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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yora" data-source="post: 8334963" data-attributes="member: 6670763">A shift that I am seeing with Dragonlance, the 2nd Edition of Forgotten Realms, and Mystara is the adoption of an aesthetic that feels very idyllic and quaint. With stockings and feathered caps, and happy round-cheeked villagers having a faire outside the big white castle with colorful banners on the spires. It looks like Erol Flynn's Robin Hood or Prince Valliant. You get the impression of a happy paradise that got temporarily inconvenienced by a Dark Lord nuisance and his orc pests.Gone is the sense of frontier communities in constant struggles against the horrors of the savage wilderness. Dark Sun was a return to those sensibilities, but it stands out as being that one edgy thing given it's own corner where it wouldn't bother anyone else.3rd Edition traded the stockings for spiky pauldrons, but overall there was little change.</blockquote>