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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 9796673" data-attributes="member: 7006">Anyone who likes or dislikes Dark Sun should not want a 5E Dark Sun.If you don't like Dark Sun... nothing in the new books would be so different as to give you a different opinion on the setting.  You still won't like it.If you do like Dark Sun... things will be changed just enough to fit a 21st century design paradigm that will go against a number of things you like about Dark Sun.  And you thus won't like it.Thus none of these people should be waiting or hoping for a 5E Dark Sun.The people who will like Dark Sun will be the people who know little to nothing about the setting, have no preconceived notions about it, and will just read an interesting setting design style unlike anything else they have seen produced by WotC for 5th edition.  It'll be new and different and for some people very, very intriguing.That's who a potential new book will be for.  And if by some random wild chance someone who does know original Dark Sun actually finds the new 5E Dark Sun book interesting and cool (despite the changes it invariably will have)... they can consider themselves unbelievably lucky.  Because those folks seem to be rare.</blockquote>