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That goes back to how some settings have heroes as the enforcers of a relatively benign quo where the villains are those who threaten the normal operation of the world. These are easy to make long term RPG settings because you can always come up with a new threat. Dark Sun is another type of...

I never read the books. Honestly barely watched the show, I know it mostly from pop culture osmosis. I always figured that Ice referred to the frost zombies and the fire was the Dragons. So sort of Daenerys but not her precisely.

Honestly the main addition I made running Dark Sun was Shardminds. The idea was that a fragment of the Living Gate fell to Athas millions of years ago, before it was cut off from the rest of the multiverse, and getting burried deep underground. Though, a lot of it was blasted into fine dust and...

I never even connected the titular song to Snow and Danerys.

Thought I was about to get introduced to some rare D&D lore I'd never heard of.

What are Henadi?

The planes generally do all have their own common languages. Well, not the Shadowfell in default D&D. Kobold Press introduced Umbran. Material Plane = Common Upper Planes = Celestial Lower Planes = Abyssal or Infernal Mechanus = Modron Feywild = Sylvan Elemental Planes = Primordial

Incidentally if anyone is looking for a quick and dirty conversion prior to whatever WOTC officially creates, I made one a few years ago for a game that sadly ended for reasons beyond my control.

Gnomes, like monks, will be pried out of my cold dead hands. Huh.. I've never played a gnome monk before.

With the approval of the creators, I would hope! I wish there was a tier between the 19 and 11 item bundles because I want most of what's in it, but I already have your MME in both PDF and Roll20.

Please. Like it or not, there's no denying that dogwhistling racists will latch onto any changes WOTC makes to grift. Even if they'd never heard of Dark Sun prior.

While it was not a player character, one of my favorite stories elements in my Dark Sun campaign was a Templar of Tyr who still had her pact blade and magic from Kalak even after his death, and how one of the PCs was constantly butting heads with her but also slowly working with her to unpack...

I don't think that's the point. The point is WOTC probably doesn't want to have a setting where chattel slavery is such a prominent aspect of the setting. Retconning them to be serfs is a metatextual choice but it's also entirely justifiable within the fiction for the logistical reasons.

Basically this, and it goes for the Warden, Avenger, and Invoker as well. The general problem with trying to take what was a class in previous iterations of the game and fold them into a subclass in 5E is that the design space for the core class will always crowd out the parts that many fans...

Keeping it isn't a hill I care to die on, just like slavery... but it's not like Dark Sun was saying 'Eugenics is good'. It was a thing that happened and there are people born of it, but I never got the sense that it was meant to be anything but more evidence of how the society was evil and...

Elves have always been terrible! They beget terror.

I mean... with 4E you don't have to. The designers already did that.

There isn't, but the game has open content and a wiki for it is being slowly put together.

I can't speak for people in general but I find them fine in a vacuum. I like how Tieflings and Goliaths have been expanded with new lineages. Out of the context of WOTC-created material, they're kind of underwhelming when other 5E variants and games like Draw Steel are doing interesting stuff...

Huh. In my experience, low damage and longer fights makes things feel like a slog. The most exciting fights I've ever run or played in D&D are ones where both players and monsters were hitting like a Japanese truck sensing an otaku in the road. The tension is higher when you have more risk.