How to Build your STRIXHAVEN Character | 25 Subclass Concepts to prepare for Curriculum of Chaos!
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- Struggling with a character concept for the new college adventure? Or wondering what backgrounds or feats to choose? Pick your mascot as we find your flavor and look at the best fit for each Strixhaven college!
Will you be the history buffs of Lorehold? Performers of Prismari? Big brains of Quandrix? Silver-tongues of Silverquill? Life-brewers of Witherbloom? Lets pass your first test as you prepare for your first day of school....again?
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0:00 Welcome to Strixhaven
2:15 Lorehold
7:11 Prismari
9:51 Quandrix
12:38 Divine Intervention
13:15 Silverquill
15:39 Witherbloom
17:49 No Limit to Your Creativity
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I’m thinking about rolling up as a prismari armorer artificer, and playing them as a fashion designer
What?? That's amazing!! A little jealous I didn't come up with that 😂 Definitely play that!
Feel free to use it lol.
*in Gus Fring voice* "Do it. Do... it."
Very nice...maybe fire genasi and they light up their runes from inside with their heat..
I did something like that but my character was like Cruella (2021) with Emma Stone but he was focused on create designs to mage fights and transform a magic fight in a fashion show. He always was with victorian inspired clothes, walking cane tha was his weapon and faithful mascot Belligor the Dragon Snail.
Also when I created the character I picked warlock with hexblade because every time I was doing any piece I used the hexblade to enchant my scizor or needles XD. Cursed fashion pieces every time but they're were perfect.
Prismari for life!
I love how you presented this information. It was clear, concise, and entertaining without being over the top. Keep doing what you're doing!
Thank you!! That's so kind. Im having so much fun. Hope it helped! 😊
I love the idea of a Lorehold Hexblade or Genie Warlock that uses their sentient patron weapon/artifact as part of their lesson plan, or having their Genie patron offer history lessons from certain time periods while using their vessel to show off interesting artifacts to their students, a Clockwork Soul Sorcerer that teaches balance and the true relation between science and magic for Quandrix, or another Lorehold character being a Thief Rogue who is devoted to unlocking the secrets of magical artifacts, refusing to let their innate lack of proper magical talents get in their way.
A fellow player made a Phantom rogue, he was going to make it an edgy character but ended up fitting well in Lorehold.
I had very similar thoughts about the Lorehold Rogue, nice 👌
I like the idea of a Thief Rogue (played like an archaeologist) for Lorehold
Ooh! I like that too!!
I think it would be cool to have a teacher that is Indiana Jones.
And a bunch of students that are Nathan Drake, Rick O'Connell, Ardeth Bey and Lara Croft
@@vernonhampton5863 this 🙌
A prismari bladesinger is a must
Ooh! Play a little more in the singing! Lol
I'm really tempted to try some sort of warrior poet barbarian for Silverquill. Maybe Wild Magic?
Ooh! Yeah! or maybe Ancestral Guardian?
As a DM I seriously want to take your suggestions for each class and make them as the NPCs subclasses in this book. So much great material in this video. Subbed for sure!
Thank you!! Glad to have you! Knock em dead! 😊
Was thinking the same thing lol
I've got a Strixhaven game coming up. I'm thinking of a Quandrix minotaur echo knight. He wants to mathematically prove he can be in more than one place at once!
Fun!! Good luck!!
Now that I’ve watched the whole video…that was awesome! I’m building a Fathomless Warlock 2 / Lore Bard X for strixhaven named Kalliope. Race Hexblood, with the Theros Nyxborn supernatural gift.
Her patron will be Thassa (goddess of the sea and ancient knowledge) from Theros. She’s a siren/mermaid who wants to discover all the mysteries of the deep. She will use a bident like Thassa’s as a tuning fork for when she sings. She has a map like the Mao Kun map (from pirates of the Caribbean) which she’s joining lorehold in order to learn to read it. The map is especially perfect as it is of Theros, and Theros is known to have its mythic and relic locations move a lot due to the malleability of the plane. Very excited for this character.
