Will it ever make a comeback?

I hope not, would you want to see it raped through the mud like all the others?

No.

>>96105785 (OP)
>um wow does this setting actually use the S-word?
>What do you mean I can't start with full plate?
>My character being thirsty is triggering my PTSD

>>96105785 (OP)
Too problematic.

>>96105785 (OP)
It would take the fall of Hasbro and dispersal of WotC's IPs for it to rise again.

>>96105785 (OP)
Despite it being exactly the sort of setting the fandom needs right now, it's not likely.

You are out of your mind if you think I want modern WotC to bring it back to simply rape it. Keep making them believe it's too problematic; it's for the best.

>>96105842
"Ohh, I don't like that word!"
...
"The 'prisoners with jobs' have armed themselves."

>What do you mean I can't start with full plate
You actually can, it'll just be made of bone like all the other usually-metal gear. Heat stroke, however, is still a big problem during the day,

>>96105785 (OP)
maybe? the UA for the Psion suggested wild talents for the Noble (and Sage) background, which seems a bit reminiscent of Dark Sun.
There were references to Dark Sun it in the 2024 PHB iirc, even in the halflings section.
BG3 was very successful and it did have slaves and some dark stuff even if not to the level of Dark Sun, but still, it's dumb to cover your ears and pretend all 5e products have been Radiant Citadel style crap.
Either way, it doesn't matter since it's 1000% guaranteed that if it gets rereleased it'll suck.

>>96105813
fpbp, I don't want nuD&D5.7839 to rape it either.

It was pretty bad, let's hope not.

Any of you processed the fact that none of the characters in Dark Sun were white?

>>96106559
What if they changed the setting so only white males are slaves and we have sorcerer queens?

>>96106559
Of course they're all swarthy, it's a die-of-heat-stroke desert! The only people with any chance of being pale are the most intense shut-ins among the wealthy.

>>96105785 (OP)
It did, in best edition

>>96106559

I would like to see how newer races would be handled in this setting.

Unfortunately, they refuse to give races, I mean species, any lore.

>>96105785 (OP)
No and that's a good thing. Let the current tide of bullshit recede and then Dark Sun can make a comeback.

>>96106559
>Any of you processed the fact that none of the characters in Dark Sun were white?

>>96107004
DEI at it's absolute worst.

Unrealistic and political. A literally impossible depiction. No whiteskinned people have spawned in deserts in all of history. The science doesn't lie and the facts don't care about your representation.

>>96107644
>the science of Dark Sun
lmao
>>96107350
iirc that's from Dark Age not Dark Sun. There were a few in that blogpost that didn't seem lined up but its sometimes hard to tell what the original use for a piece was vs what it got used for.

>>96108577

BROM is aggressively BROM, especially when projects like Dark Age pay him to be as aggressively BROM!! as possible.

>>96108577
Keep seething. Audiences are fed up with this race-swapping bullshit

>>96105785 (OP)
I hope no. They will fucking destroy my precious Darksun. Leave Athas dead and uncorrupted.

>>96106559
The villains are also mostly trans-humanist dragons to varying degrees of dragon. And one of them has a harem of underage priestesses that serve him.

>>96108718
nou

>>96106559
Wow, it's almost like people just want their fantasy worlds to be consistent and the complaints about bizarre racial quotas are not just veiled racism.

>>96107644
kek

>>96105785 (OP)
Was Darksun ever actually that popular? I get the feeling that people look back on it a lot more fondly than it was actually received at the time.

>>96106365
Onions.

>>96105785 (OP)
Tell me about your last dark sun game. Would love to hear it.

>>96107350
>something something war never changes
>something something don't stop dancing

>>96111346
>Maybe it was good maybe it wasn't, before I decide I need to know: did enough people support it that I can keep being a normie coward homofaggot if I express an opinion?

God I hope not

>>96109573
Funny that you chose to say that when the other immediate responses to that troll were, "YES THEY CAN!! YES THEY WERE SO WhITE!!"

