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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Staffan" data-source="post: 9750137" data-attributes="member: 907">Thank you for your response. I do have to wonder: this concept of fiction and gaming as value-adds to one another for Dark Sun specifically, was that part of the original concept or was it something that changed along the way? I wonder because Freedom and The Verdant Passage are fairly tightly connected, and The Crimson Legion and Road to Urik are also pretty tight (Crimson Legion is about Urik trying to take advantage of Tyr no longer having a sorcerer-king and going to war, with Road to Urik being partially about recruiting troops and then actually leading them into battle in the first skirmishes of that war). But there's no connection at all between The Amber Enchantress, The Obsidian Oracle, and The Cerulean Storm on one hand and Arcane Shadows, Asticlian Gambit, and Dragon's Crown on the other, other than the covers.I think what people want is lore, rather than continuity/meta-plot – it's just that in most cases, the two have been entwined coming from game companies. Of course, not everyone is the same, but that's the impression I get. Of course, that's coming from the gaming side – it's possible there are fiction fans who love seeing emerging plotlines instead. Personally I feel most gaming worlds have enough room to delve deep into lore without moving the timeline and thereby invalidating part of it.</blockquote>