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2026-04-03 02:21 UTC
@randomwizard@social.vivaldi.net I rather like Krynn as a world and mythology, but those early DL modules were heavily contrived. The PCs were absolutely the cogs in the watch movement of that world.
And as products of their time (though I don’t think deliberately), the racism inherent in Goldmoon and Riverwind essentially being analogs for American First Nations, but being ethnically Vikings was pretty on the nose in today’s thinking; it would probably have been worse if they had been mysteriously wise and powerful brown people.
I’m yet to take a look at the 5.5e evolution.
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@randomwizard@social.vivaldi.net 2026-04-03 02:25
@trib@aus.social I am pretty certain that Goldmoon finding the platinum disks is to mirror how Joseph Smith found golden plates. Tracy Hickman is mormon so I do not think it too far of a stretch. I never thought about Goldmoon and "native americans", but I seem to recall mormon's thought native americans might have been one of the lost tribes of Israel?