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<blockquote data-quote="DracoSuave" data-source="post: 5468467" data-attributes="member: 71571">The reason that came to me was because a similiar life and death situation came out of the Prism Pentad.&nbsp; The spellcaster, Sadira, was forced to defile to channel a magic powerful enough to save herself, and the temptation to do so again became a repeated question for her character.&nbsp; I thought that tension was awesome, but the second edition rules didn't really do a lot to make it -worth- defiling as a preserver.Then the Revised Dark Sun rules came in and had a method of rewarding defiling by increasing the caster level if you defiled on lands that were fertile... well... fertile by Dark Sun standards.&nbsp; The downside to those rules is that defiling in the fiction and in the first version of the setting occured when you -cast- the spell.&nbsp; In the revised edition, it occured when you memorized the spell... which removed the whole tension of defiling in social situations.The fourth edition rules fix all those problems.&nbsp; You get power for defiling so you might want to do it, but you don't prepare it in safety... if you're a defiler, you cannot hide it like you can hide your waggling fingers.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DracoSuave, post: 5468467, member: 71571"] The reason that came to me was because a similiar life and death situation came out of the Prism Pentad. The spellcaster, Sadira, was forced to defile to channel a magic powerful enough to save herself, and the temptation to do so again became a repeated question for her character. I thought that tension was awesome, but the second edition rules didn't really do a lot to make it -worth- defiling as a preserver. Then the Revised Dark Sun rules came in and had a method of rewarding defiling by increasing the caster level if you defiled on lands that were fertile... well... fertile by Dark Sun standards. The downside to those rules is that defiling in the fiction and in the first version of the setting occured when you -cast- the spell. In the revised edition, it occured when you memorized the spell... which removed the whole tension of defiling in social situations. The fourth edition rules fix all those problems. You get power for defiling so you might want to do it, but you don't prepare it in safety... if you're a defiler, you cannot hide it like you can hide your waggling fingers. [/QUOTE]

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