Phew, I was getting ready to make a post about Critical Role's 4th Campaign (that will come eventually - exciting news about it) but then WotC came out with a new subclass UA. Apocalyptic Subclasses all have a certain vibe to them, but the clear implication is that, should this see official publication, we've for sure got a Dark Sun book coming in the future.
Dark Sun is a world that takes inspiration from Dune and Mad Max - a blasted, hot, devastated world called Athas ruled over by tyrannical Sorcerer-Kings whose use of magic drains the life force from the world. It's a world of scarcity, where water is more valuable than gold, and metal is hard to come by, forcing people to improvise with natural materials. Psionics are more common here (I believe the Thri-kreen were introduced with this setting).
Anyway, the UA doesn't explicitly name Dark Sun, but certain terminology makes it unmistakeable. All that said, we don't know to what degree the various UAs have truly presaged upcoming books or are just exploratory designs.
The subclasses on offer here are the Circle of Preservation fro Druids, the Gladiator Fighter, the Defiled Sorcery Sorcerer, and the Sorcerer-King Patron. I'll be doing a write-up on each of them in separate posts.
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