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<blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 4833230" data-attributes="member: 58197">This. It'd be like running a post-nuclear-apocalypse game in which Chicago got nuked, and everyone within 100 miles of Chicago is living a Mad Max lifestyle with battles over food and gasoline and basic necessities, and the rest of the world survived fine and is ticking along just like normal. Any sensible player is going to respond to this scenario with, &quot;Well, we could stay here and struggle valiantly against the gangs and street scum. Or we could haul up stakes, scrape together some gas, and head for Texas. We'll load up on gas and food and guns, come back to Chicago, and blow the hell out of anyone who gets in our way... or, hell, just stay in Texas.&quot;I'm not the sort of fan who thinks Dark Sun must remain forever preserved in amber, unchanged and inviolate. WotC could import eladrin and dragonborn and tieflings, or rearrange the cosmology, without harming the essence of the setting. In fact, I think the cosmology could really use a good kick in the pants. But I can't see how Dark Sun could possibly be imported into a small region of another world and be anything but silly.(Although it would be possible to make Dark Sun into the desolate future state of another setting.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dausuul, post: 4833230, member: 58197"] This. It'd be like running a post-nuclear-apocalypse game in which Chicago got nuked, and everyone within 100 miles of Chicago is living a Mad Max lifestyle with battles over food and gasoline and basic necessities, and the rest of the world survived fine and is ticking along just like normal. Any sensible player is going to respond to this scenario with, "Well, we could stay here and struggle valiantly against the gangs and street scum. Or we could haul up stakes, scrape together some gas, and head for Texas. We'll load up on gas and food and guns, come back to Chicago, and blow the hell out of anyone who gets in our way... or, hell, just stay in Texas." I'm not the sort of fan who thinks Dark Sun must remain forever preserved in amber, unchanged and inviolate. WotC could import eladrin and dragonborn and tieflings, or rearrange the cosmology, without harming the essence of the setting. In fact, I think the cosmology could really use a good kick in the pants. But I can't see how Dark Sun could possibly be imported into a small region of another world and be anything but silly. (Although it [i]would[/i] be possible to make Dark Sun into the desolate future state of another setting.) [/QUOTE]

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