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Not to dismiss this, but for me it's another manifestation of how much the gaming experience differed. I don't know what a Stop and Shop is but I moved countries a lot as a kid (as an adult too but that's by the by) and there were gamers everywhere I went. There were the guys in the Netherlands...

I am interested in an AD&D SRD just to see what the initiative section looks like :D

TORG!!!!!

This was my experience when I started gaming with the influx of gamers during the big wave of new 5e players. I couldn't figure out where they were getting all these ideas from. Lots of hot takes from YouTube videos? I dunno. It led to some very cool conversations, though, sharing our...

I started in '82 (inventing a game based on what I'd heard about D&D) and got the magenta box in '83. We used pregenerated modules when we could find and afford them (not very often) or made up our own. Sometimes we randomly generated loot or monsters but never the dungeon itself. Mostly we made...

My approach to THAC0 is similar to this and yes, requires the DM to announce the AC because why would you bother hiding something that the players will figure out pretty quickly anyway? For me it works like this: Roll your attack with any mods and add the enemy AC to your roll. If you equal or...

The standout Black Dog supplement for me was Charnel Houses of Europe: The Shoah. It was nothing less than a supplement for Wraith: the Oblivion that tacked the Holocaust. There have been differing responses to that piece of work but over time the consensus is that the writers and designers took...

And that's really what this comes down to. They've read the room and made a sound business decision. We can't fault them for that. Another company (or even WotC under different circumstances) could release a 5e version of Dark Sun and, so long as they handled its themes responsibly, wouldn't be...

Dark Sun didn't even sell remarkably well in 1991 either. 50k units of the initial boxed set sold and sales just went down from there. Rapidly. WotC are making a solid business decision here, regardless of its artistic merit. Can't really fault them for that.

That's fair enough and thank you for setting out your thoughts on the matter. I really do appreciate it. Personally, I wouldn't make any of the points you're citing but I can see how they would lead to frustration. I am in support of addressing problematic content through RPGs (and not...

You are taking an extremely hostile view of people who have argued that there is room for problematic content when that content is approached in an appropriate manner. Rather than accepting that people can see things differently to you, you've chosen to characterise those approaches as uniformly...

Thanks for this. I've been posting in the other threads as well but I'm actually finding it hard to keep track of all the various threads of discussion and cross-talk and am struggling to recall what was being talked about in which thread :D

Awesome ideas. Here are a few resources that you might find useful for a sandbox game: Tablelands hex map: Jesse Heinig's DS blogs (lots of procedurally generated content): trekhead Athasian 6-dimensional weather chart: Athasian 6 Dimensional Weather Chart Athasian Star Map: Athas Star...

Not true. Many of us did (and do) care. We dedicated our lives and careers to fighting this kind of injustice. Respectfully, you are not qualified to make generalisations like this. Please stop.

I think there's probably a rehabilitation factor at play as well. Like some people might rage at tieflings or the Feywild or whatever in their Dark Sun and then over time can distance themselves enough from that reaction and come to appreciate the content more. Time can be kind like that.

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Totally. Incredible maps. Some great art. A handful of really imaginative additions to the setting - locations, NPCs, threats, plots. And a decent overview of the world. As a 2e player, I found several of the backgrounds and themes to be great sources for kits. Good stuff (y)

Admitting that it's a core part of the setting isn't something to be ashamed of. You can have despicable evil in your fiction. You can have slavery and all manner of awfulness. And you can treat it sensibly and as something to be opposed. And then see that through in play. Just like the Dark Sun...

There was a really great Reddit thread about this where a recent DS fan came on asking about why the 4e version was so unpopular (is there some internet meme about this that makes people think it?) and tons of us old DS diehards came out of the cactus pile and were like no actually it's pretty...

We do not.