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In the first Dark Sun box, magic-users had two types which you were locked into. Preservers or defiles, where defilers were not much...

Here are (some of) the details from the 2e Dark Sun Rule Book:

It's thematic in that it is easier and quicker to cast a spell when defiling. Add in the environmental destruction it is quite thematic...

I mean you don't really need a stat above 16 in 5e. You could play a 1-20 campaign with a max stat of 16 and be 100% fine. It could...

I mean it also completely ruins the land around the caster making it unable to sustain vegetation.

Keep in mind that if you got hit whilst casting the spell failed and you lost the slot, also you could not change what you did that...

well that is disappointing. I preferred DS when I thought magic was much less of an option. Oh well, I can always make changes if I ever...

Nope! The AD&D 2e version has elemental-themed specialty priests (earth, air, fire, and water), wizards, druids, rangers, templars, and...

Sure, but it isn't very thematic as "defiling" IMO.

So like all humans throughout history then?!

That was it? Not very inspired, IMO. Definitely doesn't live up to the name!

Theros essentially took a bunch of options off the table. From Theros: A diverse assortment of peoples dwell among the lands of Theros...

I am familiar with the setting, but not he old mechanics. What did defiling do mechanically in AD&D. I was under the impression that...

But every setting has that problem. Talk to Greyhawk fans about From the Ashes, Dragonlance fans about Fifth Age, or Forgotten Realms...

Or, and here's an idea, they do call it Dark Sun, and the people who were going to complain about it anyway will complain about it, and...