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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ProfessorCirno" data-source="post: 4834796" data-attributes="member: 65637">Novem5er, I don't mean this in a rude way, but you're kinda coming off as someone who's never even heard of Dark Sun aside from...well, this thread.Bringing new races into Dark Sun wouldn't be too difficult - save one, but I'll get to that - so long as you downplay their numbers.  So you can have x new race in Dark Sun, but just very few of them - they could be a mutation, or simply a rarely seen x race from the wastelands.The only problematic one I see is the Wilden, which I really cannot comprehend fitting in well.As for downplaying 2e stuff, no.  They tried downplaying previous setting lore with FR, and that didn't go very well.That said, I think Dark Sun is not going to happen in 4e.  4e is all about letting you use all the materials everywhere - see the "EVERYTHING IS CORE!" clause.  Dark Sun, on the other hand, does not, to put it nicely.  Races and classes can kinda fit, but you need to do some work with them, and while four or five races can be done, when everything is core, doing it with fourteen or fifteen races is where it becomes hard.  Then there's the problem with deities, and the problems with items, and so on, and so on.I think Dark Sun just deviates in too many ways for it to be considered.</blockquote>