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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Spatula" data-source="post: 4147131" data-attributes="member: 2198">Not alone here, and I'm with you, but head over to Athas.org if it's still around for the other fanbase.Anyway, I was wrong in that DS did use some regular D&D monsters beyond skeletons & zombies, but mostly desert-themed ones (genies) or those that worked for a desert setting (overgrown lizards & bugs).Wow, a tree monster in a desert.  And a new flavor of dark elves where there's no "light" elves to constrast them with.  And giants - fomorians aren't fey, and DS has its own particular giants.Of course, what qualifies as "minor details" differs from person to person.  Upthread, Klaus advocated getting rid of psionics in the setting, which is a critical part of it in my view (and if the 4e psion is not a better blaster than the arcane casters, as we have in 3e, it would work really well for the setting, too).  Here you're for throwing goblins into a setting that doesn't have them, or anything even resembling them, much as Dragonlance does not have orcs (unless something has changed with DL).  If someone came out with a 4e DL setting filled with orcs, I think the fans might not appreciate the sudden change.  The weakest humanoid-type monster in DS was the gith, which had 3HD and psionic powers.  One gith would eat a hobgoblin for a pre-breakfast snack.Paladins would possibly make good templars, then.Any setup that has defilers and preservers as two seperate classes is a bit lazy, IMO.  Preservers, by the setting fluff, should be able to tap into more power via defiling if they wish (and there should be consequences for doing so).  The Dragon/Dungeon conversion got this much right, at least, even if I didn't care for the particular mechanic used there.</blockquote>

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