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.

 

[mamba]

The point of bringing up Paizo's price changes is to show unsustainable those lower prices are increasingly becoming, for everyone and everything.

in print

Right, if it fails it is because the market won't bear it.

or in other words, because WotC was too greedy. They could easily afford to sell it at a more competitive price. Everyone else manages at much smaller volumes

 

[Parmandur]

in print

I mean everything, including sandwiches. Reports are that Arizona iced tea will have to raise their prices soon or go out of business, as kt is they have had to tighten their belts and cut corners.

or in other words, because WotC was too greedy, they could easily afford to sell it at a more competitive price. Everyone else manages at much smaller volumes

I mean, that is assuming this fails. It might do well, depends on whether people feel it offers a similar value to a decent sandwhich.

 

[mamba]

I mean everything, including sandwiches. Reports are that Arizona iced tea will have to raise their prices soon or go out of business, as kt is they have had to tighten their belts and cut corners.

I see a big difference between a sandwich and a digital product, sandwiches are not essentially free, except for a fixed cost to produce one

I mean, that is assuming this fails. It might do well, depends on whether people feel it offers a similar value to a decent sandwhich.

yes, if it fails WotC was too greedy, the if was always part of this

 

[zakael19]

I didn't say I wasn't interested in discussing the subject. D&D is the majority of the market, and now more and more third party content is on Beyond. PDF is not the dominant electronic format in the RPG industry at this point, between Beyond and Demiplane.

Weird, literally everything I buy that's not a WOTC product is offered in PDF. This has nothing to do with dominance and everything with WOTC wanting to do electronic moats around their products.

I love PDFs. I can download them on my computer, open them wherever and whenever I want, print pages that look great, etc.

 

[Parmandur]

I see a big difference between a sandwich and a digital product, sandwiches are not essentially free, except for a fixed cost to produce one

Nothing is essentially free, Beyond has servers and employees to pay, same as the sandwich shop.

Weird, literally everything I buy that's not a WOTC product is offered in PDF.

Right, so...the WotC products that are 90% of the market...?

 

[Reynard]

I didn't say I wasn't interested in discussing the subject. D&D is the majority of the market, and now more and more third party content is on Beyond. PDF is not the dominant electronic format in the RPG industry at this point, between Beyond and Demiplane.

If you take D&D out of the picture, how do you think Demiplane compares to PDF in terms of market penetration?

 

[Parmandur]

If you take D&D out of the picture, how do you think Demiplane compares to PDF in terms of market penetration?

It makes no sense to take D&D out of the picture when discussing what is industry standard, since it is the lion's share of the market. But I wouldn't be surprised if Demiplane is beginning to pass up PDF, given how even WotC is on it now.

 

[cbwjm]

Epub.


Seriously, I hate pdf. At a pinch I will buy. But, man I wish game material came in some ebook format.

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

 

[mamba]

Nothing is essentially free, Beyond has servers and employees to pay, same as the sandwich shop.

quite different actually, servers are basically free, unlike store rent - and WotC is more than welcome to sell me PDFs, if they feel having to host files is such a burden

 

[Parmandur]

quite different actually, servers are basically free, unlike store rent - and WotC is more than welcome to sell me PDFs, if they feel having to host files is such a burden

Employees are, however, not free.

Again, it just depends on howany people judge these short books as being worth the price of a sandwich lunch or not. You don't, I don't want digital at anyplace, but time will tell.