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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Najo" data-source="post: 713210" data-attributes="member: 9959">City State OpinionI would agree with you about the variety in a campaign being good. But key elements of Dark Suns setting were sacrficed wontonly in the prism pentad. By the time the revised Dark Sun setting was done, many of the forces that made Athas what it is were removed through scenarios that seemed very unlikely. The sorcerer kings are creatures in their youth that laid athas to waste and destroyed entire species of humanoids (such as orcs, pixies etc). Now thousands of years later, they are more powerful and they have dominated the world only to find themselves overthrown by slave revolts and silly combat scenarios that make no sense. Borys death was silly and impossible. The fall of Raam's and Draj (I think) on the battlefield against Sedira and the slave army is just dumb how quick it was. In the second book, Rikus took a more powerful army against a single and weaker Sorcerer King and lost against him. But in the fifth book, the battle against the two city states and how quickly their SK die is very unbelievable, even worse is it all happens at once. Typical hollywood ending. I found that to undermind the strengths of the Darksun setting. The only sorcerer king death that I found belivable was Kalyeks in the first book. He is attempt a dangerous ritual to power level himself essentially, and while he is occupied with that Rikus runs him through with a weapon made to kill the beast. But that doesn't kill Kalyek, kalyek slithers off into the Zigguraut and the party has to track him down and fight him in his weakened state. Once they kill him, the templars stil remain in power with one of their commanders becoming king. No real revolution takes place because the power structure won't allow it. Yet the other city states leaders di quickly (not that over half change), which I can buy 2 or 3, but 4!!! plus the dragon..come on. My two cents <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    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> I like the end results that you like, but I thikn the path could have much more interesting and meaty is all. Dark sun got sold out in the revision.Nate</blockquote>

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