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<blockquote data-quote="amysrevenge" data-source="post: 4893987" data-attributes="member: 61298"><p>I think the motivation for trying to make these things work is to be able to use as much of the standard 4E cosmology as possible in a way that doesn't compromise the "feel" of Dark Sun. "Feel" is a pretty ephemeral thing, and short of simply reprinting the original 2E box set they WILL fail to entirely recapture the feel for some players. The trick is to get it close enough to satisfy as many fans as possible.</p><p></p><p>I think that a desert-refluffed Feywild and Shadowfell attached to Athas will a) keep the setting more inline with established 4E cosmology, requiring less refluffing of other things and b) maintain much of the Athas "feel" for a large proportion of Dark Sun fans.</p><p></p><p>This would also make the setting a bit more accessible to new people. You can describe the world sucinctly and capture most of what is different, without having to list all of the individual changes instead: "Dark Sun is about a world that has been turned into an unnatural desert by the irresponsible use of arcane magic. The Feywild and Shadowfell are now reflections of this sand-blasted land, with all the changes this would imply about their denizens." An example of the kind of thing that you <em>wouldn't</em> have to explain further with this setup, but <em>would</em> have to explain otherwise: Eladrin can still step into the Feywild to teleport.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="amysrevenge, post: 4893987, member: 61298"] I think the motivation for trying to make these things work is to be able to use as much of the standard 4E cosmology as possible in a way that doesn't compromise the "feel" of Dark Sun. "Feel" is a pretty ephemeral thing, and short of simply reprinting the original 2E box set they WILL fail to entirely recapture the feel for some players. The trick is to get it close enough to satisfy as many fans as possible. I think that a desert-refluffed Feywild and Shadowfell attached to Athas will a) keep the setting more inline with established 4E cosmology, requiring less refluffing of other things and b) maintain much of the Athas "feel" for a large proportion of Dark Sun fans. This would also make the setting a bit more accessible to new people. You can describe the world sucinctly and capture most of what is different, without having to list all of the individual changes instead: "Dark Sun is about a world that has been turned into an unnatural desert by the irresponsible use of arcane magic. The Feywild and Shadowfell are now reflections of this sand-blasted land, with all the changes this would imply about their denizens." An example of the kind of thing that you [i]wouldn't[/i] have to explain further with this setup, but [i]would[/i] have to explain otherwise: Eladrin can still step into the Feywild to teleport. [/QUOTE]
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