D&D General Dark Sun as a Hopepunk Setting

[Mind of tempest]

Here you go. Free copy of the Class and Powers for anyone who wants it. I'll go ahead and put it up on DTRPG for folks, too.

Short version:

Powers are basically Cantrips you can use at any time. They have different ways you can Augment them.

Augments can increase damage, spread the target count, change the range. Or they can do power-specific stuff like increase the weight limit of Telekinesis.

You have Psi Dice. When you use a power you assign Psi Dice to each Augment you want to use to change the power. You cannot use more Psi Dice than you have.

You can apply multiple Psi Dice to the same augment, increasing the effect.

Power goes off with all augments that you used Psi Dice for.

After the power resolves, roll all the dice you assigned to the power. On a 1 or 2, that Psi Dice is expended. On a roll of 3 or higher, you keep that Psi Dice.

thank you with all sincerity, I have done a brief read of it thus I am letting my consideration marinate for a bit.

 

[Steampunkette]

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Makes it easier for everyone, I think.

 

[Staffan]

True. But I think most humans would say anyone who eats humans is a cannibal. Even Thri-Kreen. Just because we think of people eating us as cannibalism.

As I recall, halflings in most cases didn't go out of their way to hunt people (with the exception of a tribe that allied itself with Urik). It's more that they're really xenophobic, so any non-halfling that gets into their territory gets kiboshed (and to be fair, that's an understandable attitude in OG Dark Sun). And hey, waste not want not.

 

[Belen]

I'm sorry, but there are enough people trying to go 'but what about the good parts of slavery?' with their gaze flicking between me and a nearby cotton field already, and 'enough' starts at negative 8 billion.

There were never good parts of slavery starting from the time when warring tribes enslaved their enemies. Slavery disrupts and ends a person's ability to achieve their human potential.

I am not sure I have ever seen people talk about the "good" parts of slavery.

If it appears in my games, it is always an evil act and societies that normalize it are accepting evil no matter how they have justified it to themselves.

 

[Steampunkette]

There were never good parts of slavery starting from the time when warring tribes enslaved their enemies. Slavery disrupts and ends a person's ability to achieve their human potential.

I am not sure I have ever seen people talk about the "good" parts of slavery.

If it appears in my games, it is always an evil act and societies that normalize it are accepting evil no matter how they have justified it to themselves.

Disclaimer: I grew up in the southern US.

There was a -lot- of racist BS about how slavery helped the slaves and their families by bringing them to places with 'Civilization', making sure they were clothed and fed, that they had work and a roof over their head, and other absolute rubbish meant to make the slavery their great-grandparents took part in 'less evil'.

There has even been a push to include such nonsense in textbooks.

 

[Micah Sweet]

There were never good parts of slavery starting from the time when warring tribes enslaved their enemies. Slavery disrupts and ends a person's ability to achieve their human potential.

I am not sure I have ever seen people talk about the "good" parts of slavery.

If it appears in my games, it is always an evil act and societies that normalize it are accepting evil no matter how they have justified it to themselves.

Absolutely. You just have to accept the vast majority of civilization over the vast majority of human history were evil (or at least accepting of evil with little to no pushback). It is what it is, but it also doesn't invalidate anything else about those cultures.

 

[Mind of tempest]

There were never good parts of slavery starting from the time when warring tribes enslaved their enemies. Slavery disrupts and ends a person's ability to achieve their human potential.

I am not sure I have ever seen people talk about the "good" parts of slavery.

If it appears in my games, it is always an evil act and societies that normalize it are accepting evil no matter how they have justified it to themselves.

to my dim knowledge on the subject salvers had some economic advantages but that is about it, lots of horrible things have advantages in a few situations but that neither changes the morality of the actions nor that we are less and less able to have those situations sustainably.

Disclaimer: I grew up in the southern US.

There was a -lot- of racist BS about how slavery helped the slaves and their families by bringing them to places with 'Civilization', making sure they were clothed and fed, that they had work and a roof over their head, and other absolute rubbish meant to make the slavery their great-grandparents took part in 'less evil'.

There has even been a push to include such nonsense in textbooks.

what is so hard about admitting your great-great-grandparents were evil I do not fathom these people unless they are disturbingly seeking it back.

 

[Staffan]

I am not sure I have ever seen people talk about the "good" parts of slavery.

If it appears in my games, it is always an evil act and societies that normalize it are accepting evil no matter how they have justified it to themselves.

IRL, there are definitely people who talk about "the good parts of slavery". These are generally not good people.

In OG Dark Sun, it's slightly more nuanced. Slavery is presented as being evil. But abolition is presented as providing its own problems. Not really problems that are worse than the slavery itself, but it's not "and then the slaves were freed and everyone lived happily ever after."

 

[Belen]

Disclaimer: I grew up in the southern US.

There was a -lot- of racist BS about how slavery helped the slaves and their families by bringing them to places with 'Civilization', making sure they were clothed and fed, that they had work and a roof over their head, and other absolute rubbish meant to make the slavery their great-grandparents took part in 'less evil'.

There has even been a push to include such nonsense in textbooks.

Ouch.

I also grew up in the South. I had family in SC but grew up on the coast of NC right between two major military bases. I never saw these attitudes. We were always taught that the Union was morally superior etc. Maybe my region was more moderate than others due to the presence of the melting pot that was the military. My Dad was a former Marine and my mom's family was from New York (my grandfather was a Marine.)

That said, I have lived my entire life in the South and I know that a lot of bad actors exist but it has always been very fringe from my point of view or within the communities I have lived.

 

[Steampunkette]

what is so hard about admitting your great-great-grandparents were evil I do not fathom these people unless they are disturbingly seeking it back.

Tradition.

The immediate children of Civil War veterans and slavers did everything in their power to erase the negative connotations of what their traitorous parents had done. To present themselves as good, pure, honest folk descended from noble heroes who fought and died for a good cause. "State's Rights" and other obfuscations were invented to mollify sore losers and try to shield them from justified criticism of the evils they had embraced and betrayed and killed for.

And they passed that tradition of obfuscation down to their kids. And their kids. Lie long enough, and loud enough, and even you'll come to believe it after a while.

Ouch.

I also grew up in the South. I had family in SC but grew up on the coast of NC right between two major military bases. I never saw these attitudes. We were always taught that the Union was morally superior etc. Maybe my region was more moderate than others due to the presence of the melting pot that was the military. My Dad was a former Marine and my mom's family was from New York (my grandfather was a Marine.)

That said, I have lived my entire life in the South and I know that a lot of bad actors exist but it has always been very fringe from my point of view or within the communities I have lived.

Columbus Georgia. Right where Ft. Moore (Formerly named Benning, after a Confederate General...) is. Population, there, is 36% white, 45% black, 9% hispanic, 2% asian.

There was a -lot- of resentment and posturing for the white kids to feel "Better" about themselves in the 80s and 90s rather than "Getting Blamed" for things that happened a hundred years ago (like our parents and teachers didn't grow up in the Civil Rights era).