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To be perfectly honest, most settings benefit from a Year Zero continuity. TSR pushing Metaplot changes to Dark Sun, Ravenloft...

Having played Dark Sun way back in the 90s, I don't think it the setting could be summed up as woke. Within its first 12 months since...

The very first thing that happened in the metaplot was a revolution in one of the city-states, showing that fixing things was possible...

Yes and no. "Woke" is one of those internet buzzwords that mean everything and nothing depending on whoever is using it, and thus it's...

It is understandable that authors express their own views in their works, but compared to others, I do not feel that I have spent my...

Kind of. It was allegory vs more modern lecture style. One of the novels has a forward dedicated to the contemporary Balkan...

The irony is, Dark Sun was always “woke” (like Star Trek and Doctor Who).

And I don't know how to tell you this, but I've been on Enworld the whole time, and participated in those discussions. And I said the...

If we could not lump anyone who likes old-school Dark Sun into the same category as dogwhistling racists that would be great.

I don't recall 4e Dark Sun giving everyone pants. The art probably never hit as hard as Brom's stuff but, well, nothing does and nothing...

The trouble is the “Bad Guys” always just happen to be whoever gets in the PCs’ way. The term murderhobo exists for a reason...

So ... unfortunately I cannot read the 93 pages in between. I read , 2, 92, 93 and I would guess my comments have been echoed many...

Very well said. It's worth noting that this idea goes all the way back to the beginning of the hobby, being found on page 8 of the "Men...

From memory, slavery in Dark Sun is not racialised. So I'm not sure why it is being said to more closely resemble US than classical...

Because everything (it sure feels like) is filtered through an American bias.