My inspirations were Atlantis, Treasure Planet, Pirates of the Caribbean and the little mermaid. So a buncha Disney movies lol
No kidding! You put a lot of thought into this character and it shows! Excited for you to play through that story!!
As you were talking about Witherbloom, one subclass that popped into my head was the Way of Mercy monk.
Ooh, yeah that's a good one!!
@@TheClericCorner By the way, I absolutely love your demeanor and how you presented the information; you have yet another subscriber. :)
@@jenniferp.8116 Aw thank you!! 💛 Lucky to have you!
Havent watched yet, but Order Domain Cleric, Silverquil (make sure to pick Silverquill Student background!!!)
For those unfamiliar with Order Domain, when they target an ally with a spell (heal, buff, etc) you can ask your ally to melee attack a specific enemy of your choice by using your allies reaction (they choose if they will). You also serve the gods of law and order.
Now for a flavor break, Silverquill's majors includes Law. So an Order Domain cleric could be a law student applying Silverquill's teachings to being a Judge or perhaps a Lawyer.
Back to mechanics, Silverquill gives their student access to the spell Silvery Barbs which lets ya possibly turn an enemies hit into a miss using your reaction, and giving your ally advantage at the same time for their next attack.
So when an Order Domain cleric casts Silvery Barbs, they can waste an enemies turn potentially and give their ally a chance to attack with advantage. And this is all live at level 1, and super flavorful for Silverquill's quick wit lawyery word play theme.
Just worship a God of Law that looks like a Phoenix, and you will be on your way to being a magical ace attorney. The rogue will thank you
Great add! Definitely a prime subclass pick!
And for the character I am playing, fiend patron warlock (my race being tiefling) to tie both my characters ancestry with their studies ("Dark One's blessing" absorbs life after death reflecting the nature of Witherbloom). Background will be witherbloom student to give me some druidcraft and healing. Later taking pact of the chain (and the following level swap invocations for investment of the chainmaster along with Strixhaven Mascot).
With Peanut Butter the pest as my ally, I will eldritch blast and heal the party with social skills on the side in case we gotta pull a fast one on the teacher.
@@summermermaidstar756 ooh I like the pulling power from life after death origin!
Could also see an order domain cleric in Lorehold or Quandrix
I love that with Strix Haven you can tie in other modules very easily and just adjust the levels of challenges and characters from the modules as you go or just make level ups painfully slow milestones and adjust accordingly.
Need an adventure for Spring Break? Screw the beach. It's too crowded with frat parties! Let's go to a cool ass carnival: Enter the "Wild Beyond the Witchlight" module.
Field trip or field research gone wrong? Shitty ass nightmare brought on by the stress of finals that strangely you and all your friends are collectivley sharing that was the result of some dumbass's final project either gone horribly wrong or horribly right if your party is the unsuspecting guinea pigs of? Insert almost any module ever.
Your so right! And a magical school can be dropped into any campaign your playing in currently :)
Love the houndoom pic btw!
@@TheClericCorner Thank you so much! The Houndoom's name is Felix, he is a super sweet boi who is the big brother of the party and will gladly share his favorite pink ball with a Sunflora pattern on it to make new friends!
On the DND note, yes! It can just be a setting for quests too, you don't need an entire Strixhaven party for it to be relevant. In a higher level campaign a student could be out adventuring as part of their Masters or Doctoral degree.
The school could also just be a source of quests.
Or you can use it for places where backstory relevant NPCs are. Like my Tabaxi/Cartographer/Drakewarden RangerJewel of the Forest, has an older bother Cedar Ink, a Blade Singer that is an archeologist studying at Strixhaven. 20 GP if you can guess the college XD. On occasion he sends her some letters and an object enclosed basically going, "Hey baby sis, here's a cool ass thing I found in the archives. Can't do field research because midterms are trying to kill me. Can you and your friends help out?"
Strixhaven is such a cool utility for any DM to have even if they don't want to run a Magic Academy campaign.
@@ivoryinkwell7864 I absolutely agree! Tell Felix hi for me 😊
@@TheClericCorner
Say hi Felix!
Felix: * *squeezes squeaky ball* * Hoouuuu!
