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Dark Sun got 30+ sourcebooks and 16 novels; that is WAY more than, say, the Birthright or Spelljammer or Lankhmar settings, or even Planescape!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHowever, TSR was publishing so many settings in the 90s that the company ended up competing against itself, and this is one of several reasons why it went bankrupt (and why most of those settings were discontinued when WOTC took over).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere was probably a fair amount of rivalry in D\u0026amp;D in the 90s, meaning \u0026quot;I play only THIS setting because THAT setting sucks\u0026quot;. That would hinder sales of many D\u0026amp;D products, including CRPGs, except those that feel generic enough that they could be in any setting (such as Eye of the Beholder)."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6162314467762792782\/5990173758953669593\/comments\/default\/4016727546458830842"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6162314467762792782\/5990173758953669593\/comments\/default\/4016727546458830842"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/crpgaddict.blogspot.com\/2021\/12\/dark-sun-won.html?showComment=1641326686385#c4016727546458830842","title":""},{"rel":"related","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6162314467762792782\/5990173758953669593\/comments\/default\/5394794070915923991"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Radiant"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/03866535042372152723"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-U9jGdQ0PDVE\/XnpffMriLNI\/AAAAAAAANhw\/oZNnSLGyvDgENHDruzbzb4a7q9sGmthAgCK4BGAYYCw\/s220\/pieter.jpg"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/crpgaddict.blogspot.com\/2021\/12\/dark-sun-won.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-5990173758953669593","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6162314467762792782/posts/default/5990173758953669593","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-26131657"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"January 4, 2022 at 3:04 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-6722922161881953267"},"published":{"$t":"2022-01-04T13:49:28.751-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-01-04T13:49:28.751-05:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Ah, thanks, I was looking for those sales figures ..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Ah, thanks, I was looking for those sales figures but didn\u0026#39;t find them. Well, most of all I wanted to add another perspective. :)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGoG only has the Gold Box and Dark Sun games as complete sets. Going by the comments, the Gold Box set has about twice as many. But the Dark Sun games have six pages of comments, so I wouldn\u0026#39;t say it\u0026#39;s hardly ever talked about."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6162314467762792782\/5990173758953669593\/comments\/default\/6722922161881953267"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6162314467762792782\/5990173758953669593\/comments\/default\/6722922161881953267"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/crpgaddict.blogspot.com\/2021\/12\/dark-sun-won.html?showComment=1641322168751#c6722922161881953267","title":""},{"rel":"related","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6162314467762792782\/5990173758953669593\/comments\/default\/5394794070915923991"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Buck"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/07270991090065636515"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/crpgaddict.blogspot.com\/2021\/12\/dark-sun-won.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-5990173758953669593","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6162314467762792782/posts/default/5990173758953669593","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-2076784459"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"January 4, 2022 at 1:49 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-4334694422482740199"},"published":{"$t":"2022-01-04T13:36:36.352-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-01-04T13:36:36.352-05:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Right now I think it\u0026#39;s true that both series (..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Right now I think it\u0026#39;s true that both series (well, the Dark Sun series and the Gold Box set of series, since there are actually four different ones) are the province of niche audiences.  But your sense of the relative prominence of each seems like it\u0026#39;s just a function of when you were playing CRPGs: per Jimmy Maher\u0026#39;s history of SSI (link: https:\/\/www.filfre.net\/2019\/09\/opening-the-gold-box-part-6-a-troubled-marriage\/), Pool of Radiance sold over a quarter million copies, while Shattered Lands did less than 50k, and in fact only barely outsold Dark Queen of Krynn, which was I think the 11th Gold Box game.  Contemporaneously, the Gold Box games were a pretty big deal, doing big numbers when RPGs were a strong force in the industry, but Dark Sun did negligible business at a time when RPGs were out of fashion.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt\u0026#39;s certainly true that that relative weight may have shifted in the decades since, though -- it\u0026#39;d be interesting to see sales figures for the GoG releases of the DnD games, though that isn\u0026#39;t public info as far as I know.  Dark Sun definitely has its share of newer fans, and has an interface that\u0026#39;s more accessible to modern audiences than do the Gold Box games not to mention much better graphics, so I can definitely see how these days, folks curious to check out 1st and 2nd Ed DnD games would be more inclined to start with DS than Pool of Radiance and its ilk."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6162314467762792782\/5990173758953669593\/comments\/default\/4334694422482740199"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6162314467762792782\/5990173758953669593\/comments\/default\/4334694422482740199"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/crpgaddict.blogspot.com\/2021\/12\/dark-sun-won.html?showComment=1641321396352#c4334694422482740199","title":""},{"rel":"related","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6162314467762792782\/5990173758953669593\/comments\/default\/5394794070915923991"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"tetrapod"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/04736532124472617151"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/crpgaddict.blogspot.com\/2021\/12\/dark-sun-won.