>>96111915
>gatekept successfully for another 2w until wotc bends it over
>inserts gibberish no one ever said
I guess you contrarian grog faggots will have to move on to Maztica or some other crap to stay cool and unknowable then, I take it. kek what a bitch

>>96111346
>Was Darksun ever actually that popular?
No, it wasn't. Like most of the 1990s-era TSR settings it had a brief blip of popularity at launch and then quickly died, one of several reasons why TSR went bankrupt.

>>96111346
It was extremely popular with the only group that mattered: Mine.

When I used to exclusively play 5e I was a regular in the Dark Sun should return debate. Now that I got sick of it I can't help but notice that there are 2 or 3 third party versions that are miles better than what WotC did to Spelljammer and Dragonlance. There are also versions for Troika, Into the Odd and OSE. And it all kinda sucks, it's not really the best take on anything in particular. You can play other stuff that does whatever you like from Dark Sun much better than Dark Sun dos (even versions of DS are so different they might as well be a different setting if it weren't for the branding).

Why would it matter if there's a version with WotC's aproval? Why do you care?

>>96112210
That's more because there's a fundamental urge to tell someone they're wrong on the internet. There's no one going 'reee there's not enough white people in dark sun'.

>>96112536
>homebrew vs "official" arguments again
In reality most posters ITT just want some excuse to make fun of the trash art wotc will comission AI "artists" to make and to complain about how it was ruined officially.

>>96112536
>>96112536
Could you please recommend me something Dark Sun-like? Preferably not osr though, I've run to much of that recently.

>>96112599
Just read the fucking setting info for Dark sun then adapt the core ideas to whatever game you want to play.

>>96105813
Only sane take. Old nerd worldbuilding is dead and buried. Nerds today don't want that kind of lore and storytelling. Too many midwits got into the hobby via video games and anime. It's fucking done. From here on out all fantasy is Disneyshit, forever. Even the grimderp edgelord Fromshit inspired settings.

>>96112647
>grimderp dark shit for edglords
We're talking about dark sun here, give me a break man.

>>96112599
It depends on what you want from DS, like I said even DS editions feel like different settings with different intended games (conspiring a heist to kill a god king and hexcrawling the desert until you find an ocean are bunched together because DS had one adventure at the time, but they aren't the same experience). For example, I've been recently preparing Conan: Adventures in an Age Undreamed Of and I feel it could be used to run DS (or stuff in the same line) with very little issues.

>>96106559
What are you even trying to do with this you terminally online retard?

>>96105785 (OP)
it won't come back, but you will be playing it with AI DM pretty soon.

>>96112374
D&D2e was not such big deal outside of video games, was it?

>>96112647
>OLD GOOD
>NEW BAD
>BECAUSE... IT JUST IS OKAY?
>BUZZWORDS BUZZWORDS BUZZWORDS
Fuck off faggot.

>>96114996
You can play it now with actual people instead of having a glorified autocomplete shit out garbage for you.

>>96115022

>>96112408
based
this anon plays games

>>96112408
I don't give a shit about your group, therefore you're wrong.

>>96106559
Why does everything always have to be about race with you ameritards? Don't you have a civil war to fight over a guest list or something?

1 there were white skinned people in the art. 2 the setting was heavily inspired by the fertile crescent, where there are multiple ethnicities that are fairly light skinned (though obviously not northern European).

>>96105785 (OP)
It wasn't great to begin with. Figure out what aspects it was that you enjoyed and write a better setting that includes those aspects.

>>96112886
That if it does come back it's imperative to remove the foul '90s DEI "everyone belongs" shit and make the setting mostly brown people to honour verisimilitude.

>>96111346
It did get a "Dark Sun Online" game, apparently. Don't recall seeing what it was like, though.

>>96118193
Oh man, thats weird. I knew there were two SSI games, didn't realize they had an ancient MMO.

Someone at SSI must've really liked Dark Sun.

>>96107087
Genocided, like the gnomes.

>>96118399
I've only played a bit of the second SSI one, but it looked nice.
If I heard of the online one at the time, forgot about it entirely, until I was browsing the archived TSR website the other day.

>>96106559
That should have made you realize what the real problem is but instead it just made you confused, which is sad to see.