This is my first time watching your channel. I'm very impressed. I already have players at my store wanting me to run adventures from this book. Thank you for this. Also, here is your 59th like.
Thank you so much!! Good luck with your new adventure! Always in support of great game store owners!
You're going to hit that 1K so soon!
Go go go! The Gods will it so!
Glad to have such supportive friends!! Thank you! 💛
Since you mentioned Artificer being left out (something I also found really, REALLY strange!), I had ideas for both of the other two Artificer subclasses you didn't mention.
A Prismari Artillerist who uses their ballista to be the pyrotechnics and fireworks for the school shows. I'm imagining the type of person who is always covered in head to toe with soot and ash, wild hair (or feathers...) that's been signed in a few places. They'd be a great Spectacle Mage.
This one might be a bit of a cop out because any Artificer could fit, but when I think of the Armorer, I immediately think of Iron Man, and what better place to put him than the Quandrix College? I mean, what better blending of nature and magic is there than a magic suit that you bond with?
Anyway, great video. You're criminally under followed.
This is an EXCELLENT add!! I didn't think of a Prismari artillerist! Growth will come, but I'm happy with what I have so far! 😊 Thank you!
@@TheClericCorner I have no doubt! When I looked, I was shocked at how good the content was compared to how many followers/subscribers you have. Grade A material!
@@aceofsween haha well maybe it will catch up soon! 😂 Glad you found me! Your very kind!
I’m so glad I found your channel. This video was well put together and really enjoyable. I look forward to your future content.
I needed this comment today, thank you! 😊 Big stuff coming!
This is the first video of yours I've seen , it was very good! I liked the pacing and general feel of it.
O kinda love the Quandrix chainlock that lets me fly around in a fractal boat that goes from tiny to huge as needed
Ooh, sounds very river Styx
@@TheClericCorner yeah that was the intention... To bad it's more like Tom Sawyer
Scribes wizard seems like a good choice for a nerd character in any capacity
Good, clear, and to the point without much silliness. Perfect, and u gave me some great ideas about what kind of chara I could play. Thanks!
Oh thank you! That's great to hear!! Good luck with your new character!
This was a great breakdown. We're going to start our Strixhaven campaign soon and this was such a great tool. Thank you.
Thanks Jessica!! Good luck with your new campaign!
Dude! This video is so charismatic! Great content! Looking forward to bingeing 😁
I ended up with a character i already had, adapting it to the setting, an armorer artificer girl with a wooden mech that acts as her guard/armor kinda like peni parker
She is young but smart and does tutoring for older students
Just watched this video because my DM is playing on running this next and I wasn't sure how to even go about creating a character for this type of campaign thanks for the help, will for sure watch more videos.
Oh yay! Hope it helped! Good luck with your new game!
2.5k subs looks like your growing steadily. When you get to 1 mil subs it's gonna be cool to say I was there at almost the beginning. Keep up the good work
I'll see you there! 😉
Thank you!
somehow my algorithm is oddly neat in tune, I get shown so many small D&D channels!
I LOVE it! love this video, instant sub!
Haha no complaints from me! Thank you! Glad to have you!! 😊
I'm going to make my own spin of all this for my blog... Super cool ideas!
I'm planning to build a voodoo/witch doctor build druid(land(swamp))/warlock(either celestial(marais)or undead haven't decided) fairy and the witherbloom background fits perfectly with what I had in mind for the character.
Oh yay! Glad you found a good fit!!
Echo Knight fighter and Swarm Keeper ranger can both be flavored to any of the 5 colleges. Just reskin the echoes and swarms as the mascot of whichever college you join.
If your DM is cool beastmaster ranger is also an option for all colleges. Just take your school's mascot as you animal companion.
And if you want to add spell casting to a non caster so that your magic school student has more spells than just the ones from the background feat there is one clear option. A 2 level dip in war wizard adds a fantastic amount of utility and defense to any non caster class in the game.
Those are fantastic ideas!!
Thanks! Me and my friends are about to start this
Good stuff! I'll be dm'ing Strixhaven next month and I'll be showing your video at our session 0!
