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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bendris Noulg" data-source="post: 1471216" data-attributes="member: 6398">The game?  Not at all.  However, it does effect the attitude of some players, and this is a problem that can crop up when recruiting new players.  For instance, I'm a contract AutoCAD Facilities Manager, and I end up moving every 6-12 months (I think I'm here for another year, which just feels weird...).  While in Virginia, I tried to assemble a short-term group so that I wasn't just limited to the solo game between my wife and I.  However, of the twelve replies I got from the notice put up in the local FLGS, each of them turned down the game because, in the words of one of them, "everything in the Core Books should be available to the players at all times without exception."  He had a few colorful remarks that followed, but they've been posted here at ENWorld by others enough that I'll not bother to repeat such nonsense. And this isn't even a Dark Sun game! So, yes, I do believe Belen's got a valid point; It's not a matter of how it effects his game, but rather presents a picture of Dark Sun that is completely false.  Considering the gimme-gimme attitude frequently found amongst gamers (12 out of 12 in Williamsburg Virginia!), this makes it hard for the GM that wants to "preserve" the actual game-world environment of Dark Sun to convince players to accept those changes because they have a psuedo-official article (which is probably best described as a bastardization of the original author's work) that says otherwise.</blockquote>

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