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<blockquote data-quote="bloodtide" data-source="post: 8946677" data-attributes="member: 6684958"><p>Most Defiantly. Dark Sun is a brutal, difficult game with no easy buttons or nerf padding. The Nickname for Dark Sun is Hard Fun.</p><p></p><p>It's not really "society at large" it's just more how people think. A typical 2023 game has no character death, a typical 1973-2000 game had TONS of character death. </p><p></p><p>Dark Sun has very little "auto heal" like in modern games: nearly all the clerics in the world are your enemy. So they are not going to heal you. You can't do the modern "fight a little" then "auto heal" in a Dark Sun game.</p><p></p><p>Lets take a typical Dark Sun plot:</p><p></p><p>The character is born a slave and has nothing. One day you develop of strange mind power, to whip your ego at foes. With this power you escape slavery and run out in to the wastelands. Your only possessions are your torn ragged clothing, and your lone weapon: a dagger made from the jaw of a kank(aka giant ant monster). It's a daily, harsh struggle to find food and water. Plus survive against the monsters in the wastelands. Plus avoid the bounty hunters and templars(evil clerics) looking for you.</p><p></p><p>Your character might be able to find a couple others like themselves, but the can trust few. Nearly the whole world is your enemy, and the few that are not are neutral and might still harm you. Evil oppressive society on one side, harsh wasteland on the other, and your character is stuck in the middle.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bloodtide, post: 8946677, member: 6684958"] Most Defiantly. Dark Sun is a brutal, difficult game with no easy buttons or nerf padding. The Nickname for Dark Sun is Hard Fun. It's not really "society at large" it's just more how people think. A typical 2023 game has no character death, a typical 1973-2000 game had TONS of character death. Dark Sun has very little "auto heal" like in modern games: nearly all the clerics in the world are your enemy. So they are not going to heal you. You can't do the modern "fight a little" then "auto heal" in a Dark Sun game. Lets take a typical Dark Sun plot: The character is born a slave and has nothing. One day you develop of strange mind power, to whip your ego at foes. With this power you escape slavery and run out in to the wastelands. Your only possessions are your torn ragged clothing, and your lone weapon: a dagger made from the jaw of a kank(aka giant ant monster). It's a daily, harsh struggle to find food and water. Plus survive against the monsters in the wastelands. Plus avoid the bounty hunters and templars(evil clerics) looking for you. Your character might be able to find a couple others like themselves, but the can trust few. Nearly the whole world is your enemy, and the few that are not are neutral and might still harm you. Evil oppressive society on one side, harsh wasteland on the other, and your character is stuck in the middle. [/QUOTE]
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