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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shard O'Glase" data-source="post: 682060" data-attributes="member: 1134">The differences may have been larger in the revised but what killed it for me is that it had a feel to it(to me at least) like the good guys were winning and it was only a matter of time until all the sorcerer kings were overthrown.  The original thing that drew me to darksun was it was a setting where the Bad Guys were on top, they were winning, and there was a fledgling revoultion trying to make some change.  Now I think its cool when camapign worlds evolve, I really like SR in how a year passes in the SR world as rougly a year passes here, and events happen and the world evolves.  But in SR the core feel doesn't seem to change.  The pcs are still the little guys, and while small victories occur here and there the big boys have there victories as well.  And that's where I feel the revised darksun failed it lost its core feel of fledgling revolutionaires against overwhelming odds.  Almost all the changes were on the side of the sorcerer kings being overthrown, and the evolutionaries getting powered up.Side Note: I'm curious to see how they handle sorcerer kings(and the good varient whoose name I forget) transformation into superbeings in the new multiclassing system.  For those who don't know you needed to be a really high level psion and a really high level wizard before you could make the transition to dragon form for evil guys, and again I forget the good guy form.  They may just say hey this requires the epic level handbook, because we're talking level 30 at least.</blockquote>

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