D&D 5E (2024) Unconfirmed Dark Sun World Book

[Zardnaar]

"Defilers and Preservers" showed wizards kits with alternate hidrances instead defiling: Cerulean, Shadow and Necromancers. Some player could ask to can play a homemade variant: a cerulean sorcerer, a shadow artificer or a necromancer warlock.

Teorically ceruleans shouldn't appear before the events of Pentad Prism.

WotC has to choose if they are going to allow space for future classes, for example the shadowcaster(3.5 Tome of Magic) , the psionic ardent or the shaman. Maybe no Athasian species are possible because the "city of spires", a secret faction from "the black spine" (I guess this is not a true spoiler) created a multiplanar empire or they could conquer a neighbour wildspace.

Other player could to ask to can play a "sha'ir"(class from al-Qadim) explaining this is a elemental summoner and therefore a primal spellcaster.

Would be possible a "cult of Thoon" in the Athaspace?

I dont think WotC will do anything with Cerulean wizards. Obscure class from Kate in the cycle of DS products.

I suspect they will go with 4E timeline or OBS timeline.

Alot of the latter DS stuff isn't overly popular even in DS circles as they kinda blew up what made DS appealing in the first place.

 

[Superchunk77]

I dont think WotC will do anything with Cerulean wizards. Obscure class from Kate in the cycle of DS products.

I suspect they will go with 4E timeline or OBS timeline.

Alot of the latter DS stuff isn't overly popular even in DS circles as they kinda blew up what made DS appealing in the first place.

My guess is they won't do Dark Sun. But if they do, they'll use 4e but water it down to the point where it's just Forgotten Realms in the desert.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

My guess is they won't do Dark Sun. But if they do, they'll use 4e but water it down to the point where it's just Forgotten Realms in the desert.

The only part about that that I agree with is the idea that they will look at how 4e did it, if only to attempt to use what worked there, and to avoid what did not. Whether they will come up with a successful take or not, I have no idea. But I'm pretty sure that it's coming.

 

[Zardnaar]

My guess is they won't do Dark Sun. But if they do, they'll use 4e but water it down to the point where it's just Forgotten Realms in the desert.

That's my expectation. Hoping for decent defiling rules and a pretty map at this point.

I can add in everything else easily enough.

 

[Superchunk77]

That's my expectation. Hoping for decent defiling rules and a pretty map at this point.

I can add in everything else easily enough.

The 2e and 4e maps are both fantastic. Just use either of those. Judging by the UA, the defiling rules are a huge miss.

 

[Zardnaar]

The 2e and 4e maps are both fantastic. Just use either of those. Judging by the UA, the defiling rules are a huge miss.

2E maps are getting old. Wasn't a big fan of 4E map. Its better than 4E FR msp which i thought was terrible.

I've got the cloth map revised set.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

If it will be a generic postapocaliptse sourcebook with only one chapter for the region of Tyr then the cerulean spellcasters could be published for your homemade setting.

The cerulean magic could be the origin of Athasian living constructs like autognomes. Maybe they were created by cerulean wizards to be the eyes and ears of the cerulean lord, like a remote-control drone. The handicap is they don't need food or water to survive but if they do not consume a certain balm every so often, they would lose their free will and they would be mind-controlled by the cerulean lord. Or maybe these autognome are allowed to enjoy free will but in exchange they have to implant a mind-control crystal in others, maybe no-sentient animals or ordinary criminals who deserve to lose their freedom.

The necromancers could be living agents of a secret faction of ghosts who rule an empire in the afterlife, like in "wraith: the oblivion".

Or the shadow spiders (sentient vernims, canon in 2nd Ed) coud be using shadow magic, and some times trading shadow magic items.