D&D General Dark Sun as a Hopepunk Setting

[Maxperson]

I hope I'm not the only one who misread the title of Dark Sun as a Horsepunk Setting.

That would be pretty cool too.

 

[Corinnguard]

4e had the Dray as Dragonborn, they'd probably try to continue that in a 5e version.

Agreed, but I don't see them resembling the 5e version of the Dragonborn. They probably would bear a slight resemblance to the 4e Dragonborn in terms of looks.

The Pyreen might be Aasimar.

Works for me.

Elementaari- hmm. I'm sure someone worked very hard workshopping the name.

I like the name Element-born better. As for each kind of Element-born, there is the Sylphs, Oreads, Ifrits and Undines from Pathfinder. They could have minor bending abilities.

 

[mamba]

Or you transplant the setting to a ruleset better suited to it.

you expect WotC to do that?

 

[Corinnguard]

you expect WotC to do that?

I would rather have EN Publishing have a crack at it by making Dark Sun into an A5e setting.

 

[Baron Opal II]

I like the name Element-born better. As for each kind of Element-born, there is the Sylphs, Oreads, Ifrits and Undines from Pathfinder. They could have minor bending abilities.

Yeah. Gaian? Gai'ic? Eh. Not feeling it. Although, having the specific names you mentioned are pretty good. I can see why gnome and salamander can't be used, and they found good subs.

 

[Micah Sweet]

you expect WotC to do that?

No. I expect a table that wants to play Dark Sun to do that. It's what I would do. I don't expect WotC to do anything, and their setting track record post-Eberron makes me think I wouldn't like it if they did.

 

[Micah Sweet]

I would rather have EN Publishing have a crack at it by making Dark Sun into an A5e setting.

This. All day long.

 

[seebs]

I mean, I do feel pretty confident in saying that if you don't depict slavery as morally wrong, you've screwed up.

If you don't think slavery is morally wrong, you've screwed up. You don't need to interrupt everything you do every five seconds to remind people that you know which things are good and which things are bad. It's actually pretty much okay to depict a thing without specifically going out of your way to identify whether you think it is right or wrong, and let the reader think about it.
I'm not proposing "instead, depict it as neutral" or "instead, depict it as positive". You can simply not address the question of whether a thing is morally good or bad because not everyone wants/needs to be handheld through the moral judgment process every minute of every day. You can just have a story in which some people are murderous and others aren't, and not specifically stop to say "by the way the murderous ones are bad".

 

[GrimCo]

@seebs

Yes, you do need to interrupt. Cause remember, assumption is that game audience is 12+. So you use lowest common denominator and treat everyone like they are 12. If you have adult oriented product, you don't need that. Treating adult readers like they are kids is frankly insulting. That's why i would very much like WoTC don't mess with DS at all.

 

[Chaltab]

The Pyreen might be Aasimar.

If we're using A5E, I wonder if a renamed version of the Zeitgeist Deva heritage would be better.