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Message: <blockquote data-quote="an_idol_mind" data-source="post: 3701282" data-attributes="member: 43749">I didn't like the fact that so many major pieces of the setting were drastically changed through actions the players could not be a part of. The Prism Pentad novels came out very shortly after the campaign setting was released, IIRC. During the course of those books, the dragon and multiple sorcerer kings were killed, and life on Athas was drastically changed -- before the general role-playing audience could even get a good feel for what life on Athas WAS.The Prism Pentad novels and the revised boxed set would have been better for me if they had been released much later in the setting's life cycle. If Dark Sun had made it to 3e, that series would have been a suitable earth-shaker to lead the setting into the new edition. Instead, anyone who bought the boxed set had little time to actually get acclimated to the setting, because the first novels started changing things right off the bat. The adventures weren't much help, either. One of the first adventures, Freedom, had PCs basically sit back and watch while a bunch of novel-introduced NPCs killed a sorcerer king.</blockquote>