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<blockquote data-quote="Mark Hope" data-source="post: 4991106" data-attributes="member: 27051">&quot;Just fluff&quot;??&nbsp; That's what the setting is made of.&nbsp; There's little sense in dismissing material as &quot;just fluff&quot; when that's all you actually have to go on.And I notice that you've omitted several key passages from your quote - notably the sections where it talks about the growing revolutionary sentiment and then goes onto foreshadow the role that slaves (the PCs in the adventure) will have in the revolution.&nbsp; You can ignore that &quot;fluff&quot; if you like, but that doesn't change the fact that it's there.No.&nbsp; The Wanderer's Journal tells us that not all the SKs had ruled for millennia.&nbsp; Some apparently came to power more recently.&nbsp; Some are outright frauds.&nbsp; At least one other is staring revolution in the face.&nbsp; And then there are the ruined city-states and the clear statement that sorcerer-kings can die and have done so in the past.&nbsp; So it's far from a status-quo.&nbsp; And that's all just going by the first boxed set.On the one hand I agree with you.&nbsp; It might have prevented years of odd misconceptions about Kalak's imminent fate, if nothing else <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />&nbsp; On the other hand, the cool wilderness jaunt of A Little Knowledge is a great mood-setter, so...I only read the later novels years after getting into DS.&nbsp; So I can empathise with the disconnect (&quot;Halflings??&nbsp; WTF???&quot;) <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />They did.&nbsp; That's kind of my point.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mark Hope, post: 4991106, member: 27051"] "Just fluff"?? That's what the setting is [i]made[/i] of. There's little sense in dismissing material as "just fluff" when that's all you actually have to go on. And I notice that you've omitted several key passages from your quote - notably the sections where it talks about the growing revolutionary sentiment and then goes onto foreshadow the role that slaves (the PCs in the adventure) will have in the revolution. You can ignore that "fluff" if you like, but that doesn't change the fact that it's there. No. The Wanderer's Journal tells us that not all the SKs had ruled for millennia. Some apparently came to power more recently. Some are outright frauds. At least one other is staring revolution in the face. And then there are the ruined city-states and the clear statement that sorcerer-kings can die and have done so in the past. So it's far from a status-quo. And that's all just going by the first boxed set. On the one hand I agree with you. It might have prevented years of odd misconceptions about Kalak's imminent fate, if nothing else ;) On the other hand, the cool wilderness jaunt of [i]A Little Knowledge[/i] is a great mood-setter, so... I only read the later novels years after getting into DS. So I can empathise with the disconnect ("Halflings?? WTF???") ;) They did. That's kind of my point. [/QUOTE]

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