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Yeah, this is on point. If I were to pitch something other than the above, it would be something that very ostentatiously borrows from Studio Ghibli.

So, I don't think WotC are going to make any new settings--but if they did, this is my thinking: In the DMG there is a list of flavors of fantasy. In order, they are: Heroic Fantasy Sword and Sorcery Epic Fantasy Mythic Fantasy Dark Fantasy Intrigue Mystery Swashbuckling War Wuxia Most of...

Thanks for explaining. I guess I shouldn't be surprised that folks who make dubious history videos also make dubious game design videos. I thought they'd be more authoritative on games since it's nominally their area of expertise. Can you recall anything specific that they got badly wrong, or an...

I liked you before Snarf, butt now (cough) *but now I think you might be the greatest. Well, actually, would you mind getting into it here? (now that the thread is partway down an edition war rabbit hole) I stopped watching Extra Credits years ago after Dan left and was replaced by the new...

Well, dang, this thread got very fixated on grave digging very fast. The internet is a hell of a drug. The answers depend a lot on your starting assumptions. If you're taking the approach recommended by @Oofta to start with the fantastical world you want and work backwards to things that must...

True, it's not a great LotR emulator or a great Conan emulator. But the gameplay loop of the earliest editions of D&D was a pretty good emulator of Vance--incentivizing blank slate pícaros to get themselves killed whilst risking their lives for treasure and/or magic doodads. The Monsters and...

Thanks for explaining. I'm less familiar with the stylistic conventions of that genre than the others. Have you ever heard of the convention where movies were pitched as "Die Hard on a Plane" (Air Force One), "Die Hard in a Bus" (Speed), etc. Well DaD:HaT is "Guardians of the Galaxy but with...

I appreciate that you replied. The whole point of the poll is to gauge how widespread your point of view is here on ENWorld, as compared to people who are fans or relatively positively disposed to the setting--and to do so without getting into an argument about it. What genre is that? I don't...

Hey so, I chose not to say anything earlier @LuisCarlos17f regarding the repeated mentions of a toxic lobby, since no one was really engaging with you about it. But now that @Vaalingrade is, I would, respectfully, like to ask you both--before it starts--not to resume the politics argument that...

Reading your summary gave me a "globetrotting adventurers, chasing a leads about a grab bag of factions, not really knowing what's going on and trying to figure it out" sort of vibe. You might start your group off doing normal adventuring things but have agents of the various factions want...

@cbwjm has it right. My intention was that preferences of "WotC delegates a 3rd party publisher to write Dark Sun" or "WotC sells the IP" or "WotC releases Dark Sun to the DMs Guild" would fall on the lean yes side of the poll, since the question "would you like there to be a new publication of...

I'd consider benign indifference as falling in the lean "no" category, along with, for example, @Deset Gled 's disinterested apathy. But go with whatever you're feelin' :cool:

I deliberately didn't include that option in the poll. There are a lot of nuanced possibilities other than WotC publishes it and WotC ensures the IP is not used, the inclusion of which, I thought, would make the poll less straightforwardly interpretable. My thinking is that that release it to...

I also want nothing to do with the argument in the other threads, and I put a disclaimer to that effect in the OP. Nor do I have an agenda to decry WotC for its decision not to return to the setting. Having seen--and mostly opted out of--the heated discussion in the other threads, this thread is...

That's my feeling but, to be fair, there are opportunity costs. Time spent creating new Dark Sun materials is time not spent creating other content.

Hi all, considering how heated the discussion here has been since WotC stated they would not revisit Dark Sun, I thought I'd ask how many of you would have liked them to do so (in an ad-hoc unscientific convenience sample). The poll is deliberately simple, so that you can answer, on balance...

I realize I'm a bit late posting to this thread, but here's my answer just the same. I like Dark Sun because it is a brilliantly Frankenstein-ed mix of sword and planet, swords and sandals, sword and sorcery, and post-apocalyptic fiction. Its Dune and A Princess of Mars mixed with the moral...

Thinking on this a little bit more, I like the idea that the Sea of Silt has a substantial amount of water in it. This has always been one of the goofier things in the setting. Though it's called the Sea of Silt, it's described as being principally dust, with the reasoning being that dust has...