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]

Which, knowing WotC, means you're absolutely right and they are going to ruin them by making each one an origin feat tied to a specific background...

Yup. I'm talking probabilities, not preference.

 

[Eyes of Nine]

Sad it's digital only; glad it's being released.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

DnD's Lorwyn supplement is a long way short of a full setting book

Lorwyn: First Light is a new digital-only DnD supplement, which scoops up a dollop of Lorwyn/Shadowmoor and plonks it down in the Forgotten Realms.

www.wargamer.com

Even Wargamer finds plopping Lorwyn into FR really weird, but they also make the good point that the original release date for Lorwyn Eclipsed was in November and it would have have been perfect timing to release the same month as Lorwyn First Light. Man the Spiderman set getting upgraded to Standard made a giant mess of MtGs time table, killed the synergy as well.

So Lorwyn First Light was an advert for MtG for D&D/FR fans and D&D bait for Lorwyn MtG fans.

 

[Parmandur]

DnD's Lorwyn supplement is a long way short of a full setting book

Lorwyn: First Light is a new digital-only DnD supplement, which scoops up a dollop of Lorwyn/Shadowmoor and plonks it down in the Forgotten Realms.

www.wargamer.com

Even Wargamer finds plopping Lorwyn into FR really weird, but they also make the good point that the original release date for Lorwyn Eclipsed was in November and it would have have been perfect timing to release the same month as Lorwyn First Light. Man the Spiderman set getting upgraded to Standard made a giant mess of MtGs time table, killed the synergy as well.

So Lorwyn First Light was an advert for MtG for D&D/FR fans and D&D bait for Lorwyn MtG fans.

So we now have the precede t kf the D&D supplement coming out before the Magic set...

 

[Henadic Theologian]

So we now have the precede t kf the D&D supplement coming out before the Magic set...

We also have the weird presidence of an alt version of a D&D plane getting added to the Forgotten Realms. Wish it was Duskmourn instead if they had to do this. Lorwyn is cool, but I love Duskmourn.

Anyway more media covering Lorwyn First Light.

D&D Beyond Digital Supplement, Lorwyn: First Light, Brings Fey Mischief | TechRaptor

Wizards of the Coast has revealed new details on their D&D Beyond-exclusive supplement, Lorwyn: First Light, bringing the Fey-themed Magic setting to D&D.

techraptor.net

D&D Book "Lorwyn: First Light" Will Be Digital Tie-in to Forgotten Realms

A new digital-only D&D product entitled "Lorywn: First Light" is coming soon as a tie-in to both Magic: The Gathering and the Forgotten Realms.

dungeonsanddragonsfan.com

 

[dave2008]

We also have the weird presidence of an alt version of a D&D plane getting added to the Forgotten Realms. Wish it was Duskmourn instead if they had to do this. Lorwyn is cool, but I love Duskmourn.

I thought Lorwyn was being added to the Domains of Delight in the Feywild? That would make it a part of all D&D settings not just tFR or did I miss something that made this tFR exclusive?

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

About the dark gifts in Ravenloft 5e I like the "second skin" because this could be used to hide your PC is not human but suffering the Damocles' sword your true shape may discovered whenever.

A new class with a special game mechanic using mana of different colors should be something like the incarnum soulmelds, but this should be to start from the begining with a lot of playtesting and feedback, and today not even psionic powers aren't updated to 5e.

When we are talking about feys in D&D the mythology of "Changeling: the Dreaming" and "Changeling: the lost" is a too strong influence to be avoided.

The planewalkers can't be easily adapted to d20 but the worldbuilding can be reused or recycled. I suspect the M:tG event "Fractured Reality" could affect the D&D multiverse.

M:tG planes being unlocked in DMGuild? An interesting idea.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I thought Lorwyn was being added to the Domains of Delight in the Feywild? That would make it a part of all D&D settings not just tFR or did I miss something that made this tFR exclusive?

It’s being presented as DLC for the FR books. But that’s just marketing technique to try and make selling digital-only content less controversial. The justification is that it’s the part of feywild connected to the Moonshaes.

Technically, the Forgotten Realms is part of all D&D settings.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Even Wargamer

Wargamer is a hugely conservative publication (I guess the clue is in the name) that runs around saying the sky is falling whenever anyone tries anything new.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

I thought Lorwyn was being added to the Domains of Delight in the Feywild? That would make it a part of all D&D settings not just tFR or did I miss something that made this tFR exclusive?

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).

Really what is and isn't part of a particular setting is extremely fuzzy, because there really is in practice only one setting in D&D, The Multiverse, with FR, DL, GH ect..., being subsettings and some of the those subsettings have subsubsettings like Al Qadim, Kara Tur, Maztica, Arcane Age, etc..., but we call them settings because in some editions they didn't share a multiverse at all, and in fact had their own multiverse. In 3e the Forgotten Realms (probably all of Realmspace really) had it's own cut off Cosmology called The Great Tree I think, with its own set of planes like Brightwater, Gates of the Moon, Bloodrift, Hieropolis, Warrior's Rest, etc... Eberron also had it's own cosmology in 3e the Great Orrey. Then 4e happened and they became semiconnected. And then 5e happened and all the settings remerged like they were in the AD&D days, making things all messy boundaries again.

This allows cool interactions between settings, but it also begs the question does D&D have distinct settings any more?

But to answer your question yes any setting should have access to Lorwyn, although Athas & Eberron are much harder to travel to and from and isolated as such. Buy by saying Lorwyn is part of the Forgotten Realms Setting, that just means the primary connection story and lore wise appears to be between Lorwyn and Forgotten Realms, but Lorwyn and Toril can be accessed by Planeshift or another spell from any setting.

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