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Message: <blockquote data-quote="xipetotec" data-source="post: 5312260" data-attributes="member: 93603">Okay, so in the world of Dark Sun, Arcana Magic can be bad. It drains life energy from its surroundings. This is *very* cool ( and reminds me of Ben's power in the show Carnivale ).  However, did I miss a paragraph or chapter somewhere on how this works in the game? What I mean is that yes, you can use the defile ability or whatever, but you can also "choose" to preserve... I kind of fail to see where to consequence really is. I mean if the user doesn't want to defile, then they are just "careful" and they don't defile? There doesn't seem to be much penalty for using Arcana magic if you don't want to defile other than how the peopleor Arthas will think of you...  Am I missing something? ( If not, I would totally houserule that all arcane magic defiles to some degree )</blockquote>