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<blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 5160131" data-attributes="member: 58197"><p>Well, heck, I'd be okay with them creating an all-new history for Athas... as long as it didn't, in my extremely prejudiced and idiosyncratic opinion, suck. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> And as long as it wasn't too detailed.</p><p></p><p>But then, my position on Athas's original history is firmly in the "loathe" camp. I argue for a "tabula rasa" setting mainly on the grounds that a) that's a solution that accommodates both lovers and haters of the original storyline, and b) it's totally thematically appropriate. In a world with such ruthless disregard for anything but the bare necessities of survival, who has time to write histories? Let it be a mystery to the players, to be created and revealed by the DM or not as he or she sees fit. If the DM doesn't want to make up a history for Athas, then it's simply lost for good--only the sorceror-kings and the Dragon know, and they're not telling.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>That's pretty much all I need. There's no need for fey* to ever have existed. (Fantasy kitchen sink settings are a pet peeve of mine, which is one of the reasons the original backstory cheesed me off so bad. Here we have a setting which <em>doesn't</em> feel the need to incorporate every tired old D&D trope... but then, as soon as they start creating a history for it, they have to go and <em>cram them all back in!</em> What, you just can't wrap your head around the idea that NOT EVERY FANTASY WORLD HAS FREAKING GNOMES?!?)</p><p></p><p>(...Er. Sorry. Got a little worked up there...)</p><p></p><p>[size=-2]*Giants do exist in Athas. Or at least they did last time I checked. They go wading in the Silt Sea and some of them have animal heads.[/size]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dausuul, post: 5160131, member: 58197"] Well, heck, I'd be okay with them creating an all-new history for Athas... as long as it didn't, in my extremely prejudiced and idiosyncratic opinion, suck. :) And as long as it wasn't too detailed. But then, my position on Athas's original history is firmly in the "loathe" camp. I argue for a "tabula rasa" setting mainly on the grounds that a) that's a solution that accommodates both lovers and haters of the original storyline, and b) it's totally thematically appropriate. In a world with such ruthless disregard for anything but the bare necessities of survival, who has time to write histories? Let it be a mystery to the players, to be created and revealed by the DM or not as he or she sees fit. If the DM doesn't want to make up a history for Athas, then it's simply lost for good--only the sorceror-kings and the Dragon know, and they're not telling. That's pretty much all I need. There's no need for fey* to ever have existed. (Fantasy kitchen sink settings are a pet peeve of mine, which is one of the reasons the original backstory cheesed me off so bad. Here we have a setting which [i]doesn't[/i] feel the need to incorporate every tired old D&D trope... but then, as soon as they start creating a history for it, they have to go and [i]cram them all back in![/i] What, you just can't wrap your head around the idea that NOT EVERY FANTASY WORLD HAS FREAKING GNOMES?!?) (...Er. Sorry. Got a little worked up there...) [size=-2]*Giants do exist in Athas. Or at least they did last time I checked. They go wading in the Silt Sea and some of them have animal heads.[/size] [/QUOTE]
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