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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Spatula" data-source="post: 4651868" data-attributes="member: 2198">Mechanics definitely inform flavor and vice versa, so I think you're correct that the rules matter.  Just about any 1e/2e setting was built up with certain assumptions in place, and those assumptions don't necessarily make much sense in other editions.  I suppose it works in reverse, as well.  Eberron depends on the existance of some feat-like mechanic for personal abilities such as dragonmarks, which doesn't work very well in 1e/2e.Dark Sun is probably the prime example, being the ultimate "out there" setting.  The barren, alien setting and the bizarre races were fine in 2e, which had a strong story-over-rules vibe to it (just as well, since the rules were awful).  But it works less well with 3e/4e's obsession with balance and 4e's insistance that players always get what they want.</blockquote>