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Seems like more of a Dark Sun prequel?

The first homebrew adventure I wrote for AD&D was The Sewers of Silk City.

The Culture (Iain M. Banks), or the Revelation Space universe (Alistair Reynolds). Great Space Opera, and in Reynolds' case, a really good dose of how the limitations of sub-light travel influence interstellar travel and trade.

NWN was all 3rd ed. YOu may be thinking Baldur's Gate Morrus?

Yes you can PHB p187 Downtime Activities - Training.

Dammit, that's the Wand of Slime I invented in high school in 1983!

I have a lot of these coins, due to an addiction to collecting them. If you are starting a new campaign, you don't need a whole lot, and you can gradually add to the collection as the party levels up. They really are brilliant, but yeah not super cheap.

I think we are somewhat on the same track - the focus needs to be on the legal and law enforcement dimensions. Get those right and everyone benefits, and those examples you cite become rarities and eventaully disappear. I think that is happening now, maybe not fast enough. But my idea of...

That would be a horrible and stupid thing to do. They'd be out of business in a wink. Self correction at work.

Much kudos to you sir.

You are nearly there with your argument - except when you mention restrictions placed on you by your race. There are none in law. In fact there are "affirmative action" type laws to promote access to education and employment opportunities for minorities, including black people. I'm not sure...

You really don't see a problem with that statement do you? Protecting "classes" only moves the discrimination from one group to another. And with these rules, there is never a mechanism to turn it off when equilibrium is achieved.

double post...

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So why on earth would you ever have had a no politics policy on your site? You realise that with these words you just gave licence to everyone to make every discussion on this blog political?

Yeah free speech isn't always enough - but lack of it suffocates other freedoms. I am not unsympathetic to your contention that it's not fair everyone can't be born into whatever nirvana/end state of perfection that our society ends up with - but that is a function of evolution and change...

Uriel, thanks for your thoughtful response. *No I don't think everyone should be the same homogenous mass (unless everyone somehow wanted to :) ). Equal opportunity virtually guarantees this would not happen. *Exactly how did you arrive at the conclusion that I am advocating freedom to commit...

So there is only one grocery shop in this hypothetical city/state/country? The genius of the free market is that someone will always fill a need. If idiots don't want to sell you groceries, someone else will. There's money in it. The difficulty only arises when the law mandates discrimination.

I don't care whether you want to sell to nazis or not. Your decision. I don't care if someone is a nazi as long as they do not act in such a way as to impinge upon another person's rights. Note that no-one has a right to not be offended. If you change that there will be despotism. Seemingly...

When you start talking about classes, I get very disheartened. I believe the goal for our culture should be to have no classes. Equal opportunity (not outcomes) should be guaranteed for everyone. That includes the opportunity to determine which transactions you wish to participate in. The more...