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Message: <blockquote data-quote="PJ-Mason" data-source="post: 1957619" data-attributes="member: 12285">The Dark Sun novels run the whole gambit of good to craptacular. The Prism Pentad was pretty much "High, i'm Troy Denning. Please enjoy these books as i destroy the Dark Sun setting book by book. Thank you for playing in my sandbox...now get out!"  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> The first book was decent, the rest were...well...TSR novels, man!!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> I liked the Tribe of One books, they did a great job of showing how psionics are the dominant abilities in DS.The Lynn Abbey books were terrific. They felt more like DS than Denning's books did to me. But, hey, i love everything she writes (can you say...Thieves World!!??..i knew you could), so i admit to some possible bias.As for the recent Dragon/Dungeon treatment of DS. I for one was quite displeased with it and for a couple of reasons. First, it was a bit of a slap in the face to the Athas.org people, who have been working for years to create a faithful conversion of the setting. The fact that is was a bad faith attempt (AFAIAC), elevates the level of insult.Secondly, it was crappy. I don't care so much that they sorta reset the setting. Its like any setting with different "Ages" (dragonlance, greyhawk, Thieves World, etc), you pick which era you want to play in. So fine. It was kinda stupid and not needed...but okay, i'll deal. Its the fact that they homogenized the setting. They threw everything back in that was removed for setting flavor in the first place. They threw in a bunch of races that didn't need to be there, but were Kewl (i guess they were. meh). They sacrificed the setting's uniqueness in exchange for just another watered down generic setting that allows everyone to use their 406 supplements of feats and prestige classes and didn't much care that it made Dark Sun look like a two-bit Wh$re. Rather than reanimate it into a shameless parody of its former self, i'd have much rather preferred they left it staked out for the crows.</blockquote>

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