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Picking Up Dark Sun, what do I need?
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<blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 3999061" data-attributes="member: 2209"><p>The first boxed set created a post apocalyptic land of desert wasteland city states ruled by 30th level psionic sorcerer kings. Everyone had 2e complete psionics handbook psionics, no metal, huge stats, and started at 3rd level. Races were more powerful, halflings were feared cannibals, elves were unscrupulous thieves, half giants and half dwarves were PC races. Lots of wierd bone or stone weapons. Clerics worshipped elemental powers or were bureaucrat minions of the sorcerer kings. Slavery was rampant. There was one dragon and the sorcerer kings offered him tribute yearly. Magic corrupted the land necromantically. High powered and brutal.</p><p></p><p>The revision killed off the dragon and a sorcerer king(s). There was a city state with no slavery. It used a PO version of psionics.</p><p></p><p>They helpfully had a distinctive visual cover style differentiation between the first set and the revised set that flowed onto each's modules and supplements so you could tell at a glance which went with which.</p><p></p><p>I really liked the original setting and was hugely dissapointed the first thing the novels did was to change important setting elements drastically.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Voadam, post: 3999061, member: 2209"] The first boxed set created a post apocalyptic land of desert wasteland city states ruled by 30th level psionic sorcerer kings. Everyone had 2e complete psionics handbook psionics, no metal, huge stats, and started at 3rd level. Races were more powerful, halflings were feared cannibals, elves were unscrupulous thieves, half giants and half dwarves were PC races. Lots of wierd bone or stone weapons. Clerics worshipped elemental powers or were bureaucrat minions of the sorcerer kings. Slavery was rampant. There was one dragon and the sorcerer kings offered him tribute yearly. Magic corrupted the land necromantically. High powered and brutal. The revision killed off the dragon and a sorcerer king(s). There was a city state with no slavery. It used a PO version of psionics. They helpfully had a distinctive visual cover style differentiation between the first set and the revised set that flowed onto each's modules and supplements so you could tell at a glance which went with which. I really liked the original setting and was hugely dissapointed the first thing the novels did was to change important setting elements drastically. [/QUOTE]
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