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<blockquote data-quote="Wik" data-source="post: 5075491" data-attributes="member: 40177">Ha ha.&nbsp; No, the error is all mine.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />As for the crystal thing - it really isn't much different, but I still don't like it.&nbsp; It just feels wrong to me, somehow.&nbsp; The bits of crystal seem either &quot;high fantasy&quot; or &quot;unlike the real world&quot; or maybe even &quot;science fiction&quot; in my mind, whereas materials such as obsidian, stone, wood, and bone all have analogues in the real world that are just easier for my mind to &quot;grok&quot;.And yes, when I ran dark sun, there were solid obsidian swords - and it didn't bother me, realism be damned.&nbsp; It's just a different &quot;step&quot; for my mind to take when crystal is concerned.&nbsp; This is possibly because I've been familiar with Dark Sun since about 1996 or 1997... I've known it for over a decade, and it's just hard to see something a new weapon material that just doesn't have the same &quot;feel&quot; to it as the old materials.For what it's worth, I didn't like the new weapon materials introduced in the DRAGON/DUNGEON crossover a couple of years ago, either.&nbsp; Actually, I liked them even less.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Wik, post: 5075491, member: 40177"] Ha ha. No, the error is all mine. :) As for the crystal thing - it really isn't much different, but I still don't like it. It just feels wrong to me, somehow. The bits of crystal seem either "high fantasy" or "unlike the real world" or maybe even "science fiction" in my mind, whereas materials such as obsidian, stone, wood, and bone all have analogues in the real world that are just easier for my mind to "grok". And yes, when I ran dark sun, there were solid obsidian swords - and it didn't bother me, realism be damned. It's just a different "step" for my mind to take when crystal is concerned. This is possibly because I've been familiar with Dark Sun since about 1996 or 1997... I've known it for over a decade, and it's just hard to see something a new weapon material that just doesn't have the same "feel" to it as the old materials. For what it's worth, I didn't like the new weapon materials introduced in the DRAGON/DUNGEON crossover a couple of years ago, either. Actually, I liked them even less. [/QUOTE]

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