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<blockquote data-quote="Ravellion" data-source="post: 4651627" data-attributes="member: 538"><p>Hello folks,</p><p></p><p>I lately have seen a few people on these boards say that Dark Sun would be great in 4e. I remember having trouble running Dragonlance around the War of the Lance era in 3e, while loving said setting and era in 2e. Forgotten realms worked better in 3e than in 2e. It was certain small things in the setting that just seemed to click into place. 3e allowed faster leveling and easier magic item creation - it seemed Faerun was a good fit. Dragonlance had a lot of the game's 1e and 2e rules built into the flavour of the game and vice versa, such as faster advancement for the black robed wizards, or wizards not being able to use anything other than a staff or a dagger. 2e Dark Sun started PCs less fragile to survive the miserable place that is Athas. 4e just starts PCs less fragile. Is there a match there? If these or other examples hold true, I might just be tempted to dust off an old campaign setting for my next campaign, and play it in an edition it wasn't written for.</p><p></p><p>In a way, what I want to bring up is the system over setting debate we have had on these boards earlier. But what I would really like to know are there settings you would like to try out in an edition you haven't played in (yet), or are there settings that you would never want to play outside of the editions that spawned them? If there are, why? Or perhaps you already converted a setting to a new edition and liked or disliked it. I'd just like to hear your thoughts.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ravellion, post: 4651627, member: 538"] Hello folks, I lately have seen a few people on these boards say that Dark Sun would be great in 4e. I remember having trouble running Dragonlance around the War of the Lance era in 3e, while loving said setting and era in 2e. Forgotten realms worked better in 3e than in 2e. It was certain small things in the setting that just seemed to click into place. 3e allowed faster leveling and easier magic item creation - it seemed Faerun was a good fit. Dragonlance had a lot of the game's 1e and 2e rules built into the flavour of the game and vice versa, such as faster advancement for the black robed wizards, or wizards not being able to use anything other than a staff or a dagger. 2e Dark Sun started PCs less fragile to survive the miserable place that is Athas. 4e just starts PCs less fragile. Is there a match there? If these or other examples hold true, I might just be tempted to dust off an old campaign setting for my next campaign, and play it in an edition it wasn't written for. In a way, what I want to bring up is the system over setting debate we have had on these boards earlier. But what I would really like to know are there settings you would like to try out in an edition you haven't played in (yet), or are there settings that you would never want to play outside of the editions that spawned them? If there are, why? Or perhaps you already converted a setting to a new edition and liked or disliked it. I'd just like to hear your thoughts. [/QUOTE]
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