D&D 5E DnDBeyond leaks Dark Sun?

[CleverNickName]

The more I think about it, the more sense it makes to me. I think the odds of us getting a 5.5E Dark Sun are very good.

• A good number of people who are bored/dissatisfied with 5th Edition D&D are looking for something new and crunchy, and psionics would fit the bill.
• Others are looking for something with a heavy dose of older-edition nostalgia...which again, psionics and the World of Athas would fit. It's a rich and unique post-apocalyptic world that resonates with a whole generation of gamers.
• The "Don't Call It Edition" Edition has promised to include revisions and updates of previous material, too. Well, psionics has been through several courses of playtests already, and even touched upon in Tasha's Cauldron of Everything. Psionics might be one of the 'big surprises' that folks have been hinting about.
• It might also explain why Wizards of the Coast put the brakes on that successful 5E Dark Sun Kickstarter last year: they already had something similar on the design board, or maybe even slated for development.

All speculation, of course--I'm not affiliated with Wizards of the Coast. But I'm slowly talking myself into it.

 

[Weiley31]

I actually wouldn't be surprised if they give it another try. I'm not saying that they absolutely will, but I can see it happening.

I mean, they can ONLY stretch out the classes and races for so long.
Unless they decide to go hog wild and *ALL the current 5E races thus far get released as part of UA packets.*

 

[Ruin Explorer]

Given all the other extant lines of evidence, it seems to me that this reinforces the idea that "Doomspace" was slated to be "Athaspace" until very late in development. So I don't see a Dark Dun product coming soon, but more evidence of a reflected Dark Sun cameo in Spelljammer.

I'd normally agree but "Athasian Dune Trader" is way too micro to have taken up "monster" slot in a 64-page monster book for Spelljammer. It's something which would barely make the cut for a Dark Sun monster book!

That doesn't mean we'll see Dark Sun any time soon, but it means that somewhere in the back end of Beyond (lol no pun intended but wow), I bet there is, or perhaps there was (as I'd be deleting it frantically if I were them) a bunch of Dark Sun stuff from some partially-developed Dark Sun setting.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

The "Don't-t Call It Edition" Edition

Great now I'm picturing One D&D as an anime girl doing that finger thing

Thanks for that lol

But yes good points re: Dark Sun.

 

[Weiley31]

It would be both hilarious, or something, if it turned out it was some Custom Background somebody put on there and the system pitched a fit over it.

 

[Weiley31]

Great now I'm picturing One D&D as an anime girl doing that finger thing

Thanks for that lol

We have Slime Girls, Rabbit Girls, Owl Girls, Horse Girls and Goblin Girls at this point
DND 5E has passed that threshold already by now.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

We have Slime Girls, Rabbit Girls, Owl Girls, Horse Girls and Goblin Girls
DND 5E has passed that threshold already by now.

OH MY GOD we need some proper Japanese anime artist who is also a huge D&D nerd to do all the D&D editions (preferably including BECMI and so on) as anime girls, like they did with operating systems, or nations in World War 2, or the like lol.

 

[Parmandur]

I mean, they can ONLY stretch out the classes and races for so long.
Unless they decide to go hog wild and ALL the current 5E races thus far get released as part of UA packets.

Races are already full compatible, but I assume that you meant Subclasses. And frankly, I think they could do that, rather easily.

 

[Parmandur]

I'd normally agree but "Athasian Dune Trader" is way too micro to have taken up "monster" slot in a 64-page monster book for Spelljammer. It's something which would barely make the cut for a Dark Sun monster book!

That doesn't mean we'll see Dark Sun any time soon, but it means that somewhere in the back end of Beyond (lol no pun intended but wow), I bet there is, or perhaps there was (as I'd be deleting it frantically if I were them) a bunch of Dark Sun stuff from some partially-developed Dark Sun setting.

Not Monster, this is about a PC Background. What the D&D Beyond algorithm is doing is when one attempts to recreate one of the Published Baxkgrounds actually in Spelljammer...the "you can't homebrew published material" algorithm is recognizing it as "Athasian Dune Trader."

 

[Parmandur]

It would be both hilarious, or something, if it turned out it was some Custom Background somebody put on there and the system pitched a fit over it.

But the algorithm would have stopped them from copying what was in the book...