"Best days" is really subjective, given that most ancient cultures became decadent and corrupt, leading to their eventual fall. The Suel Imperium & Baklunish Empire, then Keoland & the Great Kingdom show this is likely an endless cycle of humanity, to be repeated until the end of the Oerth.In your campaign world, are the best days ahead or behind?
I feel like the default assumption in a lot of D&D campaign worlds is that the best days were in the past. The world is filled with ruins of great civilizations, old powerful magics, and ancient creatures trying to recapture or hoard the power they once had.
Is that true for your campaign world?
Ahead. Always. LoTR is the only property I’ve ever enjoyed where the best days were behind, and even then it’s more that both future and past are bright. It’s about holding on and holding eachother up and keeping the faith in order to get through the darkness back into the light.I always enjoy the debate about if the "best days" are behind or ahead. Have we surpassed the Golden Age of Television, or is it somewhere in the future? Were the best days of humanity our millennia of hunting and gathering, or is there some utopia awaiting us?
Anyways, this thread is not about those two things.
In your campaign world, are the best days ahead or behind?
I feel like the default assumption in a lot of D&D campaign worlds is that the best days were in the past. The world is filled with ruins of great civilizations, old powerful magics, and ancient creatures trying to recapture or hoard the power they once had.
Is that true for your campaign world?