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.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

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Some like Eldath's & Lurue's Domains could be, maybe even likely will be. But others like City of Brightwater (Sune, Sharess, Tymora, llira, and maybe Waukeen's Domain, briefly I think Ilmater or Siamorphie set up shop there for a time in the past) will no doubt remain in their Outer Planes (or Inner Planes in the case of the Elemental Lords like Kossuth).

I am curious what will they do with FR's Demiplanes of Nightmares and the Celestial Nadir (The Celestial Nadir will likely stay linked to the Ethereal Plane).

Turns out Eldath's domain is in Elysium, so I was wrong.

Anyways I was thinking about the second species other then Rimekin and I don't think it will be Flamekin, because I think those will be different forms of the same species, because moving between Lorwyn and Shadowmoore is specifically not supposed to change your species.

That most likely leaves Kithkin or if not Kithkin then Noggles.

I lean towards Kithkin because:

1. They asked if folks wanted to merge Halflings and Kithkin in MtG and the no's won out, so Kithkin is still a separate creature type in MtG.

2. Halflings are humanoids, but making Kithkin a separate species, allows them to be Fey instead of humaniods

3. Mindweft is much more communal then Ghostwise's Telepathy.

4. It allows them to design them with somekind of special Lorwyn vs Shadowmoore forms compared to Halflings.

Also I think the two magic items are reliquaries for each of the 2 Gods of Lorwyn-Shadowmoore.

I think Lorwyn will get one origin feat/Background and the other will be for Shadowmoore.