Totally Not Dark Sun (TnDS)

A hack of Dark Sun with the following design principles:

• Updated to 5e (2024)
• All kinds of magic are dangerous, not only arcane
  • Arcane magic defile the environment
  • Divine magic produce madness
  • Primal magic is chaotic
• Metaplot agnostic (origins are shrouded in mystery, multiple possible causes for the current situation)
• Druid-monarchs are not the only BBEG
  • Eldritch horror and evil cults are also a trope in sword and sorcery
  • Also nomad raiders should be more prevalent (because Mad Max is cool)
• All main lineages, classes and subclasses can be played (with minor modifications)
  
  • Clerics and druids (and paladin and rangers in a minor way) swap their roles:
    • Clerics roam the dessert looking for clues of their forgotten deities or protect small villages that pledge their faith in exchange of protection
    • Paladins roam the land obsessed by their oaths
    • Archdruids rule the cities and big settlements making the settlements sustainable. Some collaborate, but most of them compete against one another and seek to enslave or destroy the other druids.
• Some cultural characteristic of the races (cannibalism, nomad runners) could be moved to backgrounds