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Message: <blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 9061525" data-attributes="member: 5948">Was excited for it, pre-ordered it, bought it, was deeply disappointed with it.The PC races were bland and mechanically unadventurous. The lack of a meaningful spaceship battle system in the spaceship swashbuckling setting was ridiculous. The adventure was a railroad with a bad climax, and the lack of any sort of plot hooks or setting detail beyond the adventure (and 3 pages on the Rock of Bral) was pathetic. The casual theft of Athas’s toys was both deeply annoying to me as a big Dark Sun fan who was hoping to see 5e DS at some point, and jarringly incongruous with the tone of the rest of the product. And the gm screen, despite its beautiful art, was a waste of effort and resources in what was already a very expensive and low-content product.As some have said in this thread, many of these problems could have been largely eliminated by bumping up the page count by 64 or something similar, and a good product would have resulted. But unfortunately they weren’t, and the final package just wasn’t up to scratch. There’s a couple of SJ-like kickstarters floating around - Starlight Arcana and Aetherial Expanse for example, that I’m hoping will fill in some of the gaping holes WotC left.</blockquote>