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I’m in a weird spot with this in that I’m cautiously optimistic from a big picture point of view while disliking a large amount of what...

I'm not trying to be flippant, but that still doesn't answer my question. What does that take away from you?

For Darksun to work bad guys have to be allowed to do bad things and players have to have freedom of choice on how to react to bad...

If the 'good guys can win' and fundamentally change the setting, its not grimdark.

I mean, I guarantee a bunch of "grimdark" stuff you like is technically equally classifiable as hopepunk. Not all of, it but like...

They will pull the Dragonlance treatment: list the commonly found races and their place but leave the option for the DM to allow...

I get it. It happened to me already with 40K, all the way back in 1998! I started playing GW games in about 1988, Adeptus Titanicus...

Orcs, Gnomes, Kobolds, Ogres, Wemics, Lizard Men, Pixies, Trolls, and Goblins. Several failed to wipe out the Tari, Aarakocra, Elves...

The real issue with Spelljammer was the page count. Give it say 32 more pages and use that for ship-to-ship combat rules and sample...

I played a Preserver who Defiled... and never forgave themself for it. Great bit of character story, there, where they defiled in order...

Emanation feels much better for the Druid. Great comment.

This would be pretty weaksauce. But equally I'm with Defiling/Preserving being a subclass thing, not a per-spell thing (just not...

I've run it, too. The only thing that stood out to me as particularly different from the original was Female Solamnic Knights - and that...

Yeah, especially when it's pretty much universally agreed that the Battlemaster is OP - they simply couldn't tone it down for 2024...

Mad Max: Fury Road is "hopepunk" so that's not the chilling threat you seem to think: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopepunk#Examples...