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<blockquote data-quote="Silverblade The Ench" data-source="post: 4855772" data-attributes="member: 19083"><p>Iron Sky</p><p>the "revised" Dark Sun was...garbage, sorry, lol <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue :p" data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></p><p></p><p>It was worse than the 4th ed Forgotten Rleams fiasco, by a long shot, it would be like turning the Realms into, oh, 21st century Earth...blerg!!</p><p></p><p>Tyr now has a democracy, half the sorceror kings dead etc...what the hell crappola is that?! :/ Thus many players completley ignore the "offical" events history etc of Dark Sun and stick to the 1st boxed set: even the designers have admitted it was a mistake to drive the setting like they did.</p><p></p><p>your DM should have let you use character tress, it's implicit in Dark Sun's original rules to do so, and you <em>need </em>them! hehe I mean, where else can your characters be eaten by cannibal Frodos, eh?! <em>wonderful </em>that is!! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue :p" data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></p><p></p><p>That is the fun of Dark Sun, it is not the usual, or "Tolekin-eqsue", it's more old style Robert E Howard/Leiber mixed with Clark Ashton Smith...which is a good thing. </p><p>I adore heroics, daring do, ship to ship battles etc so I love Spelljammer (I saw too many Errol Flynn and the like movies as a kid me thinks <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />), I also love dark, brutal gritty stuff, so I love Dark Sun (I love good post apocalypse stuff, and aforementioned authors)</p><p>it's <em>bad </em>ot mess with the identity and nature of a setting.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Silverblade The Ench, post: 4855772, member: 19083"] Iron Sky the "revised" Dark Sun was...garbage, sorry, lol :p It was worse than the 4th ed Forgotten Rleams fiasco, by a long shot, it would be like turning the Realms into, oh, 21st century Earth...blerg!! Tyr now has a democracy, half the sorceror kings dead etc...what the hell crappola is that?! :/ Thus many players completley ignore the "offical" events history etc of Dark Sun and stick to the 1st boxed set: even the designers have admitted it was a mistake to drive the setting like they did. your DM should have let you use character tress, it's implicit in Dark Sun's original rules to do so, and you [I]need [/I]them! hehe I mean, where else can your characters be eaten by cannibal Frodos, eh?! [I]wonderful [/I]that is!! :p That is the fun of Dark Sun, it is not the usual, or "Tolekin-eqsue", it's more old style Robert E Howard/Leiber mixed with Clark Ashton Smith...which is a good thing. I adore heroics, daring do, ship to ship battles etc so I love Spelljammer (I saw too many Errol Flynn and the like movies as a kid me thinks :D), I also love dark, brutal gritty stuff, so I love Dark Sun (I love good post apocalypse stuff, and aforementioned authors) it's [I]bad [/I]ot mess with the identity and nature of a setting. [/QUOTE]
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