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Modern Dark Sun (for fifth edition, one d&d or whatever they want to call it)
Kerstmanneke82:
Just imagine.
The year is 2024, sixth edition is on the horizon, if that is still a thing. They've done Eberron, Planescape, Spelljammer... and they want to send 5th edition off with... Dark Sun.
Now keep in mind, ever since Athasspace turned into Doomspace and the Hadozee emergency, chances are indeed very slim it'll ever come out. But what if it did, what do you think it'll look like?
Fire away!
Darkwind:
I actually read somewhere they are rebooting Dark Sun in 23 or 24, I forget. It will be an army of sensitivity writers, cultural coordinators, DIE consultants, and various blue-haired problem glass wearing hamplanet SJWs endlessly debating each other.
At the end, it will be a watered down, milquetoast, pussified product that probably bears close to no relation to the gritty grim dark type setting that Dark Sun was suppose to be. It isn't possible for it to be otherwise because NPCs cannot break their programming under any circumstance, they short circuit first. Nuance, subtlety, and situational context are beyond their capability so it will be hot garbage.
Jam The MF:
We need an OSR hack of the original Dark Sun, titled "Black Sun". Change all the names slightly, to avoid lawsuits.
VisionStorm:
--- Quote from: Darkwind on September 21, 2022, 01:11:08 PM ---I actually read somewhere they are rebooting Dark Sun in 23 or 24, I forget. It will be an army of sensitivity writers, cultural coordinators, DIE consultants, and various blue-haired problem glass wearing hamplanet SJWs endlessly debating each other.
At the end, it will be a watered down, milquetoast, pussified product that probably bears close to no relation to the gritty grim dark type setting that Dark Sun was suppose to be. It isn't possible for it to be otherwise because NPCs cannot break their programming under any circumstance, they short circuit first. Nuance, subtlety, and situational context are beyond their capability so it will be hot garbage.
--- End quote ---
Pretty much.
They will get rid of slavery, Muls will no longer be dumb, because Int modifiers are racist, and they will try to shoehorn even more races than they already did back in 4e, only now they'll try to shoehorn a bunch of irrelevant classes and subclasses as well, cuz everything in the core books has to make it into every setting and nothing can be setting-specific (unlike the OG Dark Sun). It'll be a silly Tumblrina wearing a Dark Sun shaped skin suit a couple sizes too small.
Kinda makes me glad it'll never happen. Planescape will have to suffer instead.
PencilBoy99:
There's a OSE very cool fan made version. It's on the Facebook Dark Sun site I think.
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