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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Staffan" data-source="post: 2421291" data-attributes="member: 907">I think part of it has to do with Dark Sun being a fairly unbalanced setting. The gladiators are plain better than fighters (from a PC point of view - in most campaigns you'll have more use of the armor optimization bonus and multiple weapon specializations than you will have use for creating battlefield fortifications and training people in weapon profs), defilers are more powerful than preservers (with what is fundamentally a roleplaying disadvantage), low-level bards could have access to Death/20 poison if they were only a little bit lucky, and some druids just had more spells than others. And let's not even get into the races - muls and halfgiants made powerhouse warrior-types, especially with the original box set where their Strength bonus just bypassed the exceptional strength scale (in 2e, there was an enormous difference between Str 17 and Str 19.In 3e, balance is given much more emphasis, which makes it hard to convert some elements and still keep their flavor. In addition, people often want to expand on Dark Sun into rules areas that weren't available in 2e, such as making regional feats for various places, adding prestige classes, and things like that. This kind of thing is neat, but doesn't produce the same nostalgic feeling that a "plain" conversion does.</blockquote>