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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AdmundfortGeographer" data-source="post: 4612873" data-attributes="member: 4682">I'm between Alzrius and humble minion in my take. I don't consider them tops in game fiction for the story. They are indispensable for someone who wants to know canon of the Dark Sun setting. The novels defined canon for what was to come after.Absolutely could be the case. Though I would have loved for them to reprint the books but rewrite the fifth book. I interviewed Troy personally and he confided that he wished he had ended the series differently.See. After Troy participated in the setting design, he was shuffled off out of the RPG department and into the novels line. Troy had zero involvement with Dark Sun, except his novels, after he was done with the original boxedset. Even though Troy was a setting co-creator, he was kept out of the loop as much as every author was (Ed Greenwood being the lone exception at that time). While Ed, as creator, received complimentary copies of every FR products (so I heard), Troy got nothing from TSR.Part of the Dark Sun design team's goal was to create a setting where players could overturn a stagnant and oppressive society and make a world anew. The Prism Pentad was begun as a demonstration of just how PCs could do it. The problem was that as Troy was writing his story as part of the novels line now, he had no contact with the RPG guys designing supplements. As Troy finished his final book, he learned that someone in the RPG department had just authored an accessory defining the area the novels would finish up at. It just so happens in Troy's novel the place gets, well, the Atlantis treatment.So not only did Troy, with no communication with the RPG teams designing supplements, go off and completely negate certain supplements within months of their releases. Troy also went way off the deep end in overturning the popular themes of the setting itself . . . BY DESIGN and FROM THE START! If the fans were let in on the scope of final outcome before it happened there might have been a different reaction. Maybe. Fans might not have gotten so deeply attached to the setting as presented in the first boxed set. But then again,  Troy admitted that he wishes he could have handled the series differently, hadn't wiped out so much of what fans loved. He didn't think his novels would become future canon and would have only been used as inspiration for players and DM's own stories. Boy was he off. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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