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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steampunkette" data-source="post: 8328779" data-attributes="member: 6796468">Huh... oka-.... wooooow.Yeah. So... No.Athas is a dying world. It still has some forests, some water, but it's on the brink. And it's ruled by immortal unkillable evil god-kings who-<img src="https://img.over-blog-kiwi.com/1/38/58/56/20200518/ob_60905c_mort-de-kalak.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />... okay so not unkillable but -evil- god ki-<img src="https://i.pinimg.com/236x/4a/f4/5a/4af45a9454390bc31196a70c6fe71f2b--dungeons-and-dragons-crime.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Well okay, then.It's a Swords and Sorcery setting modeled after a combination of Conan Films and Mad Max Movies. It's steeped in rich 80s style set up against a postapocalyptic climate change backdrop for the express intent of having a Point to tell. But like Conan and other things people often -think- are Grimdark... it's anything but. Even -without- the Surf Druids.The core setting storyline involves a group of adventurers going from Swords and Sorcery adventures fighting the evil would-be-dragon Kalak all the way up to shutting down Rajaat in the Cerulean Storm. The fact that at least one and possibly two of the Sorcerer-Kings are going Avangion bodes really well for the setting. And while you may despise the Prism Pentad (I certainly do) it ends with Rainstorms coming back to Athas with Rajaat's defeat, implying a new age is going to come in time.BECAUSE HOPE IS THE ENTIRE POINT.If there was no hope in the Dark Sun setting your adventures would just be menial boring basic survival until your inevitable death because there's no point to becoming a hero and fighting the Sorcerer Kings or the Psurlons or the Caller in Darkness or whatever other dangers Athas has.Because Conan, the "Grimdark Swords and Sorcery" basis that inspired so many settings, films, books, and people to do stupid and/or terrible things? That's -our- world. And for all the grimness of Conan and the harshness of the societies of the Hyborian Age, it -advances- to become -us-. Our world. And you can piss and moan all day about how crap our world is, but it's WAY better than what Conan had to deal with.Like holy crap, folks. "Hope is a hot take"? Jeeze.Your DMs ran crappy Dark Sun Games for you, I guess.</blockquote>

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