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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Orius" data-source="post: 4844349" data-attributes="member: 8863">I think the best way for TSR to have handled some of these major earth-changing events would have been to set up a series of modules and let the PCs be the ones to take the lead.  So take Dark Sun for example.  Instead of bumping off the SKs with NPCs in a set of books, there should have been a series of adventures where the PCs get to take them out.  Hell, it works very well with the pulpy origins of D&D in the first place, because that's the sort of thing Conan <s>would</s> did do.  And the modules need to make the PCs the stars, not have them be the specators to Cyric, Midnight, and Kelemvor, you know like the Time of Troubles stuff that everyone hates from the Realms.  Players don't like being second banana to some annoying NPC(s).  And the modules have to be set up so they're not overly railroady, like say no HUGE armies of draconians to the north sorts of things.</blockquote>