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I get where you are coming from, but it's a game, not a college class. I'd rather have a game that is fun and raises awareness than one...

In a story, I agree. In a GAME, that's more complicated. I know they say D&D doesn't have a win/lose state, but it does encourage...

That just reinforces my long held belief that Dark Suns biggest draw was that it is a setting that isn't even morally gray, it's black...

The issue is carrots and sticks. D&D is still a game, and the has to be a better trade off for preserving than a feeling of moral...

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

I mean, I’ll gladly admit that my take is both quite radical and decidedly non-canon. But I think it’s the right answer to how to update...

To be fair, in The Verdant Passage novel, which I’m fairly sure was the second ever Dark Sun product after the original box (correct me...

If they ever knew. I'll admit, back in the day I read one of the novels and played the video games and never had any of the actual TTRPG...

My brain had certainly come up with a different sense of what they were than what was actually in the OG book.

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

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

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

Maybe so, but it's thematically more satisfying to say, "I'm trying to preserve, but the temptation to get extra power via defiling is...

maybe, but the reverse seems to also be true. Some people just object to everything WotC does and would be way less critical if a 3pp...

Let me tell you a story from the Before Times, in the long distant year of 2000, when all we had was use.net as the main communication...