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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 8284229" data-attributes="member: 7006">You're both right.WotC could easily publish a single Dark Sun campaign book that goes over all the top-level tropes, storypoints, land areas, and creatures just like they've already done for Theros, Eberron and so forth.  For anyone who has never played Dark Sun before and is interested in a Mad Max-like D&D world to read and generate ideas from... that could all be done right now and probably many people would be fine with it if not outright love it.But at the same time, that kind of book would not be able to really go deep into what Dark Sun really is.  And the people who have played it in editions past and who have read/owned all the material before would easily be able to see there wasn't any real depth and that most of what made the Dark Sun setting what it was, was now missing.  A much more prominent psionics system would be near the top of that list.  So the people who love Dark Sun would rightly be pissed.But this is really no different than the Eberron and Ravenloft fans out there.  Both Eberron RftFW and VRGtR are very surface level introductions to their settings, and are missing a crap-ton of additional setting material that has been written for them in the past.  I mean I own a dozen Eberron books from 3.5 that delve further into things like Dragonmarks, Faiths, Argonesson etc. that Rising could never hope to replicate. But I think that's actually the point.  These settings book ARE nothing more than a "first taste"-- an introduction to those who have no idea what these settings are at all.  And that the expectation is that if you like this book and this setting and you want more... you will go to places like DMs Guild and start buying all the older stuff already made and full of those details for the further depth of their settings.  Because there's very little point in WotC just re-writing additional new books that is made up of all old material-- not when you can just use the old material as it is.</blockquote>

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