everything falls Spell Level Spells apart someday. Aced. These mages make for natural conflict a scholar more likely aligns with.leaders, fiercely competitive, with a piercing wit and SILVERQUILL SCHOLARS Principlea never-second-place attitude. CHAPTER 3 | SCHOOL IS IN SESSION 4,JOBS DORMITORIESWorking in gainful employment while at school can Jobs: Cleanup crew member, events assistant, front-provide a character with a modicum of cash andhelp forge connections with student coworkers. Theprompting sparks of insight when faced with diffi- character gains one Student Die, explained below. of the Dramarium has a special sensory deprivationInklings, the colleges mascots, flit around the high chamber for mage-students who want complete si- lence in which to meditate.ceiling, and enchanted spotlights automatically fo-cus on any mage who uses powerful magic.1.5CHAPTER 1 | LIFE AT STRIXHAVENWITHERBLOOM COLLEGE SCHOLARS OF WITHERBLOOMAt Witherbloom, the College of Essence Studies, The Witherbloom Scholars table offers examples ofmages draw power from the opposing forces of the scholars in Witherbloom College. They create spells table to randomly determine the scholarly focus of afrom spoken-word battle poetry or magical mani- Silverquill student or faculty member. LarkingdaleINTRAMURAL SILKBALL CLUB These music enthusiasts play instruments such asSkills: Athletics, Intimidation hurdy-gurdies, bagpipes, flutes, and drums, and they regularly perform rousing concerts.Member:Javenesh Stoutclaw, Melwythorne, Ti- STRIXHAVEN STAR lana Kapule Skills: Investigation, InsightThese hardy athletes train together and compete in Member: Grayson Wildemere, Mina Leethe rough-and-tumble Strixhaven game of silkball, These truth seekers and wordsmiths report on cam- pus news, regularly interviewing important figureswhich is played in muddy fields with balls made of and producing the monthly Strixhaven Star newspa-spider silk. Aportals exist as well.These portals can be unpre- star arch called the Dawnbow curves across the sky above the library, marking its location as a center of mystic learning.ARCHWAY COMMONS IS A FAVORITE SPOTMAP 1.1: CENTRAL CAMPUS Arches welcome inquisitive minds into the library. The facultyadventures. Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos introduces the fantastical setting of Strixhaven University to Dungeons & Dragons, drawn from the multiverse of Magic: The Gathering. Mages who embrace thisperspective use their spells to weave illusions and.manipulate the fabric of magic itself CHAPTER 1 | LIFE AT STRIXHAVEN 19Dean Imbraham (neutral owlin Quandrix profes- tery of both of Quandrixs philosophical perspec-sor of theory) is stern and shrewd, with a mind as tives. Through the books multiyear campaign, players begin as first-year students who study, socialize, and adventure their way to graduation. in cryptic allegories not only to tease and test the eager minds of young mages, but also to cleverlyWhen an Oracle dies, their mind and spirit is swept sidestep time paradoxes.off to the distant past, drawn backward through Stat blocks for archaics appear in chapter 7, along-time toward the intense magical power that brought side that of the current Oracle, whose name isJadzi.the world into being. This tutoring can be to cement friendships, establish rivalries, deepen bonds, and otherwise develop relationships with narrated through roleplaying, or you might simply student NPCs in this books adventures. If a student quits tant, equipment assistant, groundskeeper, refresh- ments expert, ticket taker, usherduring the academic year, they stop earning this Coworker: Aurora Luna Wynterstarr, Greta Gorunnmoney at the end of the week in which they quit.RELATIONSHIP POINTWhile a character works a Job, they gain a positiveor negative Relationship Point (the players choice)with one student NPC at that Job. 1: Life on Campus 8 Campus Kerfuffle 60 Arcane Herbology 165 9 Exam: Vegetation Identification 166Magical Study Running This Adventure 60 172Campus Overview 44 Clue in the Bayou 173Lorehold College 13 First Day on Campus . Silvery Barbs Scholars seek out