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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 8254954" data-attributes="member: 93670">There are a lot of good points here.  The fact that Darksun is a collection of people doing the least horrific assortment of things they can manage to do in order to survive  long enough to avoid something worse is a central theme of he setting.  Sure you can change the ratio & make X less horrific for these people here but who are you going to leave taking up the slack or are you just going to go down in history as the guy who destroyed what was left of civilization before it could recover?  I ran a 5e campaign in darksun or athas like world a while back & the central theme was how the dragonmarked houses were engaged in all of the stuff so far beyond the pale that it borders of war crimes & deeply unethical treatment of sweatshop employees  look  a bit questionable in a world where the legal protections of back home in eberron aren't a thing.  Not only were they not a thing but the locals loved it because it made their little slice of hell better in ways they cared about.  The players were working for the dragonmarked houses in that campaign & the people kept leaping one step further. Everyone had a lot of fun trying to balance everything without losing their souls metaphorically, but that couldn't have happened in even the worst most horriffic corners of eberron faerun or whatever</blockquote>