Copies of Spelljammer are starting to show up. Mike Long of Tribality is in receipt of the books and has tweeted some photos!
I can't wait until the Dark Sun pre-release thread is filled with unending Birthright complaints and speculation.The rules in the box don’t match the fiction in the novels. You’re either, or according to the rules. But in the fiction you have to choose with every spell cast whether you defile or preserve.
So, how about Spelljammer? I hear that’s coming out soon.
Maybe by then it will be 6E or Mystara speculation.I can't wait until the Dark Sun pre-release thread is filled with unending Birthright complaints and speculation.
I mean, we have very recent precedent for this: Strixhaven has all characters, period, choose one of the Coolege Backgrounds with the attendant Feat.I don't agree with that. Dark Sun could have a rule that all arcane casters must pick either the Defiler or Preserve background. Backgrounds as we know from the UA are going to be coming with free feats attached at 1st and perhaps 4th level. Those feats could provide those who pick the Defiler background an ever present temptation to take the easy way at the cost of destroying the world.
In like 5-ish days!So, how about Spelljammer? I hear that’s coming out soon.
Birthright Confirmed?I can't wait until the Dark Sun pre-release thread is filled with unending Birthright complaints and speculation.
So, how about Spelljammer? I hear that’s coming out soon.
It's a bit lackluster IMO. The fourth panel is the only new content. The random encounter charts are nice but they are duplicated from the Boo's Astral Menagerie book and not particularly worth taking up two panels with. The first panel wastes half its space on two diagrams that are pointless during play. The suffocation and weightlessness rules are useful to have at hand, and so are the ship distance and crashing rules I suppose. I would have liked the table of object hit points (like when smashing down a door) because that's something I never have committed to memory, nor do I know exactly where to find it in the DMG.
A came across the passage you might be thinking of. Its from 1995 2e Revised Dark Sun Campaign Guide.But preserving and defiling aren’t mutually exclusive. You can alternate between them. Isn’t that what Sadira does in the Prism Pentad?
In most of the 5e threads about Dark Sun we've had the past few years, defiling as a constant choice to do or avoid (rather than a single irrevocable one) seems to be the most popular option.Personally I rather like the idea that a preserver, in a moment of weakness, could turn to defiling ... kind of like how a Jedi can, perhaps inadvertently, call on the dark side of the Force when overcome by powerful emotions. (That is to say, I like the idea of defiling being an ever-present temptation one must struggle to resist, rather than a deliberate - and seemingly irreversible - choice one makes early in their adventuring career.)