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Eearthsea_wizard reacted to TheHand's post in the thread D&D General Why wouldn't you run a Dark Sun game? with
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I’d run it again if I had interest from any of my players, but I don’t think any of my current groups are all that into the setting... -
Eearthsea_wizard reacted to Clint_L's post in the thread D&D General Why wouldn't you run a Dark Sun game? with Like.
Well, you can't really prove a hypothetical, but what the data does show is that, again per Slaying the Dragon, WotC's review of the TSR...
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Eearthsea_wizard reacted to ECMO3's post in the thread D&D General Why wouldn't you run a Dark Sun game? with Like.
5E works pretty well for classic dungeon crawling. We just finished replaying a series of ancient 1E adventures from 1-20 redone with...
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Eearthsea_wizard reacted to aco175's post in the thread D&D General Why wouldn't you run a Dark Sun game? with Like.
Finally someone mentions that stupid play of starting off with a bone weapon and breaking it. Never getting a steel sword, but you...
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Eearthsea_wizard reacted to ECMO3's post in the thread D&D General Why wouldn't you run a Dark Sun game? with Like.
I think quality problems killed 2E more than the rules did. The TSR products during that era were terrible, other than some of the...
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Eearthsea_wizard reacted to Zardnaar's post in the thread D&D General Why wouldn't you run a Dark Sun game? with Like.
There's some what ifs of TSR surviving. Mist nvilve no settings, novels and a few splats. Dump the metaplot heavy railroad...
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Eearthsea_wizard reacted to pawsplay's post in the thread D&D General Why wouldn't you run a Dark Sun game? with Like.
I've always liked it. It's a fairly classic swords-and-sorcery setting with some signature themes, such as a ecology, the remoteness of...
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Eearthsea_wizard replied to the thread D&D General Why wouldn't you run a Dark Sun game?.While it may have been a bad idea, is there data to show that an alterante approach would have saved the company? It seems to me, from...
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Eearthsea_wizard reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread D&D General Why wouldn't you run a Dark Sun game? with Like.
I think D&D has been drifting from being focused on dungeon-crawling since the moment Dragonlance hit the streets. 2E accelerated that...
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Eearthsea_wizard reacted to Desdichado's post in the thread D&D General Why wouldn't you run a Dark Sun game? with Like.
I probably wouldn't run one just because I want to use my own stuff too much. But I recall (vaguely) seeing some developer thinking that...
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Eearthsea_wizard replied to the thread D&D General Why wouldn't you run a Dark Sun game?.This is true, and characters are described as such in the setting materials. I think the "count every drop of water and food along the...
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Eearthsea_wizard reacted to Paul Farquhar's post in the thread D&D General Why wouldn't you run a Dark Sun game? with Like.
I think you are missing something. Remember Dark Sun was largely based on the John Carter stories. John Carter was a largely heroic...
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Eearthsea_wizard reacted to Misanthrope Prime's post in the thread D&D General Why wouldn't you run a Dark Sun game? with Like.
I spend a lot of time on the toilet thinking, as do most professionals in the science fiction and fantasy industries
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Eearthsea_wizard reacted to Dragonhelm's post in the thread D&D General Why wouldn't you run a Dark Sun game? with Like.
I like Dark Sun, but I wouldn't want to live there. ;) Personally, I have found that I like heroic fantasy. I like good vs evil...
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Eearthsea_wizard reacted to Misanthrope Prime's post in the thread D&D General Why wouldn't you run a Dark Sun game? with Like.
I like Dark Sun's lore and I can respect the literary genre it belongs in, but I personally don't want to play or DM a game in a "dying...