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<blockquote data-quote="Wik" data-source="post: 5209728" data-attributes="member: 40177">No.&nbsp; But change just to satisfy your internal designer itch isn't a good thing, either.&nbsp; If you say you're a &quot;fan&quot; of something, it suggests that you're confident of the initial product's strengths.&nbsp; Saying you're a fan and then changing some of the conceits of the setting (and the feywild does, at least in my opinion, go against one of the implied conceits of the original setting) is not a good sign.It's a lot like saying &quot;hey, I'm a fan of the Karate Kid movies.&nbsp; I'm going to rerelease a karate kid movie!&nbsp; Only in my movie, we'll make the kid street smart and black - because that tracks well with audiences these days.&nbsp; And we'll set the story in China instead of the United States, because a martial arts competition makes more sense there.&nbsp; And we'll put Jackie Chan in as the martial arts instructor, because...&quot;There comes a point where you're not redesigning or polishing off some of the flaws of the original product, but are instead offering a &quot;reimagining&quot;.For the record, if WotC had said &quot;hey, we're going to release a new setting that's kind of similar to the old Dark Sun setting&quot; I'd be all over it.&nbsp; That'd be amazing.But to say something is Dark Sun, that you're a huge fan of it, and then, in every blog update or post you make on the setting, you talk about how you're fixing some old &quot;problem&quot; that came up in the game, well, that comes off as being a bit iffy to me.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Wik, post: 5209728, member: 40177"] No. But change just to satisfy your internal designer itch isn't a good thing, either. If you say you're a "fan" of something, it suggests that you're confident of the initial product's strengths. Saying you're a fan and then changing some of the conceits of the setting (and the feywild does, at least in my opinion, go against one of the implied conceits of the original setting) is not a good sign. It's a lot like saying "hey, I'm a fan of the Karate Kid movies. I'm going to rerelease a karate kid movie! Only in my movie, we'll make the kid street smart and black - because that tracks well with audiences these days. And we'll set the story in China instead of the United States, because a martial arts competition makes more sense there. And we'll put Jackie Chan in as the martial arts instructor, because..." There comes a point where you're not redesigning or polishing off some of the flaws of the original product, but are instead offering a "reimagining". For the record, if WotC had said "hey, we're going to release a new setting that's kind of similar to the old Dark Sun setting" I'd be all over it. That'd be amazing. But to say something is Dark Sun, that you're a huge fan of it, and then, in every blog update or post you make on the setting, you talk about how you're fixing some old "problem" that came up in the game, well, that comes off as being a bit iffy to me. [/QUOTE]

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