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Only in that, as a player, I always thought that I was happy to jump on said railroad. As an old geezer, I had always heard the...

Nor did TSR.

No. Because all not RPGing involves the GM more-or-less unilaterally deciding on the significant elements of scenes, their stakes, and...

This is something I’ve done since the 2e days, at least. I had the players provide with their character concepts and then we discussed...

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...