Thank you! So excited for you all! Good luck!🤞
I’m playing a Paint/Ink art/calligraphy/scroll mage that has a pen/brush wand that can extend into a staff that uses paint/ink that is actually liquid magic. So he could draw a door on a wall, paint a picture of a fist punching, etc and it would actually work the way he imagined it would work. His name is Scrolly ( Scroll + Olly ).
Leaning into the shadow and radiance ideals of, Silverquill a Shadow or Divine Soul Sorcerer would be really great too!
Dude I would definitely go with Prismari or SilverQuil if I got to play this I’d love the aspects of those colleges in particular. I had the idea for swords bard to but instead of a regular sword it’s more like a magical brush that grabs paint, solidifies it to then become a sword and when the sword strikes enemies it leaves them covered in paint making for some good role play opportunities I think
Oooh I love the idea of a phantom rogue in Lorehold. Could also see one in Witherbloom.
Yeah either one!!
I really like the idea of reflavoring Drakewarden as a Prismari summoner, having the drake look like the mtg elemental summoning card. Also the Rune Knight for Lorehold is perfect, and has the fun mechanical benefit of allowing you to make your character a very good cheater on tests with the cloud runes advantage on deception and sleight of hand.
Bladesinger Wizard would be great for prismari
Great tips!!! Glad I found your channel!
Thanks Robbin! Glad you found it too!!
Personally i think a cool character idea would be a Lorehold ancestral guardian barbarian
This is the first video of yours I have seen and I looked back to see if you had done this same concept for Ravnica guilds only to find that your channel is only 4 months old. You have really gotten a lot of followers for such a new channel.
With that said, while it won't exactly be topical, would you mind considering doing a best subclasses for Ravnica Guilds video?
I've actually had a few requests for this, so I hope to do one in the future! 😊 Thanks for commenting! I'll have to work out a good time to do it
Ahh! I am a Glamour Bard for Prismari! And she is a dancer… an _exotic_ dancer.
Thinking about playing a silverquill druid focused on taxonomic records and the importance of language to help us further understand plant families and their uses
I’ve watched 30sec of your video and now subscribed…you have a great demeanor. I just discovered fry minis last week. He’s great people, def check him out!
Your so kind!! Yeah, thanks to Fryminis for lending me those screenshots 😊 Glad to have you along for the ride!
I'm going into Quandrix with an AT Rogue; he's gonna be the MIT grad who got into card counting
Ugh that sounds so fun! 😂
Just found this vid. Worth keep up the content. Iama dig through your library.
Thank you so much! Appreciate you sticking around! 😊
Very informative an will consider your picks as they seem legit. Thx you
No thank you! 😊
Personally I've had great fun playing a Creation Bard in Prismari (water genasi, who casts magic through dance)
Also I find it kinda funny that my friends have made a necromancy wizard in Lorehold and a phantom rogue in Witherbloom while you put them exactly opposite XD
The little pause on master debater cracked me up
I'm glad someone noticed 😂
My two cents...
Lorehold // Scribes -- your book's spirit is a spirit of an ancient sage; Conjuration -- most useful for exploring; Battlesmith Artificer - your magical robot is embued with the spirt of a an ancient Generla's war dog.
Silvequill // Shadow Sorcerer & Celestial Sorcer, cause MGT has them with White and Black colors (you can also reflavor your Shadow Hound as an inky beast); Aberrant Mind Sorcerer; Glambour Bard; and Goolock with Pact of the Chain for that Inkling (or an Imp or something reflavored); Arcane Trickster.
Quandrix // Totes agree with Stars Druid. I would also say Armorer or Artillertist Artificer, for that Tony Stark feel.
Witherbloom // I also totally agree with the Undead Warlock. I also like the Fathomless Warlock to be like a Swamp Monster. I could also see a Spirit Bard too.
Oh, and Prismari would have Bladesinger.
These are FANTASTIC adds! Thank you!
First thing that popped into my head for prismari was a bladesinger wizard
I’ve been in talks about joining a Strixhaven campaign and my current character idea is an Aetherborn enrolled in Witherbloom.
