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!

So this is the secret third expansion? Neat.
The cover art looks awesome, makes me hope that all the playable Fey species come back in this one. Satyrs and fairies look likely, but if centaurs are in this one I'd be such a happy camper!
MTG shoehorned into the Realms could be a disaster but I'll reserve judgment until I read it.
Look, I'll be the first to say that overall, D&D 5.5 is a bit cleaner and easier to run (albeit lacking substantially in flavor and ways to experiment). That being said, I'm really tired of getting fed table scraps.
2 whole species/races/whatever you want to call them? That's just insulting. And what is advice? Is it an actually stats? Or just "We didn't feel like doing the work to make these, so just homebrew with some advice on how by ripping stuff from 2024 and 2014?" The incompetence is just so brazen.
I hate to be the "Pathfinder is so much better guy,' especially when they're two different games with vastly different philosophies, but come on! While D&D drip-feeds the community 2 whole species (3 depending on how they implement Dhampir), Pathfinder dropped 4-5. That's not to mention 4 brand new classes, a whole host of feats, items, classes, and none of this interfered with adventure publication! Oh, and did I forget to mention? For 99% percent of character creation options (just not stuff in specific campaigns, if memory serves), you don't have to pay a dime to use it.
I'm not saying you need to hate D&D, or play Pathfinder 2e- I'm not here to yuck anyone's yum. What I'm just saying is that I'm getting really tired of WOTC resting on its laurels because it knows it can, and legitimately not giving an effort to engage its audience. You can only play the same 4 options of a class for so long before it gets boring, and that's assuming they're well made to start with.
Will this open the ability to write for Lorwyn-Shadowmoor on the DMs guild? I love seeing more MTG content and would love to produce something for this setting and am still disappointed you never did that for Eldraine.
Oh man, I was really hoping for a big, bulky setting book like Theros or Eberron to sink my teeth in for a Feywild setting. Digital only is a huge disappointment to me, as I don’t use such content at my table.
Could we get a PDF?
I am SO happy to finally have more Feywild and MTG crossover content !!! .. and yet so sad to see this is a digital only release with (based on the above description) very little lore.
Can somebody explain it to me how MTG setting is being sold as part of the Forgotten Realms setting bundle? This is worse than lazy...
Like the Astarion and Netheril 'expansions' you'll be able to buy them on the marketplace individually as well for $15 each.
Oh god. Can you please not cram Magic the Gathering into Forgotten Realms?
What's next? Are the Transformers going to invade Baldur's Gate? Will Peppa Pig be the only one who can stop it?
Don't screw up Forgotten Realm lore with other brands just because you want to make a buck.
Has Wizards of the Coast completely run out of ideas? It's like Hollywood: nothing new, so let's rehash old material, and do it so parsimoniously and half-assed. Two species, a few monsters, and a couple of magic items and feats? This should cost like $5.
Sure, the Lorwyn block was cool fifteen years ago in M:TG. But c'mon, let's turn the page and think of something new and quit raiding other content because we can't think of anything else.
Don't let WotC gaslight you into thinking how cool and wonderful this is. It's lazy and [miserly].
This is...sigh.
I don't want to discourage M:TG content cause some people really love those settings and/or the crossover of another game they love. But this is what we are getting in lieu of FR content? There's so much they could have done within FR...or even make something new for FR. Just, something that would be canon.
(Cause the hand waving of 'oh you found a portal's doesn't make it canon... that's just the way to make anything connected. This could be a pretty slippery slope...)
Why is this in a forgotten realms bundle :/
Yeah, I don't really have an issue with the pricing for what's being sold, but when you're contradicting lore that you're literally establishing in a parallel MtG product that you're already doing promo for and releasing two months after this one, all in an effort to tie it to a otherwise unrelated Forgotten Realms product, it's just...very odd. Like, you could have just released this as its own thing at the same time as the Magic set and promoted it that way, but no, instead you're stuck juggling two different versions of the same lore for no good reason.
I'm sure the actual content will be fine, but I can't say I'm a fan of the steps being taken to get there.
Honestly, if this is what is supposed to count as the teased Lorwyn-Shadowmoor book, then I'm happy with that. I really don't want ANOTHER mtg setting book for 5e. Yes, this is overpriced (I'd argue 10 would be fairer than 5 dollars), yes it's shoehorning in mtg promo into dnd to promote the new card set, and yes it's totally out of place in a Forgotten Realms bundle when they could have focused on literally any other aspect of the vast setting. That being said, I don't put much stock in these dlc expansions and I'd be really relieved if this little supplement was the only other mtg content we were getting instead of it taking up yet another book slot.
"Backgrounds" Right.
"Feats" Okay.
"Monsters" Good ones? Bad ones? High CR... low CR. Adorable? Terrifying? Insufferably cute and seemingly out-of-place as your party is ambushed by the Red Wizards of Thay!?
"Species" and "Advice" (Small blue-thing in the picture above? Little Frog-thing sitting on top of that other one's head?)
Whilst the lined "Planeswalker's Guide..." is an interesting read, any chance of a bit more information about this product! This could be really good (it really could be as "delightful" as advertised), it could be really bad. Please DND Staff tell us there'll be more articles/info to come/be revealed on this product as we get closer to it's release date.
Wait a minute, I thought this was the plot for Critical Role: Campaign 4!
Do I HAVE to buy the physical books for this?
I pre-ordered the ultimate digital bundle(Which is seemingly no longer available, for some reason). I should get access to all digital content as a result.
I can't afford physical books right now. & I don't have room in my residence for such, either.
So please clarify what's happening with what I ordered, whether I bought the wrong bundle that seemingly no longer exists & what I'm entitled to, or at least clarify that the additional digital content I'm about to not get will be available for purchase.
I wish I could exist in a state of perpetual anger and panic like this myself.
Instead, I've got more pressing things to worry about, like what the cloud outside looks like.
"You can purchase this D&D Beyond exclusive digital supplement as part of the Forgotten Realms Ultimate Bundle."
"I pre-ordered the ultimate digital bundle"
Unless you're "ultimate" bundle is less ultimate/bundle, you're gravy according to the 2nd sentence.