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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alaxk Knight of Galt" data-source="post: 5308246" data-attributes="member: 4129">Personally, I think Essentials is missing a big opportunity to tie into Dark Sun.The Divine ProblemThe divine classes don't fit. Clerics:  In 2nd, you had elemental clerics.  In essentials, you have cleric domains.  If Essentials had Fire, Water, Earth, and Wind domains, you could easily justify playing an elemental cleric in Dark Sun.Paladin:  Very, very much out of flavor for the world.Missing EssentialsLack of Leaders:  Essentials has (as we know it today) only one leader, Cleric.  Warlord, Bard, and Shaman are all very much in flavor for the world.  Not one of these classes has an announced Essential build.Psionics:  The other major gap for Essentials + Dark Sun.  Psionics is everywhere in the setting.  Thus far, we have no knowledge of any psionic Essentials build.  If there was an essentials Psion we could probably live without Battlemind and Ardent.  As it stands, it's a major hole for the setting.Thus, 2 of the 8 Essential classes fall completely out of theme for the setting.  The lack of a non-divine leader and no psionic support is nearly a death blow for running Essentials Exclusive Dark Sun.That said, you can easily mix Essentials builds into the setting.</blockquote>