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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8094862" data-attributes="member: 18">You'd hope, right?But my fear is that they'll simply avoid the issue, either by not doing Dark Sun, or changing Dark Sun significantly - either removing defiling (making the problems be due to some one-off catastrophe in the past), or making defiling not linked to arcane magic, not a natural consequence of heavy use of arcane magic unless action is taken, but rather this weird thing a few bad guys did/do. I actually think the latter is sadly likely, and it undermines the whole vibe of the setting imo. I'd rather lose psionics than lose defiling as a default consequence of arcane magic, in terms of flavour/vibe for DS.Hey, I hope I'm wrong and they do double-down, though.I do wonder what they'll do with Bards - Warlocks can obviously go to being Templars - replace the normal patrons with Sorcerer lords (If WotC is feeling really lazy they could even use simple equivalence - i.e. this Sorcerer Lord = that patron-type). Sorcerers are arcane casters so should defile like Wizards but otherwise seem workable. Bards though in 5E are technically massive arcane casters but that doesn't fit well at all with how they are in Dark Sun's lore. So maybe something like a new subclass with a specific spell list which focuses on psionic stuff and we say they're psionic or something.</blockquote>