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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gradine" data-source="post: 9734641" data-attributes="member: 57112">Which would be great if we lived in a world where IP wasn't king. But it is. Which means WotC can't actually make a desert-y, post-climate-apocalyptic world that isn't Dark Sun, because, as I've mentioned before, people would just complain why they didn't just remake Dark Sun, so they can't win that way. And the fact is kind of undeniable that what people, and specifically what WotC's current audience wants out a desert-y, post-climate-apocalyptic world is something where there's actually a glimmer of hope. That's the current reality of the situation; it's WotC's best bet at a turning a profit (a thing that is, unfortunately I would argue, necessary for them to do), and that's reality. Nobody is owed IP-fidelity. Of course, nobody is also owed changes to IP either. It boils down to a business decision, and this is, quite frankly, the right decision.And while I hate to hit up the extremely low hanging fruit of the old "nobody's kicking down your door and-" saw... but I mean... that really is the answer to the question of whether anything currently existing is being taken away. What you're really despairing is the prevailing tastes of the primary audience no longer matching your own, which means you're not getting new things that cater to your tastes, which does suck but is a different thing entirely losing something you already have. And I'm not unsympathetic. I know a day will come what's hip and with it will be very far from my own tastes and opinions. But I'll at least try not to begrudge those who are finally able to get the things that they'd most like to see in the world. Even if we're still an IP-obsessed society that almost always immediately buries anything new and daring and interesting, and the new versions of the things I love become things I don't love.I mean, either that or we'll all be dead or dying in a desert-y, post-climate-apocaltypic world where there absolutely isn't a glimmer of hope for us. In which case... I guess we'll still have our imaginations.</blockquote>

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