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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dire Bare" data-source="post: 4896521" data-attributes="member: 18182">Actually, the Prism Pentad sold quite well, they are reprinting the series after all!!  You don't reprint novels that sold poorly, even if you are launching a game setting the next year.I personally found the Prism Pentad by Troy Denning to be an incredibly awesome series of books, very well written.  I highly recommend them, and they should be easy to find in bookstores as they were just rereleased.You'll hear a lot of grief from a subset of gamers that feel the books "destroyed" the Dark Sun setting.  In fact, probably before I manage to finish this post!  I think that attitude is crap.  The situation is the original boxed set for the game was released, and at the same time the novel series was released, which took the "current events" in the boxed set and changed them drastically by the end of the fifth and final book.  To some, this invalidated the world as presented in the boxed set . . . . my group just ignored the events of the novels and had fun.  We also all read the novels and enjoyed them.  YMMV.</blockquote>