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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 4893358" data-attributes="member: 2067">Well, for me, a significant part of Dark Sun's appeal is that the "natural world," in effect, doesn't exist. Nature is broken. Nothing is natural. "Natural" would not have involved planet-wide defiling with arcane magic. There is nothing natural about any of Dark Sun's environments. There is nothing to turn up to 11. The dial, as it were, has blown up. It's just stuck on this weird distortion and fluctuates at it's own volume. What would a Feywild offer that Athas itself couldn't offer? Why can't you have whatever brutal hellscape you imagine being in the feywild, on Athas itself? Why do I need to go to a different world (in a setting that is cut off from different worlds) to experience the ravages of the environment (in a setting that has a ravaging environment)? As an example:Why can't that be anyone in Dark Sun? Why do we need an adjacent world where there's a specific race of this (who also happen to be great wizards, and who step in between planes like crossing the road)? I mean, neat ideas, I just don't see why there's a need for the Feywild to realize these ideas, especially when the existence of some "nearby plane of nature" would fly in the face of two of Athas's most interesting setting elements (for me): it's unnatural, and it's not really connected to other planes.</blockquote>