on utopian futures

[ I am s l o w l y archiving tumblr stuff over here now I have it all backed up, I'll try not to spam your reading pages ]

Anyway about a year ago I was having one of my periodic 'Star Trek is a dystopia and the Federation is a police state' moments - I am always having one of those moments - and tranxio asked: "What is [a/the/your] utopian future?"

( an incomplete answer ft some thoughts on work and evolution, with reference to star trek, babylon 5, and stargate )

The short version, I suppose, is: If everyone must be forgiven you have not found utopia. If there is no work to be done you have not found utopia. If only the outsiders are special and blessed you have not found utopia.

druids do cool things other than beast shape

I re-spec'd Ireena Kolyana as a druid-rogue multiclass for the Ravenloft campaign I run a while ago and may have got a bit shouty re: People On The Internet Being Boring About Druids. tranxio, asker of excellent questions, wanted to know: "What do you think druids should be? What should they not be? What is boring and what is fun?"

Okay with the caveat that I have never played a druid so these are more thematic complaints rather than game/rules complaints:

( over-reliance on wildshape is boring, basically )

A year later I have still not played a druid but I have some thinky thoughts about a neutral-evil hamadryad druid who lives in the Feydark and Fucks Shit Up, so.