The new Dungeons & Dragons / magic: The Gathering The Crossed Book is a decidedly mixed bag that struggles to show what makes the Striven Magic University unique from other schools of magic. Earlier this year, Wizards of the Coast introduced Striven in his multiverse through a set of cards of the same name. The school was built around five schools, each of which represents two of magic: the gathering's five colors of MANA. To almost all, Wizards of the Coast announced that its D & D design studio would end up its publication year with a book that detailed how Striven could be used as a D & D campaign scenario. STRIVEN — A CARS curriculum is the third D & D book that makes a magic: The Gathering Airplane on a D & D campaign scenario. But while both Danica and Theron were large and expansive worlds with many adventure and intrigue hooks, Striven feels painfully thin compared, and this is shown in the new D & D book. The big difference between Danica (which ...