mamba
Legend
feels pretty premature for calling it...
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NOW LIVE! Into the Woods--new character species, eerie monsters, and haunting villains to populate the woodlands of your D&D games.
D&D (2024) Where to next, WotC?
- Thread starter Mercurius
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The latter.
Truth be told... I wouldn't be surprised if they do release a 5E24 Dark Sun setting book, but that it takes the form of the new Eberron: Forge of the Artificer book-- smaller and with a cheaper price.
Release a short Dark Sun setting book just to get the mechanics out there and base bones setting information. Yes, it will tick off the hardcore Dark Sun fans who would want everything ever published for Dark Sun brought in and up to 5E24 standards (quite possibly including all the problematic material that we all know WotC will never actually reintroduce)... but at this point beggars can't be choosers.
Do (general) you want Dark Sun? You're getting a reduced and amended Dark Sun just like we got a reduced and amended Spelljammer for 5E. And if (general) you don't like that idea? Then don't ask for it. Use the 2E Dark Sun material (general) you have to your heart's content.
Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
Hmm. Has the entire world of Arthas ever been detailed? It hasn't, as far as I know. What if we got the Dark Sun equivalent of Taladas, with new-to-us cities and power groups with similar issues, but without a storyline that was already completed in the first novel (oops!).
Folks who really want the classic setting have DriveThruRPG, but new players get a Dark Sun experience without the burden of the 2E metaplot.
Corinnguard
Hero
Beyond the Tablelands Plateau on Athas? There was some mention way back of a Thri-Kreen empire and a city state ruled by a sorcerer king who took it upon himself to become an Avangion.
Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
I'm sure a lot of Dark Sun fans might getting annoyed leaving the Tablelands, but hopping to the far side of the globe allows the current WotC team to remix all of the best parts of Dark Sun 2E without feeling beholden to include any of the bad stuff.
Parmandur
Book-Friend, he/him
Not based on today's UA contents.
mamba
Legend
you can get psionics without having to also get Dark Sun. Is there anything in the UA that explicitly ties it to DS / an upcoming DS product?
Henadic Theologian
Legend
I think the idea of Wild Talents originated in DS, not 100% sure of that.
Outside chance this is for the Eberron or FR books instead.
Eberron is the other setting where Psionics plays a major role, and FR is probably the midway point between DS & Eberron on one side and DL, GH, BR on the other. It's not important to the setting, or as common, but FR does gave significant Psionic Lore, such as Ancient Jhaamdath, and a bunch of psionic characters in the novel, plus BG3 might have amplified the influence of Psionics in the setting (the tadpoles functioning as a kind of Psionic Gesalt class).
The only thing that sticks out as being unDS in flavour about the UA, is that piece of Artwork which looks very un Dark Sun like.
DavyGreenwind
Just some guy
An informed assumption, if you will. With Dark Sun being the only setting mentioned in the New PHB that has yet to be published, and now this, I feel pretty good Dark Sun is coming in 2026. It'll be reimagined for a modern audience, probably focusing more on post apocalypse gameplay than the other less savory elements.
