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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Haldrik" data-source="post: 8044208" data-attributes="member: 6694221">I feel the 5e Dark Sun Setting Guide can focus on a "basic" section of the book, that closely models the original 2e boxed set.Then have separate sections for "expansions" with options that the DM can easily add or ignore.So the "basic" races are:• Human• Elf / Elf-Human• Dwarf / Dwarf-Human• Giant-Human (Large!)• Halfling• Thri-KreenThe "basic" classes are something like:Martial• Rage Barbarian ≈ savage "Fighter"• Champion Fighter ≈ mercenary "Fighter"• Battlemaster Fighter ≈ "Gladiator"• Hunter Ranger• Thief Rogue• Assassin Rogue ≈ "Minstrel" (with disguise, performance, impersonation, called "minstrel" to disambiguate from 5e Bard)Arcane• Wizard ≈ "Defiler" (any highest slot level spell defiles) / "Preserver" (avoid highest slot level; split into lower slot levels)• Eldritch Knight Fighter (?) ≈ "Templar" (so dragon Wizard and enforcer Templar can share same arcane spell list?)Divine• Cleric (animistic PSYCHIC attunement with each cosmic elemental force, lacking any concept of "worship")• Moon Druid (mostly place-bound NPCs? venerating the lifeforms and elements of a specific landscape feature)Psionic• level 1 psionic feat• Psi Knight Fighter• Soul Knife Rogue• Psychic Soul Sorcerer• Psion (?)Optional classes that seem to resonate Dark Sun tropes:In a separate section, offer an "expansion" of class options, that the DM can add or ignore. Something like:Psionic• Glamor/Swords Bard (psionic?) ≈ entertainers who psionically manipulate• Lore Bard (psionic?) ≈ rare scholars (save history!)• Shadow Monk (psionic?) ≈ planar mystics of the Black• Goo Warlock (psionic?) ≈ dominated by insane mindstuff residues within the BlackArcane• Fey/Hexblade Warlock ≈ elf magic, pact with planetary plant lifeforce; elves are wasteland nomads who cherish plantsDivine• Paladin(human oath: Conquest!)(human oath: Vengeance: survive by any means)(elf oath: Ancients: preserve plant life, punish defilers)(dwarf oath: Oathbreaker: commune undead "banshee" dwarves in the Gray, who failed to finish their focus while alive)(rare multi-species oath: Devotion: help each other survive, withdrawing from corrupt dragon-sorcerer civilizations)SettingPlanes• Material ≈ planet Athas• Elemental ≈ the four elements• Black ≈ an empty bleak version of the astral, faint dreamy mindstuffs ≈ the fifth element• Gray ≈ grayish version of Shadowfell"Basic" region• On Athas, the "basic" setting is the region of Tyr"Expansion" with OPTIONAL regions in a separate section of the book• Regions that can represent other timelines in the Dark Sun setting• Advanced psionic utopian civilizations, far from Tyr, around the planet of Athas, being points-of-light oases struggling to survive against the wastelands</blockquote>

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