Dungeons & Dragons to Release Lorwyn: First Light, a New Digital Expansion Based on Magic: The Gathering World

Wizards of the Coast has announced a new digital only Dungeons & Dragons supplement based on the Magic: The Gathering plane of Lorwyn-Shadowmoor. Wizards officially announced Lorwyn: First Light, which will include a bestiary of monsters found in Lorwyn along with rules for the new Rimekin player species. This will be the third digital expansion released as part of the Forgotten Realms book and will include two backgrounds, two feats, two magic items, eight monsters, and two new species. This will be released in November, although no individual price has been announced for the book.

Interestingly, Lorwyn is being turned into a Domain of Delight in the Feywild and is accessible with the Moonshae Isles, which is how this ties into the Forgotten Realms.

A couple of points of interest about this new D&D supplement. The first is that it continues a trend of releasing player species content behind digital only releases. The dhampir species will be released through a "digital expansion" of the upcoming Forgotten Realms books. Additionally, it appears that while Magic/D&D crossovers are back on the table, they appear to be limited to more modest releases rather than a full physical rulebook. Of course, this also means that the Magic crossover won't be one of the physical D&D products released in 2026.

 

[Remathilis]

Maybe they will also make Lorwyn accessible via Witchlight Carnaveral, I would, and that can travel to any setting, maybe even Ravenloft.

The Witchlight Carnival can travel to anywhere in theory, but they avoid Ravenloft specifically since that's where the OTHER carnival operates primarily (though it also seems to travel the multiverse) and if the two carnivals ever meet again, they have to switch owners (something both carnivals have grown to fear).

As an aside, I did a story where a new traveling carnival began traveling in Ravenloft which stoked fear in the heart of Carnival and Isode. However, the new carnival was actually a splinter of the Rakdos carnival that became stuck in the Domains of Dread.

 

[SpellObjectEnthusiast]

If this had been a physical book or a PDF I'd buy it. I'm not paying to lease it on D&Dbeyond.

 

[Veltharis ap Rylix]

Well it certainly won't be part of Ravenloft, Spelljammer, or Planescape (which I think is really just the Outer Planes, not sure if the Inner Planes count as Planescape too).

Traditionally, Planescape covers the Outer Planes, Inner (Elemental) Planes, and Transitive (Astral/Ethereal) Planes - at the very least, they made Planescape books about each back in 2e, though the Outer Planes understandably got the bulk of the material.

Presumably, that would also cover the Feywild and Shadowfell, but they're new enough additions to the cosmology that I don't think any statement has been made on the matter.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

it also seems to travel the multiverse

I don't think that would be consistent with VGR, since the domain's dark lord is there, and dark lords can't leave Ravenloft.

 

[Remathilis]

I don't think that would be consistent with VGR, since the domain's dark lord is there, and dark lords can't leave Ravenloft.

Unclear. Its implied the Carnival domain itself travels across the other domains and even ignores closed domain borders. It was implied it can show up in other places as well and trap people into Ravenloft, but it doesn't outright say it.