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<blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 333005" data-attributes="member: 158">And then, 180 degrees in the other direction, I LIKE the conversion that athas.org is doing.Defiling was always described, even under the 2E rules, as a &quot;different path&quot; to power. However, it also said that it was about taking, and NOT giving back, that caused the defiling. You couldn not tell in 2E whether a defiler cast a spell, or whether a wizard cast a spell, simply by watching them. Only that tell-tale black circle identified them as defilers. It makes sense to me, therefore, that if the defiler took without giving, why couldn't the wizard do the same thing, if he were not careful enough? There was once a Dragon Magazine article under 2E that covered this very same thing, and proposed rules for Preservers that defiled, and I loved it when I saw it. This is why I am glad they took this tactic at athas.org, because it makes much mroe sense from the perspective of the world.Think of it this way: It is SUPPOSED to be harder to be a preserver than a defiler. What better way to do this than to make it a minor hassle for a player to be a preserver by adding the extra die roll for preserving? <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=":)" /> Players who disdain the roll can do so, and defile all they wish - but they need to be prepared for the consequences.I also think that there should be feats to make it easier to preserve, to represent the time and attention given to the lifestyle. But that's a different story.As for the original question, I think that got answered. There are no OFFICIAL plans for a publisher to pick up Dark Sun. Athas.org is as official as it gets, at the current time.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Henry, post: 333005, member: 158"] And then, 180 degrees in the other direction, I LIKE the conversion that athas.org is doing. Defiling was always described, even under the 2E rules, as a "different path" to power. However, it also said that it was about taking, and NOT giving back, that caused the defiling. You couldn not tell in 2E whether a defiler cast a spell, or whether a wizard cast a spell, simply by watching them. Only that tell-tale black circle identified them as defilers. It makes sense to me, therefore, that if the defiler took without giving, why couldn't the wizard do the same thing, if he were not careful enough? There was once a Dragon Magazine article under 2E that covered this very same thing, and proposed rules for Preservers that defiled, and I loved it when I saw it. This is why I am glad they took this tactic at athas.org, because it makes much mroe sense from the perspective of the world. Think of it this way: It is SUPPOSED to be harder to be a preserver than a defiler. What better way to do this than to make it a minor hassle for a player to be a preserver by adding the extra die roll for preserving? :) Players who disdain the roll can do so, and defile all they wish - but they need to be prepared for the consequences. I also think that there should be feats to make it easier to preserve, to represent the time and attention given to the lifestyle. But that's a different story. As for the original question, I think that got answered. There are no OFFICIAL plans for a publisher to pick up Dark Sun. Athas.org is as official as it gets, at the current time. [/QUOTE]

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