Dark Sun Novels Back in Print--Starting Sept. 2008

[Sitara]

A revised and Rebooted Dark Sun setting would be amazing. This time make it more visceral and brutal than ever before.

I really can't think of anything but a reboot at this point becuase of the way dndn 4E has changed; druid's are going to be totally different (and darksun's druids were completely NOT into shapeshifting and stuff, much more into spell casting) New classes, or at least new talents for classes like Wizards (preservers/defilers), a templar class (or maybe a Dragon King Domain for cleric/paladin) etc. Dragon Born are also probably out, given that Dragtons were wiped out along with the other races (orc's, gobbles, dwarves, tielflings lol).

They could take time to tweak the setting and get rid of inconsistancies and stupidity. Reduce the number of champions of rajaat, Make the Sorceror-Kings even more terrifying; get rid of the stupid avangion/dragon-king concept.

Who wants to be a freakin' mutated half-dragon when as a sorceror-king you get powerful enough to draw upon the freaking sun? Also, I really liked it that there was ONE setting where Dragons had been wiped out by humans, instead of the same ol' trite about ancient draconic empires, yadda yadda !!!eberron!!!!dragonlance!!!!!yaada!

 

[Bacris]

I was trying to figure out what all the hate of the Prism Pentad was, because I read it so long ago, so I went and looked those books up again. I think I purposely blotted out those memories... Not the best series, for sure.

I remember the scene with D&D inside one of the Dark Sun books. It made me chuckle, although it did feel a bit off.

 

[M.L. Martin]

Tangentially; does anyone know how the reprinted Ravenloft novel sold? I know Anita Blake Laurell Hamilton is fairly popular, I was underwhelmed by her entry in the novel line. There were MUCH better choices to reprint, IMO.

There were six novels reprinted over the course of the last year and a half, actually, and apparently they did well enough to justify new novels starting next spring.

 

[Lorthanoth]

Where does it say dragons where wiped out by humans? There were never any dragons except for the sorcerer kings.

 

[Spatula]

Well, the implied history from the original box set was Athas as post-apocalyptic D&D - it sounded like it was once a normal D&D world, but the ecology had been destroyed, the gods died or fled, most normal races had been killed off and the remainder evolved in different ways to survive, etc. Then all the stuff about halflings being the master race appeared.