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Maybe - I don't speak for them, and I've not played with them and don't know anything about their RPGing other than their accounts of...

It sounds like you're saying that Preserver spellcasters should be weaker than in D&D baseline, but that would require the game math to...

Isn't this just replicating - or (if one thinks it's not a full replication) alluding to - the role of druids in AD&D Dark Sun as...

This thread has shown me a lot of people apparently have either forgotten or homebrewed what preserving and defiling meant.

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.

This was exactly the situation in the original Dark Sun boxed set: only members of the Defiler wizard subclass used defiling magic...

you could always change the baseline, the preserving casting is the one you are used to while defiling is automatically upcast

I do not get WOTC's obsession with pissant damage boosts. Bleed is a whopping Cha modifier damage to one hit a couple times per rest...

And in the 4e D&D MM.

Yes: But there are nuances. For instance, if the GM has the authority but, in exercising it, is influenced by the players then it may...