Making a 2/2 Zombie while milling is almost always good, except when you have three cards or less. Let’s compare the design to the next iteration of Liliana, which makes a 2/2 Zombie while milling and “resurrects” a threat for the same mana value to see how planeswalker power grew a lot in a short period of time. A 5-mana walker with a good chunk of loyalty then its +1 makes your opponent discard, and the -2 is a tutor a la Vampiric Tutor. The first incarnation of Liliana Vess has almost all of this character’s typical effects right off the bat. With that in mind, let’s go straight to the rankings! #16. Some planeswalker characters are always mono-black, like Liliana, while others sometimes dip into mono-black but other printings are 2- or even 3-colors. In this list I'm going over cards with the “planeswalker” subtype with black as their only color (i.e., mono-black planeswalkers). Anything else can be thrown out or substituted at will.Lolth, Spider Queen | Illustration by Tyler Jacobson Although I'd make Arcavios its own separate world and all (Strixhaven is simply way too high magic to conveniently add into preexisting D&D settings without breaking worldbuilding), I'd only reference MtG lore that I feel is absolutely essential for a Strixhaven game. If the PCs defeat Murgaxor and save the day, what better way to go back to school than having them infiltrate an evil magic academy? Thankfully, WDMM's level design is quite modular, so you don't exactly need to bother with the rest of Undermountain.įor the record, I'm a D&D fan first and foremost. Also a good opportunity to put a Fellow Student the PCs care about in peril (substitute your chosen NPC for Falthrax).ĭweomercore (Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage). A bathhouse/salon in the Greater Strixhaven area would probably do great business.

who BTW also include the Amberdune Pack due to legitimate grievances, and you've got yourself a very apropos quest. Turn Amberdune Books into the local used textbook store, swap out the wererat + pals for Oriq agents/sympathizers.

Off the top of my head, here are other modular adventures that I feel with the necessary adjustments, can be plopped into a Strixhaven campaign: If the demand is there, I just might do more CM conversions! Previous Strixhaven Submissions: Rules Options I did have fun though making references to past MtG cards in Onyx’s stat block.Īnywho, I hope this homebrew is helpful for any Strixhaven DM interested in either using Candlekeep Mysteries or inserting Professor Onyx. It’s a bit of a balancing act devising a powerful Planewalker who won’t completely outshine either the party or the campaign’s actual BBEG (whether it be Murgaxor as written, Extus Narr, or someone else). Hopefully, the stat block I devised for Professor Onyx does her justice. Just plopping in Onyx and having her be like “beware the Oriq!” may be 100% faithful to the MtG metaplot, but doing that alone lacks any in-campaign tension whatsoever. For example, the whole Professor Onyx = Liliana twist won’t matter to non-MtG fans unless the players are given ample opportunities to learn Onyx’s past, and reasons to question her current motives. In general, while I attempted to stay faithful to the spirit of Liliana Vess’s canonical character arc, I also think it wise to play fast and loose with the finer details. As written in the original adventure, Fistandia is pretty much a complete blank slate, and can easily be replaced (along with Verelda Lang for that matter) in order to facilitate a Liliana subplot. Fistandia’s still present, albeit as an old cover identity for Liliana in this particular adaptation. Probably the most important change I made is substituting Liliana Vess for Fistandia… mostly. assuming you throw much of the suggested backstory and post-adventure out the window, that is. All in all, it’s one of the easier modules to plop into a Strixhaven campaign since no big treks outside campus are necessary at all. This time, I’ve taken it upon myself to offer up suggestions for converting the first of the Candlekeep Mysteries adventures: “The Joy of Extradimensional Spaces”. Here I am, back again with yet another homebrew project.

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