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How I'd rewrite Dark Sun... what changes would you make?
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<blockquote data-quote="squibbles" data-source="post: 8952685" data-attributes="member: 6937590"><p>I think an <em>en diablis res</em>* setup could also be super cool with the 1991 set's status quo (the Tyr region is finally becoming unlivable) or with the new Spelljammer set's Doom Sun.</p><p></p><p>There was an interesting exchange in <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/doom-sun-%E2%88%92-reconstructing-a-5e-dark-sun-setting-for-the-dms-guild.690562/" target="_blank">one of the Doom Sun threads</a> to that effect:</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Which I yes-and-ed with:</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And, I think that premise works really well with your setup too: The world is collapsing, a bunch of powerful but awful people are scrambling to build ostentatious lifeboats for themselves as it collapses, and, in doing so, are making the collapse faster and more deadly.</p><p></p><p>This being Dark Sun, I'd say that preventing "the world from becoming the wasteland hellscape that is rapidly spreading" should probably be off the table. Rather, the best that can be done is to hijack those lifeboats, kill off the worst offending or most vulnerable defilers, and try to get as many people through the collapse alive as possible. (otherwise the fossil fuels allegory is a bit toothless)</p><p></p><p>And, honestly, I <em>love</em> your idea as a sort-of prequel adventure to the tablelands status quo of the 1991 set. And it would quite brilliantly sidestep all the controversial aspects of the setting by simply predating them.</p><p></p><p></p><p>--------------------------------</p><p></p><p>*<em>in medias res</em> means <em>into the middle of things</em> in Latin, so <em>in diablis res</em> (diabolus?) would be <em>into the devil of things</em>. I think what you intend is <em>into the middle of the apocalypse</em> which would be more like <em>in medias apocalypsis</em> or--since <em>apocalypsis</em> is a loan word from Greek that means <em>revelation</em>, as in revelation of the cosmic mysteries of the universe--a better expression might be <em>in medias terminus</em>, i.e. into the <em>middle of the end.</em> ...sorry, I seem to have dissapeared up my own ass.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="squibbles, post: 8952685, member: 6937590"] I think an [I]en diablis res[/I]* setup could also be super cool with the 1991 set's status quo (the Tyr region is finally becoming unlivable) or with the new Spelljammer set's Doom Sun. There was an interesting exchange in [URL='https://www.enworld.org/threads/doom-sun-%E2%88%92-reconstructing-a-5e-dark-sun-setting-for-the-dms-guild.690562/']one of the Doom Sun threads[/URL] to that effect: Which I yes-and-ed with: And, I think that premise works really well with your setup too: The world is collapsing, a bunch of powerful but awful people are scrambling to build ostentatious lifeboats for themselves as it collapses, and, in doing so, are making the collapse faster and more deadly. This being Dark Sun, I'd say that preventing "the world from becoming the wasteland hellscape that is rapidly spreading" should probably be off the table. Rather, the best that can be done is to hijack those lifeboats, kill off the worst offending or most vulnerable defilers, and try to get as many people through the collapse alive as possible. (otherwise the fossil fuels allegory is a bit toothless) And, honestly, I [I]love[/I] your idea as a sort-of prequel adventure to the tablelands status quo of the 1991 set. And it would quite brilliantly sidestep all the controversial aspects of the setting by simply predating them. -------------------------------- *[I]in medias res[/I] means [I]into the middle of things[/I] in Latin, so [I]in diablis res[/I] (diabolus?) would be [I]into the devil of things[/I]. I think what you intend is [I]into the middle of the apocalypse[/I] which would be more like [I]in medias apocalypsis[/I] or--since [I]apocalypsis[/I] is a loan word from Greek that means [I]revelation[/I], as in revelation of the cosmic mysteries of the universe--a better expression might be [I]in medias terminus[/I], i.e. into the [I]middle of the end.[/I] ...sorry, I seem to have dissapeared up my own ass. [/QUOTE]
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