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.

 

[Parmandur]

I think this news is going to disappoint & confuse both FR, D&D Generalist, and Lorwyn fans.

Like is this new Domain of Delight canon along with Rimekin on Faerun?

Folks were confused enough with these previous MtD D&D products and the free Ravnica-FR crossover adventure, there are still folks who believe that Great Wheel & Blind Eternities multiverses officially merged (they didn't but they left the door open to it down the road).

Is Eldraine also a Domain of Delight? MOoT mentions Theros being in the Material Plane.

This is why you got to he careful with canon, you end up with Chaos, Anarchy, and Confusion otherwise.

And if Eldraine, Theros, Ravnica, Lorwyn D&D products describe settings (or parts of FR in Lorwyn's case) within the Great Wheel, does the none UB MtG products set in the Forgotten Realms suggest a Blind Eternities Forgotten Realms?

Are their Rimekin & Kithkin running around the Moonshae Isles?

Why couldn't they just do a normal Forgotten Realms DLC for the third DLC instead of doing this weird and confusing thing?

I mean, the answer to all of these are "sure, if you want to"

 

[Henadic Theologian]

I mean, the answer to all of these are "sure, if you want to"

That just doesn't cut it with me.

 

[Scribe]

I think this news is going to disappoint & confuse both FR, D&D Generalist, and Lorwyn fans.

Like is this new Domain of Delight canon along with Rimekin on Faerun?

Folks were confused enough with these previous MtD D&D products and the free Ravnica-FR crossover adventure, there are still folks who believe that Great Wheel & Blind Eternities multiverses officially merged (they didn't but they left the door open to it down the road).

Is Eldraine also a Domain of Delight? MOoT mentions Theros being in the Material Plane.

This is why you got to he careful with canon, you end up with Chaos, Anarchy, and Confusion otherwise.

And if Eldraine, Theros, Ravnica, Lorwyn D&D products describe settings (or parts of FR in Lorwyn's case) within the Great Wheel, does the none UB MtG products set in the Forgotten Realms suggest a Blind Eternities Forgotten Realms?

Are their Rimekin & Kithkin running around the Moonshae Isles?

Why couldn't they just do a normal Forgotten Realms DLC for the third DLC instead of doing this weird and confusing thing?

It's not all that confusing, I just flat out deny MtG crossing with D&D at all.

 

[Parmandur]

That just doesn't cut it with me.

But the thing is, .lst of WotC customers likely don't mind at all...or notice.

Their loose, DM -empowering canon policy doesnseem to be going anywhere.

 

[dave2008]

That just doesn't cut it with me.

Why? Honest question. I am trying to understand your position which is very different than mine, I think, on the subject canon.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Ramekin? Like what you make creme brulee in?

That blowtorch attack is pretty strong.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

From the perspective of the D&D multiverse, it makes a lot more sense for this to be part of the Feywild than for there to be another, parallel fairyland. It’s a bit disappointing that it’s not bigger, but if the digital-only format is successful it might make it more economically viable to produce follow-up stuff. And it will be open to 3PP.

 

[Sulicius]

As someone who has been hoping for a WotC-produced feywild setting book, this is a huge disappointment.

I don’t use D&DBeyond for character creation or to share with my players.

This is too little and not in a way I can use. I was actually looking forward to a Lorwyn setting book like Theros or Ravenloft.

Anyone got a good feywild-ish 3rd party recommendation?

 

[pukunui]

The Forgotten Realms F***ING ate Lorwyn-Shadowmoore!!!

Did you mean to say that the Feywild ate Lorwyn? The Feywild is not unique to the FR setting.

 

[Amphytrion]

Did you mean to say that the Feywild ate Lorwyn? The Feywild is not unique to the FR setting.

I think he is referencing the fact that this is branded as a FR product (the third digital DLC), and it has an explicit tie to a FR location.

I don't mind this reveal, but I'm not a Lorwyn fan. I do think that there are some clues that this is the second MTG book tie-in scrapped (the first would have been Eldraine), and now its content is released digitally. I mourn that loss because I think the first two MTG tie-ins are excellent (Ravnica and Theros) and I make good use of them even if I don't play in those particular settings. I do own Strixhaven but have never been able to use it as much.

I would have loved a full Eldraine book, and I wonder what production challenges publishing that and Lorwyn meant scrapping the book. Even if they didn't print it, they probably could have sold the entire book digitally on D&D Beyond, and the art budget is already done (via the cards), so I'm a bit puzzled by this choice.

I also thought we would get a more FR-focused DLC as the 3rd FR DLC, rather than a MTG appendage. I don't mean to be greedy, since there is a lot of FR coming, but they did tease it.