Perhaps the reason we’re so drawn to the concept is the ideas behind it.
Master D&D foreshadowing & weave a campaign your players won’t forget.
Unlike in our day-to-day, magic schools reward the strange and unusual.
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They also let teenagers blow things up with their minds.
This is how you run a campaign at a magic school.
This institution is an adventuring academy.
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This school is a place for nobles to send their second-born children, regardless of talent.
This institution is for the best of the best, only accepting other classes on scholarships.
This institution is a Bardic college.
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It employs adventurers for fetch quests.
This school is part of an initiative to educate the populace on the use of magic.
This school is constantly moving across the planes, collecting students who wish to study them.
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Oops, All Casters!
The problem with a magical school setting is thatit boxes out most classes.
Or, you could always have your Battlemaster Fighter trying tofake their way through school!
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Create Interesting Places
Consider the mysteries of the school that have yet to be tapped.
Professors
Professors will likely be yourauthority figures, used to guide the story.
They’ll slot in where the Evil Lord in a campaign might.
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You may also use them as your way of introducingshopkeeps or new spells.
Students
Students are going tovastly outnumber the professors, so you should focus onsplitting them upwhen possible.
A good way to do this might behaving a consistent class that moves from subject to subject together.
The students will be everything from your shopkeeps, to your quest-givers, to your allies.
School tropes exist for a reason.
Look through a couple to create some student NPCs!
Another good way to give your players more agency is to introduce projects.
