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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 1467836" data-attributes="member: 14159">Guess what, WotC isn't going to make an imbalanced setting, just not going to happen.  "Shoehorning" Athas into 3e by actually paying attention to balance issues isn't ruining a setting, it's making it playable.  One of the reasons people stopped playing 2e and 3e was so succesful is that it actually paid attention to games being balanced.The magazine article even notes that Paladins are extremely rare on Athas, if you don't want them, don't use them in your game.  If you haven't noticed, 3rd Edition has always been about providing options for people's games, not just saying "you can't because we say so" for anything.  Arbitrarily restricting classes isn't fun, tell the DM why they shouldn't be there, and leave it to the DM to decide if he wants to have any as PC's in his game.Also, this isn't a slavishly uncreative recreation of Dark Sun.  If people want a painfully arcane and convoluted recreation of the setting, full of arbitrary rules which exist only because "it's always been that way here", it's not going to be very fun or entertaining to someone who isn't a long-term fan of Dark Sun.I never knew much about Dark Sun.  I started playing in 2e, but after Dark Sun was discontinued, and never got to play in a 2e game.  Dark Sun was almost a cliche among my friends for an overpowered game.  I don't have a problem with anything in there, because I was aware of the concept of the setting, but I didn't walk in with a decade of preconceptions on how it *had* to be.   Between this Dragon, the one last December with the Preserver/Defiler rules & the matching issue of Dungeon, it had everything I expected.Dragon Kings, Check.  Preservers & Defilers, Check.  Lots of Psionics, Check.  Roguish Elves & Feral Halflings, Check.  Hot & Barren, Check.  Templars & Elemental Clerics, Check.  Psionic beasts and unique undead, Check.  Half-Giants, Thri-Kreen & Muls, Check.The 3.5 Dark Sun in Dragon is also set ~300 years after the prior Dark Sun materials, to allow for any differences in the setting.  You could just assume that Paladins started emerging in small numbers in the last few centuries, and that a spellcaster multiclassed as a Bard, developed bardic magic, and slowly spead it among bards until after a few hundred years the average bard has some limited arcane magic.</blockquote>

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