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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AdmundfortGeographer" data-source="post: 4897205" data-attributes="member: 4682">I've mentioned this in threads on Dark Sun novels in the past. But at the time the Prism Pentad was being written, the TSR novels department was kept separate from the game department. Troy Denning and Tim Brown, along with collaboration from Brom and Mary Kirchoff, designed the setting. Promptly after the original boxed set was put together, Troy Denning was shuffled off to write the novels to coincide with the setting.From that point on, Troy Denning was kept in the dark with what was going on with his baby. All the while he was finishing up the Prism Pentad, another team was in control of producing material for Dark Sun. This came to a clashing conclusion in the final book where Rick Baker was writing a supplement on Ur Draxa (the city of The Dragon) while Troy was concluding the story with a confrontation . . . in Ur Draxa!Rich Baker wasn't clued in that Troy was taking the finale into Ur Draxa, and Troy Denning wasn't told Rich Baker had just finished the supplement for the city. This caused Troy to have to rip out and re-write whole chapters at the end that detailed what Troy wanted to be in Ur Draxa.Plus, the finale destroyed Ur Draxa, making the accessory Rich Baker created useless except for some little details about the Silt Sea.This insane corporate structure continued past this fiasco with the rest of  the Dark Sun line. Lynn Abbey was kept in the dark about significant Dark Sun metaplots, she was given barely enough material. She repeatedly asked her contacts in the novels department for more information from the RPG department on Dark Sun. The RPG department was tight lipped on their secrets. So Lynn Abbey threw caution to the wind and just wrote a damn good novel. Because the RPG department wouldn't clue Lynn in on certain canon background ideas, Lynn invented her own to keep her story coherent.FWIW, where she came up with a background I'm a fan of what Lynn invented over the RPG department's background.</blockquote>

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