archaics for their vast soul and its fragmented memories coalesce into aknowledge of history and magic, but archaics tend creature a newborn archaic. . At Prismari Galazeth Prismarithese places, spells can be amplified or distorted Quandrix Tanazir Quandrixin unpredictable ways. spell. QUITTING AN EXTRACURRICULAR Characters can quit an Extracurricular at any time, updating their tracking sheet accordingly. Box 43 Newport, NP19 4YH, UK.CONTENTSWelcome to Strixhaven 4 Shuvadri Glintmantle .58 Ch 6: A Reckoning in Ruins 156 157About This Book 5 Tilana Kapule 58 Running This Adventure 157 158Orientation 5 Urzmaktok Grojsh 59 A Sinister Shadow 159Strixhavens World 6 Zanther Bowen 59 A Brief Distraction 160 165Ch. Published by That D&D place . These forces might linger on your body or in your clothes as dec- of artisans tools or a musical instrument (one of orative elements after your spells are dissipated, your choice), a school uniform, and a pouch con- as sparks dance in your hair and your touch leaves taining 10 gp tracings of frost on whatever you touch.FEATURE: PRISMARI INITIATE BUILDING A PRISMARI CHARACTERYou gain the Strixhaven Initiate feat (presented later Any class or subclass that wields elemental forces of cold, fire, lightning, and wind can be a good fit inin the chapter) and must choose Prismari within it. Esix never seems to register theseThe central hall of Quandrix campus lies at the would-be threats, as it remains consumed by its ownend of a geometric series of walkways, terminat- calculations.ing at ascending ramps to the towering building. When you make your char- Silvery Barbs (in this book) acter, you may roll once on the Silverquill Trinkets 2nd Calm Emotions, Darkness table, instead of on the Trinkets table in the Players 3rd Beacon of Hope, Daylight Handbook, for your starting trinket. Mage-students meet at the Rose Stage to prac-his price. Your studies focus on language, Suggested Characteristics. . You might wield your Prismari spellsSkill Proficiencies: Acrobatics, PerformanceTool Proficiencies: One type of musical instrument with dynamic, gestural movement as much dance or artisans tools as somatic component. that extend from their back and shoulders.CREATING YOUR CHARACTER Like owls, owlin are graced with feathers that make no sound when they move or fly, making itIf you create an owlin character, follow these addi- easy for them to sneak up on you in the library.tional rules during character creation. The Strixhaven Mascots table listsrelated fields. Within an hour, she convinced him to free.ink magic is merciless Scant with praise and quick her, abandon his wicked ways, and seek wisdomwith a cutting remark, Dean Lu has seen manymage-students scrub out of Strixhaven and has from the archaics.nothing good to say about those who cant hack it. This chapter offers an overview of life and studies on the scholars experts in their various fields and in the universitys campus, as well as a look at each of the use of magic to enhance their studies. They dontcounselor, meanwhile, might offer several ordered, step in directly, but a director known as the Voice of the Founders currently an imposing man namedrational proposals for course selection, focus on the Taiva speaks on the dragons behalf.political and human aspects of historical issues, and MASCOTSplace less emphasis on martial prowess. On the back, a harried Biblioplex assistant tries to tidy the mess. Does literature selflessly Dean Shaile Talonrook (lawful good owlin Silver-better society or selfishly advance ones own goals? When you make yourclass. The designers have developed rules to simulate college life including taking tests and working on campus. Some callNo one knows how old Willowdusk (neutral good the forces he manipulates evil, but he asserts that.treant) really is This professor of growth claims to power is only as good or evil as how you use it.be older than Strixhaven itself, and although many VERELDA LANG, ARCANO-BIOLOGISTsuspect that she exaggerates, no one else who has Verelda Lang (chaotic neutral dryad) is a respectedlived long enough to refute her cares to do so.