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  1. Steampunkette

    D&D General Dark Sun as a Hopepunk Setting

    And that is, 100%, my fault. I apologize.
  2. Steampunkette

    D&D General Dark Sun as a Hopepunk Setting

    That's where the Templars come in! Essentially functioning as private for-pay armies of mercenaries. Only in the allegory, the payment is magical power and water in a world where both of those things are rare! Ahhh hahahha... no. I'm not -planning- anything. I'm still trying to get Martial...
  3. Steampunkette

    D&D General Dark Sun as a Hopepunk Setting

    Sure. He was a Pyreen. They just happen to look a lot like halflings... >.> I stand by it. That Pyreen are a specific subspecies of halfling. Like Ghostwhisper, except instead of Telepaths they're shapeshifters. But the main goal was the thing: To wipe out all humans and demihumans except...
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  6. Steampunkette

    D&D General Dark Sun as a Hopepunk Setting

    Oh, I more mean in the "How the world was lost" portion of the setting. The background. In Dark Sun, traditionally, the Champions of Rajaat who become the Sorcerer Kings are basically just the most evil megalomaniacs to ever exist. Rajaat's a halfling who thinks Halflings should inherit Athas...
  7. Steampunkette

    D&D General Dark Sun as a Hopepunk Setting

    It's on a huge, dead, empty world! Thousands upon thousands of miles of rocks and sand in every direction. The Wars of Extinction, in which the servants of Rajaat sought to wipe out goblins, gnomes, dwarves, basically anyone who wasn't a halfling, resulted in massive ecological disaster as...
  8. Steampunkette

    D&D General Dark Sun as a Hopepunk Setting

    I put blamed in quotation marks because it was another lie. And one used to justify the bigger lie. No one blamed me as a child for the stuff my ancestors did. They taught me about it, talked to me about it, stuff like that. But at no point did I go "It's not my fault!" and cry my little eyes...
  9. Steampunkette

    D&D General Dark Sun as a Hopepunk Setting

    And a generation after that will call us barbarians for the slaughter and consumption of plants specifically bred for higher yields, too. ... Wait... we might both be off and that's this generation and next generation, respectively...
  10. Steampunkette

    D&D General Dark Sun as a Hopepunk Setting

    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...
  11. Steampunkette

    D&D General Just sweeping dirty dishes under the rug: D&D, Sexism, and the '70s

    "I've never been to the moon. Never did the math required to get there. Never built a rocket. Never worked for NASA. Never talked to Ground Control. But I -have- read a lot of material online about how the moon landing was fake because of camera angles. Therefore my opinion on whether or not...
  12. Steampunkette

    D&D General Dark Sun as a Hopepunk Setting

    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...
  13. Steampunkette

    D&D General Dark Sun as a Hopepunk Setting

    https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/505296/Paranormal-Power-The-Esper-Class-and-Powers Makes it easier for everyone, I think.
  14. Steampunkette

    Level Up (A5E) Esper: Now free for download on Drivethrurpg

    https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/505296/Paranormal-Power-The-Esper-Class-and-Powers It may take a little while for them to finalize the approval for the "Esper Class and Powers" file, but I'm making them available for free to the community. Enjoy!
  15. Steampunkette

    D&D General Dark Sun as a Hopepunk Setting

    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...
  16. Steampunkette

    D&D General Dark Sun as a Hopepunk Setting

    The book I wrote. Micah Sweet and a lot of the A5e community really love the Esper and the power structure I came up with. I get comments on it once or twice a week, get tagged in posts, it's nice.
  17. Steampunkette

    D&D General Just sweeping dirty dishes under the rug: D&D, Sexism, and the '70s

    I mean... not really? NuTSR wanted to put out a product that specifically appealed to a narrow sliver of the TTRPG community. They advertised that product as hard as they could, and had their preferred sliver of the TTRPG community backing them. But that sliver wasn't big enough to support a...
  18. Steampunkette

    D&D General Dark Sun as a Hopepunk Setting

    The Hays Code was an outright prohibition of topics being presented, at all. There were some guidelines about how "positive" things had to be presented as wholly positive. And that included things like the American Flag. Which is jingoistic AF and not at all what is happening here. There is no...
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  20. Steampunkette

    D&D General Dark Sun as a Hopepunk Setting

    I didn't respond to his post because I didn't want to make him feel like he was being dragged back in. He wants to bow out so we should let him. That said, he is right about me 'shitting' on alignment. But not because I don't like it, because I recognize that as a community we have moved on...
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