Yes bro! I highly advise sprinkle some Elderitch Lovecraftian sub text with Conan. Luv the Idea of a Cult of Set becoming Templars and controlling the city states

Enjoy! Much adventure and dark, defiling magic awaits you.

There are a few things we wanted to explore differently than old-school Dark Sun and we lay that out pretty transparently! We changed the title of Dictator to Caesar to evoke more of the corrupt Roman-inspired democracy vibes of the setting, because that's what we were interested in exploring. But Balic was always a Roman-inspired corrupt democracy; we just changed his title. However, you're confused about Praetors-it was High Patricians that Adroponis magically blinded/etc, not his Praetors. Our campaign isn't canon or sponsored by Wizards of the Coast. It's just a story, the story we wanted to play, the way we wanted to play it. It may not be for you, and that's okay. :)

@@donathinfrye6120 the Patricians were the nobles and the Praetors were his Templars. So yeah he didn't mess with the nobles. I know it's alright if the story isn't for me but the story isn't even Dark Sun if you ignore lore and details just so you can have your Roman themed story. I mean you could of just done that anyway without using Dark Sun but you wouldn't of tricked everyone looking for a real Dark Sun campaign to get you views.

If you go back and read Chapter Two of "The Obsidian Oracle", you'll realize that you are confusing the lore about Praetors (ten year term pseudo-elected templars), regular noble Patricians, and High Patricians (life-long appointments who are ritually blinded/etc and vote in the Chamber of Patricians). That's cool. I wouldn't expect you to know it all like the back of your hand. I've been reading and playing Dark Sun since 1994 and still had to do a lot of research before running this campaign-which I did because I love the setting and was devoted to creating something authentic (with a few small tweaks that served our group's interests.) Good luck on your campaign. Keep reading. :)

Addendum: What a great cast!! You and the players are excellent actors. So much emotion and far more serious than most others out there. This has all the makings of a high profile audio play. Wow! Thank you.

@@andreaso8886 So glad you are enjoying it! I grew up playing Dark Sun too and all three of our campaigns here were an absolute joy to play and create.

1:45:26 here too, what happens here?

I agree. I don’t think anyone in The Dark Sun world would have any tolerance for that nonsense. I don’t think dragging woke into D&D was needed🙄 Otherwise this is well done.

@@LKN4WAR I was very surprised, frankly Ive been saying Dark Sun will never be a 5e setting because of these kinds of politics. After seeing this I have a smidgeon of hope, I mean if these people can get behind it maybe there is still a shot.