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-5990173758953669593","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6162314467762792782/posts/default/5990173758953669593","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-636405544"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"January 4, 2022 at 1:36 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-7873192418493748899"},"published":{"$t":"2022-01-04T13:01:28.367-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-01-04T13:01:28.367-05:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"I never heard of the Gold Box series or any of the..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"I never heard of the Gold Box series or any of the Gold Box games before I found this blog (I do own Unlimited Adventures, but didn\u0026#39;t know it was part of a series and only gave it a short try). I was well aware of the Dark Sun games, having bought both of them on budget CDs.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENow that\u0026#39;s just me, and most of my playing was in the 90s when the series was already in decline\/gone. But I wouldn\u0026#39;t be surprised if the Gold Box games were talked about much more mostly in this community. In the larger gaming community, I\u0026#39;d think neither of them are talked about that much."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6162314467762792782\/5990173758953669593\/comments\/default\/7873192418493748899"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6162314467762792782\/5990173758953669593\/comments\/default\/7873192418493748899"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/crpgaddict.blogspot.com\/2021\/12\/dark-sun-won.html?showComment=1641319288367#c7873192418493748899","title":""},{"rel":"related","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6162314467762792782\/5990173758953669593\/comments\/default\/5394794070915923991"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Buck"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/07270991090065636515"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/crpgaddict.blogspot.com\/2021\/12\/dark-sun-won.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-5990173758953669593","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6162314467762792782/posts/default/5990173758953669593","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-2076784459"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"January 4, 2022 at 1:01 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-3766914858646649225"},"published":{"$t":"2022-01-04T12:45:56.684-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-01-04T12:45:56.684-05:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Now Disco Elysium is a game I wouldn\u0026#39;t mind if..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Now Disco Elysium is a game I wouldn\u0026#39;t mind if the Addict would cover, just for funsies. Would be against all chronology and the principles of the blog but still."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6162314467762792782\/958801299163062762\/comments\/default\/3766914858646649225"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6162314467762792782\/958801299163062762\/comments\/default\/3766914858646649225"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/crpgaddict.blogspot.com\/2022\/01\/game-441-warwizard-1993.html?showComment=1641318356684#c3766914858646649225","title":""},{"rel":"related","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6162314467762792782\/958801299163062762\/comments\/default\/1049490258438591989"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Robert"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/01760602009014010894"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/crpgaddict.blogspot.com\/2022\/01\/game-441-warwizard-1993.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-958801299163062762","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6162314467762792782/posts/default/958801299163062762","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1328397556"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"January 4, 2022 at 12:45 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-2302608178617656973"},"published":{"$t":"2022-01-04T08:39:47.235-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-01-04T08:39:47.235-05:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"There was a second game too, but yeah, definitely ..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"There was a second game too, but yeah, definitely much less spin-off media than FR or DL! Part of the context though is that this is right when TSR was introducing lots of new campaign settings - after Ravenloft in 90 and Dark Sun in 91, there was Al Qadim in 92, then Planescape and Birthright in 94 - with the Realms and DL still getting lots of support (and a bit of Greyhawk too - I think Spelljammer was largely moribund by now.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEach got some kind of marketing push, including at least one video game, and new campaign settings are of course good marketing opportunities. But the traditional narrative of the fall of TSR is that this wound up Balkanizing the audience and helped set them up for the death spiral that eventually led to getting sold to Wizards (who largely retrenched on campaign settings and only introduced Ebberon in the 20 years they’ve been doing DND)."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6162314467762792782\/5990173758953669593\/comments\/default\/2302608178617656973"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6162314467762792782\/5990173758953669593\/comments\/default\/2302608178617656973"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/crpgaddict.blogspot.com\/2021\/12\/dark-sun-won.html?showComment=1641303587235#c2302608178617656973","title":""},{"rel":"related","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6162314467762792782\/5990173758953669593\/comments\/default\/5394794070915923991"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"tetrapod"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/04736532124472617151"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/crpgaddict.blogspot.com\/2021\/12\/dark-sun-won.