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  1. Mind of tempest

    D&D General Dark Sun as a Hopepunk Setting

    what kind of hellish wildlife is there in this? I know of some rather unpleasant options if it is to be an unofficial darksun alike is power still going to have a cost and does it still slowly make you estranged from your humanity regardless of your morals(with the good guy option being...
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    D&D General Dark Sun as a Hopepunk Setting

    I have heard it put as you can't save the world but you can save yourself. problem with that what is the point of saving yourself if you still have to live in hell? look there are some fairly unpleasant tropes associated with cannibalistic small folk I do not think it is a viable direction...
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    D&D General Dark Sun as a Hopepunk Setting

    I assume given that the punk in most punk settings has to deal with those on the periphery of the present status quo or those who end up their. now hope is hard to define
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    D&D General Dark Sun as a Hopepunk Setting

    it is also about picking things that are compatible. example many media set after the end is solid as is old weird fiction as both those neatly fit in with old dark sun flavour wise. but one must also consider what it more or less back story was so say put guys who used to be the heads of...
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    D&D General Dark Sun as a Hopepunk Setting

    lists of works to be studied for viable parts, e.g. influences or stuff to rob from?
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    D&D General Dark Sun as a Hopepunk Setting

    ah someone who remembers that markets are far older than the economic system. is there a need for media to be cut up for parts? I know some to work from?
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    D&D General Dark Sun as a Hopepunk Setting

    gods I hate that smug thing's face. also the reason I say to cut closer to the dragon but just remove dragons is simply to have a super cool cover art monster. you can sell people on a setting with things that are deeply cool to look at
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    D&D General Dark Sun as a Hopepunk Setting

    add in some genocidal madmen and some of the worst bits of religions and you can make a diverse rogues gallery of major foes
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    D&D General Dark Sun as a Hopepunk Setting

    gods are complex and tend to have ideas of being impossible to kill in the West, gods as some of them end goals seem likely. pre-end would likely determine what the present batch of immortal undying lunatics goals are like
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    D&D General Dark Sun as a Hopepunk Setting

    lots of over-lapping but compatible themes could work, bigger scale setting with more horrible tyrant types to fall. would need some big good to help balance things out
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    D&D General Dark Sun as a Hopepunk Setting

    becoming more than mortal is cheap concept wise cut out dragons and make your own showpiece monster?
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    D&D General Muscular Neutrality (thought experiment)

    explain what you mean by those terms of phrase?
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    D&D General Muscular Neutrality (thought experiment)

    if a certain amount of evil is needed for reality to be great I am fairly certain good could find a being whose only job it is to keep it at this level, if evil is a force of nature not all of them have to be equally powerful example gravity is the weakest of our realities core four know forces
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    D&D General Muscular Neutrality (thought experiment)

    big difference between the minimally viable and the present stare of afires in dnd what with billions of layers of to a world of the most psychoically sadistc monster to ever exist something tells me the balance is towards evil. got to maximise those gains bruh
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    D&D General Muscular Neutrality (thought experiment)

    there is the suffering of no change also how do I know the godhead is the good guy what if he is the evil side? a world where nothing eats the gazelles is a world with an ecosystem about to implode thus not good. nature is not good but it is necessary. I find most people are totally okay with...
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    D&D General Muscular Neutrality (thought experiment)

    or at least insane as ultimate good depends on reality existing.
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    D&D General Muscular Neutrality (thought experiment)

    I prefer the term stasis verse chaos humans have a slight bias towards the word order, whist stasis cuts that out to the naked horror of both.
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    D&D General Muscular Neutrality (thought experiment)

    I am not getting turned into red ooze like in that strange mech anime from before I had a mind
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    D&D General Muscular Neutrality (thought experiment)

    light blinds and burns. darkness hides and shades
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    D&D General Muscular Neutrality (thought experiment)

    I assume most of good has a sanity clause as in it understand that people also need rest hence why it tried to foster many groups to solve the problem for when one fails or can't respond.
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