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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 2569248" data-attributes="member: 158">The three biggest stumbling blocks for many of the previous DC fans on the Dragon update were:1) Paladins. Morality being such a tenuous thing in original Dark Sun, someone dedicated to seflessness and sacrifice and law and good just didn't ring well with Dark Sun, where most civilized areas were oppressed by law, and where slavery was the norm for all except one City-state.2) Sorcerers. Magic Use was a curse, a price to be extracted from the land, and only those who were careful about magic use could do it and not harm nature. (Nature in that setting was already "harmed" to the breaking point.) Instead, sorcerers, are inborn mages, something that the setting didn't intimate was possible. Further, there have been several takes on defiling and preserving magic over the years, and the fan base whole has never been completely satisfied with the results.3) Rules for non-metal weapons, and the lack of metal inherent in the setting was really glossed over, if I recall correctly. Metal armor is something that middle class men and women could not afford with every penny they made in their lives put together; a sorcerer-king (title, not class) could, either afford to equip 20 men in plate mail, or add a substantial addition to his city walls, it was that scarce. On the plus side, most people didn't need metal armor, because they'd die of the heat stroke anyway.<a href="http://www.athas.org" target="_blank">www.athas.org</a> as well as several other sites have offered alternative rules, so even if a long-time fan didn't like the treatment, there were others to choose from, and "new" fans wouldn't know the difference anyway. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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