D&D 5E (2024) Lorwyn: First Light Released on D&D Beyond

The D&D/Magic The Gathering crossover book Lorywn: First Light has been released over on D&D Beyond.

Lorwyn-Shadowmoor is a MtG plane which switches between its night and day aspects ever 300 years. Lorwyn is the 'day' aspect and has strong fey influences and does not feature humans.

The digital-only release includes the Lorwyn Changeling (which differs from Eberron Changeling in interesting ways) and Rimekin (an ice-person) species, and two new elven lineages: Lorwyn elf and Shadowmoor elf. Feats are Shadowmoor Hexer and Child of the Sun (tied to Lorwyn Expert and Shadowmoor Expert backgrounds).

You can grab Lorwyn: First Light on D&D Beyond for $14.99.

Travel from the Forgotten Realms into an all-new fey realm with this Magic: The Gathering crossover!

Journey beyond the Forgotten Realms to the beloved plane of Lorwyn-Shadowmoor, where eternal sun shifts into eerie moonlight. Here, you’ll discover new Fey-inspired character options, a rich gazetteer of mystical locales, monstrous incarnations of nature, and ready-to-run adventures.

 

[Clint_L]

Book publishing traditionally has tiny profit margins. That’s why WotC is so desperate to diversify D&D, and do as much digital sales as possible.

That said, I have no interest in this product so the $15 is moot. I’m trying to reduce complexity in my games, not expand it.

 

[Zardnaar]

Rough.

"D&D is under monetized."

Well we said this would happen but got told to shut up.
$15 bucks 32 pages digital yeah nah you can shove that up your candy ass sideways (wotc not you).

 

[Yaarel]

Coulda sworn that goalpost was over here a moment ago.

Artwork is content.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Well we said this would happen but got told to shut up.
$15 bucks 32 pages digital yeah nah you can shove that up your candy ass sideways (wotc not you).

I'm glad you clarified the last bit

 

[Zardnaar]

I'm glad you clarified the last bit

Thought I had better add it. Fairly confident Scrine wouldn't take it wrong but you never know.

 

[mamba]

Well, yes, precisely. That's the point, that's how this works.

yes, but that is also what makes these DLCs highly overpriced

 

[mamba]

There's a key phrase here. "Don't eat your seed corn."

yeah, I was not complaining about the 50% of print for the digital version of the FR book though, but of the DLC for which there is no print version to begin with.

That it is priced at 50% of a hypothetical printed version instead of relative to the page count of an already expensive digital FR book makes its price ridiculously overpriced. Most other publishers sell something with that amount of pages for $5 to $7.50

And so WotC goes to great lengths to keep the game stores solvent.

Changing things on the back end so that Amazon isn't undercutting the game stores was one step.

eh, that was a step to give WotC’s direct sales a leg up. Now they are undercutting the game stores themselves at a price not even Amazon can compete with, and anecdotally sales at game stores are down ever since WotC started selling directly. So much for this being about protecting stores

 

[Parmandur]

yes, but that is also what makes these DLCs highly overpriced

Uninteresting to you, sure. I'm not interested in it either. Thwt doesn't make it being ghe price of a sandwich predatory.

 

[UngainlyTitan]

I'm the complete opposite, epub is fine for novels but I hate it for rpg books.

Why? I can read epub on my phone and I can resize the fonts.

 

[Reynard]

Why? I can read epub on my phone and I can resize the fonts.

RPG books are reference books, with functional illustrations like maps and tables. You don't want it to resize.