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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8911563" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>I think you get rid of the chattel slavery of 2E Dark Sun and replace it with "crushed beneath the bootheel"-type serfdom, where people are de facto slaves, their lives constrained and managed by the Sorcerer Lords and their enforcers, but the term slave or "enslaved person" isn't used. Again, I think that would potentially make it more relevant, not less.</p><p></p><p>It also defies any attempt to say it's "appropriation" or the like, because there's no-one who didn't have some ancestors who weren't, in the last 500 years, in some form of forced labour/indentured servitude/serfdom.</p><p></p><p>(Indeed one of the main reasons indentured servitude became disfavoured in the US over the 1700s is that the ruling elites realized the indentured people were making common cause with the enslaved people, regardless of racial/ethnic lines and this probably wouldn't end well for the elites!)</p><p></p><p>I dunno. I feel like they could easily have hired a few talented people to put something together myself.</p><p></p><p>I think it's more about having someone in charge who has standards and a clear vision than stuff created across the course of an edition inherently being better.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8911563, member: 18"] I think you get rid of the chattel slavery of 2E Dark Sun and replace it with "crushed beneath the bootheel"-type serfdom, where people are de facto slaves, their lives constrained and managed by the Sorcerer Lords and their enforcers, but the term slave or "enslaved person" isn't used. Again, I think that would potentially make it more relevant, not less. It also defies any attempt to say it's "appropriation" or the like, because there's no-one who didn't have some ancestors who weren't, in the last 500 years, in some form of forced labour/indentured servitude/serfdom. (Indeed one of the main reasons indentured servitude became disfavoured in the US over the 1700s is that the ruling elites realized the indentured people were making common cause with the enslaved people, regardless of racial/ethnic lines and this probably wouldn't end well for the elites!) I dunno. I feel like they could easily have hired a few talented people to put something together myself. I think it's more about having someone in charge who has standards and a clear vision than stuff created across the course of an edition inherently being better. [/QUOTE]
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