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<blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9182050" data-attributes="member: 6790260"><p>Probably unrecognizable. There's a lot of 60s/70s utopianism woven into the background of Pern. It's not totally perfect (that's kind of the whole point of the conflict with the Oldtimers), but it's very much a "we could have a futuristic low-tech society that is actually pretty chill and peaceful if we just had the right conditions." You see similar stuff from Zilpha Keatley Snyder's <em>Green-Sky</em> (aka <em>Below the Root</em>) stories, published a few years after Pern.</p><p></p><p>That said, I certainly think you could put together a D&D world inspired by Pern, where intelligent magical (or telepathic) dragons bond with a select few dragonriders, with such bonded pairs defending their homes from both natural disasters and monstrous beings.</p><p></p><p>You'd probably have to do the "all magic or no magic" thing though--either everyone is a dragonrider or nobody is. I love Master Robinton as much as the next fan, but he only fits with Weyrwomen and Weyrleaders because he's in a planned narrative. He would make for a <em>great</em> NPC ally/supporter with the right group (it occurs to me that an NPC I run probably comes, in part, from subconscious memories of Robinton's magnanimity and kindness), but I don't think he would really fit in a D&D-like group.</p><p></p><p>Unless, of course, you stretch the premise further and make it a world with proper magic and such, not just telepathy, hyperspace/time travel, and a couple ultra-convenient biological/geological quirks to make the concept function (e.g. that the planet Pern has unusually high quantities, near the surface, of a stone which <em>just so happens</em> to make great fuel for an organic flamethrower.)</p><p></p><p></p><p>I mean, I wanted to be kinder than that, but yeah--if you tried to just shoehorn D&D into Pern it wouldn't work out. Adapting the core premise as a conceit for a setting properly designed for D&D, however, could work. It just depends on exactly how faithful you want to be to the source material.</p><p></p><p>We'll see where things go from here. It's pretty unlikely that <em>both</em> Amethyst and Sapphire will fall before the other three do, but if diehard fans of (say) Obsidian dragons all cleave in the same direction, we could see a major upset before we get to the final two.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="EzekielRaiden, post: 9182050, member: 6790260"] Probably unrecognizable. There's a lot of 60s/70s utopianism woven into the background of Pern. It's not totally perfect (that's kind of the whole point of the conflict with the Oldtimers), but it's very much a "we could have a futuristic low-tech society that is actually pretty chill and peaceful if we just had the right conditions." You see similar stuff from Zilpha Keatley Snyder's [I]Green-Sky[/I] (aka [I]Below the Root[/I]) stories, published a few years after Pern. That said, I certainly think you could put together a D&D world inspired by Pern, where intelligent magical (or telepathic) dragons bond with a select few dragonriders, with such bonded pairs defending their homes from both natural disasters and monstrous beings. You'd probably have to do the "all magic or no magic" thing though--either everyone is a dragonrider or nobody is. I love Master Robinton as much as the next fan, but he only fits with Weyrwomen and Weyrleaders because he's in a planned narrative. He would make for a [I]great[/I] NPC ally/supporter with the right group (it occurs to me that an NPC I run probably comes, in part, from subconscious memories of Robinton's magnanimity and kindness), but I don't think he would really fit in a D&D-like group. Unless, of course, you stretch the premise further and make it a world with proper magic and such, not just telepathy, hyperspace/time travel, and a couple ultra-convenient biological/geological quirks to make the concept function (e.g. that the planet Pern has unusually high quantities, near the surface, of a stone which [I]just so happens[/I] to make great fuel for an organic flamethrower.) I mean, I wanted to be kinder than that, but yeah--if you tried to just shoehorn D&D into Pern it wouldn't work out. Adapting the core premise as a conceit for a setting properly designed for D&D, however, could work. It just depends on exactly how faithful you want to be to the source material. We'll see where things go from here. It's pretty unlikely that [I]both[/I] Amethyst and Sapphire will fall before the other three do, but if diehard fans of (say) Obsidian dragons all cleave in the same direction, we could see a major upset before we get to the final two. [/QUOTE]
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