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<blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 8281551" data-attributes="member: 5948"><p>Nah, they can just do what they did with Theros and say 'lineages X, Y, and Z no longer exist in Athas and are not playable in a traditional Dark Sun game. Should you want to play one of these lineages, ask your DM'</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Even in 2e canon this wasn't necessarily true. There are canonical examples of muls who were born from love matches and whose mother survived the birth. They often WERE born from forced breeding programs, but it wasn't 100% necessary. Just de-emphasise that, and they're perfectly usable. They may get a namechange though, perhaps to 'half-dwarves'...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>They'll bite the bullet and do a psionicist class eventually. I do like your idea for how to do wild talents though.</p><p></p><p></p><p>No need to gender-flip the existing Sorcerer-kings, just add some new ones. I don't think we've ever heard about the sorcerer-king who was tasked with the genocide of gnolls, for instance. Or aaracokra. Or hobgoblins.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I actually like 'free' Tyr as a setting. It adds a a point of difference, and by making it also a pretty scummy place to be, full of corrupt nobles and uncontrolled criminal gangs and petty warlords, while the armies of Urik peer at it with interest, then you make it clear that not EVERYTHING that's bad about Athas can be fixed by kicking a sorcerer-king in the teeth.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="humble minion, post: 8281551, member: 5948"] Nah, they can just do what they did with Theros and say 'lineages X, Y, and Z no longer exist in Athas and are not playable in a traditional Dark Sun game. Should you want to play one of these lineages, ask your DM' Even in 2e canon this wasn't necessarily true. There are canonical examples of muls who were born from love matches and whose mother survived the birth. They often WERE born from forced breeding programs, but it wasn't 100% necessary. Just de-emphasise that, and they're perfectly usable. They may get a namechange though, perhaps to 'half-dwarves'... They'll bite the bullet and do a psionicist class eventually. I do like your idea for how to do wild talents though. No need to gender-flip the existing Sorcerer-kings, just add some new ones. I don't think we've ever heard about the sorcerer-king who was tasked with the genocide of gnolls, for instance. Or aaracokra. Or hobgoblins. I actually like 'free' Tyr as a setting. It adds a a point of difference, and by making it also a pretty scummy place to be, full of corrupt nobles and uncontrolled criminal gangs and petty warlords, while the armies of Urik peer at it with interest, then you make it clear that not EVERYTHING that's bad about Athas can be fixed by kicking a sorcerer-king in the teeth. [/QUOTE]
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