D&D General Teased Lorwyn-Shadowmoor Supplement Crosses Magic: the Gathering and D&D

WotC has teased an upcoming Magic: The Gathering / Dungeons & Dragons crossover supplement.
WotC has teased an upcoming Magic: The Gathering / Dungeons & Dragons crossover supplement. No info has been given other than a mention of Lorwyn-Shadowmoor and an art piece by Jesper Ejsing.

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Lorwyn-Shadowmoor is a Magic: the Gathering plane. The official MtG page for it describes it as:

Lorwyn is an idyllic world where races of fable thrive in perpetual midsummer. Its dark reflection, Shadowmoor, exists in perpetual gloom, its citizens bitterly transformed and locked in a desperate battle for survival.

Lorwyn is the land where the sun never set. Covered with dense forests, meandering rivers, and gently rolling meadows, it knows no nights or winters. One of the few planes without humans, it's populated by the short-statured kithkin, hot-tempered flamekin, petty-thief boggarts, territorial treefolk, diplomatic merfolk, iconoclastic giants, and mischievous faeries, all living together in harmony.

Also among them: the elves, Lorwyn's most favored and feared race. In a world of unspoiled nature, they consider themselves the paragons of this beauty. Signs of elvish supremacy are widespread, from their gilded forest palaces to their mercilessness toward "lesser" races. Despite the elves' dominion, Lorwyn's people thrive, respecting community and tradition.

The land itself, ancient and verdant, is locked in a perpetual cycle—and every three centuries, that cycle transforms the plane into Shadowmoor.

The mirror-image of Lorwyn, Shadowmoor is a realm of perpetual dusk and gloom. Here, the plane's races, without knowledge of their previous selves, are locked in a life-and-death struggle for survival. Like the plane itself, its denizens are transformed into darker versions of themselves.

The kithkin, once communal and cooperative, are isolated and xenophobic. The helpful, silver-tongued merfolk are now assassins and saboteurs. The boggarts, once mischievous and hedonistic, are vicious and warlike. The blighted treefolk are murderous. Wrathful giants drag around huge pieces of the land.

The transformations of the flamekin and elves are perhaps the most dramatic. Once bright and seeking transcendence, the flamekin are now smoking skeletons seeking revenge. Meanwhile, the vain elves are humbled and heroic in Shadowmoor, protecting every glimmer of beauty and light.

Only one race and one place remain unchanged: the faeries and their home of Glen Elendra. The fae are the fulcrum of this transforming plane—for it was their queen, Oona, who caused it.


This isn't the first such crossover--Ravnica, Strixhaven, and Theros were all Magic: the Gathering settings. Additionally, over the past few years, WotC has put out PDF D&D supplements for the MtG worlds of Amonkhet, Dominaria, Innistrad, Ixalan, Kaladesh, and Zendikar.
 

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So, turns out this is a digital supplement as part of the Forgotten Realms release:

Lorwyn: First Light​


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


The Lorwyn-Shadowmoor Domain of Delight is where the boundaries of eternal sunny days can shift into eerie moonlit nights. Here, you’ll discover a clash of sinister and idyllic locales and observe their contrasting inhabitants.


This 32-page digital supplement includes:



  • 2 new backgrounds, 2 feats, and 2 new species—plus guidance for playing 8 additional Feywild species—for building Fey-touched characters.
  • A gazetteer of Lorwyn and Shadowmoor, complete with kithkin clachans, elven villages, flamekin sanctuaries, and more.
  • 8 monsters drawn from Celtic-inspired myth—incarnations of nature, faerie tricksters, and wandering giants.
  • 2 new unique magic items to help the plane’s inhabitants traverse the supernatural effects of crossing between Lorwyn and Shadowmoor.
  • 2 ready-to-run sample adventures tied directly to the setting, perfect for launching a Feywild-flavored campaign tonight.
 

So, turns out this is a digital supplement as part of the Forgotten Realms release:

Lorwyn: First Light​


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


The Lorwyn-Shadowmoor Domain of Delight is where the boundaries of eternal sunny days can shift into eerie moonlit nights. Here, you’ll discover a clash of sinister and idyllic locales and observe their contrasting inhabitants.


This 32-page digital supplement includes:



  • 2 new backgrounds, 2 feats, and 2 new species—plus guidance for playing 8 additional Feywild species—for building Fey-touched characters.
  • A gazetteer of Lorwyn and Shadowmoor, complete with kithkin clachans, elven villages, flamekin sanctuaries, and more.
  • 8 monsters drawn from Celtic-inspired myth—incarnations of nature, faerie tricksters, and wandering giants.
  • 2 new unique magic items to help the plane’s inhabitants traverse the supernatural effects of crossing between Lorwyn and Shadowmoor.
  • 2 ready-to-run sample adventures tied directly to the setting, perfect for launching a Feywild-flavored campaign tonight.
Wasn't expecting that, but it's exciting.

Sigh... I'm more excited for the dlcs than the main book...
 


Huh. Well, that alters a lot of speculation about what's going in what book. And if we're getting re-revised Goblinoid PC species stat blocks.
The way the descridescrives this supplement, I think we are looking at some Llrwyn-flavored versions of older Gobli lids and other Speckes, since it has "gjidance" for "8 additional Fey themed Species" in addition to 2 "new Species"..
Now I'm even more curious about what the 2026 calendar is going to look like.
This does totally blow next year's release possibilities wide open: o longer would a Dark Sun product be a second Setting in one year.
 



So we’re not going to be able to buy this as a book, or even a pdf?

Sigh. I was quite excited about this as a proper Small-to-Medium-sized book.
They haven't announced anything.
And wait: how can they measure a page count on a DDO web-only product?
Beyond is an e-reader, though it does suggest they have the books set up to print in the future if they want to.
 



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