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Ah! The endless debate between American Glam and British Glam!

Sir, your pun is truly outrageous!

I'm seriously considerating an eBook eInk reader, and I'm fairly convinced thi is the future. As of now, I think the tech behind it is still primitive. - No color. - No (acceptably) scalable PDFs. - Not able to create documents on the reader. - Locked formats. - Too expensive. When I will...

Funny. I often play TTS with a friend's daughters, one of whom just turned 11. She's the one usually suggesting the game, because she often wins.

I like the refitting of life science into the primal source. Has flavour. And leaves to the DM taste to leave the "sci-fi" feel of old times or not. I also like a lot the effort they are giving to rationalize many of the "assurdities" of the setting (yes, I know we're talking fantasy, but I...

You and I just disagree on one point. I don't think that "to hint" at something is "to state" something. ;)

Well, because one always hope for things to be better. :D Seriously, when I bought my original DS box, I read the description of the setting on the back, and I liked it, I read the booklets, and I liked them. All the fluff about Tyr's ruler straining the populace too much, was, well just...

Yes, of course, I know I can steer away from the fluff and just keep Kalak on the throne in my campaign - and that's exactly what I'll do. But at least Tyr was described as under the rule of a sorcerer-king, just like EVERY other city-state in the original box. Then came Freedom to ruin...

Saying that the original box "knew" that Tyr would fall is just like saying that "there will surely be another Last War" because that's what the Eberron guide says. It's a hint, an opportunity, an idea, but it's not a FACT. In the DS original box Kalak is king of Tyr. Period. Freedom is an...

That was Venture

Bah!! Why not call it electrum??!!?!! If you wanna go old skool, go the whole way!! Don't be a wussy!!!

Well, IMHO they fall short beacuse they... are short (ugh). HG in the original material were iconically big. I don't think any race smaller than Large can give me the same feel. The same happened with the 3e rendition of HG. They didn't feel right to me. Goliaths could be nice...

Why? Or better, why, unless he is already curious enough to do it just for the pleasure to read a 2ed classic setting anyway? If he's moderately curious, he could just wait until release, read the previews and articles and judge the 4e Dark Sun setting per se without having necessarily to...

Ugh. I'd have preferred some more years wondering...

Still don't see where the problem with dragongorn is. If there's a setting where humanoid reptilian PCs would be at home, I think it's EXACTLY Dark Sun. Heck, I'm more prone to ban dragonborn (and tieflings) characters in a typical european/medieval/human-centric world than on Athas, where...

Let's ALL face it. Dragonborn are. Upright. Bulky. Reptiles. Tailless. With BOOBS. They are ALREADY a Dark Sun-ish race shoehorned in 4e implied setting, not the other way round! Change their name, flavor a bit the appearance, and they're done. It's a world full of strange reptiles and...

Quite agree. I'll never like a Dark Sun with a free city the way Tyr was after Freedom. Better, I'd never accept a sorcerer-king less city-state in Dark Sun. It's the real focal point of the setting. The sorcerer-kings are supposedly immortal and omnipotent. If I want a place where the PCs can...

Maybe, Athas is the Feywild. Or, more precisely, the part of the Feywild overlapping a blasted desert in the Material World. Let's say something akin to the Realms of Dread in the Shadowfell...

I only read the Prism Pentad series. The books are not bad, they were an interesting read. Admittedly, their effects on the playable setting were disastrous. Imagine you bought a RPG game set in Star Wars, just a couple of years before Episode 4, and you really, really like it. Then, they...

This is for me the greatest announcement since 4e PHB1. Almost EVERYTHING the designers are saying they will do, is exactly wat I wanted for Dark Sun. Reboot to pre-Free Tyr timeline? That's a dream come true! I'm also very impressed by the different approaches they are taking in reissuing...