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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheSword" data-source="post: 9799219" data-attributes="member: 6879661">PP gets a bad rap with some folks but for me it was pretty formative - not just for my love of Dark Sun but as D&D as a whole. It was one of the first D&D novels I read which really focused on a small group of adventurers and told from all their viewpoints. Ordinary folks rather than the great and good of the setting like some of the other books I was reading at the time… Eddings, Jordan etc. The fact that they became the new authority was even more interesting.I also think the Kalak transformation ritual was one of the most dramatic things I’d read at that point. A sorcerer king transforming into a dragon slowly and painfully. Viscerally. By sacrificing the population of his city. The stakes felt massive, not just because of what would be lost but because of the horror that would be created from the ashes. I also think they did a really good job of upping the ante when the heroes took over.That said the setting has managed that a few times… notably City by the Silt Sea and Black Spine. I’m very excited for what they could do.</blockquote>