D&D General Teased Lorwyn-Shadowmoor Supplement Crosses Magic: the Gathering and D&D

WotC has teased an upcoming Magic: The Gathering / Dungeons & Dragons crossover supplement. No info has been given other than a mention of Lorwyn-Shadowmoor and an art piece by Jesper Ejsing.

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Lorwyn-Shadowmoor is a Magic: the Gathering plane. The official MtG page for it describes it as:

Lorwyn is an idyllic world where races of fable thrive in perpetual midsummer. Its dark reflection, Shadowmoor, exists in perpetual gloom, its citizens bitterly transformed and locked in a desperate battle for survival.

Lorwyn is the land where the sun never set. Covered with dense forests, meandering rivers, and gently rolling meadows, it knows no nights or winters. One of the few planes without humans, it's populated by the short-statured kithkin, hot-tempered flamekin, petty-thief boggarts, territorial treefolk, diplomatic merfolk, iconoclastic giants, and mischievous faeries, all living together in harmony.

Also among them: the elves, Lorwyn's most favored and feared race. In a world of unspoiled nature, they consider themselves the paragons of this beauty. Signs of elvish supremacy are widespread, from their gilded forest palaces to their mercilessness toward "lesser" races. Despite the elves' dominion, Lorwyn's people thrive, respecting community and tradition.

The land itself, ancient and verdant, is locked in a perpetual cycle—and every three centuries, that cycle transforms the plane into Shadowmoor.

The mirror-image of Lorwyn, Shadowmoor is a realm of perpetual dusk and gloom. Here, the plane's races, without knowledge of their previous selves, are locked in a life-and-death struggle for survival. Like the plane itself, its denizens are transformed into darker versions of themselves.

The kithkin, once communal and cooperative, are isolated and xenophobic. The helpful, silver-tongued merfolk are now assassins and saboteurs. The boggarts, once mischievous and hedonistic, are vicious and warlike. The blighted treefolk are murderous. Wrathful giants drag around huge pieces of the land.

The transformations of the flamekin and elves are perhaps the most dramatic. Once bright and seeking transcendence, the flamekin are now smoking skeletons seeking revenge. Meanwhile, the vain elves are humbled and heroic in Shadowmoor, protecting every glimmer of beauty and light.

Only one race and one place remain unchanged: the faeries and their home of Glen Elendra. The fae are the fulcrum of this transforming plane—for it was their queen, Oona, who caused it.


This isn't the first such crossover--Ravnica, Strixhaven, and Theros were all Magic: the Gathering settings. Additionally, over the past few years, WotC has put out PDF D&D supplements for the MtG worlds of Amonkhet, Dominaria, Innistrad, Ixalan, Kaladesh, and Zendikar.
 

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I feel surprised but not excited. I see the Shadowmoor like a softer version of Shadowfell for low level PCs.

Let's remember Lorwynians elves have got horns, like tielflings. and there is an upcoming M:tG set. Maybe there are some changes in the lore, or even in the cosmology of M:tG multiverse

I don't feel confortable with the idea of natives from Lorwyn becoming "Mr. Hide" but certain hour or date has arrived. How could be affected a cosmopolitan hero group when they were affected by the great Aurora? And what if there is a mixed group of natives and foreigns?

A right setting needs space to allow different independent plots without links to the main story.

A D&D Bloomburrow would be possible if they could fix about PC species with that size differences.
 

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I feel surprised but not excited. I see the Shadowmoor like a softer version of Shadowfell for low level PCs.

Let's remember Lorwynians elves have got horns, like tielflings. and there is an upcoming M:tG set. Maybe there are some changes in the lore, or even in the cosmology of M:tG multiverse

I don't feel confortable with the idea of natives from Lorwyn becoming "Mr. Hide" but certain hour or date has arrived. How could be affected a cosmopolitan hero group when they were affected by the great Aurora? And what if there is a mixed group of natives and foreigns?

A right setting needs space to allow different independent plots without links to the main story.

A D&D Bloomburrow would be possible if they could fix about PC species with that size differences.
Switching alignment every night doesn’t sound workable so they may go back further in time when the phase shifts took longer or give the DM some lore reason to decide when switches happen.
 



I am sure the updated MtG set, which was originally going to release this year to coincide with this book I am sure, would have explained some lore change that makes adventures there more possible.

Either by introducing the idea of certain towns or enclaves that are somehow immune to the change or some other mechanic to make the party consistent from day to night.
 

I am sure the updated MtG set, which was originally going to release this year to coincide with this book I am sure, would have explained some lore change that makes adventures there more possible.

Either by introducing the idea of certain towns or enclaves that are somehow immune to the change or some other mechanic to make the party consistent from day to night.
This would seem to be the issue. If you are, in effect, playing in two settings at the same time, you need to provide some mechanism for PCs moving between them.

If it changes every hundred years, PCs are going to move between them once at most.
 

This would seem to be the issue. If you are, in effect, playing in two settings at the same time, you need to provide some mechanism for PCs moving between them.

If it changes every hundred years, PCs are going to move between them once at most.
My understanding is the last Lorwyn set changed it to be a regulard day and night cycle. So half the time you're in Lorwyn, and when night falls you are in Shadowmoor.
 

There are so many other planes I would've rather had. Duskmourn, Bloomburrow, Ikoria, Ixalon, Kamigawa. Oh well, I wasn't planning on getting anything 2024 anyway.
 



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