I do not imagine they are abandoning Dark Sun (in fact, I do think it is what we are getting later this year), just that a low-crunch Dragonlance Adventure in Q4 followed by Dark Sun in Q1 2027 would fit the available evidence just as well.
He mentioned it a bit ago, right, it takes a while for these things to percolate. I wouldn't be surprised if they originally intended for the Adventure to be a companion to a unitary FR Setting book before that mestatisized into two books.
Now we have a Forgotten Realms specific Adventure with...
Was it delayed? Has the been officially stated anywhere? Arcane Unleashed is a product that has a number of highly thematic Subclasses, sure, but the crunch still doesn't account for the page count. The Adventure tie in having material that ties into the Adventure seems likely.
It is on the...
You seem to be missing the main point: they renamed the region to the "Arcane" Empires just as they were working on this "Arcana Unleashed" Campaign Adventure and tie-in material.
Does it not mention it? We know thst the book is set to be ~192 pages and has ~100 pages of Crunch. Because it is...
Sure, but they decided to name the region with three large Magocracies the Arcane Empires for the first time while they were working on a followup in that region called d Arcana Unleashed. Hardly seems like a coincidence. Of the 18 Subclasses tested, most fit Agalrond or Rashemen, while one fits...
I don't particularly have a desire for Agalrond, at all. I just think that it is what the tealeaves say, based on what we can see of the Adventure Campaign set into he recently, and rather oddly, renamed "Arcane Empires" region. Which has more Elven forests with Arcane Archers, Thay or Agalrond...
If they did Dragonlance, in my mind the most natural fit would be doing a Quests for the Infinite Staircase style rewrite a thology for the DL modules. Which would provide a good counterpoint to the typ s of products released into he other Quarters, and classic standard Fantasy material as...
I think the case for Dark Sun is stronger on the UA front, but putting Lord Soth there shoots the odds for Dragonlance far above 1% in my book, along with the fact that WotC is pushing Dragonlance hard in Idle Champions this year.
2016 > 2021 > 2026
Also, similar to Forge of the Artificer...
Less Thayand more Agalrond, I would say. The the ING seems to be related to the Arcane Empires region at large which makes sense of the naming convention of Arcane Empire they made last year if this was in the pipeline as a followup to the main campaign Setting.