Which Dark Sun Setting is your favorite?

[Staffan]

Jungles?

I don't recall any "new" jungles in the revised box set. The Forest Ridge and the Crescent Forest were both present back in the original.

grass savannas beyond the tablelands!!

The original box describes the Hinterlands as having a lot more vegetation than the Tablelands, presumably because there's less people, meaning less defilers. The same goes for many of the Silt Sea islands. It's not a stretch to assume that if you go even further away, you'll get even more vegetation.

 

[Welverin]

The original box describes the Hinterlands as having a lot more vegetation than the Tablelands, presumably because there's less people, meaning less defilers. The same goes for many of the Silt Sea islands. It's not a stretch to assume that if you go even further away, you'll get even more vegetation.

Well the problem is the Tyr region is a very small part of the world (a freind said he did some calculations and said it's about the size of Texas), but apparently that doesn't stop people from assuming the whole planet is like that.

I'd say the other problem and the big one is that DS is viewed as a wasteland setting and anything that doesn't jibe with that is sumamrily rejected.

 

[Alzrius]

The Revised boxed set was most definately the high point of Dark Sun.

Perhaps the single best thing about it was that it included a booklet of the new psionics rules, since (from what I heard, not having it) the original boxed set required you to have the Psionics Handbook.

That said, the Revised boxed set just offered so much more potential. News on the city-states where their sorcerer-kings were dead, and what could possibly happen there, the terrors of the Obsidian Lands to the south. The mysterious and new city-states to the north, and the Kreen Empire to the west. Not to mention that the race selection was expanded to include aarakockra and pterrans. It just offered so much more than the original boxed set ever did.

The only things I disliked about it were the loss of the Templar class and that defilers suddenly defiled when they memorized spells, as opposed to when casting them.

 

[Arnwyn]

I blame ... Denning for taking this cool awesome world and then pissing all over it.

Yeah, Denning has a tendency of doing that no matter what world he writes for.

What specific things in it that were non-traditional didn't you like,

Pretty much all of it - the wasteland world, strange races (muls, half-giants, etc), overabundance of psionics... just not my thing.

and were there any elements in Dark Sun you did like?

The Dragon Kings and Avangions were awesome, just awesome. Especially as they were fully presented in that Dark Sun hardcover. Great concepts, those. Liked the whole templar concept, too. Very cool.