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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jer" data-source="post: 8588423" data-attributes="member: 19857">Special rules about arcane magic.  And different rules about divine magic.  And a third set of special rules about psionics (magic).Power source matters in Dark Sun - arcane magic is toxic, divine magic is not.  Psionics could be viewed as another form of non-toxic magic (and arguably that's how the folks in the Dark Sun setting would actually view it- it's the good kind of magic, not the bad kind).Which can be replicated with feats, subclasses, and multiclassing to a large degree.  And where it can't, Dark Sun could have it's own rules that aren't necessarily a part of an edition-wide psionics system as needed.Every edition "update" for a setting involves fitting the setting to the rules of the new edition, not the other way around.  That's part of why many older players/DMs (especially DMs IME) are always unhappy by updated setting rules even as they clamor for them - because it never "feels" like the original setting because the original setting was written assuming 2e/3e/whatever rules were part of the "structure" of the world and when those rules change it feels like a setting change to them.  When those rules change radically it's a radical setting change.(I will be honest - I think I could do a great Dark Sun game with the psionic subclasses and feats from Tasha's alone, along with some homemade new Backgrounds.  Would it replicate the feel of a 2e version of the game?  Nope.  Would it still be Dark Sun? To me it would because the 2e psionics rules aren't something I actually think are integral to Dark Sun's feel despite how they were assumed as part of the original setting.)</blockquote>

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