# Strixhaven New Student Orientation ## Classes You must take three classes your first year at Strixhaven. "Magical Physiologies" is required for all students. You are not restricted to courses offered by your chosen school. | Course | Offered By | |-------------------------------|-----------------| | Arcano-botany for Beginners | Witherbloom | | Basic Magical Auras | General Studies | | Beginning Computational Magic | Quandrix | | Beginning Inkomancy | Silverquill | | History of Magic and Art | Prismari | | Introduction to Archaeomancy | Lorehold | | _Magical Physiologies_ | General Studies | ## Extracurricular Activities Students can take up to two extracurricular activities a year. While enrolled in an extracurricular, you gain a d4 that can be added once per day to a skill check using a skill associated with that extracurricular. ### Dead Languages Society Skills: Athletics, History These linguistics lovers take advantage of Strixhaven’s deep repository of tomes written in ancient and near-extinct languages, teaching themselves these tongues and often translating their favorite works. ### Distinguished Society of Fine Artists Skills: Performance or Sleight of Hand These painters, sculptors, printmakers, and mosaic artists gather to create fine works and to discuss the latest techniques and trends in the world of art. ### Dragonchess Club Skills: Deception, Investigation These experts in the game of dragonchess discuss the latest in strategy, compete against one another, and test out homemade variations of game rules. ### Dragonsguard Historical Society Skills: Arcana, History These historians are fascinated by all time periods, and they regularly meet to discuss, debate, and deep dive into members’ favorite topics. ### Fantastical Horticulture Club Skills: Nature, Survival These green-thumbed experts love mixing magic and gardening to create new strains of vegetation, many of which they cultivate on campus. ### Future Entrepreneurs of Strixhaven Skills: Insight, Persuasion These enterprising students discuss business theories. They often create small start-ups to sell wares and services appealing to students. The funds they generate fuel the club’s activities. ### Intramural Gymnastics Club Skills: Acrobatics, Performance These graceful gymnasts work to hone their craft, and they compete against each other in dazzling floor routines. ### Intramural Silkball Club Skills: Athletics, Intimidation These hardy athletes train together and compete in the rough-and-tumble Strixhaven game of silkball, which is played in muddy fields with balls made of spider silk. ### Intramural Water-Dancing Club Skills: Athletics, Performance These swimming enthusiasts combine their athletic skills with the finesse of artists as they choreograph water dances to the latest popular songs. ### Live-Action Roleplaying Guild Skills: Animal Handling, Performance These storytelling enthusiasts engage in a mix of strategy and playacting—often involving mascots—when they enact fantastical narratives that they resolve with special rules. ### Mage Tower Cheer Squad Skills: Perception, Persuasion With their coordinated cheers, outfits, and school spirit, these cheerleaders inspire pride in the official Strixhaven University Mage Tower teams. ### Playactors Drama Guild Skills: Arcana, Deception These actors work together to create productions of brilliant stagecraft, often involving new spins on old classics as well as displays of magic and music. ### Strixhaven Iron-Lifters Society Skills: Athletics, Medicine These bodybuilders support each other in developing strong muscles and even stronger friendships. ### Strixhaven Show Band Association Skills: Sleight of Hand, Performance These music enthusiasts play instruments such as hurdy-gurdies, bagpipes, flutes, and drums, and they regularly perform rousing concerts. ### Strixhaven Star Skills: Investigation, Insight These truth seekers and wordsmiths report on campus news, regularly interviewing important figures and producing the monthly Strixhaven Star newspaper, which is distributed across the campus. ### Student-Mages of Faith Skills: Insight, Religion These pious students of many faiths gather to share prayers and theological debates and to celebrate one another’s high holidays. ## Jobs Jobs pay 5gp a week. You can have one job in place of an extracurricular activity. ### Biblioplex Jobs: Book clerk, book shelver, café worker, cleanup crew member, garden tender, store worker ### Bow’s End Tavern Jobs: Assistant manager, cleanup crew member, cook, host, server ### Campus Grounds Jobs: Graffiti eraser, lawn manicurist, litter retriever, sidewalk sweeper, statuary repairer, trash collector ### Campus Magic Labs Jobs: Cleanup crew member, specimen preparer, volunteer lab partner ### Dormitories Jobs: Cleanup crew member, events assistant, front-desk worker, resident assistant ### Firejolt Café Jobs: Barista, cashier, cleanup crew member, server ### Intramural Fields Jobs: Cleanup crew member, crowd manager, equipment assistant, groundskeeper, referee ### Strixhaven Performing Arts Society Jobs: Cleanup crew member, general assistant, refreshments expert, stagehand, ticket taker, usher ### Strixhaven Stadium Jobs: Cleanup crew member, entertainment assistant, equipment assistant, groundskeeper, refreshments expert, ticket taker, usher