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Copies of Spelljammer are starting to show up. Mike Long of Tribality is in receipt of the books and has tweeted some photos!

 

[SkidAce]

Possible, but more likely that they didn't want to 100% commit to the place actually being the real Athas because a whole lot of Dark Sun fans (including me) think Athas is best off isolated by itself away from the rest of the D&D multiverse, and that having the only 5e representation of it jammed in as a tourist reststop or cameo in a completely different campaign setting that is utterly thematically divorced from anything Dark Sun, would be really damn annoying.

Or maybe the campaign is just going to be visiting Athas's moons and not actually landing on the planet, so perhaps the inhabitants of Doomspace don't know what the natives even call the place. I mean, would you land on Athas if you didn't have to? The place is AWFUL...

Maybe Athas is in the event horizon of a black hole, thus cut off and inescapable. (via normal travel)

Maybe the Black is...hmmmmm, I could play with this idea.

 

[R_J_K75]

Fair statement, but I also thing someone upthread changed their mind and decided to buy it.

It appears al is right with the multiverse then.

 

[Charlaquin]

Maybe Athas is in the event horizon of a black hole, thus cut off and inescapable. (via normal travel)

Maybe the Black is...hmmmmm, I could play with this idea.

That would destroy it though…

 

[SkidAce]

That would destroy it though…

Maaagic!

 

[humble minion]

That would destroy it though…

Eh, Rajaat’s power is holding it together. That’s why Borys (once he’d ascended to dragonhood amd learned the truth) never killed him, despite having thousands of years to work out a way to do it.

(If we’re going hog wild with Athas lore retcons, let’s do it good and hard…)

 

[Nikosandros]

Interesting cosmology, but my "baseline" will probably remain that Wildspace is fully in the Material Plane and it is the Astral Sea that is a super-position... but first, I'll have to read the full book and think about it.

 

[Charlaquin]

Maaagic!

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Eh, Rajaat’s power is holding it together. That’s why Borys (once he’d ascended to dragonhood amd learned the truth) never killed him, despite having thousands of years to work out a way to do it.

(If we’re going hog wild with Athas lore retcons, let’s do it good and hard…)

Yeah, I guess… This is why I don’t like to mix my scifi with my high fantasy. The more we bring in science, the harder it gets for me to suspend my disbelief about magic.

 

[SkidAce]

Yeah, I guess… This is why I don’t like to mix my scifi with my high fantasy. The more we bring in science, the harder it gets for me to suspend my disbelief about magic.

I like the mixing. Arthur C. Clark's law and all. both, neither, one or the other works great depending on the setting.

Of course, I started reading sci/fi and Fantasy back when they originated those mashups. Good Times.

 

[Charlaquin]

I like the mixing. Arthur C. Clark's law and all. both, neither, one or the other works great depending on the setting.

But for Clarke’s law to work, the technology has to be sufficiently advanced as to appear magical. By all means, imply that the magic in a fantasy setting is actually some form of super-advanced technology. But having special relativity and the weave of magic both existing side by side? Too weird for me.

 

[Dried]

I don't think we talk about a real black hole. Like wildspace is not real space like ours but something looking alike.