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That was my immediate response too. But, on reflection, I have been hoping for more and novel Dark Sun content for a while--new regions mapped, new city states, new sorcerer kings. And reading the Kickstarter's short blurbs about each of the cities, they didn't seem too bad. Cyrda - a massive...

Hey, so this thought is maybe tangential to your topic, but here goes: I recently came across a cool idea in an OSR snowflake setting called the Planet Eris Gazetteer, which is that the planet goes through a 555 year orbit, 111 of which is a "winter" season, during which most intelligent...

Yes, that's true--but only because there are a half-dozen different types of Saving Throws calculated and listed.

/facepalm you've got me there. maybe I should have added "again" :LOL:

I like the idea of reusing death saves for a wider range of purposes, especially to raise stakes. It's a little bit clunky, due to the number of extra rolls, but look at Flesh to Stone: Change "Constitution" to "Death", and its basically the same mechanic. But more on topic: It's a bit of a...

Cool Thread! Here are my answers: Bladesinging - gnomes, falsely attributed to elves because their singing/dancing is more memorable Chronurgy/Chronomancy - humans, because they're always trying to cheat out of their pitiful short lifespans Graviturgy - lizardfolk, their calculating alien...

That's an interesting thought experiment. I tend to be drawn to settings that are humanocentric but with lots of "too weird" creatures in the secondary cast, such as Bas-Lag. But removing humanlike creatures entirely would be quite different. I wonder if characters would fall into the first...

Hey, thank you. I'm mortified that this is functionally a thread of me "telling people in the minority that their desire for representation doesn't matter". That's not what I think and not what I wanted to express. I'm not really sure that I had a strong point to express other than to collect...

Ya, you're right, I garbled my point there. I meant point 1.) as the thermian argument--people making arguments based within the fiction of received pop cultural ideas--versus point 2.) as the ethics/politics--specifically representation--argument. Mea culpa. That was also poorly stated. I...

So @Kobold Avenger started an interesting thread about diversity in D&D--in fantasy worlds broadly, really--and the degree to which 'races' that are not humans ought to be more representative of IRL humankind than they tend to be. I wanted to reply to that thread with a long and pedantic post...

Warlocks are clearly the best. Just imagine, being a warlock player that gets to use those two 3rd level spell slots more than once a day. TIMES 5!... No greater synergy is possible.

Best: lesser restoration--goodbye cancer, goodbye diabetes, goodbye hepatitis. Worst: very nearly everything else.

No. If the thread is more than 5ish pages long, it seems reasonable to me that a poster can only be expected to have read the OP and and the most recent 3 to 5 pages. Especially in very long threads, where the topic of discussion is often quite different from where it started.

That sounds like the right approach if the desire is to avoid retconning: Keep all the developments from the lore, but move the timeline forward far enough that they aren't important. I also like the particular configuration which you arrived at by adding the new sorcerer queen from across the...

I'm glad you found the map/number crunching useful, and am in general agreement with you that Athas works best at a small scale without many verdant biomes. But there's also plenty you could add that would be perfectly themed--a forest of giant redwoods petrified by ancient defiling or a...

I suspect at this point you're not looking for suggestions or commentary, but here they are anyway. That's a good balance of free power for defiling vs resource loss from preserving. But even with all that free power, defilers seem, perhaps, a little weak (as compared to base 5e, I'm not aware...

I have tried to avoid this thread, so as not to threadcrap. But, apologies, I couldn't help myself. (I also may have missed some things in the thread's 34 pages) Two things are getting mixed up in the argument here; a gods-eye view of Dark Sun and the player-experienced part of Dark Sun. It...

Yeah, it's a bit of a conundrum. To feel awesome, fighter-types need to be awesome at fighting, and, to feel awesome, magic-types need to feel awesome at magic. BUT magic is a bigger tent than fighting. And, really, the big tent that is magic contains the small tent that is fighting... So you...

Sure! This is a great setup. I think it would be most interesting as a failed paradise built by a genuinely compassionate archmage--worn down by time, weariness, and the accretion of good intentions gone bad--rather than as his (i'm gonna call him 'he' because 'king', but a she would work as...

Damage prevention is more mathematically efficient, point for point, than inflicting damage (for PCs... usually) but there are plenty of cases where leveraging the death rules--assuming that no variant death and dying rules are in play--would be a more efficient use of resources over the course...