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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wik" data-source="post: 3696277" data-attributes="member: 40177">The "revised" setting made a few changes to the defiling rules, which made them a bit more complex (a lot of people liked the changes;  I kept the old way, which made Defilers progress quicker).It also added a few new races which I felt diluted the setting a bit (Aarakocra, which are usually evil in the setting, but introduced good tribes;  they did the same for Pterrans).  Many of the sorcerer kings had been killed off in the Prism Pentad novel series;  the revised boxed set updated this.  I think, in many cases, they made poor changes for a game world (for example, in Urik in the revised set, the city pretty much closed itself off from the world - kind of silly, if you're playing in a world where there are only seven cities... one less is a big thing).It also dropped Templars as a PC class - probably the biggest mistake, in my mind, since it made it very hard to insert templars into a campaign if you lacked the original setting (as I did, when I started out).Introduced a few new cities, one that catered to adventurers (what!?), and another that had a sorcerer king who had seen the light and was trying to enact a  greening process.It was also a bit more vocal in it's stance against slavery (in Dark Sun, slaves are common, but as the product line went on, there definately became a theme that slavery was something that the PCs should oppose.  While that's fun and all, I always thought it was cooler to have the PCs just accept slavery as a fact of life.  A lot of adventures were written with the idea that the PCs would just naturally try to overthrow slavery whenever possible, which is something that always bugged me)Taken as a whole, all these things made Dark Sun seem less... dark.  Not that it was a bad "revision", or anything.  It really did introduce some big improvements on the old system (especially regarding psionics;  I was also a huge fan of the introduction of the trader class as a "core" Dark Sun class).  Plus, I think it was the best campaign supplement ever (the maps were great, especially the cloth map).</blockquote>

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