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You claim to know what WotC think without any evidence. Half giants have already been reconned to goliaths for a start, so I’m sure no one is losing sleep over that. But you still haven’t answered the question, asked several times: why would WotC use names like preserver, defiler and templer if...

I watched this last night on Netflix, so here are my thoughts. Spoilers of course, for people who have no idea what happens:

Contrary to popular myth, the reason for that was technical - psionics. As soon as they switched how they evaluated popularity so that the proposed psionics system wasn’t rejected out of hand they shadow-announce Dark Sun.

The fans of a setting scream every time a new version is released. But they are a small number of loud voices. I think people have strong feelings about the possibility of Dark Sun. But I don’t think it’s more popular than other classic settings. Certainly not Greyhawk or the Realms. So long as...

It’s not confusion - warrior of intoxication is a terrible name. Even worse than warrior of drunkenness, which would be the unchanged version. Indeed warrior of… sounds bad with a great many things.

It sounds cooler than it was, we just made street plans for estate agents (realtors). But we did use the same printing method that they used for maps in 1980s adventure modules.

Old grogs are not the only sides in this game. Dark Sun has lots of interesting elements that could appeal to newer players who don’t care about the original, including the massively exaggerated whiff of controversy.

I used to be a cartographer. We often left things off our street plans for reasons like "we can't fit that on the page" and "we have to not infringe on Ordinance Surveys' IP". Didn't make those places disappear.

Probably happened in Africa several thousand years earlier. Sacrifice, human and otherwise, is a common ritual, and you want to do that as close to the gods as possible. And the easiest way to get close to the gods is to build a step pyramid.

The big takeaway from that is that adventures sold a lot better than settings. If that's reflected in WotC's data, it would suggest that the current setting/adventure ratio is too high.

Are you thinking about the art? Because that doesn't matter since there will obviously be new art. Aztecs are the only one of these that might cause issues. We had a reprint of Hidden Shrine as recently as Yawning Portal. But thanks to ToA WotC will be a bit Leary of references. But the...

A slightly adjacent topic, but I recently reread REH's Red Nails, and I was stuck by how his lost city resembled an abandoned shopping mall. A large low rectangular building, lots of glass in the roof for light, a closed environment, wide east-west and north-south boulevards surrounded by...

Changing or deleting these seems to me like the biggest change that the setting requires. Don’t recall much real world culture in the original boxed set. Aside from Rome, which doesn’t count. I don’t think metaplot stuff matters to the setting. Obviously, there will always be some people who...

So, what do you think they are for? Because if they wanted to do a Blood Mage they would have called it a Blood Mage. There is no reason to use Dark Sun specific terminology unless you are doing Dark Sun (and are quite happy for people to know that).

I saw it on BBC I think. Does that count? I haven’t seen it since though. It seems to have gone to the same place as Pirates of Darkwater. Don’t remember, too long ago. I think there was an explanation though.

No, I tried using them, they were terrible. Space combat in Traveller isn’t really fun - too simulationist.

Which were bad.

Who are these “lots of people”?

The weird capitalisation is a strong indicator. I doubt we will hear more from that username. Who are these HEROES that we are being warned not to antagonise? Coded message is coded.

It’s not only kids who like fluffy bunnies. I would say that kids over 6 are very unlikely to like fluffy bunnies.