D&D 5E (2024) Lorwyn: First Light has been released

[Davy Greenwind]

We've got Lorwyn Changeling and Rimekin species, and two new elven lineages: Lorwyn elf and Shadowmoor elf. Pretty cool. Feats are Shadowmoor Hexer and Child of the Sun (tied to Lorwyn Expert and Shadowmoor Expert backgrounds). Nice to have an "ice person" species! And the Lorwyn Changeling differs from Eberron Changeling in interesting ways!

Lorwyn: First Light

Lorwyn: First Light Journey to the beloved plane of Lorwyn-Shadowmoor, where eternal sun shifts into eerie moonlight. View Cover Art ...

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[Davy Greenwind]

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[GarrettKP]

So Flamekin are just Fire Genasi and Rimekin are essentially a new Frost Genasi stand in, modeled after the same layout of the other Genasi. Makes me hope we get the other paraelemental Genasi.

Also between this and the Forgotten Realms books both referencing back to Mordenkainen’s often, seems pretty clear that those species aren’t getting updated in a book anytime soon not that they needed it.

 

[Davy Greenwind]

So Flamekin are just Fire Genasi and Rimekin are essentially a new Frost Genasi stand in, modeled after the same layout of the other Genasi. Makes me hope we get the other paraelemental Genasi.

Also between this and the Forgotten Realms books both referencing back to Mordenkainen’s often, seems pretty clear that those species aren’t getting updated in a book anytime soon not that they needed it.

Yeah, it seems the MPMoM species are only getting updated as they come up (Goliaths and Orcs in PHB, Shifters and Changelings in Eberron, etc.). Fine by me!

 

[TravDoc42]

Looks like the Noggles made it as monsters!! Nice!!

 

[Reynard]

What sort of setting is Lorwyn?

 

[TravDoc42]

Based on the D&D Beyond monster listings, there's a Noggle Ransacker and a Noggle Wild Mage!

 

[Remathilis]

Is this worth the $15?

 

[eclair~]

So the Lorwyn Changeling is broken. As in, it has a feature that doesn't work at all.

It gets a feature that lets it take the Dash action as a reaction when you roll initiative. The Dash action grants you extra movement on the turn it is used. But you can't use that movement outside of your own turn, so the feature doesn't do anything at all except waste your reaction.

This is glaring, because every other time in the history of the edition, the designers have understood that they need to explicitly confer the ability to move when a feature lets a creature move outside of its normal movement. By trying to use the Dash action as a shortcut (most likely to encourage optimizing around this feature), they've made a feature that's entirely non-functional as written. (Even if your character gets the top initiative roll, there is no current turn for the benefit to apply to before the actual first turn anyway.)

 

[Davy Greenwind]

What sort of setting is Lorwyn?

It's a feywild setting based on Celtic mythology. A bifurcated world split into night-place and day-place