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<blockquote data-quote="Mark Hope" data-source="post: 6136467" data-attributes="member: 27051">I remember Dave Noonan coming onto the WotC Dark Sun boards to chat with us all about the articles. He said that certain additional content (like paladins) weren't in his original writeup, but were added at the insistence of higher-ups. I sort of remember that he said &quot;editors&quot;, but I can't find the post and I'm not sure about that memory. He seemed pretty frustrated - which is understandable, as the guy was clearly a big DS fan who really knew his stuff.I liked the Paizo take on the setting, personally.&nbsp; Dave's article on Defilers from a few months earlier was a great piece of innovation, and the full setting conversion was crammed with great ideas (despite its flaws). The take on the elan was inspirational, blood obsidian was supercool, and the stuff about Andropinis returning from the Black was really cleverly done. The art was kick-ass (even though Hamanu underwent some radical reinvention, heh heh) and the monsters in Dungeon magazine were really neat, with some added critters that fleshed out niches in the world. For the omnivorous DS fan, it was more meat to gorge on <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mark Hope, post: 6136467, member: 27051"] I remember Dave Noonan coming onto the WotC Dark Sun boards to chat with us all about the articles. He said that certain additional content (like paladins) weren't in his original writeup, but were added at the insistence of higher-ups. I sort of remember that he said "editors", but I can't find the post and I'm not sure about that memory. He seemed pretty frustrated - which is understandable, as the guy was clearly a big DS fan who really knew his stuff. I liked the Paizo take on the setting, personally. Dave's article on Defilers from a few months earlier was a great piece of innovation, and the full setting conversion was crammed with great ideas (despite its flaws). The take on the elan was inspirational, blood obsidian was supercool, and the stuff about Andropinis returning from the Black was really cleverly done. The art was kick-ass (even though Hamanu underwent some radical reinvention, heh heh) and the monsters in Dungeon magazine were really neat, with some added critters that fleshed out niches in the world. For the omnivorous DS fan, it was more meat to gorge on :) [/QUOTE]

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