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<blockquote data-quote="filthgrinder" data-source="post: 5161510" data-attributes="member: 64984"><p>Is adding Primodials, and a dark sun version of the feywild any different, or more blasphemous to the setting, than the REVISED box set that came out? Or more "trashing the setting" than the line of novels did? </p><p></p><p>By my count, the "setting" that everyone clings to as this holy magical place was simply the original box set, and it was great. However, this great setting isn't the virginal, clean as the driven snow, canon perfect place that people are remembering with their rose colored glasses. "Mucking it up" is what happened to the setting under the care of TSR and almost immediately.</p><p></p><p>Let's see, before WotC even approached the setting, we had tons of SKs killed off. Varying descriptions of how they even worked (and a confusing list of who is and is not an SK). We had one get sucked into Ravenloft, even though Athas was supposedly walled off from everything. How about the expansion of the Tablelands in the revised set with new city-states. How about those awful psionic artifacts?</p><p></p><p>So, honestly, this isn't some undefiled setting that WotC is posing to ruin. The setting has already been tampered with and messed up. So if you don't like the changes WotC is making... then you probably didn't like the changes TSR made. So as you ignored those changes ignore the new ones.</p><p></p><p>I was a big fan of Dark Sun back in the day (until the release of the revised box set). I'm a fan of 4E, and I'm looking forward to Dark Sun 4E. I'm looking at it more as the Dark Sun-ification of 4E rather than the 4e-ification of Dark Sun.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="filthgrinder, post: 5161510, member: 64984"] Is adding Primodials, and a dark sun version of the feywild any different, or more blasphemous to the setting, than the REVISED box set that came out? Or more "trashing the setting" than the line of novels did? By my count, the "setting" that everyone clings to as this holy magical place was simply the original box set, and it was great. However, this great setting isn't the virginal, clean as the driven snow, canon perfect place that people are remembering with their rose colored glasses. "Mucking it up" is what happened to the setting under the care of TSR and almost immediately. Let's see, before WotC even approached the setting, we had tons of SKs killed off. Varying descriptions of how they even worked (and a confusing list of who is and is not an SK). We had one get sucked into Ravenloft, even though Athas was supposedly walled off from everything. How about the expansion of the Tablelands in the revised set with new city-states. How about those awful psionic artifacts? So, honestly, this isn't some undefiled setting that WotC is posing to ruin. The setting has already been tampered with and messed up. So if you don't like the changes WotC is making... then you probably didn't like the changes TSR made. So as you ignored those changes ignore the new ones. I was a big fan of Dark Sun back in the day (until the release of the revised box set). I'm a fan of 4E, and I'm looking forward to Dark Sun 4E. I'm looking at it more as the Dark Sun-ification of 4E rather than the 4e-ification of Dark Sun. [/QUOTE]
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