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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Erebus" data-source="post: 1450259" data-attributes="member: 8616">I would have to say that back in the day, the Dark Sun concept was really cool and was what initially hooked me. It was just so different (and still is) from everything that TSR produced during its run and I look forward to the new material. Will I use it? Maybe. Regardless, it remains my all-time favorite setting. The fact that we're getting updated "official" material is awesome. No offense to the good folks at athas.org, but some of their early material especially smacked of "fanboy" (read: unprofessional) and really didn't meet my tastes. It also seemed somewhat stale. Admittedly, I haven't checked out any of their current projects.If the setting in the magazines is somewhat "re-imagined", who cares? Use what you like and discard the rest, or don't use it at all. The original campaign setting has all the flavor you'll ever need and you're free to change what you don't like. The update more or less provides the crunch you can use to run the game under 3.5. There are folks on RPG.net, in fact, who have taken Dark Sun and used different game systems entirely to run it. In short, the mechanics don't really matter - it's all about the flavor. If you find it lacking in the new material or at odds with your personal "vision" of what Dark Sun should be like, that's fine - don't use it.I don't mean to sound patronizing, but some people get way too worked up about this stuff. It's a game, people!</blockquote>

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