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probably, the ‘issue’ with DS for me is that a setting it is so different from the kitchen-sink settings of 5e that they will have a...

Because thats what fans want? See multiple products not just RPGs that have tanked by screwing things up.

That's not RAW. From the boxed set. "Defiling Defilers wield magic with no concern for their dying world: Indeed, defilers are much...

There is absolutely nothing notable or morally upstanding in doing the only thing you could possibly do. Edit: to be clear, you're...

I agree 100%. In my Mythras version of Dark Sun, defiling is easier and more powerful by far. A preserver who sticks with it gets some...

Preservers in the old lore were not necessarily eco-warriors (those were the druids and, to a lesser extent, clerics). Rather, they were...

Athas started out being as green and verdant as any other setting (well, there was the Blue Age before that when it was almost entirely...

Sure, but it's the good kind of "narrative conflict" tension. I don't think of defiling as "Clearly Evil Villain Stuff", any more than...

I've been arguing people can do what they want with it, but I strongly believe Dark Sun is a great setting for heroic PCs and a pretty...

Weak language does not change the fact you can create an Evil PC, right now, with nothing but the 5.5 PHB. Not just 'I'm an edge lord'...

But if you have rules for defiling then people can use them. The author can't prevent their use by PCs. How is WotC going to stop...

There are a small number of publishers sometimes making absolute statements in their games about how their games are allowed to be...

It's only a problem if someone at your table thinks it is. This comes across as very "I have a problem with this in my game so I think...

You can write a rule saying it isn't allowed to be done, but you can't actually stop if from happening. As far as I'm concerned...