Heres the link for my character tree video i mentioned. Running your own dark sun adventure can be a pain whether youre looking to play 1st, 2nd, 3rd. Fury of the wastewalker gives players and dms their first taste of athas, the world of dark sun. I use a seperate proficiency sheet with the skills and powers rules. It opens up with a fight with a multitude of monsters in an arena. With the casting of each spell, a defiler destroys a portion of the worlds ecosystem, rendering it dead and sterile. Hopefully, the contents of this etome will enliven your adventures under the dark sun. Both of these use the skills and powers rules, but one is for original psionic rules and the other is for. Jul 01, 2017 dark sun and why its great dungeons and dragons web dm duration. Those who ferry valuable cargo from citystate to citystate must be astute guides, shrewd bargainers, sharpeyed, and able to fight in a pinch. Some treat their element with obeisance akin to worship while others are more mercenary, describing their relationship in terms of power exchanged for fealty. Many merchant house owners study the skills of the rogue.
List of dark sun modules and sourcebooks wikipedia. Handfuls of these pdfs exist online but its hard to tell where to find them, how to link them. Magic destroys the environment, metal is rare, and water is more valuable than gold. Instead, clerics draw their power from one of the elemental planes.
The original dark sun boxed set is a master class in world design. In fact, during the blue age the halflings were the only intelligent beings on all of athas. This past saturday marked free rpg day which i celebrated at the local store i frequent on wednesday encounters nights. Two large maps are included along with several paperback books and information sheets. The first official wizards of the coast 4th edition adventure published was keep on the shadowfell in 2008. Hey all 5 boxed sets that deserve 5th edition makeovers found here mike mearls was asked about 5e dark sun found here ama. Rajaat was obsessed with returning the world to its blue age, an age when the world was covered by a vast ocean and ruled by halflings, the only intelligent native race besides thrikreen. Dark sun featured an innovative metaplot, influential art work, dark themes, and a genrebending take on traditional fantasy roleplaying. Characters in dark sun are different than those in other campaign settings. Bloodsand arena free rpg day, june 2010 marauders of the dune sea august 2010 footnotes. The dark sun campaign setting was released in 1991.
A guide to all of the available dark sun adventures storm. Introduced to the dark sun campaign setting in second edition, i purchased this to see how things have changed two revisions later. Not only did it include fiction for players to read. Spoilers for aspects of thunderspire labyrinth below. All information provided is unofficial and not endorsed by wizards of the coast. Defiling and preserving survival mechanics history. Its a play on words, as the name also is relevant to the adventure itself, but in the athas timeline, eight of the nine city states are presently ruled by sorcererkings, while one is lead by trade lords, and there. Jun 01, 2019 in dark sun, this means an arcane caster must be either a defiler or a preserver. Back in march of this year, i, along with 243 other gygaxians took part in a kickstarter to fund adventures dark and deep. Dark sun campaign setting pdf version rpg item version. Authors the authors of the many novels and sourcebooks. Now that tyr is free of kalak the sorcererking, opportunity abounds in. Muls are usually the products of the slave pits owners recognize the muls assets as gladiators and laborers, and so order the births of as many muls as can be managed within the ranks of their slaves. They retain the height and cunning of their human parent, plus the durability and raw strength of their dwarven heritage.
Dark sun campaign setting 4e explore a savage, wondrous world. The defiler is a sorcerer who activates tremendous magical energy without regard to its effect on the environment. Hheroic tier adventures were designed for characters of level 110. To that end, i wondered how much 4e stuff was still available for free on wotcs site. I cannot recommend it for new players due to the generally intense difficulty especially for good aligned characters, but for veterans who understand the mechanics and want something shying away. Dark sun 5e players guide, comprehensive im not a reddit native, but ive read enough good ideas, including many from reddit, and i wanted to share my work. Piecemeal armor characters in a dark sun campaign seldom if ever wear complete suits of metal armor. These near godlike beings are opposed by the veiled.
We currently host various large scale collections amounting to hundreds of thousands of files. Be civil to one another unacceptable behavior includes name calling, taunting, baiting, flaming, etc. Jun 01, 2019 if you arent familiar with dark sun, its a hardcore advanced setting set in a dying world named athas thats mostly desert. Many races were extinguished from athas during the cleansing wars. A listing of various free adventures available on the internet. Now that tyr is free of kalak the sorcererking, opportunity abounds in the city and the surrounding wastes. In 1990, the tsr higherups, worried about decreasing interest in dragonlance, decided they needed a major new campaign world. The game broke new grounds in several ways, such as introducing phased combat, a friendly user interface, the addition of adventurestyle inventorybased puzzles, and the intriguing magical discipline of psionics. However, if an opposing party is able to defeat the party. Races of athas dark sun new player options for fifth edition. The burnt world of athas life shaping handbook dark sun. Might have designed everything i need to run a 5e dark sun campaign.
I had agreed to dm the adventure bloodsand arena for the event, and it turned out to be a great time for us. Many of the races that exist in traditional fifth edition settings are found in athas. This series can stand alone, or can be used before the p series and e series to begin a campaign from 1st to 30th level, focusing on the. Game events and information the lost treasures of sira. These adventures take place on the world of athas, prior to the release of the first tsr dark sun adventure freedom. An elemental cleric must take air, earth, fire, or water as her. The adventure begins in the great gladiatorial arena of the city state of tyr. The first party to reach the end of the track obtains the rod of divining. This article explains how to safely get vitamin d from the sun. Please note that this is a work in progress, and also a work of heart. These collections include various image, ebook and software archives.
