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<blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 8721962" data-attributes="member: 5948">It's quite possible that, even if a 5e Dark Sun does come along at some point, the designers will just arbitrarily decide that defiling is an evil NPC thing and simply not provide any rules support for PCs defiling.Which would be a great shame in my opinion, cos the whole thing about arcane magic in Dark Sun is the need to moderate one's use of power for the greater good even though defiling is quicker, easier and more powerful.&nbsp; Virtue is meaningless is there's no temptation to resist.&nbsp; But there's precedent here.&nbsp; VRGtR pretty much threw all the 'use of evil power corrupts the user' stuff from previous Ravenloft material out the window, and is quite ok with PC fiend pact warlocks and undead-animating necromancers to run around without any sort of penalty.&nbsp; The 5e designers do NOT like attaching negative consequences to player options, as a general principle.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="humble minion, post: 8721962, member: 5948"] It's quite possible that, even if a 5e Dark Sun does come along at some point, the designers will just arbitrarily decide that defiling is an evil NPC thing and simply not provide any rules support for PCs defiling. Which would be a great shame in my opinion, cos the whole thing about arcane magic in Dark Sun is the need to moderate one's use of power for the greater good even though defiling is quicker, easier and more powerful. Virtue is meaningless is there's no temptation to resist. But there's precedent here. VRGtR pretty much threw all the 'use of evil power corrupts the user' stuff from previous Ravenloft material out the window, and is quite ok with PC fiend pact warlocks and undead-animating necromancers to run around without any sort of penalty. The 5e designers do NOT like attaching negative consequences to player options, as a general principle. [/QUOTE]

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