Building a Magic School in D&D | DM Tips

[@anacoanagoldenflower]

Thank you for posting this! I'm DMing in a completely homebrew world, and our next campaign is mostly taking place in a large city with a magic school that specializes in weather manipulation. While they're not required to start as students of the school they'll likely be heavily interacting with it regardless. Plus I wanna develop the school in case I get an idea for a magic school campaign. I've been looking everywhere for resources on building the school, but most advice is about running Strixhaven games, not making your own. So this is perfect! On a production note, I like that you talk with your hands a lot and express a lot with your body language and expressions; it makes it more dynamic than a person talking to a camera without visuals might sound on paper, it works really well. And it feels like it's a casual conversation where you're infodumping, so it's a comfortable vibe too. Definitely saving this video for the tips.

[@nickischilling]

Thank you! Good luck on your campaign, and I’m glad I’m getting the vibe right :D

[@williamozier918]

I've been thinking of a campaign setting in an adventurers school. It would be a school that taught dungeon delvers. Basically Hogwarts but a different class in each house. They would teach fighters, magic users, rogues, and rangers. And the school would have fun house dungeon to train in. Players train from level 1 and graduate at level 4. When the players graduate and go on their own adventures they can get new graduates from the school as henchmen.

[@austinsecrest8887]

I've been writing a bard 'college' setting in which the class curriculum is learning the elements of being a bard. Charisma, spell craft, music and poetry, history and investigation, insight to your audience, metal craft, and then students in year 3 can choose which style of bard they want to specialize in. Where classes take on the flavor of their character sheet college: ie lore etc

[@austinsecrest8887]

Colleges have both a board of directors who gain money from tuition and grants. (Money from royalty?) They also often have to have patrons interested in cultivating the next generation of scholars mages etc to procure a working force or simply to use the research generated by the college. Usually wealthy families, politically powerful organizations like businesses or guilds etc

[@williamozier918]

In this case I think the royals would fund the school because they would recruit the graduates to be the King's wizard, ala Merlin to Arthur.

[@cameronlapp9306]

Awesome! Planning on running Strength of Thousands once the Pathfinder 2e Remaster comes out this fall :D