Does it have anything worthy stealing for homebrew academy based settings?I remember being very disappointed(but not remember why) by last year pathfinder rival academies book
>>96896818>mfw we had an entire year of shitty magical academy games>Probably because JK Rowling got back into the public space and everyone had to remind you how much of a bigot she was
>>96896818The only thing most people care about with the book is Silvery Barbs.
>>96896944>>96897009/threadThere is literally nothing more to add here.Now let's see this thread being bumped on life support till Christmas
>>96896944>Rowling>bigot
>>96896818I just hated that it's not actually about a "Magical school". Instead it's an illusory art school that's just magic-coded.A real magic school would have one branch dedicated to each type of magic, or different practical applications of spells and witchcraft. Perhaps even just have courses about magical concepts, defenses, or magical beasts (To have for those who aren't magically inclined, yet still want to become familiar.)Instead we got different flavors of "Let's make an entire branch of our entire school dedicated to the hyper-specific niche interest of magical music."
>>96896944this is 4chan, not reddit. most people here praise her for telling the letters crowd to fuck off.
>>96897031>reading comprehension: none detectedway to fucking miss the point
>>96897082Read the post you are replying to.Then think what you wrote as a reply.Are you even fucking literate in the first place?
>>96897036The point of the academy was never to present a genuine magical school, it was for people to do “no-kill roleplay campaigns” where they go back to college and relive their gay liberal youth.
>>96897090>>96897087we're not here to decode if the greentext is sarcasm, satire or your general opinion and most people don't care.but you oughtta know that, so youre baiting poorly.
>>96897224If you can't tell at first glance that anon is sick and tired of people bitching about JKR "bigotry", then you are fucking illiterate and need to stay at school, son.The fact you react in the exact fucking way he bemoens in his post only adds to how fucking dumb you are
DON'T GIVE A CENT TO WIZARDS
>>96897469But what if I need 5000 shotguns in a hurry?
>>96896818>pathfinder rival academies bookIt's because the faggots at Paizo made it a lore book, so it's stuffed with shit about some festival of magic schools rather than stuffed with usable shit for Wizards.Oh and they put Witch and Monk shit in a book that should've only been for Wizards.
>>96896818No, it does not.Use your own damn imagination and read up on the library of alexandria, bagdad school during the middle ages, and scripture and writing before the printing press
>>96896818Mechanically, the Strixhaven book contains about 5 spells and a handful of feats, on top of a decent number of monsters. Absolutely nothing in there is worthwhile for running a game about a magical academy. Anything you come up with by yourself is going to be better than that book anon. I believe in you.
>>96899756At least be honest...It has friendship/rival mechanics, persona style, with more lovers = more power.
>>96896818I made use of it one time where my players were Strixhaven's "janitors". An adventuring party of handymen whose jobs it were to stop whatever dumb bullshit the idiot students cause, fight blood mages and clean up after all that for extremely low pay. The job has the highest turnover in the multiverse, and you will never be able to look at lattes the same way ever again.
>>96899793Which part of>Anything you come up with by yourself is going to be better than that book anon. I believe in you.You need explained?
>>96899793There's also a mechanic for getting a small bonus based on your character's after school clubs, but it's all quite meager. What people want from a magical school setting is rules and mechanics for setting a class schedule, studying for and passing tests while juggling other activities, and specialized abilities and powers based on your major or clubs or friends. They want Persona 3 or 5, really. Strixhaven provides none of that and what it does have is not worth the price of admission, let alone the time to read.
>>96900027The problem with that is how it would be weird for a graduate to be a higher level than level 3(4 at most). More likely, it would take a year or even more for someone to learn how to be a level 1 in their class. If anything, the first Neverwinter game got that part right with its academy for adventurers setup having everyone to be lvl1(base knowledge and nothing more).But, having classes for level 1-2 fighters isn't the most exciting thing...
>>96900027>What people want from a magical school setting is rules and mechanics for setting a class schedule, studying for and passing tests while juggling other activities, and specialized abilities and powers based on your major or clubs or friends.The grim truth behind why this didn't happen is because the people who wrote the Strixhaven books were pushing out textual sludge slapped on cheap paper and sold at a premium. You're buying the vibe of a magical academy, not the rules. The writers at WotC don't have the brainpower for that kind of thing, and they know their audience does not really want to deal with the crunch of going to college. They want to do rap battles, have lesbian affairs and get back at dad.
>>96896818This book burned my ass so bad, it's the last book I purchased from WOTC. There's nothing here. The adventure sucks. The school activities are lame and uninteresting. The NPCs are gay, lame, and unimportant. The only spell of real use is overpowered.The only thing they did in the book that I have any interest in using later is the relationships mechanic, and even that that just boils down to a daily advantage roll for each one of your fuckbuddies.
>>96899793>At least be honestI am. You would not believe how many times I've gone through that book looking for a scrap of anything useful. Anything I excluded from my post was because the mechanics are either completely worthless or actively detrimental. >>96900311The current pace that the book implies is roughly a semester per level, so 2 levels per year. That does lead to some bizarre implications where there's a surplus of level 8 spellcasters that this academy is churning out every year, but Strixhaven as a setting already had that problem because there's little indication of what the rest of the world is like. Though it also just shows how at-odds D&D's magic system is with the setting, because instead of earning 5 gp a weak at any of the jobs listed in the book, a level 3+ spellcaster should easily be able to make far more money simply by brewing potions or scribing scrolls.There's no reason to pay a student 1 gp to spend an afternoon picking up garbage when Unseen Servant exists.
>>96896818You can steal the setting, should you need a specific academy. Don't steal extra rules and prom shit. Think of it as a place to drop the players if they need to be around a fuckload of mages, druids, warlocks and whatnot. There are some archeologists, magic mathematicians, bayou-type druids, whatever strikes your fancy, should you need any of that.
Is Strixhaven the first truly "vibes-based" supplement for 5e? The rules are irrelevant, the setting is built entirely around the premise of being a gay liberal college, and any effort to focus on the realities of being a college student are avoided. As another anon said, Strixhaven should have rules on making classes, getting good grades, and balancing internships/classwork/recreation.
>>96897324>The fact you react in the exact fucking way he bemoens in his post only adds to how fucking dumb you arebut I didn't react the same way you were bemoaning.so your trolling is incredibly shit, you aren't fooling anyone.
>>96896944You ruined the thread.
Harry Potter fans should be summarily executed by morality police. Inshallah, my fellow anons.
