Comments on: The Return of Dark Sun?

By: kargo

kargo — Fri, 01 May 2009 06:29:15 +0000

I have never really been a fan of high fantasy style stuff so Dark Sun was the first and nearly last thing that made me want to play D&D (Planescape was pretty cool to!). I think Dark Sun forced a lot of people to go back to the drawing board imagination wise, players and gms alike! High fantasy has a few to many shorthand, in the know, crutch devices and ideas for many people. Not everyone obviously but I have several friends who play avidly and cannot break out of habits and ideas about there games without something really different to shake it up.
Also Dark Sun had really great background fluff and Brom art!!

By: Gamethyme

Gamethyme — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:07:23 +0000

I just hope that – if they DO re-release Dark Sun – they’ll set it before the Prism Pentad series, which totally altered the setting and made it Pretty Much Just Another D&D World.

The original Dark Sun box was groundbreaking and revolutionary – it is the first fantasy setting I recall without Gods, for example.

By: mordicai

mordicai — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:35:21 +0000

I gravatared, hopefully it will catch up with me!

By: mordicai

mordicai — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:33:19 +0000

I really liked Ebberon– it brought something new to the table, which DnD desperately needs. Dark Sun does the same; so does Spelljammer. I have enough generic Tolkienesque fantasy stuff– if I’m shelling out, I want to see someone else’s imagination at work.

By: ggodo

ggodo — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 23:14:13 +0000

This seems like an interesting setting. Never played it before, but it sounds like good times. gotta get my group to DO SOMETHING!

By: Ed Grabianowski

Ed Grabianowski — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 06:04:25 +0000

Although I never looked at the Eberron game materials, I read a few of the novels. I didn’t dislike the world, but neither would I use the word “compelling.” It just didn’t fire my imagination, but I tend to be something of a Tolkien-esque fantasy traditionalist. Whatever that means.

Frostbeard: I think you’re right, I’m not sure if they’ve published a retail Greyhawk product in ages.

By: lotofsnow

lotofsnow — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 22:26:10 +0000

Dragonlance, Eberron, Dark Sun… They’re all compelling.

By: Ed Grabianowski

Ed Grabianowski — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 22:02:18 +0000

mordicai, took me a while to figure it out. Go here: http://en.gravatar.com/

By: mordicai

mordicai — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 20:55:56 +0000

Why can’t I figure out how to give myself an icon!?

Dark Sun would FLIP MY WIG. I hope this is true.

By: Frostbeard

Frostbeard — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 19:56:25 +0000

I loved the Dark Sun setting back in the day. Hell, I even loved the video games that were based in it (anyone else remember Wake of the Ravager?). I’d buy up that campaign setting and throw my players into it in a heartbeat.

With regards to Ravenloft, I suspect WotC may have a continuing deal with White Wolf. That may be another reason to doubt that it would be the next published setting.

Greywolf is supposed to be the “default” setting for D&D, so it’s unlikely to be published as a stand-alone product. For 3E it was all done through the RPGA, wasn’t it?