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Dark Sun 4e: Can it work?
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<blockquote data-quote="Silverblade The Ench" data-source="post: 4472660" data-attributes="member: 19083"><p>brehobit,</p><p>well put, I agree! <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=":)" /></p><p>Folk are scared stiff of halg-giants...half-giants are scared stiff of pionicists and templars...everyone's afraid of but also hates defilers...</p><p></p><p>Athasian bards could be re-worked rogues, with lots of poison powers?</p><p></p><p>Dark Sun is not "Nice and balanced" it's rough brutal and everyone does tend to have their "bailiwick". Which is cool.</p><p><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=":)" /></p><p></p><p></p><p>Ishmayl,</p><p>warforged PCs? absolutely not acceptable in a default Athasian campaign! Totally unreasonable for several points:</p><p></p><p>1) Unless they were not metallic at all, everyone and their mother would instantly gank a warforged character as they'd be worth <em>millions </em>(in our equivalent). </p><p>A couple of hundred pounds of iron and wood? Are you kidding? Lol, they wouldn't get down a single street before becoming scrap <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></p><p>Only a very protected servant of a sorceror king could have sufficent protection.</p><p></p><p>Athas is very metal poor. bringing that much metal in is unbalancing to the setting's millieu.</p><p></p><p>2) So-uts (AKA, rampagers), they go berserk for and destroy metal on sight.</p><p></p><p>3) if they don't suffer heat exhaustion, or need water, that breaks another part of the millieu</p><p><em>"Oh my character's not scared of the desert! he doens't don't need water and can't get heat exhaustion!"</em></p><p>Meh...that torpedoes part of Athas's charm right off.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Silverblade The Ench, post: 4472660, member: 19083"] brehobit, well put, I agree! :) Folk are scared stiff of halg-giants...half-giants are scared stiff of pionicists and templars...everyone's afraid of but also hates defilers... Athasian bards could be re-worked rogues, with lots of poison powers? Dark Sun is not "Nice and balanced" it's rough brutal and everyone does tend to have their "bailiwick". Which is cool. :) Ishmayl, warforged PCs? absolutely not acceptable in a default Athasian campaign! Totally unreasonable for several points: 1) Unless they were not metallic at all, everyone and their mother would instantly gank a warforged character as they'd be worth [I]millions [/I](in our equivalent). A couple of hundred pounds of iron and wood? Are you kidding? Lol, they wouldn't get down a single street before becoming scrap ;) Only a very protected servant of a sorceror king could have sufficent protection. Athas is very metal poor. bringing that much metal in is unbalancing to the setting's millieu. 2) So-uts (AKA, rampagers), they go berserk for and destroy metal on sight. 3) if they don't suffer heat exhaustion, or need water, that breaks another part of the millieu [I]"Oh my character's not scared of the desert! he doens't don't need water and can't get heat exhaustion!"[/I] Meh...that torpedoes part of Athas's charm right off. [/QUOTE]
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