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I gave it a 5. Considering it's just some tweaks for 5e it didn't really move the needle for me and most of my players. Similar to 3.5...

Ars Magica is roll d10 and add modifier and has talents which feats may have been inspired by. The wizards in 3e are not even remotely...

Basically nothing. Ars Magica is built around an improvisational magic system (which was later seen in Mage: The Ascension and Mage...

Given the massively increased viability of Dex-based martial characters in recent editions, if you’re having heat penalties for armour...

Oooof that's not great. Very interesting but not great! Especially as the Ottoman Empire... doesn't come from the middle east, it comes...

Depends on how you cook'em.

I think it's a given that an adventure will be a large proportion of the product, given how recent WotC products have been structured...

In the fiction and the earlier editions as well. Templars as one of the few divine casters in Dark Sun is a really big deal.

Fair enough! I'd never even heard of them until the other day, when I googled Rajaat. Someone else upthread said they were essentially...

I think pyreen were generally a bit more Druidic than celestial, but the lore there changed over time and editions too. But I was just...

This is my very personal interpretation of course, and not everyone may agree with it, but for me the core theme of Dark Sun is always...

Yeah, I think the principle was that Rajaat had bound these creatures to the sorcerer-kings in the Pristine Tower, and the procedure...

That would work for many stories, in many settings. In Dark Sun, where ‘how you get your power matters’ is such a core theme, it...

Yeah exactly. We don't need the exact same classes/subclasses/species/etc. as 2E or 4E Dark Sun, but having default restrictions to set...

I have no doubt you’re correct there, as little as I like it. When it comes to tweaking game mechanics or experimentation or even...