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.

 

[Parmandur]

Yeah, very delayed. The original plan was to bring the D&D set out at the same time (there were leaks).

Yeah, I don't know if tha tiantrue. WotC made vague indications something D&D was coming with Lorwyn in February or Marxh, and we made all kinds of assumptions based on prior releases. But previous result are not necessarily indicative of future performance, and all that. Not sure theybevwe did plan a bigger project.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

WotC made vague indications

They didn’t say anything officially, someone who was on staff at the time jumped the gun, including images of a boxed set and a date. Then there was a frantic effort from WotC to delete all mentions and images.

It’s just occurred to me that it’s possible I got more time to see the stuff before it was gone because I’m on UK time.

 

[Parmandur]

They didn’t say anything officially, someone who was on staff at the time jumped the gun, including images of a boxed set and a date. Then there was a frantic effort from WotC to delete all mentions and images.

It’s just occurred to me that it’s possible I got more time to see the stuff before it was gone because I’m on UK time.

Oh, interesting, I had not clocked that at all.

 

[Parmandur]

They didn’t say anything officially, someone who was on staff at the time jumped the gun, including images of a boxed set and a date. Then there was a frantic effort from WotC to delete all mentions and images.

It’s just occurred to me that it’s possible I got more time to see the stuff before it was gone because I’m on UK time.

Are you certain that was a D&D boxed set? A quick search indicates there was an early leak for the card boxed set (because there is alwaya a big card box set for these tnings), but nothing about a D&D boxed set.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Are you certain that was a D&D boxed set? A quick search indicates there was an early leak for the card boxed set (because there is alwaya a big card box set for these tnings), but nothing about a D&D boxed set.

Can’t be certain, I didn’t get opportunity to study it for long, but it was certainly a box labelled D&D not MtG. Of course, if it was it would have been a mock up not a finished product

 

[Henadic Theologian]

I expect this is is true, and what WotC's market research told them. Even many MtG players aren’t particularly interested in lore, and this one doesn’t seem to be a particularly popular setting, and mechanically complecated. Hence WotC axed the boxed set they originally had planned in favour of Dark Sun, something there is clearly a much higher demand for.

Rather than throw it away as they usually do for axed projects, they decided to put out what they had as part of their “DLC” experiment.

I believe that its been said that the Vorthos community is at most 25% of the MtG community, hence why all the MtG Universes Beyond sets seemed to sell more then the regular sets usually.

I think this contrasts with D&D settings with their general higher concentration of lore fans, because D&D settings are story first, game mechanics second compared to MtG fans are mostly about the game play or who collect as finciancal investments.

It really doesn't seem like a good omen for Vorthos fans. Their future really seems to hang on the novel next year, otherwise I can see WotC just losing interest in MtG's settings.