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My gut says they are going to make Athas a bit more connected to the outer planes; not so much that you can summon devils and angels with no effort but I just think there are too many player options tied to the outer planes and the current logic of D&D is not to render officially published...

The narrative of becoming something is supposed to happen through gameplay. If you're a humble farmer who becomes a soldier, your DM should be running you through the soldiering, not relegating it to your backstory.

So who was it saying they'd never revisit dark sun? https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/2041-designer-insights-from-unearthed-arcana

The PCs shouldn't, but the NPCs should. The PCs are adventurers by trade or circumstance; they are exceptional individuals. They stick out from what is "normal" for their race or society; most people do not go out and live a life of violence. So PCs should be aware that they themselves are...

So I can just take the NPCs and run them in my 5e game? I'm always hungry for more aliens and robots for my science fantasy game.

Them trying and failing to exploit it would be such an interesting story though!

Let's remember that "human" isn't a species; it's a genus. You can have an all-human world and still have halflings; they're just homo florensis. Orcs are already cross-pollinated with the pop culture idea of neanderthals by way of Frazetta. Frankly, most fantasy "races" are human in writing if...

If anyone wants my take on a rebooted dark sun, I think the most interesting way to do it is to take a world used to intense resource scarcity and then drop a big resource there and watch them tear themselves apart. What do you think would happen to Athas, a world without metal, if a 50 square...

I think a good question would be "what is the most 'punk' Hasbro has been recently?" I think the darkest Hasbro has ever got in my lifetime is probably GI Joe: Renegade. Would a tone like that be possible and appropriate for Dark Sun?

Not for nothing, but the upcoming FR book just included a whole genie themed paladin subclass; they could easily reprint that in a Dark Sun book and bam, you got paladins. I could also see templars being a paladin subclass as much as a warlock one.

I'm Is there an article I can read about this? I'm not being rude because I myself am the source of some "just trust me bro" rumors but... I unfortunately don't know you well enough to trust you.

This is the first I'm hearing about a Waterdeep film. This was in production concurrent with honor among thieves? Where can I read more about this

Part of this is the conflation of "world" and "planet". "Planet" comes from "planetes", Greek for "wanderer": things that wander around the night sky, moving through space. World comes from "Wereld", Old English for "the age of man" ("were" as in "werewolf" meaning man and "eld" as in...

The confluence between Taylor Swift fans and the demographic likely to be running WotC's digital marketing is surprisingly high actually.

Remember a couple months ago when a lot of articles came out that said that like Dungeons and Dragons as a brand is as well known as Star Wars, but Hasbro doesn't know how to translate that into sales? Ask anybody under the age of like 45 to name a Dungeons & Dragons character, and the only...

I'm afraid the setting is far too detailed to be a points of light, which is part of the problem. We as fans know so much about the world it's impossible not to metagame, but the characters in the world themselves would have almost no ability to know anything from the next thorp over.

I read somewhere that like according to 2nd edition geography, the Dalelands would be twice the size of Germany's Black Forest and like a fifth as populated. Faerun is much larger than Europe and is significantly less densely populated than it. On one hand, this kind of explains why the entire...

The established laws are that anyone with a powerful cleric and enough money and access to a jeweler can come back to life. The kind of characters who end up being major heroes and villains of the Forgotten Realms should have easy access to all of those things. It's kind of like how it's...

I recall hearing that icewind dale was it's northwestern terminus and Thay is its easternmost nation. I think that would put Luiren at its southeast corner.