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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SableWyvern" data-source="post: 9737454" data-attributes="member: 1008">The original boxed set is quite vague an open-ended, leaving lots of space for GMs to make the setting their own.Many of the basic details that are presented in the OBS are then contradicted by later material that locks things down. You can put this down to an unreliable narrator, but I think it's more a matter of people not really caring about those broad strokes if it got in the way of the vision that were putting down on paper as "canon".The comments from Nok are perfectly in keeping with the information in OBS, but not some of the later material. Of course, Nok could also be an unreliable narrator.Personally, there are a lot of choices made that I don't like, which is why I just stick with OBS + Ivory Triangle, and then do what I want from there. [One of the things I really dislike are the genocidal champions -- mostly because they seem to exist to answer the question, "Why are there no orcs and hobgoblins and kobolds and so forth?" and I don't think the question makes sense in the first place. Might as well ask why there are no klingons, jawas or Numenoreans. The answer, as far as I'm concerned, is because this is Dark Sun, not Star Trek, Star Wars, Middle Earth or the Forgotten Realms. That's just my little pet peeve though.]</blockquote>