Welcome back to our monthly DMs Guild Review! We have been away for a while but we are back and with a new look. Hope this finds you well and eager to check out what the community creators have to offer you. Let’s dive in. As always if you have some content of your own or that you find interesting, drop us a line for a review.  Show DM’s Guild News For MarchStrixhaven is available as a setting for you to create your own content on the DM’s Guild. We will be sharing a few selections down below, but check out the vast array of content for yourself right here!What’s Going On In… StrixhavenLast December, Strixhaven was released to the public. Now there are a plethora of creator content options for groups to engage with. Here are the top three best-selling (as of this writing) as well as two others we chose as a sample of content available.
Scrolls From the Wizards & AdeptsHere are the Top Five current best-sellers from among the DMs Guild Adepts.
Focused Review - Strixhaven: A Syllabus of Sorceryby Mike Bernier of Arcane EyeTaking classes in a magical school cannot be the easiest thing in the world. Powerful teachers, deadly school rivals, and intra-faction romance can all work against your GPA. Well, your magic-school fantasy might have just taken on another level of challenge with Strixhaven: A Syllabus of Sorcery from Arcane Eye. It is a book of charts and events that can happen while enrolled in the Strixhaven curriculum. This book is designed to work with Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos. Within the pages of Strixhaven: A Syllabus for Sorcery, the former manual is often referenced, with page numbers to make it easy to find a given rule. The author worked hard to integrate the two books and it pays off I think. The class events alone, (class as in school class, not character class), would have been worth the effort, but the author has added group and rival mechanics. This could overwhelm the DM if they are not careful, but it provides material for almost any situation that a DM can come up with. And if not, the tables provide some fodder for situation building. In terms of design, the book is pleasant, reminding me a bit of an ancient Rolemaster companion with all of its tables and extra goodies. If you are running a Strixhaven campaign or something similar, there is a lot of value here. Four flying brooms out of five. Let us know if you like this slightly upgraded version of the DMs Guild News (Roundup). We hope to add snippets of valuable news to the assortment of lists and reviews every month and your feedback is always valuable.
Strixhaven became a Magic: the Gathering and a D&D setting when Wizards of the Coast released Strixhaven: Curriculum of Chaos this month. As Rime of the Frostmaiden did last year, adding in brooding horror to show new D&D fans an angle of the game they might not have considered, Strixhaven also introduces a new vibe. It’s a setting not a million miles from Hogwarts with campus-based fun, kissing, dances and plenty of adventures too. The result has had favourable to middle-tier reviews and you can find those curated in the RPG news summaries of Routinely Itemised: RPGs #130, #129 and #128. Yeah, three weeks of news summaries. Strixhaven was announced with plenty of notice, and its run-up has been generous. There’s been more than enough time for 3rd parties in the community content program at the DMsGuild to write for it. Are those community content Strixhaven downloads any good? Short answer; yes, it seems so! This top five is compiled by searching the DMsGuild for Strixhaven, sorting by rating and accepting only those supplements written with Strixhaven in mind, rather than adapted to mention the latest book retrospectively. There’s nothing wrong with adaptation, they are welcome, but they’re not the article’s focus. Strixhaven supplements on the DMsGuildCandlekeep & Strixhaven Bestiary: Monsters, NPCs, Magic Items, and more by Stormcrow Dreamscapes has a 5/5 review average. This D&D download does what the title promises and gives you monsters plus an occasional NPC. Clockwork Library Staff, Ink of Juiblex and Servant of the Binder have all helped the supplement become a silver best seller. The book is dedicated to Forgotten Realm’s creator Ed Greenwood in a nice touch. Yes, the book was initially imagined as a Candlekeep sourcebook but adapted in time to make this list. As author Can Uzmen notes, they prefered Strixhaven and could adjust it in the time ahead of the official D&D release. Strixhaven: A Syllabus of Sorcery by Arcane Eye. Mike Bernier’s companion to the Curriculum of Chaos is a gold best seller. In these 53-pages, you’ll find 144 class events, expanded class mechanics, a group points system and a rival one. That group points system gives your characters and players a reason to work together, and it also gives you ways to make those collective results more significant to the adventures found in Strixhaven. There are four class ideas for each of the courses in Strixhaven and likely to take no more than five minutes each. Strixhaven University Diploma by Brian Hardin II. A Pay What Your Want download, with a suggested price of $0, and yet with five pages to offer. It offers handouts to bring Strixhaven diplomas to life. There’s diploma paperwork for Silverquill College, Lorehold College, Witherbloom College, Prismari College and Quandrix College. Each printout is designed to fit on an 11″ x 8.5″ sheet, with a bit of space around the edge. Brian says that assigning the fonts to each college was the most challenging part! The Pub that Crawls by Nick Stefanski. A crawling pub is a story told at Strixhaven and, in this case, also a 28-page adventure for $5. The catch? There are six pubs, not one. Each pub has a challenge suitable for a one-shot, or you could try the most amazing pub crawl ever and attempt a 6 to 8-hour adventure. Hopefully, one that you remember in the morning. Designer Nick also notes that you should find one suitable for most settings with a half-dozen pubs or even take it multiverse. Mimsy’s Strixhaven Shop of Treasures by E. R. F. Jordan A copper best seller and $10 for 100 new magic items all bundled together in a roaming shop. The download was written with Strixhaven in mind, but the shop can be moved anywhere. The rumours in Strixhaven are that you find the shop by finding a specific door and at a particular hour. It’s easier for purchasers to get it, just click add to cart, and you’ll find two sections inside. The first section is all about the shop and Mimsy, the shop’s keeper, the second is that impressive catalogue that takes the download to 32 pages. That’s the top five for now, but it’s early days, and I predict there would have been changes if we were to revisit this in just a month. Honourable mentions certainly go to Craig Mackie’s Students of Strixhaven and E. R. F. Jordan’s Heroes of Strixhaven. Quick Links
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