>>96115841
>see post
>immediately begin talking about Americans
Least obsessed foreigner

>>96105785 (OP)
It is probably for the best that it doesn't make a comeback in any modern capacity as it will be mistreated in the name of modern sensibilities.

>>96105785 (OP)
Yes.

>>96105785 (OP)
They can't even publish the art without people losing their shit.

>>96106559
Why are you pushing that here instead of the people who insist on POC representation and beancount races for modern political reasons?

>>96105785 (OP)
Modern player base would make it gay, so i hope not.

>>96118399
Dark sun was supposed to be the new engine to replace the gold box.

Late SSI was making wild swings at shit.

>>96105785 (OP)
I’m sure modern WoTC will bring it back eventually to gang rape the shit out of it. They had a psion UA which is a step towards the kind of psionic classes needed for Dark Sun.

>>96105785 (OP)
A come back from what? They're books. Did someone steal them off your shelf. Did the bad-wrong-fun police write you a ticket last time you tried to play?

They're fucking books. You can still find copies, digital versions and even reprints with a single google search. It didn't go anywhere. You did.

>>96136195
Anon wants WotC to give it the Spelljammer and Dragonlance treatment and make it a boring as fuck adventure with no setting personality and even more player options that make no sense but people will try to force them into other settings because they are new and OP

>>96136195
This. I played a Dark Sun game earlier this year. It died because the DM has serious mental health issues but now I’m running a homebrew system.

>>96136259
Nice. I have a Darksun campaign ready to go but we're busy with other games at the moment.

>>96136270
I find it can be fun to wait to run it, new ideas come. Sometimes it can be too long.

>>96105785 (OP)
For something to have a comeback it needs to have been in the zeitgeist to begin with. Forgotten Realms and Ravenloft always dominated. So, no. Outside of the same 5 Dark Sun fans who only ever play in that setting, or maybe the occasional new tabletop nerd trying to escape their 5e-like or kickstarter slop niche by playing a "hardcore throwback game", Dark Sun will never "come back".

>>96136195
I'm guessing anon's wishing there could be MORE material of the setting he likes. Preferrably good material, which is very unlikely for now.

Crazy, I know, some people be like that.

>>96112647
You are right that most people who playing the game tend to be tourists checking out the current fad and all. However, like we been seeing time and time again they tend to get listen and taken over by special interest groups that basically ruin the brand by changing everything to push their message saying it will appeal to the "modern audience." Look at Star Wars, Marvel, DC, Dr. Who, basically any IP that listen to the dumb karens who admitted they didn't even care for it but were allowed to write for it and change the lore to fit them and their viewpoints. (Often by putting a chick in it and making her gay and really lame.)

>>96106559
Oh no! Anyway...
I swear you box-tickers are all mentally ill. You probably believe in all these too.

Besides Psionic, it had a perfectly functional 4E revisitation that modernised it and included 90% of races found in 5E.

>>96136558
Anon could quit being a lazy piece of shit and make more material and engage with his hobby instead of being a whiney useless leech.

>>96136558
There is already more existing Dark Suns material alone than anon will ever use to game with in their actual entire life.

>>96136558
The novel metaplot put it into a state that doesn't necessarily appeal to those who love the initial premise.

>>96136195
Are you unaware that WotC has sent the Pinkertons after people, anon?

>>96140231
For playing Dark Sun? Yeah shut up.

>>96140935
>It hasn't happened in these incredibly specific circumstances yet, as such it could never happen, pattern recognition, who needs that, sounds gay. Yes the barbarians have burned three villages so far and are coming this way but that doesn't mean they'll arrive, they might get sleepy or something!
When they come for something you care about and you're bitching yourself purple as a choked cock demanding that everyone helps you because 'But they can't do this to ME!'?
I am going to laugh.
I am going to lmao.
I may very well even roflcopter.
And I certainly won't lift a finger to help you.

>>96140993
Anon, no one has ever sent anyone after anyone for playing games using old ttrpg books.

You're stupid and your parents never really loved you.

