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.

 

[SkidAce]

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'm not confused.

"I'm lovin' it!"

 

[CleverNickName]

Yes, before WotC really started doing settings a wished they would release little PDFs like that for all of their settings. You can always go back and make a bigger book, but that was a good overview that gave a DM enough to make it their own IMO.

I actually preferred it that way, too...I liked that they would give me a strong concept, some lovely maps, and a couple dozen pages of flavor and crunch...and then they got out of my way and let me fill in the blanks. World-building is my favorite kind of "solo play" for RPGs.

But I understand why they weren't more popular. Not everyone has the time, energy, or fondness for worldbuilding that I do. And some people measure the value of a product in dollars-per-page. But for me and my table, those 30-something page free PDFs were perfect.

 

[Parmandur]

While there is a "difference", his articles are fantastic and were like gifts from on high.

Influential and informative.

That's because James Wyatt drafts are pretty solid, dude is one of the all-time D&D designers.

I'm not dismissing it, juat relaying how Wyatt talked about the process on the D&D and Magic podcasts at the time: the Planeshkft articles were off-hours homebrew he dashed together to be presentable reusing art assets and Adobe templates, with no playtesting.

 

[GarrettKP]

agreed, the 32 page limit is arbitrary / self imposed however, esp. since this is a digital product and the pages do not need to come in multiples of 16. No technical restriction was stopping them from making it 40 pages or even 64 or more.

Personally I would prefer a more chunky offering, esp given that these 32 pages cost half as much as the FR player book (digital)

They likely kept it in multiples of 16 for future proofing in case they ever make this a print product in the future. If they get great reception and a flood of requests for physical, it’ll likely happen.

 

[Muso]

I would really like them to stop wasting time with these crossovers and devote themselves fully to D&D and its settings.

 

[Parmandur]

I would really like them to stop wasting time with these crossovers and devote themselves fully to D&D and its settings.

Magic Settings have been D&D Settinfs forever at this point, that's never going away now. They ought to go for it more forcefully, to be honest.

 

[CleverNickName]

I would really like them to stop wasting time with these crossovers and devote themselves fully to D&D and its settings.

It's not either-or. They should do both!

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Huh. So much for this being the Q1 2026 book, then.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I would really like them to stop wasting time with these crossovers and devote themselves fully to D&D and its settings.

JAKANDOR 2026!

 

[Kurotowa]

Huh. So much for this being the Q1 2026 book, then.

Yeah. So what do the UA tea leaves look like now? A Dark Sun book with the Psion and some new subclasses (Psion, Apocalyptic Subclasses). A big player options book with a mix of new and updated material (Arcane Subclasses, Horror Subclasses). Does that seem the most likely?

Of course, if the above is true, we're still missing a Primal Subclasses release with Barbarian and Druid options for the latter book. So I'm really curious to see what the next UA looks like.