Their ambition is unlock a procedure that allows any aetherborn to use the Gift (i.e. increasing one’s lifespan by draining essence), increasing their people’s life expectancy.
I’m thinking Way of Mercy Monk would be appropriate.
I'm gonna be playing in a Strixhaven campaign soon and I'm going to play a Prismari Sun Soul Monk who is basically a soccer player jock
With your profile picture, I can tell your a fan! Sounds like a blast!
I'm playing a bladesinger witherbloom student. The concept seemed wierd at first but being able to raise the dead and fight along side them is incredibly fun. The character is a greaser too just because the character didn't have enough layers as is.
Love it!! Sounds like a blast!
Solid video.
Imma subscribe
Thanks! 😂 Welcome to look around!
Definitely subbed. Great presentation and excellent concepts. I am playing a Saytr that is a 1st lvl life cleric of Sune the goddess of beauty..I will then be going celestial warlock for 3 to get a sprite (mini angel) familiar then glamour bard the rest of the way...and of all the colleges I chose Witherbloom lol..life and death are both strangely beautiful to a fey. I keep the bard feel throughout by singing all my spells...
A mini angel familiar??? I'm in love. Adding that on the list of characters to do 😂
@@TheClericCorner similar concept to the angel on the shoulder. Since its from Sune its probably very tinkerbell like but redheaded hehe. It will be my link to Sune while I'm in strixhaven. Also I am the group healer.
@@mrjek01 that's great! Is have to double check, but I'm sure someone could have both the angel and the devil somehow 😂
@@TheClericCorner you don't necessarily need to cast find familiar to gain a familiar. The spell allows you control over it. So the other one (devil)if your good/(angel) if your evil may, be under the DM's control.
@@mrjek01 for sure! There is also classes that include companions and conjuration spells. Totally doable
Great Video! you got another sub!
Thank you!! Glad to have ya!
Playing a Wild Magic sorcerer for the first time. Wish me luck I don’t blow up other students on accident!
Oh gosh 😂 good luck!
For me rune knight sounds more like a quandrix, making yourself bigger with the power of math is just too amazing to pass up
For my silverquill character, I made a divine soul sorcerer whose magic comes from the light end of the school, their family all allumni from the college and expect the tradition to continue.
Great video : )
Thanks!!
I like the Witherbloom Spore Druid idea. I would play them as a brilliant but disinterested in academia. Instead, becoming a loner stoner that somehow still gets good grades even if they often skip classes.
In Pathfinder 2e, my anadi character, in their "human" disguise, is a Swashbuckler (2e's swashbuckler is different than a rogue) who is from a family of Taylors, making his own fashion and such.
Edit: I had to change it to say swashbuckler.
Which college are you joining? 🤔
Strixhaven Community College. Not sure which major...Foretold, Smismari, Quantericks, Silverpen or Weatherloom?
Witherbloom all the way! Can’t wait to have a pest familiar all of my own.
Silverquill!
@@FryMinis think there was a Hufflepuff or something too
@@ClassesandConstructs the inkling companions are so cool!
Do you have a vid like that for various character concepts for Ravnica characters? Cuz that would be super helpful for me
That would be a great idea! Unfortunately didn't have my channel up at that time. But maybe I'll circle back and make one sometime!
I sadly never got to college, so I'm glad to go to a magic college to fill that void.
I went for a year, wasn't my thing lol but your right! This book helps you get the gist! 😊
lore master is another good pick
If your talking lore bard, I do mention it! :)
honestly i have a huge issue with the strixhaven subclasses. they essentially rely on everyone in your party wanting a different one when there should be multiple different kinds for each house.
ok, well you got a sub for the first 30 seconds alone
It was the glasses, wasn't it 😂
My absurd idea for a strixhaven character is a Barbarian tiefling. You might be saying we'll how does a Barbarian cast magic? He'll be the path of wild magic Barbarian.
Personality - His name is Joy Redaura or joy for short. His personality is that of a constantly happy go lucky kind of guy who revels in discovering new things and always has a smile on his face. However when the darker feelings of rage and hatred build up and up until eventually they explode out in a burst of rage and magic. He soon finds a love for music and performing even becoming a pretty popular attraction to see in his home town.
