Cap'n Kobold
Hero
I'm not sure about that. Dark Sun is about the only setting that some races, and perhaps a few classes would have trouble fitting that I can think of. Even so, those restrictions aren't an actual selling point (unless the customer is you) rather than simply a facet of the setting. Not even a particularly major facet either: If I had to describe the iconic parts of Dark Sun, "restrictive character creation options" wouldn't even be in the top three points.I disagree. People enjoy different campaign settings not for their ability to use the bog-standard PHB options, but for the differences. At least IMO.
Even if I was trying to encourage you to buy it, "Paladins are very rare" would probably come 4th after "Postapocalyptic desert wasteland", "Gnomes are very rare" and "Rapiers are very rare".
Is anyone suggestion that this is likely?But, hey, we will see. I know that if they ever release a campaign setting that is just PHB + some cool names and countries for the other settings, that's something I won't purchase.