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Message: <blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 8710053" data-attributes="member: 5948">Oh I know, but WotC turned all the old Ravenloft lore upside down and inside out to bring it into 5e, in principle there's no reason they couldn't discard some fairly minor and peripheral lore linking Dark Sun to Spelljammer in the same way.Sigh.  WotC seem to be jumping decisively in the opposite creative direction to the one I would have chosen with every single one of their legacy setting reinventions.  Ravenloft went hard on the concept of delirious nightmare realm where I would have taken it in a very much more grounded Gothic direction.  Spelljammer is going big on the whimsy and the absurd where my favourite bits of the setting were the (admittedly minor, in the scheme of things) more gritty and horrific parts like the Inhuman Wars.  Dragonlance's focus seems to be on war and mass combat, where for me the big thing of Dragonlance was the personal drama and interactions and destinies of these romantic epic heroes.  And Dark Sun looks very much like it'll be introduced via a multiversal stopover from another setting, where my preference is for it to be as isolated as possible from the wider D&D multiverse.None of this is a criticism mind you - these creative decisions aren't 'bad' or uncanonical or indefensible - it's just a matter of personal taste.  All these settings always were big and diverse and widely thematically varied places.  Dragonlance always was both a war setting AND a melodrama setting.  It's just that WotC and I seem to be interested in completely different aspects of the settings every time, which is a bit frustrating.</blockquote>

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