Update me: Darksun and Birthright

[soulforge]

Where does Birthright and Darksun currently stand? I know of all the fan sites for both, but I'm wondering where any official product currently stands. Birthright.net had something up a bit ago mentioning they had the rights now to the setting and were planning to publish a new hardcover. Any truth to that statement or was it just an April fools type of thing?

Anyone use any current d20 products for a general birthright conversion? I was looking foward to Mongoose's Bloodlines as it seemed "very" close to Birthright, but appears to now be in dev. hell.

 

[Shemeska]

Where does Birthright and Darksun currently stand? I know of all the fan sites for both, but I'm wondering where any official product currently stands. Birthright.net had something up a bit ago mentioning they had the rights now to the setting and were planning to publish a new hardcover. Any truth to that statement or was it just an April fools type of thing?

I think that was an April Fools thing. But I don't know since I don't follow Birthright much.

 

[AdmundfortGeographer]

I know of all the fan sites for both, but I'm wondering where any official product currently stands..

Define "official".

Because the official Dark Sun fansite is putting out "official" 3.x Dark Sun material. The new "official" material stuff is actually co-owned by WotC and the official Dark Sun fansite, and according to the agreement between the two must be released free and can never be charged a price for.

 

[XCorvis]

The Athas.org stuff also happens to be pretty good, which is a nice plus.

 

[DungeonmasterCal]

www.birthright.net is the only place I know where it's alive and well.

 

[soulforge]

I know about the athas site and love it, but something about actually getting a physical hardback appeals to me. I at least like that darksun seems to have more of a fan-base left than birthright.

I'm disappointed that they would say they have the license just for April fool's.