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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nyrfherdr" data-source="post: 1957498" data-attributes="member: 3394">Excellent Thread!  Thanks Joshua.I would say that you can get most of what you need from the 2 box sets (pdf's)  If you need more after than, then the Prism Pentad provides the most history.The other source books provide generally excellent material.On the meta-plot.  I ran Dark Sun as a campaign for about 5 years and the meta plot only effected me as the DM slightly.  The players were oblivious.  I was surprised by the total world shakeup in the novels and the subsequent release of the revised box set, but I have to agree with previous posters that a great deal of the new material was too cool to pass up.For me, I didn't like the Dregoth story line, but that was mostly because there were already plenty of plots and threads to follow and villains to face.  I didn't need another one.I find that I plunder ideas all the time.  If you have the time, there is great stuff to be found in the original, the revised and on athas.org.  I liked the Dragon/Dungeon updates but felt that they made too much effort to please everyone and ended up with a couple of odd results (like not eliminating certain classes/races).  I thought the Elan would have made good replacements for the Pyreen, actually.  But... There you go.Now I'll have to dig out all of my sourcebooks again and have a nostalgia fest.Game ON!Nyrf</blockquote>