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It's not gone in your game. And if I were to run it, it wouldn't be gone in my game. But it's gone from the setting. Which is what we're here discussing. Not the personal ways we'd run Dark Sun in the modern day. We're talking about the Design Decisions of WotC and how those decisions ignore...

No. The important aspect of the fiction is GONE. The fiction is: Divine and Nature Magic do not harm the world. Arcane Magic harms the world, inherently, and must be used in specific and careful ways to avoid doing that harm. Wizards will not defile by default and have to work to preserve. Nor...

This is the entirety of how 4e handled Defiling and Preserving: Everyone is a Preserver at all times unless you WANT extra power, and then you can Defile, instead. Defiling, in 4e, was a straight up boost to your damage instead of a constant baseline of the game's expectations. In 5e, it...

Yup! S'why I mentioned her being a character. But yeah. Ultimately, Dark Sun's not gonna be Dark Sun if they change too many of the identifying characteristics. Which is sad and frustrating 'cause you can be damned sure WotC's gonna take the path of least resistance and change a lot of those...

I do love your griffons... Oh. Well. Yes, you did remove a specific aspect by changing it to be any gender. I know that sounds stupid since medusa women can still be a thing, but medusa -being- a woman is an identifying characteristic of the character. If the three defining traits are Snake...

For the sake of argument, let's move it off "Male and Female" 'cause, y'know, transness is a thing. Let's go for snake hair. So the identifying characteristics of a Medusa are: 1) Snake Hair 2) Petrifying Gaze 3) Female We're gonna change that to: 1) Reptile Hair 2) Petrifying Gaze 3) Female...

Kinda-Sorta. It establishes that Divine Magic and Nature Magic are fundamentally different forces to Arcane Magic within the world. By creating this separation, it casts Arcane magic, as a whole, as a specifically unnatural and "Dark" form of magic. Which reinforces the idea of Defiling as...

Orcs, Gnomes, Kobolds, Ogres, Wemics, Lizard Men, Pixies, Trolls, and Goblins. Several failed to wipe out the Tari, Aarakocra, Elves, Pterrans, and Giants.

I played a Preserver who Defiled... and never forgave themself for it. Great bit of character story, there, where they defiled in order to save a life and take revenge on a Templar who was a major thorn in our side for months.

Honestly, @darjr, I wouldn't have put it past them, before now. Would explain the massive simplification of the setting, making Druids into Preservers, etc. CR and their fandom will eat that up. But the new campaign's location has already been revealed...

A feat chain you can pick up is still a massive left turn from the default. Arcane Magic defiles. You can hold back, use some of yourself, cast carefully, and preserve. But it is supposed to defile. Arcane Magic didn't get "Stronger" because you defiled in 2e. It was just magic. It was weaker...

So... here's my considered take: Preserver Druids are likely going to represent the entirety of the Preservers. No more difficult decision on whether to Preserve or Defile for Arcane Spellcasters. No. That would be too much power and consideration. Too many moral quandries. DRUIDS are now the...

Cover's coming along nicely, too!

I'm pretty much with @Ruin Explorer on this one. If we see Dark Sun it'll be vaguely reminiscent of the original setting with all culpability erased. They'll try to write it from the "Rewritten history" perspective of the Sorcerer Kings where there was "Something Bad" which happened to the...

There is no Action Surge in A5e for a reason. The cool part of A5e is you can ask the designers. We all hang out on this forum. Maybe it was just a thoughtless carryover from WotC's design... maybe not.