Download the dark sun players guide for special setting rules for characters. The trove is the biggest open directory of rpg pdfs on the internet. Expanding the word detail beyond tyr and giving far more indepth information on the city state of glug and the ivory trianlge region in general. Weapons constructed from inferior materials, such as a bone longsword or an axe with a head made from stone, suffer a 1 penalty to attack and damage rolls. Each player controls a party of six adventurers attempting to acquire and return with the rod of divining.
Tsr also published the complete psionics handbook at the same time, which added a new class and a new system to the game. In the first blog i talked about starting with story and letting that drive the encounter design. The recent dark sun conversions in dungeondragon rekindled my interest in the setting. Many monsters, prestige classes, spells or magic items from the core rulebooks simply are not available in athas.
The themes of this setting could fit in the dying earth subgenre and include survival against the elements, ecological disaster, resource depletion, survival of the fittest, slavery and poverty, and the widespread use of psionic abilities. The ivory triangle boxset gives the dm a great deal of information for use in a dark sun campaign. Ive got most of the sourcebooks back from when they were still in print, but now im considering getting some of the old adventures as well now that they are available as pdfs. Aimed at players and dungeon masters, this game supplement explores the heroes and wonders of athasa savage desert world abandoned by the gods and ruled by terrible sorcererkings. Apr 28, 2018 regular sun exposure is the most natural way to get enough vitamin d, but too much sunlight comes with health risks. Tolkien and robert jordan, then you may want to check it out. It introduced three new player races, the insectoid thrikreen, the halfdwarven mul and the halfgiant. Dark suns is a setting that is wildly different than traditional fantasy, great for adventures where the odds are not at all stacked towards heroes.
Jul 12, 2018 characters in dark sun are different than those in other campaign settings. The way or psionics was a huge part of living on athas. Dark sun campaign setting 4e wizards of the coast dungeons. The world of the dark sun campaign setting is unique in several ways. This site is recognized by wotc as the official dark sun site on the internet. A sun blasted, windscraped wasteland, athas is home to multitudes of the most horrifically mutated creatures youll ever encounter. Sourcebooks rulebooks, adventures, and supplements for playing the game.
A mul is an incredibly tough crossbreed of a human and dwarf. Crimson sands aka dso, a really nice roleplaying rpg game sold in 1996 for windows, is available and ready to be played again. I spent the last three blog posts discussing breaking patterns in 4e. Finally, dark sun also innovated the role of fiction in a game world. Many, many thanks to the original creator of this net. If you find this site useful, please leave a comment. Shattered lands is a turnbased roleplaying video game that takes place in the dungeons and dragons campaign setting of dark sun. They were taken from the 2nd edition pdf, shrunk down, and craftily. They were the original inhabitants of the world, and all human, demihuman, and humanoid races are descended from them. Though the setting is one of the most significant departures from traditional fantasy, it enjoys a lasting following to this day. In the beginning of the game, the player controls a party of gladiators. In the second installment i provided an example of how i work from a bare set of ideas and adapt adventures to pc choices and flesh out my. Found here dark sun 3 campaign setting pdf download pdf dark sun 3. Old dark sun adventures morrus unofficial tabletop rpg news.
If you want to try something that is more like the work of clark ashtonsmith and robert e. There are many reasons for this, but primarily the oppressive heat of the athasian sun and the scarcity of metal make full suits of armor impractical. Instead powerful arcane users known as the sorcererkings drain the lifeforce of the very planet and send their templars to enforce their cruel will upon the masses in the seven cities. Its been a few months of on and off work, but i am happy to present version 2. The trove is a nonprofit website dedicated towards content archival and longterm preservation of rpgs. If youve thought about going old school, and playing tomb of horrors sounds cool. An interactive atlas devoted to the dungeons and dragons campaign setting of darksun. It was available on both floppy disk and cdrom, though the cdrom contained no additional content and was merely. Most weapons and armor are made of hide, bone, scales, and obsidian. The temple of elemental evil by gary gygax with frank mentzer a sinister force, long thought destroyed, stirs from the black hole that spawned it. Dark sun an adventures overview bell of lost souls.
That party must then return the rod to the start space to win. Like an ebony darkness it prowls the land and safety is but an illusion, for it watches from every shadow and ponders possibilities. He orchestrated the extermination of all the impure athasian races created since then, all but the halflings and the thrikreen, through his immortal followers, the champions. That was the reason for its fall, but its also the reason why i like it so much. No wonder then that the mighty dragon of ur draxa and. After the battle the party are sent back to the slave pens to wait for their next match. The premier city of the dark sun campaign setting now lies complete for an athasian campaigns player characters. Each character has some flavour unique to the dark sun setting, including character themes. In his reddit ama today mike mearls was asked by jesterraiin and now, the question. May 16, 2018 melanin reduces the skins ability to make vitamin d in response to sunlight exposure. It was released for msdos in a somewhat unfinished state in 1993 by strategic simulations, and later patched to a more workable version. Dark sun info magic and survival work very differently on athas compared to the rest of the multiverse.
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