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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 9671337" data-attributes="member: 23751">Okay.I think that slavery, while not THE reason, was one of the reasons why.  Not just an excuse for all the other stuff.I think that the design work involved with the races and classes is more involved than they needed for other settings like Spelljammer, Dragonlance and Planescape.  Combine that with the main focus and intense design efforts to create 5.5e and get those books out, and you have a situation where a setting like Dark Sun would have to be put on the back burner.  The same goes for psions/psionics which got put on the back burner until 5.5e was done, and now they are back into designing that class.I think that the rest of the minor issues with Dark Sun that you laid out added to the above, and that when you take all of that together, they just couldn't devote any time or effort to making the setting.Now, though, they have the time and resources to devote to making the minor changes, and to working on the races, classes, and danger levels that would be needed to make Dark Sun.Does that mean we will see it?  No, but that they are working on the psion class again is good sign and could mean that they are.</blockquote>