How to run universities and magic schools in D&D! 

That's exactly how I would love to see it play out 😂 Thank you mate!

Absolutely! This is a good system to start with as your baseline, but it's very bare bones. You'll be able to develop it to work well for your specific players and play styles.

I've never played it, do you recommend it? Just looking it up now and I like the vibe of it. I haven't played any good "Academic"-based video games actually

@@TalesArcane if you like both life sims based on a school and tactics combat game it's great. Half the game is spent fighting on a grid and the other is running around as a professor interacting with your students and teaching lessons. What you do during the school phase help level up your student army.

And as soon as I walked away I realized how the 2d6 method for the exam allows it to be somewhat agnostic. Very clever.

Thank you! I'm trying to include more non-5E systems in my supplements going forward, make things a bit more adaptable.

Mate, I feel you, I keep buying new prewritten adventures and I've got like five sitting on my shelf I've not played yet 😭

@@TalesArcane Ya, I bought a campaign book for one, and it never got going. It's so hard, especially when you can't find people to commit to it

Happy to help, good luck in your games!

I'm so happy to hear it! How was your session 0?

@@TalesArcane Went fairly well! Thought I'd be ambitious and try out this new eldritch book as my first campaign setting and the players seemed to like a lot of things so far. I just hope I can improvise my ass off lol

@@Arcentus Improvisation is where the magic happens, you got this! 💪

I feel the how of where they get their magic is irrelevant in this case. All you really need to work on is how they choose to apply and grow it, i.e. the specialization they choose for their class. Play wise you are only focusing on their major more or less. "Magic 101" is still a class they sit in and do the work for off screen, but their exam is focused on their major. Like fencing for a warlock with the pact of the blade, or animal husbandry for a druid focused on wild shape. You're only showing the exciting exam for what the character is driven for. No one cares about watching the track star ace their math test. They want to know how the big race at the end of the term went. Just like how no one is too worried about how the bard is doing with intro to potion making when it's the big recital they have been excited for all term. Anyways, just my unsolicited take on it. Have some fun with it and talk to your players to see what works for both of you in the setting you want to run.

Remember, it doesn't have to be a "magic" university. The druid might be studying medicine, the bard could be doing a course in poetry or musical performance, the fighter or barbarian might be mastering the physical skills. The magic users who wish to can study magic specifically, but it doesn't need to be mandatory. One of my favourite fantasy universities is the one from The Name of the Wind, in which you can learn anything from magic to medicine.

ok you both actually do have some good points I'm to focused on the Magic University teaching spells sort of like how a wizard levels up, when I could be focusing more on the University part and showcase other facets or classes it may have instead of basic potions or Magic 101 like maybe battle magic (for melee casters), divine magic (paladins and clerics) or even go more into electives or extracurriculars that fit classes better

I still have a full time day job at the moment, but I'm hoping to go full time with D&D in the near future, because doing both doesn't really leave time for anything else 😅 Glad you're enjoying the content!