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How I'd rewrite Dark Sun... what changes would you make?
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<blockquote data-quote="Steampunkette" data-source="post: 8949081" data-attributes="member: 6796468"><p>Just have to make it clearly evil and the players as against it. People who fight back.</p><p></p><p>They're all working towards SOMETHING. Just make it more individual rather than a "This is the one Evil Path and there's also one Good Path as well" type false dichotomy. I hate dichotomies like that so much, there should always be various options for the Sorcerer Kings.</p><p></p><p>Each more evil than the last!</p><p></p><p>100% available at all times. Defile away! Everyone hates you and wants you dead. Especially your party members that are now down 10hp each until they find a Cleric on Athas.</p><p></p><p>Maybe, yeah. But no big "And you need to know this" DM Timeline of the world that puts stuff into context. Broken tidbits of lost lore and history scattered across creation.</p><p></p><p>It was a weird name choice...</p><p></p><p>ABSOLUTELY. Because your average person doesn't know there's a difference between Defiling and not Defiling.</p><p></p><p>It's the most controversial. I like it, but I get why many don't.</p><p></p><p>Eh... The Primal Power Source is definitely a must in my book. But I like the idea of the Sorcerer Kings granting Paladins/Heralds magic powers. Priests, too. Just -evil- ones.</p><p></p><p>And Warlocks, too, of course.</p><p></p><p>Yup.</p><p></p><p>Once every several years there's a little rain. But due to the heat of the Sahara it creates a general buffer zone across it's length and breadth of high pressure around which cold pressure zones move.</p><p></p><p>If you have a whole planet which is a high pressure zone, you can't really -have- that dynamic. But unless the vast majority of the water were utterly destroyed, there would still be SO MUCH WATER.</p><p></p><p>And the options in that situation are either:</p><p></p><p>a) The humidity is constantly 99+% but it cannot actually rain because the temperature is too high for water to exist in a liquid state (Which is 100C or 212F in either case everyone is steam-cooked and dead)</p><p>b) It rains Hot.</p><p></p><p>The Atmosphere can only contain so much water under the boiling point before it has no choice but to fall out of solution.</p><p></p><p>Check my Signature. And also no, Psionics don't defile because they aren't magic.</p><p></p><p>Some, sure. Preservers. But most Druids try to protect their own little plot of land/sky/caves within the Dark Sun lore.</p><p></p><p>Yup, that's a part of the canon that the elemental priests follow those four. Like since it's inception.</p><p></p><p>I like it.</p><p></p><p>Really Scarce. Always has been in Dark Sun. That wouldn't change. Bone and Wood weapons are super common.</p><p></p><p>Similarly scarce. Hard to enchant a bone weapon when you know it's gonna break on a nat 1.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Steampunkette, post: 8949081, member: 6796468"] Just have to make it clearly evil and the players as against it. People who fight back. They're all working towards SOMETHING. Just make it more individual rather than a "This is the one Evil Path and there's also one Good Path as well" type false dichotomy. I hate dichotomies like that so much, there should always be various options for the Sorcerer Kings. Each more evil than the last! 100% available at all times. Defile away! Everyone hates you and wants you dead. Especially your party members that are now down 10hp each until they find a Cleric on Athas. Maybe, yeah. But no big "And you need to know this" DM Timeline of the world that puts stuff into context. Broken tidbits of lost lore and history scattered across creation. It was a weird name choice... ABSOLUTELY. Because your average person doesn't know there's a difference between Defiling and not Defiling. It's the most controversial. I like it, but I get why many don't. Eh... The Primal Power Source is definitely a must in my book. But I like the idea of the Sorcerer Kings granting Paladins/Heralds magic powers. Priests, too. Just -evil- ones. And Warlocks, too, of course. Yup. Once every several years there's a little rain. But due to the heat of the Sahara it creates a general buffer zone across it's length and breadth of high pressure around which cold pressure zones move. If you have a whole planet which is a high pressure zone, you can't really -have- that dynamic. But unless the vast majority of the water were utterly destroyed, there would still be SO MUCH WATER. And the options in that situation are either: a) The humidity is constantly 99+% but it cannot actually rain because the temperature is too high for water to exist in a liquid state (Which is 100C or 212F in either case everyone is steam-cooked and dead) b) It rains Hot. The Atmosphere can only contain so much water under the boiling point before it has no choice but to fall out of solution. Check my Signature. And also no, Psionics don't defile because they aren't magic. Some, sure. Preservers. But most Druids try to protect their own little plot of land/sky/caves within the Dark Sun lore. Yup, that's a part of the canon that the elemental priests follow those four. Like since it's inception. I like it. Really Scarce. Always has been in Dark Sun. That wouldn't change. Bone and Wood weapons are super common. Similarly scarce. Hard to enchant a bone weapon when you know it's gonna break on a nat 1. [/QUOTE]
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