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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 8093607" data-attributes="member: 7006"><p>You're assuming WotC would be releasing this book for all the old DS fans. They wouldn't be. They'd be releasing it for some of the old DS fans and all of the current D&D fans whom they'd hope would become DS fans.</p><p></p><p>They have no need or desire to write a book for all the old fans... because those people already own all the Dark Sun material from the previous editions. And the true die-hard Athas fans have probably already run 5E games in the setting, making all of their own adjustments to the 5E mechanics as necessary already.</p><p></p><p>Anyone who is a elder fan of Eberron (like myself) saw what WotC did in the two Eberron 4E books, and the 5E <em>Rising of the Last War</em> book. And I guarantee you that if any of those elder Eberron fans ran a campaign in it... they brought in a crap-ton of material from the dozen of Eberron 3.5 books that were written that they already owned, because there was just too much good detail in those books that obviously WotC wasn't going to be able to reprint in the 5E book. So it didn't really matter what was in the RofLW book as far as grognard service. Eberron grognards probably barely even needed the book and if they used it at all it was merely for the game mechanics for the few things that the setting needed and which they hadn't already found adequate replacements for elsewhere. I know I ran my two Eberron games using just the mechanics they created for the Wayfinder's Guide and then all my old books. I didn't even need Rising to start with.</p><p></p><p>Dark Sun will be the exact same thing. WotC will make a simplified setting book that hits all the big points, but which will be lacking in the deep dive of detail that we got back in the original setting box sets and accompanying material. And for those that feel like they need more than what that 5E book would give them? They can just go onto DMs Guild to buy all the old material like the DS grognards already own.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 8093607, member: 7006"] You're assuming WotC would be releasing this book for all the old DS fans. They wouldn't be. They'd be releasing it for some of the old DS fans and all of the current D&D fans whom they'd hope would become DS fans. They have no need or desire to write a book for all the old fans... because those people already own all the Dark Sun material from the previous editions. And the true die-hard Athas fans have probably already run 5E games in the setting, making all of their own adjustments to the 5E mechanics as necessary already. Anyone who is a elder fan of Eberron (like myself) saw what WotC did in the two Eberron 4E books, and the 5E [I]Rising of the Last War[/I] book. And I guarantee you that if any of those elder Eberron fans ran a campaign in it... they brought in a crap-ton of material from the dozen of Eberron 3.5 books that were written that they already owned, because there was just too much good detail in those books that obviously WotC wasn't going to be able to reprint in the 5E book. So it didn't really matter what was in the RofLW book as far as grognard service. Eberron grognards probably barely even needed the book and if they used it at all it was merely for the game mechanics for the few things that the setting needed and which they hadn't already found adequate replacements for elsewhere. I know I ran my two Eberron games using just the mechanics they created for the Wayfinder's Guide and then all my old books. I didn't even need Rising to start with. Dark Sun will be the exact same thing. WotC will make a simplified setting book that hits all the big points, but which will be lacking in the deep dive of detail that we got back in the original setting box sets and accompanying material. And for those that feel like they need more than what that 5E book would give them? They can just go onto DMs Guild to buy all the old material like the DS grognards already own. [/QUOTE]
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