Who's Hype for Dark Sun???

cignus_pfaccari

First Post
Well, in all fairness, the thread IS titled "Who's Hype for Dark Sun??", which to my eye means its open for negative commentary.

ArmoredSaint isn't Hype for Dark Sun.

Indeed.

I'm not exactly hyped for it, either. I know people that are, but I never got into Dark Sun.

I'm sure that I'll wind up playing it (one of our DMs has already said that's his next game), though, and I'll likely get the book, but I'm not exactly hyped for it.

Brad
 

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AlioTheFool

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I'm just wholly unable to comprehend the appeal of this setting. I'm not so sick of traditional fantasy that I need something like this on my shelf.

Ick. No thanks; I'll give it a miss.

Same here. I'll even go one further and say that Dark Sun 4e angers me with all of its attention. It's getting an "Eye on" this month in Dungeon magazine. Meanwhile, it's another month during its cycle that Eberron is being ignored.

I personally wanted Dragonlance for this year's setting, but that's really neither here nor there. I'm happy for anyone who is a Dark Sun fan, but I'm sort of happy for myself in that this is two books I won't have to waste money on. I am "hype" for getting desert dungeon tiles though, so there's that!
 

Wik

First Post
Dark Sun is just so much fun. Can't wait. Can't. WAIT.

I had two players who were a bit iffy on the game... until I explained to them the general gist of it. For some reason, dune-running elves really caught one player's attention.

The rest of my group is looking forward to a low-treasure, gritty game with a survivalist theme. Because I have a few players in my group who hate magic items almost as much as I do.

I've been planning my 4e Dark Sun story arc since the day after DS 4E was announced. I seriously cannot wait for the game to come out. My girlfriend told me she was going to buy it for my birthday, and I Seriously told her not to, because I'd be buying it the day it comes out (about two days before, if memory serves) - and if I had to wait for my birthday for it, those two days in between would be TORTURE for me.

I actually told her I wouldn't be able to go on the internet, lest there be spoilers. Gah, I'm such a geek!

as for the thread crappers - fair enough. It's not for everyone. But then, I've never liked some of your settings, either. Dragonlance never caught my interest. FR bored me to tears and was way too NPC-heavy. Planescape had a good starting point, but it was just too weird and hard to understand from a player's perspective. Really, the only two settings that were worth looking at were Spelljammer and Birthright (unless you count Jakandor, which most people don't).

Dark Sun was a game shaped by the late 1980s and early 1990s. It was post-apocalyptic when the thoughts of an apocalypse were still on people's minds. There was the whole ecological collapse issue, back when the idea of global warming was still a new and frightening possibility. The designers were making this when there was still the possibility the USSR would go nova and start blasting nukes off - and the game shows that (ever notice how most post-apoc games & movies were released in the 70s and 80s? The genre has changed to a "zombie apocalypse" since then)

Also, to me, Dark sun was the ONLY setting where the magic sort of made sense. in a game like FR, there was absolutely no reason why a castle should exist - it was too easy to bypass with magic/monsters. Lanterns should be rare, since continual light was better. and so on, and so forth. Eberron has addressed the issue in one way, but Dark Sun took another - magic isn't rare, it's dangerous. People that use magic aren't going to do it for trivial things. And the use of magic feeds into why the setting itself is so blasted. Which, in my mind, is a helluva lot cooler than "Elminster would do it himself, he, um, just doesn't have time".
 


I'm just wholly unable to comprehend the appeal of this setting. I'm not so sick of traditional fantasy that I need something like this on my shelf.

Ick. No thanks; I'll give it a miss.
I am excited about Dark Sun; but what I don't understand is how some folks think Eberron is too much like FR. :confused:

"Traditional" (aka, "Same ol' stuff, different map"): Forgotten Realms, Dragonlance, Greyhawk.

Interesting: Eberron, Dark Sun, Gamma World.[/IMNSHO]

Now we just need a 4e Al Qadim and I'll be a REALLY happy camper! :)
That would be cool, but don't hold your breath. WotC hasn't indicated much interest in revisiting Oriental Adventures yet -- partially on account of the offensive implications of "racialised" campaign settings -- so I think Al Qadim's chances are slim for the time being.
 

Dice4Hire

First Post
That would be cool, but don't hold your breath. WotC hasn't indicated much interest in revisiting Oriental Adventures yet -- partially on account of the offensive implications of "racialised" campaign settings -- so I think Al Qadim's chances are slim for the time being.

For next year, I would like to see either a totally new setting ,or one of the more imaginative ones form the past, and AL-Quadim would fit the imaginative test.
 


JeffB

Legend
I'm very excited as to me it's completely new/fresh. I've only read about the setting over the years, never having owned any of the materials for it (at the time of its run, it just wasn't to my taste, now it's definitely to my tastes). I'll be picking up all 3 products, even if just to plunder for the homebrew.
 

darjr

I crit!
There is also a living campaign launching. Adventures, I think, are to debut at GenCon. I heard a rumor about several places across the country doing marathon 72 hour playtests. I'm sure it wasn't the only playtesting.
 

mgbeach

Explorer
There is also a living campaign launching. Adventures, I think, are to debut at GenCon. I heard a rumor about several places across the country doing marathon 72 hour playtests. I'm sure it wasn't the only playtesting.

Starting in June I think that the D&D Encounters are all going to be Dark Sun. You can get a sneak peak of the Penny Arcade guys playing them on the last two podcasts (MAY BE SPOILERS...and adult language)

http://media.wizards.com/podcasts/DarkSun_ep1.mp3
http://media.wizards.com/podcasts/DarkSun_ep2.mp3
 

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