This is an important touch, because when you and your friends enter the world of Strixhaven, it’s expected that the group will be playing as students rather than the typical rough-and-tumble adventurers.
It’s a well-written enough place, and the card game’s love of dividing things up into nice, colour-coded factions makes for a nicely diverse range of schools and philosophies for the heroes to try out and identify with. The school in question is that of Strixhaven, a prestigious arcane college that first made its appearance as the host of a Magic: The Gathering set earlier this year. It isn’t just a book about giving players a cool magical school to explore as part of their wider adventures it’s a book about going to a cool magical school, and finding enjoyment within its pages hinges on you being on board with that idea from the start. The result is a book that feels a little shallow in places and a little inflexible in others, but nevertheless succeeds at its aim to deliver something outside of the usual wandering adventurer rigamarole that defines so many of our campaigns. In just a couple of hundred pages, Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos looks to introduce players to an arcane university muster up a mid-sized, multi-year campaign and find a way to mash a combat-heavy ruleset into a setting with more student pranks than dungeon crawls. For all that magical boarding schools have become rather a cliché over the past 20 years or so, the latest entry into Dungeons & Dragons’ library of hardbacks is a deceptively ambitious little book.
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