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<blockquote data-quote="Staffan" data-source="post: 7471773" data-attributes="member: 907"><p>Haven't we been over this before? I know I've discussed this with someone on these boards, but I can't recall if it was you or someone else.</p><p></p><p>There's <strong>nothing</strong> in the original Dark Sun material that implies that Dark Sun is cut off from the planes. In the list of appropriate monsters the original box says "Fiends from the Outer Planes Appendix (MC10) can travel to and from Athas at will, but do so rarely, only when summoned by dragons and great wizards." Two of the adventures for pre-revised Dark Sun have strong planar elements (Black Spine and City by the Silt Sea), and there are lesser planar elements in some of the other adventures (like a tanar'ri being loose in Urik in one of them).</p><p></p><p>The idea of an alternate cosmology didn't start showing up until the novels - I think mainly in The Obsidian Oracle. It wasn't codified as interfering with planar travel until Defilers & Preservers, which was one of the last books published for the line - and even then, Dark Sun was still placed within the Great Wheel cosmology, but with a barrier making travel to the Astral/Outer planes really hard, and the Ethereal/Inner planes somewhat hard.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Staffan, post: 7471773, member: 907"] Haven't we been over this before? I know I've discussed this with someone on these boards, but I can't recall if it was you or someone else. There's [B]nothing[/B] in the original Dark Sun material that implies that Dark Sun is cut off from the planes. In the list of appropriate monsters the original box says "Fiends from the Outer Planes Appendix (MC10) can travel to and from Athas at will, but do so rarely, only when summoned by dragons and great wizards." Two of the adventures for pre-revised Dark Sun have strong planar elements (Black Spine and City by the Silt Sea), and there are lesser planar elements in some of the other adventures (like a tanar'ri being loose in Urik in one of them). The idea of an alternate cosmology didn't start showing up until the novels - I think mainly in The Obsidian Oracle. It wasn't codified as interfering with planar travel until Defilers & Preservers, which was one of the last books published for the line - and even then, Dark Sun was still placed within the Great Wheel cosmology, but with a barrier making travel to the Astral/Outer planes really hard, and the Ethereal/Inner planes somewhat hard. [/QUOTE]
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