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-5990173758953669593","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6162314467762792782/posts/default/5990173758953669593","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-636405544"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"January 4, 2022 at 8:39 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-4761923977914637804"},"published":{"$t":"2022-01-04T06:52:03.607-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-01-04T06:52:03.607-05:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Dark Sun was always something of an afterthought i..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Dark Sun was always something of an afterthought in the \u0026quot;Prominent Campaign Settings\u0026quot; department. Dragonlance and Forgotten Realms got huge numbers of novels - to the point where you give the average Dragonlance or FR fan a D20 and he\u0026#39;ll try to eat it - as well as a lot of video game adaptations (not all of which were CRPGs).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDark Sun got... this game and a handful of novels.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEven in the tabletop environments, new settings tend to be a \u0026quot;change of pace\u0026quot; thing that get retired fairly quickly. Players and GM\u0026#39;s alike get comfortable with a given world, and want to keep playing in that sandbox. So it\u0026#39;s always been an uphill battle trying to make a new one into a hit (and the companies try - new product lines are vital for income!)."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6162314467762792782\/5990173758953669593\/comments\/default\/4761923977914637804"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6162314467762792782\/5990173758953669593\/comments\/default\/4761923977914637804"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/crpgaddict.blogspot.com\/2021\/12\/dark-sun-won.html?showComment=1641297123607#c4761923977914637804","title":""},{"rel":"related","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6162314467762792782\/5990173758953669593\/comments\/default\/5394794070915923991"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Gnoman"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13920812227941556716"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/crpgaddict.blogspot.com\/2021\/12\/dark-sun-won.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-5990173758953669593","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6162314467762792782/posts/default/5990173758953669593","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-1553977506"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"January 4, 2022 at 6:52 AM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-2616502946674828930"},"published":{"$t":"2022-01-04T06:50:11.047-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-01-04T06:50:11.047-05:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"What\u0026#39;s wrong with them?  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I think traditional..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Perhaps it\u0026#39;s the setting.  I think traditional high fantasy D\u0026amp;D is more recognizable and popular than the Dark Sun universe.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAlso, this was released during the transition to 3D polygon based graphics from 2D sprites.  1994\u0026#39;s Ravenloft, Menzoberranzan, and 1995\u0026#39;s Ravenloft sequel were all first person 3D.  3D was the new hotness in the 1990s.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFinally, SSI was on its last legs at this point and was about to lose the TSR license.  SSI itself was acquired by Mindscape in 1994.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFun fact: SSI now belongs to Ubisoft, but not their TSR licensed material.  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Not very well..."},"link":[{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6162314467762792782\/958801299163062762\/comments\/default\/8703223766088434501"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6162314467762792782\/958801299163062762\/comments\/default\/8703223766088434501"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/crpgaddict.blogspot.com\/2022\/01\/game-441-warwizard-1993.html?showComment=1641235109022#c8703223766088434501","title":""},{"rel":"related","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/6162314467762792782\/958801299163062762\/comments\/default\/124659585815993273"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Dan"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/17469733830517678716"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$in-reply-to":{"xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","href":"http:\/\/crpgaddict.blogspot.com\/2022\/01\/game-441-warwizard-1993.html","ref":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-958801299163062762","source":"http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6162314467762792782/posts/default/958801299163062762","type":"text/html"},"gd$extendedProperty":[{"name":"blogger.itemClass","value":"pid-482449912"},{"name":"blogger.displayTime","value":"January 3, 2022 at 1:38 PM"}]},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162314467762792782.post-5892894393957289467"},"published":{"$t":"2022-01-03T12:00:05.949-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-01-03T12:00:05.949-05:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Wow. 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I mean,..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"It\u0026#39;s not really a basic speech system. I mean, there is digitized voice, but it\u0026#39;s used as a sound effect, not as actual voiced dialogue.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThanks for linking the video, Pedro. 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The file dates suggest..."},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Thanks for the explanation. 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