While exploring the untamed wilds of the Moonshae Isles, you stumble across a shimmering portal bathed in a sunbeam that filters through the canopy above. On the other side lies Lorwyn—a whimsical realm of eternal daylight, wandering giants, mischievous faeries, and living incarnations of nature itself.
Releasing on D&D Beyond on November 18, Lorwyn: First Light helps you expand your Forgotten Realms adventures with new Fey-inspired character options and monsters from a new Domain of Delight in the Feywild called Lorwyn-Shadowmoor.
You can purchase this D&D Beyond exclusive digital supplement as part of the Forgotten Realms Ultimate Bundle.
Inside, you’ll find:
- 2 backgrounds
- 2 feats
- 2 magic items
- 8 monsters
- 2 new species, and advice for playing 8 additional species in the Lorwyn-Shadowmoor setting
- Two adventure examples and a map appropriate for both
This new content can be used to represent heroic characters or mischievous creatures who hail from the Lorwyn-Shadowmoor setting.
These creatures and characters may travel to the Forgotten Realms via fey crossings. Similarly, Forgotten Realms-based characters can travel to Lorwyn-Shadowmoor for the adventures included in the supplement—or those of your own devising!
What is Lorwyn-Shadowmoor?
Drawing inspiration from Celtic folklore, the domain of Lorwyn-Shadowmoor originated as a plane in the multiverse of the Magic: The Gathering.
Looking to learn more? Check out Planeswalker's Guide to Lorwyn Eclipsed on Magic: The Gathering's blog!

This product comes with GRAVY! My whole understanding of physical space has been transformed! Three dimensional Euclidean geometry has been torn up, thrown in the air and been snogged to death! Do the bangers come with mash???
I really hope I can buy this without paying $160 for other content like the article seems to imply.
I don't think there are centaurs or satyrs on Lorwyn. Main races are kithkin (a telepathically linked race resembling halflings), giants, noggles (a donkeyfolk), mermaids, pixies, brownies, elves who put glamor before all else, dwarves, hideous reptilian changelings that swipe infants from cribs and leave their own children in their wake, goblins called boggart, various elementals, trolls, and treefolk. No humans.
The portrait in the article shows (from left to right):
a boggart with a frog, a changeling, an elf, a pixie, and a kithkin with a griffin
FR Bundle only? This is outrageous!
Now I know why 3rd Expansion was kept secret. Holy crap! Did WotC really think, a MtG crossover is something what Forgotten Realms fans are wanted most?
Yep you can. For $15 for 32 digital pages.
Can we at least get PDF versions of these expansions if we buy them? I understand the goal is to get us to use this platform, but I know y'all make these in PDF form before you put them here. The sections on the Ultimate Bundle talking about this product, Netheril, and Astarion all claim the supplements are 32 pages, which means they must exist in a form that has pages somewhere. I just feel like I'm being cheated if I'm paying $15 for just the ability to look at the product I want on this website instead of actually buying the product. $15 of course being insane for a 32 page digital splat book (Forge of the Artificer is going to be $30 for over 100 pages in a book I can hold in real life, fun fact), but that's a whole separate issue.
I get the impression this crossover is intended for Faerun setting fans, not for MtG setting fans. We're long overdue for a new MtG setting product (last one was Eldraine), but what MtG setting fan is going to pay this much for Faerun content they may never use? Definitely hoping I can buy this by itself.
Also was bummed that they never made miniatures for the Eldraine expansion.
You don't need to use it. It's not like other supplements are going to reference it. This is for people who *do* want to have Lorwyn-Shadowmoor in their campaign, and those who don't can just ignore it.
Honestly the 2024 rules is what made me want to try 5e again and funnily enough it was because there were some Pathfinder influence in their new approach.
But with that being said, yeah WOTC is being very conservative with these releases. There is probably some fear of bloat that came with the 3rd edition era but also like you mentioned, they have became too comfortable with their success of 5e due to other people's hard work. Let's be honest, 5e is still holds some arachic holdovers from their previous editions and haven't pushed the envelope for improvement.
I prefer the 2024 rules opposed to the 2014 rules that needed to be held together by band aids but they need to be more aggressive if they want to keep their veteran audience and attract new players based on their own merit and not the popularity that a cross promo could bring or depend solely on the attention that content creators bring.
Starfinder 2e did a promo with Warframe but it was just a fun little adventure instead of show horning a product into their continuity.
But hey as that Pathfinder guy, I hope you D&D fans eventually get a less corporate 1st team and a more community focused team like Paizo. Yes they have their skeletons in the closet but they have made substantial efforts to improve themselves as a company and since the Remaster they have improved the quality of their product. Plus they actively listen their fan base and are better at being transparent about their decisions regardless of the backlash.
In the meantime though, I'll keep buying 2024 products for my friend's irl game since I finally get to be a player even if it is with 5e.
I see people saying "I hope X or Y species is included in this": understand that there are 2 species included, and the others are simply "advice for playing" species that already exist in the D&D rules. We can guess that the "advice for playing" section will include advice on how a Lorwyn-Shadowmoor elf is different from a Forgotten Realms elf, for example. It's even possible they'll say something like "To play a Lorwyn-Shadowmoor kithkin, choose the Halfling species. Kithkin place an emphasis on being quick on their feet."
Personally, I'm hoping for Pixies.
We already have Fairies, & Pixies are a favorite from older editions.