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<blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 8046239" data-attributes="member: 5948"><p>That'd be my preferred option.</p><p></p><p>If you're running a DS campaign that isn't the Great Big Epic one where the PCs find out the history of Athas/Rajaat/the Sorcerer-Kings etc, and do Big Epic Stuff like replay the Prism Pentad and kill Borys or whatever, then why overcomplicate matters? Run your game in the world of the original boxed set when Kalak is still alive, or else run it in the world of the 4e book where he's dead but the rest of the metaplot hasn't happened yet. My personal preference would be the latter, just because it adds a bit of variety - Tyr under Kalak isn't really that much different to, say, Balic under Androponis or Urik under Hamanu. The dysfunctional squabbling Free City slowly falling apart as its own factions claw at each other is a very different kettle of fish. One horrible tyranny is very like another, from a setting point of view, it's nice to have one city that's a leaderless seething mess of internal hatred and nascent riots, just to change things up a bit. There's plots and storylines you can run in a post-Kalak Tyr (powerful crime organisations, the political rise of fanatical demagogues, pogroms and riots in the street resulting in the looting of the granaries, the Veiled Alliance going public, infiltration of your city by templars of a rival sorcerer-king who gain allies by their willingness to use healing magic etc for free, etc etc etc) that simply won't work in a city with a live sorcerer-king in charge who won't tolerate that sort of disorder in their domain.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="humble minion, post: 8046239, member: 5948"] That'd be my preferred option. If you're running a DS campaign that isn't the Great Big Epic one where the PCs find out the history of Athas/Rajaat/the Sorcerer-Kings etc, and do Big Epic Stuff like replay the Prism Pentad and kill Borys or whatever, then why overcomplicate matters? Run your game in the world of the original boxed set when Kalak is still alive, or else run it in the world of the 4e book where he's dead but the rest of the metaplot hasn't happened yet. My personal preference would be the latter, just because it adds a bit of variety - Tyr under Kalak isn't really that much different to, say, Balic under Androponis or Urik under Hamanu. The dysfunctional squabbling Free City slowly falling apart as its own factions claw at each other is a very different kettle of fish. One horrible tyranny is very like another, from a setting point of view, it's nice to have one city that's a leaderless seething mess of internal hatred and nascent riots, just to change things up a bit. There's plots and storylines you can run in a post-Kalak Tyr (powerful crime organisations, the political rise of fanatical demagogues, pogroms and riots in the street resulting in the looting of the granaries, the Veiled Alliance going public, infiltration of your city by templars of a rival sorcerer-king who gain allies by their willingness to use healing magic etc for free, etc etc etc) that simply won't work in a city with a live sorcerer-king in charge who won't tolerate that sort of disorder in their domain. [/QUOTE]
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