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<blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 8758528" data-attributes="member: 5948">I have no problems believing that at all.&nbsp; In fact i think the overwhelming majority of evidence suggests that's exactly what they planned before the idea was nixed at the last minute by someone further up the food chain and they had to scramble to do a quick rewrite to file the serial numbers off. The Dark Sun monsters in the Astral Menagerie book, and thri-kreen in the main book.&nbsp; The brief appearance of the 'Athasspace' map on DNDBeyond before it was hurriedly yanked and replaced with 'Doomspace' with no explanation stinks of the online team getting given the old map and someone forgetting to update them when plans changed late.&nbsp; And the description of Doomspace in the adventure basically reads as if someone was given the brief 'we've written an adventure in Athas but we can't use Athas and it's too late to rewrite, quick, come up with some quick background of an Athasy world that isn't Athas and hurry up about it, we go to print in 20 minutes'.Given the various ... controversial ... editorial choices around Spelljammer, from the initial decision to go with the three-skinny-book format that absolutely nobody asked for, to the various hadozee issues, this does not strike me as a project that was managed very well by Wizards.&nbsp; Given the way everything else went, I have absolutely no problems believing that some bright spark in WotC's creative department thought it'd be a grand wink-and-nudge joke to drop Athas into a black hole in a Spelljammer adventure, before some perhaps more seasoned and grizzled head saw the almost-completed manuscript at the very last second and screamed 'WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING???'I'd dearly love to be a fly on the wall at the Spelljammer project postmortem meeting, I have to admit...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="humble minion, post: 8758528, member: 5948"] I have no problems believing that at all. In fact i think the overwhelming majority of evidence suggests that's exactly what they planned before the idea was nixed at the last minute by someone further up the food chain and they had to scramble to do a quick rewrite to file the serial numbers off. The Dark Sun monsters in the Astral Menagerie book, and thri-kreen in the main book. The brief appearance of the 'Athasspace' map on DNDBeyond before it was hurriedly yanked and replaced with 'Doomspace' with no explanation stinks of the online team getting given the old map and someone forgetting to update them when plans changed late. And the description of Doomspace in the adventure basically reads as if someone was given the brief 'we've written an adventure in Athas but we can't use Athas and it's too late to rewrite, quick, come up with some quick background of an Athasy world that isn't Athas and hurry up about it, we go to print in 20 minutes'. Given the various ... controversial ... editorial choices around Spelljammer, from the initial decision to go with the three-skinny-book format that absolutely nobody asked for, to the various hadozee issues, this does not strike me as a project that was managed very well by Wizards. Given the way everything else went, I have absolutely no problems believing that some bright spark in WotC's creative department thought it'd be a grand wink-and-nudge joke to drop Athas into a black hole in a Spelljammer adventure, before some perhaps more seasoned and grizzled head saw the almost-completed manuscript at the very last second and screamed 'WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING???' I'd dearly love to be a fly on the wall at the Spelljammer project postmortem meeting, I have to admit... [/QUOTE]

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