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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 5160312" data-attributes="member: 2067">[sblock=Rantiness]I am so paranoid that the designers will find some awkward way to shoehorn in Eladrin that it makes my teeth hurt. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> Their minds seem to be in the right place, what with the "we don't need no Divine power source!", but recent quotes about how they've made strides in letting people use the PHB's to make characters does concern me a little...But I'm probably paranoid. I really want Dark Sun to be different. I want it to be the kind of place where flavor and feel trumps this fetish for inclusion that runs through a lot of 4e. I think it's possible. For me, this setting could either be the thing that gets me excited about 4e, or it could be the last nail in the coffin, driving home the 4eisms I like the least. Or maybe it'll just be another mixed bag. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />There's cause for optimism,  but it's cautious optimism for me. [/sblock]For me, the fact that the Sorcerer-Kings were/are genocidal maniacs makes them villainously distinct, and the idea that DS was originally a normal fantasy world helps drive home the fact that this is a ruined world, where things are not as they should be. It was once verdant, now it's a wasteland. The genocides fit in with that. I like the idea of an evil force successfully executing a few global genocides before the PC's are even on the scene. When the characters are born, the world is already sliding into oblivion. It's up to them to fix what they can.I hope they don't dodge the issue due to lame PR concerns like they dodged around the half-orcs, at least <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

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