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Message: <blockquote data-quote="evildmguy" data-source="post: 3994806" data-attributes="member: 6092">Even though I think the designers intended Tyr to be free, I would leave it under Kalak and run it as the first box says.What I would do is a lot more fluff.  I would do a lot more with how playing under a SK could work.  (Ga'ould from Stargate.)  I would talk more about the benefits about working from the inside.  And I would teach the DM how most SKs don't care what others are doing unless it directly influences their plans.  I would give lots of ideas of what those plans were but allow each DM to choose.  Dark Sun seems to work best when focused in the present.  Eventually, I think there wouldn't be more to publish.  The history isn't relevant to where they are now.  And, the debate continues on moving the timeline forward and what it does to inividual compaigns.  During this time, though, I would solidify the cultures under the SKs.  Tyr - dictator/tyrantBalic - Roman RepublicDraj - Gulg - Nibenay - Raam - Urik - warrior king(I don't remember what they were.  I think one was Aztec based.  I never got a good distinction between them, though, which is what I would try and create.)  I think I would also increase the distance to double the scale presented.  It makes each area more isolated and gives more room for slave tribes and perhaps independent villages.  It also allows for a bit higher population, if needed.  I would look at the dragon's place in all of this.  I don't like Rajaat still existing.  My thought would be to make the dragon superfluous.  Maybe the other SKs are trying to get powerful characters to be able to destroy the dragon, so they can take his place.  I would just like a reason for the dragon.  I don't mind some of the later stuff, like the large lake, the kreen empire, but I would stick to the table lands for the adventures, which is also why I want to make it larger.  I would make those other areas smaller and perhaps warring/skirmishing a lot, which is why the tablelands are better.  There would definitely be interest in finding out about the history but I would leave that up to DMs.  Possibly more ruins.  I like Dregoth and would keep him around.  Tons more, only because I have been thinking about it and will probably run it for the next campaign.edg</blockquote>

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