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#1 Grummore Apr 29, 2010 7:42:47	Nobody talk about it here, in the upcoming release? It's been since april 14th since someone talked about it here. Why is still the DS forum under "Other campaign world" ? I suggest the WotC peoples to go to the following thread, read, please stop doing their ostrich and answer us something. community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/758... The DS fans deserve as much as Eberron and FR fans. They deserve to be informed. Thanks. P.S. : The Darksun forum would be very interested in having someone from WotC that would come sometime to say hello. Thanks.
#2 mellored Apr 29, 2010 13:42:53	Nobody's talking about it because there's nothing to talk about yet.  I don't think they've ever released previews more then a month before hand.  Often it's only the 2-3 weeks before the release.  So i'd start complaining then.
#3 Grummore Apr 29, 2010 14:13:53	Nobody's talking about it because there's nothing to talk about yet.  I don't think they've ever released previews more then a month before hand.  Often it's only the 2-3 weeks before the release.  So i'd start complaining then. I do not agree. We had previews of Eberron about at LEAST 6 months before the release. Information was flowing all over the forum and they werent hidden in some obscure corner of the forum.
#4 ah_stormbringer Apr 29, 2010 15:01:35	Or maybe they are keeping tight lipped on this one as it is tied in with the next encounters program.
#5 kilamanjaro Apr 29, 2010 15:48:08	August is only 49 days away?
#6 celticmutt Apr 29, 2010 17:55:01	August is only 49 days away? Man, I've heard of time flying, but this is ridiculous!
#7 askanipsion Apr 29, 2010 18:24:14	August is only 49 days away? Man, I've heard of time flying, but this is ridiculous!  At one time the DS books were set to come out in June but were moved to Aug so maybe that is why.
#8 ascottbay Apr 29, 2010 20:24:56	FWIW, I'd like to clarify a couple points made by the well-meaning Grummore: One: because FR came out just a month or two after 4E, there were only a couple non-preview FR articles released before then. Unless you count Keep on the Shadowfell, 4E wasn't even really out six months before FR. Although... Two: Six months before campaign release, Eberron didn't have previews - they had fully playable content. Warforged were released as a playable race a year in advance, and over that year there would be five articles full of Eberron-based fluff and crunch (a town from Eberron's setting, and four Expeditionary Dispatches). There would be other, more niche, Eberron articles, like how to use races from FR in Eberron and vice-versa. I think the root of the concern is that Dark Sun isn't really on the radar, while other settings received and continue to receive attention. It popped up at the cons with the preview adventure, but then it kind of fell by the wayside again. There's no regular, frequent pinging of "Dark Sun is coming...!" No setting-specific adventure hook in an adventure that they could use to promote it. There might also be fear that if enough interest isn't generated for Dark Sun then the campaign books themselves will be another blip as big as the preview, and everyone should want it to be a strong product line. At the very least, it could be given a more prominent forum position, and allow more fans to generate their own interest.
#9 Dungeoneering Apr 29, 2010 22:17:16	Eberron recieved support from Day 1 because they expected that people were going to want to continue their Eberron campaigns in 4e.  People had a reasonable expectation that 3.x's major campaign world would be playable in a new edition right away.  Dark Sun is different.  I don't think anyone flipped open the PHB and started looking for Thri-Kreen under the Races chapter right away.  I'm sure they're going to treat the DS books like their usual books and start releasing previews about a month in advance.  So chill.
#10 salla Apr 29, 2010 23:34:15	There's a part of me that wonders if they didn't make significant changes to the setting that they figure a small, but loud, minority will object to and don't want to watch the forums explode.
#11 celticmutt Apr 30, 2010 1:33:34	At one time the DS books were set to come out in June but were moved to Aug so maybe that is why. I don't remember that.  It's always been slated for August as far as I remember.
#12 ah_stormbringer Apr 30, 2010 4:02:28	I know they changed at least one thing, they replaced the half giant with the goliath for this addition but other than that they have been pretty quiet.
#13 askanipsion Apr 30, 2010 5:29:48	At one time the DS books were set to come out in June but were moved to Aug so maybe that is why. I don't remember that.  It's always been slated for August as far as I remember. Amazon had them intiially on their site coming out in June. Could have been an error on Amazon's side - dunno
#14 Grummore Apr 30, 2010 8:02:02	Amazon had them intiially on their site coming out in June. Could have been an error on Amazon's side - dunno Thanks! I thought I was getting crazy! hehehehe But yeah now it's on August. But I was pretty sure it was in june at first. And no I dont want to CHILL, when you want to sell something, you do what you have to interest the fans. Right now, they ARENT doing a damn about it.