In this video, Crawford noted that the backgrounds include the usual features, such as supplementary languages, etc., and access to the Strixhaven Initiate feat, which opens up the access to one of five limited spell lists, regardless of their base class or subclass. “Those backgrounds are special in [that] they’re giving you a feat,” said Crawford in that video. “Players will wonder: “Wow, did we just make the most powerful backgrounds in the game?” But yes, they’re now the best players in this game. That’s on purpose.” Players generally add skills, rather than ability rewards. The variationant human race also allows players to learn a feat as character creation. Crawford noted that when the journey of feats continued to continue with a trend of offering “something extra” in D&D campaign setting books highlighting Magic: The Gathering universes. The first thing that became popular was, while the list of points of the tidbits dominated the aforementioned movement, and it was forged and continued with the Piety system seen in Mythic Odysseys of Theros. Crawford also added that “Strixhaven Initiate” was designed as a feat, so players can choose from different backgrounds by outside of the book or to allow DMs to start a higher level Strixhaven campaign. This video contains the new backgrounds and character choices below. Although the Strixhaven Initiate backgrounds are deliberately powerful, they come with a possible caveat. The backgrounds themselves are intended to be used in Strixhaven campaignes and at least some DMs will want to allow them to be taken into account when taking those backgrounds for that purpose. While Strixhaven can be applied into any wider campaign field, it would make sense for a student to explore long quests with adventurers instead of pursue his magical education. If Strixhaven is released, the emergence of a curriculum of chaos will be published on 5th December.
