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That's what I think is so clever about this product - giving the deluxe treatment to classic modules means I can use stuff like maps and...

Yep. Your resolution is actually really nicely poetic in a lot of ways and I do like it. The devil would be in the buildup though. If...

And Carlos the Dwarf.

Yep. It’s all over the place. The novels disagree with the OG box. The novels are where the idea of preserving taking longer comes from...

Pre-Cerulean Storm, there was a nice balance-of-terror/mutually-assured-destruciton dynamic between the sorcerer-kings that I actually...

I think 4e did it pretty well in setting it after the death of the Sorcerer King of Tyr, but before anything else like the death of the...

I get what you're saying, wanting to align narrative and mechanics. But my point was that players already felt the narrative, to the...

Except that, as demonstrated by numerous posts in this thread, it clearly did. The Dark Sun mechanical baseline, i.e. the thing that...

I think the narrative (that arcane magic always defiled, even if you tried your best to minimize that) was so compelling, that over time...

Ah, I didn't interpret that to apply to the on-the-fly Method Two, but now I see how one could; thanks for pointing that out...

I still don't see where it lays out an option for a Preserver Wizard to defile on-the-fly when casting, or what the consequences would...

No, that isn't describing a choice made when casting a spell, it's made when preparing spells for the day. The choice to defile at the...

No; it's the same tone. The baseline mechanics for Arcane spellcasting in every edition/revision of Dark Sun have been Preserving magic...

It's exactly the same as the original Dark Sun. You had to CHOOSE, when creating a character, whether to be a Defiler. The ONLY way to...

This has never been how defiling worked.