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Oh for sure! There's some pointless stuff (primarily the above). Just make the city-states incredibly oppressive and like serfdom...

Lol those were exactly what I was talking about. Glad to hear they are minor and lose-able. Don't get me wrong, there's a lot of...

Templars definitely seem like a Paladin subclass to me in a 5E context. Probably the only Paladin subclass (though yeah maybe...

The groups I've played with historically have been for the most part serious enthusiasts. To the extent that we commonly ran multi-year...

Ahhhhh that's probably a pretty major factor! I guess it will be interesting to see what % next GenCon.

I think there’s also a solid element of “didn’t do the research, or at least no research around anything I wasn’t interested in” with a...

Yes, I think you nailed it with the reasoning here. It feels like she had the plot before the world and than just designed it to fit...

Yeah makes me wonder what % of D&D games at GenCon were 3.5E by the GenCon after that arrived?

Exactly. That is the late 1980s/early 1990s spirit it embodies. Yes, and you encounter them continuously when you actually play it...

Wow. It's an interesting theory, I will grant, but it hardly seems like the "main theme" to me, but more like "interpretive subtext"...

maybe in the US, no idea, today is certainly the first time I heard of that as being a DS theme. That idea is also contradicted by...

I just don't agree lol. I think that is a really wacky take on both points. Especially in 1991 no-one was thinking that. I think you're...

I would disagree. Out in context of society in the 1990s, what happened on Athas is what happens when you lose religion. The 90s saw a...

From those that I already listed, which ones you feel require the most effort to make them work and which ones the least? Interesting...

Yeah that's a take and a half lol. "Sure every single person on the colony except Newt died. Sure every single marine except Hicks...