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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RSKennan" data-source="post: 426162" data-attributes="member: 8256">You raise some valid concerns, Tarchon. Let me try to lay them to rest at least where Morning Star is concerned. While it's true that the term Golden Age is worthless outside of historical context, let me assure you that Morning Star has one. Let me speak in defense of  Gary Pratt as well when I tell you that both of us had two submissions, and both had progressed versions of our "Golden Age" settings, that had "fallen from grace". Obviously it was the Golden Age aspect that got us in. Gary has also stated in his thread and to me that he was actually more excited about his progressed version. The opposite is true for me. But I digress.Regarding the topic at hand, the one page submission was ill-suited for anything other than a fast-and-loose synopsis of "product identity". Most likely, I believed that when talking about my setting in passing one might say something like "Oh, Morning Star? That's that Golden Age setting...". I didn't really have the space, considering everything I had to fit in, to even hint at specific history. When I said "Now is the Golden Age" it wasn't so much an indication of a misunderstanding of the term as an acknowledgement of a common misinterpretation or reinterpretation of it. My interpretation of the "Golden Age" was held relative to the standard medieval paradigm. In my setting however, civilization has risen to it's peak, and it has been sustained for so long that the denizens of Thraxis themselves think of the time in which they live as something akin to a Golden Age. Decay gnaws at the edges of their way of life and it has become obvious that this way of life is in severe jeopardy. Scholars remember history, and know that a return to the way humanity had lived before would be a step down.I guess one could argue that a D&D setting can be no more "Golden Age" than it is "Medieval".  That term is worthless out of context as well.I don't know if this is a satisfactory response to your concerns but it's the only one I have at the moment. I'm sure the other semifinalists have given this similar thought (I know Gary has).</blockquote>

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