>>96141104
>Anon, no one has ever sent anyone after anyone for playing games using old ttrpg books.
Oh no problem then, so you'll be running oriental adventures in your FLGS next week to prove me wrong.
Right?
Right?
You should've been aborted, your parents secretly wish they'd had the courage for it.

>>96141241
You can buy a copy of it for $35. Play what you want, retarded anon.

>>96139747
Fully expected this answer. Making your own stuff isn't the same experience as getting a book with the whole art direction thing, events and rules you didn't think yourself, etc... besides, stuff you make up doesn't warrant the same conversation because it's material fewer fans out there will know. I shouldn't have to point this out though.

>>96138528
From what I heard, it did a good job adapting tje setting to the new D&D lore. 4e may have sucked, but I wonder if it wasn't at least way more respectful than, say, 5e Ravenloft.

>>96139862
Did the revised box fit the novels in?

>>96143608
>Did the revised box fit the novels in?
I believe it did, but I only have the pdf of the original

>>96141241
What are people going to do exactly? Come over and punch you out for playing something that’s not the latest edition tm? You just need to find the right group and you could absolutely play oriental adventures at the LGS in the same way you could play any game.

>>96141241
>Oh no problem then, so you'll be running oriental adventures in your FLGS next week to prove me wrong.
At which point WotC will send private investigstors/PMCs after me?

>>96119642
You seem upset. The other anon is 100% correct. Anglo nations have become far too obsessed about people's skin colour.

>>96136270
What's the campaign about anon?

>>96105785 (OP)
Hopefully it will stay buried and untarnished by faggotry.

>>96105813
They made a solid attempt at fucking it up with 4e, but luckily it's been forgotten by most.

>>96107644
Egypt was white. Persia was white.
Cope and seethe and sneed about it until you choke and die.

>>96119639
>>96109573
This.

>>96115523
>>96115022
Nobody says "This is old, THEREFORE it is good". But the truth is that it is old, it is better, because new is bad. That's not going to change no matter how much faggots kvetch, and it is not foolish to point it out.

>>96139747
>if you're not a writer and an author you're not allowed to like reading books
>if you're not a mechanic and a car salesman you're not allowed to drive cars
>if you're not a locomotive engineer and traquero railroad worker, you cannot be autistic about trains
Shut up you autistic fucking mongoloid.

>>96143608
>>96144691
>N-no, I literally cannot use material unless it is official Wizards of the Coast™ Dungeons and Dragons™ material! You literally cannot come up with new material on your own! It's not allowed!

The funny thing is, you fuckers keep wishing on the monkey's paw, keep getting fed absolute shit, and then keep asking for more.

>>96141104
>Anon, no one has ever sent anyone after anyone for playing games using old ttrpg books.
https://www.grunge.com/385708/why-the-fbi-investigated-dungeons-dragons-players/

Colossal retard.

>>96145140
This is the dumbest... jesus christ anon. Rub two of your braincells together and see if you can squeeze out enough IQ points to discover why that has nothing to do with what you're whining about.

>>96144668
>Egypt was white. Persia was white.
>Cope and seethe and sneed about it until you choke and die.
Hahahahahaha oh my god. You have the black copers who think Egypt was negroid beat. Why are you posting on /tg when you've already hallucinated the world into being a fantasy realm?

>>96149455
There's plenty of people who think the Greeks to be White making at least the Ptolemies so. But there are also still plenty of adherents to "all the Med are swarthoids".

Can we PLEASE get off the god damn racial stuff and get back to talking about whats important: Dark Sun

>>96156103
People don't actually want to talk about Dark Sun because no one is actually playing a Dark Sun game. Every dark sun thread ever posted on this board is the rpg equivalent of "You couldn't make Blazing Saddles today because of *woke*."

>>96144668
Whats wrong with 4E Dark Sun?

>>96156123
People complaining about WotC being too woke to bring back Dark Sun are too retarded to realize that you can simply convert Dark Sun to newer rules.

>>96156257
They don't actually *want" to play a dark sun game, anon. They don't play games. They want to bemoan the state of a game they don't play because they're virtue signalling.

>>96105785 (OP)
No