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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Malhost Zormaeril" data-source="post: 3794537" data-attributes="member: 49669">Funny, I'm in the complete opposite camp.  I HATE cataclysmic events with the passion of a thousand burning suns.  It's what ruined Dragonlance: Three hundred and fifty years separate the Cataclysm and the War of the Lance, and then Krynn falls into a pattern where Gods leave, then come back every thirty years or so; a couple of gods die this time around, a millennarian race becomes extinct the next.  Holy symbols don't work now, and then they do again.  It stretches the imagination that mortal civilisation could withstand things like the Summer of Chaos and the War of Souls every generation...  and because D&D changes its rules every ten or so real-world years, we're more or less fated with having a great cataclysmic event every generation.Well, at least it's not the Star Wars galaxy, where the Republic stands for a thousand generations, protected by the Jedi Order; and then the Skywalkers show up, and suddenly the Republic can't stand for more than ten years, and every five years or so the Jedi order is obliterated in a great fratricide struggle to the point where only three or four Jedi remain.  Frankly, it's enough to make one wish the Sith were successful once just to put the Order out of its misery <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /> Really, the longest period of political stability since Anakin's time was Palpatine's Empire, where Galatic government remained stable for a whopping twenty years!Whew!  Got that out of my system.  Sorry, I guess I got a bit carried away :\</blockquote>

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