Backstory. - His backstory is that he's from a family of famous warlocks and no matter how hard he tried he just could not do magic. Mentally exhausted and defeated he gets an offer from the families bodyguard to train him in the way of the sword. He had trained for a couple of years when during one particularly intense bout with his Instructor, his younger brother cast a low level spell that made Joy trip up and fall flat on his face. Enraged Joy felt himself getting angrier and angrier as he begins his first rage. As soon as he rages magic pours out of his as a white beam of light shoots from his chest, reducing anything to rubble. After it was over Joy was horrified at the damage he had caused and vowed to control his new power. He decied to enroll in Strixhaven not only to protect over but to get the last laugh over his family after he defeats them in a spell contest.
Appearance. - Joy stands at roughly 6'5. Rather tall for a tiefling but he had quite the skinny body too however when he raged his muscles would get a lot bigger and more defined. His shin is a pale blue (green when raging from an aura of wild magic) with his eyes a burning deep red. His horns are black large and jagged pointing up to the sky. He has long purple hair that stops at his lower back, often getting confused with a women. He would play into this from time to time just to have a laugh and a joke.
Stats - in all seriousness I would take strength and charisma as my main two stats. Honestly the rest are left up to personal choice as I would personally homebrew someway to work in fey magic in there from the sorcerer and that's a CHA caster so go nuts.
(This took about 15 minutes ish to come up with and I chose the WORST class for this setting so really it doesn't matter what you play as long as it kinda makes sense and you like it. Hope you enjoyed and liked the idea for anyone reading this.
- a humble DM
so im supposed to roll up a character for a newbie campaign and i wanted to try out owlin which is why is grabbed the book off the shelf but then i started reading the background's on it and now I've decided that i want my characters backstory from strixhaven. how would i write that backstory?
This is hella cute!
Thanks! Hopefully helpful as well! 😊
@@TheClericCorner I thought it was great! Thanks for the video BTW!
Bladesinger wizard would be great for Prismari
It absolutely would!
Where would you put the Soulknife?
Peace cleric for silverquil?
How does a character gain a feat at level 1? Just asking because the only way I know of as a noob (unless I'm missing something) is one of the human variants, but being just a human in a school of magic feels so boring to me. How would I get Strixhaven Initiate feat for a level 1 Tiefling sorcerer or something of that sort?
Each of the college backgrounds gives you the feat of the appropriate college
I haven't gone to college yet
Welp, now you don't have to wait! 😂
This entire video I was just seeing Ezra Miller talking about DnD lol
If that isn't one of the best compliments ever 😂 thank you!!
But the strixhaven initiate feat required the lorehold students background and you can't have more than one background.
Yep!
1:02 - Thank goodness, because WOTC didn't bother to do anything to help. The new Owlin are humans that can fly and are stealthy (Rogue Arocokra?), and no built in rules. The backgrounds are used to give players more magic, but nothing interesting enough to set them apart. The Unearthed Arcana had exciting ideas they never used - I will likely house rule them back into the game. They say the uniforms are color coded, but don't list the color pairs (they do show them in the art though).
Yeah, maybe they assumed familiarity with the MTG set. Either way, hope it helped!
For me there's only 1 question...can druids actually learn necromancy? I want my Zombie Gators
They do! Turn into zombie beasts
@@TheClericCorner Sweet, in MtG, my main deck was Witherbloom. So I had 2 in my deck and loved em lol.
:)
:P
@@TheClericCorner (=
playing a kobold rouge who doesnt know magic and is cheating via magic scrolls and other sorts to get by
That background music is horribly distracting.
I’ll tell you how to make a character for this embarrassing book. Take a crayon. Scribbler on sheet of paper. Rip up paper. Throw away pieces of paper. Go find something better to do.
You’re welcome.
Definitely not for everyone. I agree that there are better books, but end of the day it depends on your table 😊
What is the point of this? There's already a Harry Potter roleplaying game. Go play that if you want to be angsty teenagers at a magical boarding school. What happened to D&D being about adventure?
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