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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KidCthulhu" data-source="post: 100935" data-attributes="member: 26">Substance drives style.  Just as an artist needs to understand technique or a skater needs to master the basics, style without substance shows.  That said, I have generally felt that the Scarred Lands materials has a lot of substance.  It's a well designed world, with lots of adventure hooks.I haven't read the book you refer to, and I hope that the setting isn't going to degrade into wacky, bad Forgotten Realm-y problems.  That monstrosity is my prime example of style driving substance.  Yuck.That said, the elves of the Scarred Lands have a very tragic history, and if you view their low con as part of that history of disease and suffering, taking a further con loss to master a powerful magic isn't so strange.</blockquote>