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.

 

[dave2008]

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.

Correct me if I am wrong, your post was a bit long, rambling, and hard for me to follow, but couldn't you have responded like: you are correct, Lorwyn is part of the Feywild and not solely the Forgotten Realms?

 

[dave2008]

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).

It is a part of those as much as the Feywild is a part of those. Personally I think all 3 of those settings could have connections to the Feywild. I mean the Domains of Dread are the dark shadow of the Domains of Delight are they not?

 

[Parmandur]

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.

DM metaphysical fiat.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

It is a part of those as much as the Feywild is a part of those. Personally I think all 3 of those settings could have connections to the Feywild. I mean the Domains of Dread are the dark shadow of the Domains of Delight are they not?

On a very surface level The Domains of Delight mirror the Domains of Dread, in practice when you get into the details they are very different things, with very different purposes. Both are Demiplanes within an Echo plane and they have simular names, that is where the similarities or mirroring begins and ends.

And D&D settings connect to each other to varying degrees, characters from different settings have a long history of visiting other settings. You seem to be missing my point. You could visit Domain Lorwyn from nearly anywhere that is not a Planar prison in D&D multiverse with the right spell, there is not why I concider this part of the Lorwyn part of the Forgotten Realms.

Again Faerun gets visits from almost every other setting and most likely other settings that will come in the future, so simply access is not the criteria I'm using, otherwise everything would be Forgotten Realms.

Oh FYI I suspect Lorwyn will not be the only Domain of Delight linked to Faerun in the Bundle, I suspect Sildëyuir and Evermeet will get named as Domains of Delight, a very special one that is also part of Arborea as well in Evermeet's case. Maybe some Domains of Dread get name dropped as well like Hazlan, I'm less confident of that.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

We shouldn't be surprised if some "astral domains" became domains of delight.

The cosmology of D&D multiverse was altered/retconected when Shadowfell and Feywild were added, and we shouldn't be too suprised if in the future we see new changes, for example the plane of the mirors with a touch of new weird fiction... or to create some excuse to justify some isekai crossover with no-fantasy franchises.