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Divine Invasion: A Proposal for an Anti-Colonialist D&D Setting
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<blockquote data-quote="Jfdlsjfd" data-source="post: 8397964" data-attributes="member: 42856"><p>The interesting thing in the OP setting is that the aasimar settlers are basically offered the choice of serving the god's goal of breeding and multiplying to generate a lot of worshippers (and hope being promoted to deva) or spend eternity in an afterlife of punishment by their god's devising. They are objectively legitimate in engaging in their settling behaviour since they are coerced into it with a threat worth than death, literally, if they don't comply. So basically the PCs will be fighting against people who have no other choice than colonizing their space and are not necessarily evil themselves for not rising against the gods who force them to do that. It will make for interesting moral dilemmas among the PCs on where do they stop repelling aasimar's families from the land and whether they are right in killing them once they know they are just victims like them.</p><p></p><p>It is not clear from the OP whether the "deal" offered to aasimar is wideky known in setting. If it is, it creates a very dystopian feeling with the colonized side calling itself the "rightful people of the world" and basically warring against innocents instead of the gods themselves, and if it isn't, it might be a dark turn of events for PCs who have engaged in extreme acts of violence against the aasimar when they learn the truth. If it is known that aasimar reincarnate as adults - which solves the baby aasimar problem that would otherwise quickly arise - there is a very strong chance PCs engaged in said act of violence during play thinking there is little consequence to it.</p><p></p><p>Edit: the more I think of it, the more I see that as dystopian. Since the aasimar are ever reincarnating as adult conscripted into colonialism, if the Rightful Peoples of the World have their ways, the aasimar will be locked into a cycle of reincarnation where they are quickly killed by the elemental powers (Dragon-blood inquisition against the Solars come to mind, except aasimar don't hace Solar Exalted excellencies) and their only choice to break out of this awful cycle is to willingly accept to be doomed in the Lower Planes forever...</p><p></p><p>I'd have imagined an anti-colonialist setting with a more white and black morality but then it would more have been France vs Nazi Germany than colonialism.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jfdlsjfd, post: 8397964, member: 42856"] The interesting thing in the OP setting is that the aasimar settlers are basically offered the choice of serving the god's goal of breeding and multiplying to generate a lot of worshippers (and hope being promoted to deva) or spend eternity in an afterlife of punishment by their god's devising. They are objectively legitimate in engaging in their settling behaviour since they are coerced into it with a threat worth than death, literally, if they don't comply. So basically the PCs will be fighting against people who have no other choice than colonizing their space and are not necessarily evil themselves for not rising against the gods who force them to do that. It will make for interesting moral dilemmas among the PCs on where do they stop repelling aasimar's families from the land and whether they are right in killing them once they know they are just victims like them. It is not clear from the OP whether the "deal" offered to aasimar is wideky known in setting. If it is, it creates a very dystopian feeling with the colonized side calling itself the "rightful people of the world" and basically warring against innocents instead of the gods themselves, and if it isn't, it might be a dark turn of events for PCs who have engaged in extreme acts of violence against the aasimar when they learn the truth. If it is known that aasimar reincarnate as adults - which solves the baby aasimar problem that would otherwise quickly arise - there is a very strong chance PCs engaged in said act of violence during play thinking there is little consequence to it. Edit: the more I think of it, the more I see that as dystopian. Since the aasimar are ever reincarnating as adult conscripted into colonialism, if the Rightful Peoples of the World have their ways, the aasimar will be locked into a cycle of reincarnation where they are quickly killed by the elemental powers (Dragon-blood inquisition against the Solars come to mind, except aasimar don't hace Solar Exalted excellencies) and their only choice to break out of this awful cycle is to willingly accept to be doomed in the Lower Planes forever... I'd have imagined an anti-colonialist setting with a more white and black morality but then it would more have been France vs Nazi Germany than colonialism. [/QUOTE]
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