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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark Hope" data-source="post: 1956896" data-attributes="member: 27051">I hear you there.  Mind you, the Wanderer's Journal/Chronicle is in fairly bite-sized pieces, so you shouldn't find it too much of a drag.The 64,000 ceramic piece question <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />.  For overall feel, I prefer the original boxed set as it preserves a certain sense of exotic mystery that first drew me to the setting.  Furthermore, it gives you a world that you can then make your own without worrying about canon to any great degree.  Apart from Freedom and the Revised boxed set, the various adventures and supplements actually make very few changes to the setting, allowing you to customise them to suit your own taste.  For detail and scope, however, I look to the Revised boxed set.  It covers the lands to the north of the core setting (big fan of the Scorched Plateau) and gives the historical background to the setting as well as providing details on how the novel series changed the gameworld.  I use it as a toolkit for creating my own world-shaping storylines, substituting the PCs of my own games for the heroes of the novels and allowing them to play events out according to their own desires.  I found that the Paizo conversion was also highly useful from a toolkit point of view.  The defiler system presented there makes an interesting alternative to the one used at athas.org (I use a hybrid of the two in my own games) and there were a couple of real gems presented in the magazines (blood obsidian and the elan as a race created by Athas sinister psionic conspirators The Order were two of my faves).  And the artwork in the Paizo conversion was top-notch.  For my part, the best results are achieved by picking and choosing from the various conversions and building a personalised creation to suit yourself and your gamers.  At the end of the day, it's all wholesome DS goodness.</blockquote>

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