So i did what any sane dm might do and downloaded a bunch of the old 2e and 4e sourcebooks for help building out an urban environment for my pcs to interact with. Search gm binder print generate pdf visit user profile dark sun campaign guide. Ive been running a dark sun campaign for a few months now, and the pcs have finally made their way to tyr. I lay no claim to the art or many of the original ideas e. The dark sun campaign setting was released in 1991. Jul 12, 2018 characters in dark sun are different than those in other campaign settings. 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. Rules book for players on athas by mcp draft version 1. 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. 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.
The paladin and sorcerer do not exist as player classes in dark sun. Defiling radiant sorcerers have a corona that is a dark orange color streaked with black, like the dying dark sun itself. The text on this page is open game content, and is licensed. It is worth noting that no dwarf alive can read the davek script. In the bitter and desperate world of dark sun, psionics alone offer power without deep moral ramifications. Until recently, they were ruled by powerful sorcererkings, both tyrants and protectors. Apr 28, 2018 regular sun exposure is the most natural way to get enough vitamin d, but too much sunlight comes with health risks. Dark sun is so different from most campaign settings, take barsoom, gor, zothique and a dash of fallout and mix into a desert world of harsh adventures where surviving is the name of the game, never mind heroics.
This is athas, the world of the dark sun campaign setting, a dying planet of savagery and desolation. In his reddit ama today mike mearls was asked by jesterraiin and now, the question. Each player is encouraged to create 12 backup characters if they have the time and patience. No wonder then that the mighty dragon of ur draxa and. May 16, 2018 melanin reduces the skins ability to make vitamin d in response to sunlight exposure. A mul character adds two to his initial strength score and one to his initial constitution score. I have read a few of the novels and 90% of the second edition books for dark sun. The 4th edition setting places athas clearly within the world axis cosmology, but retains its traditional.
They were the original inhabitants of the world, and all human, demihuman, and humanoid races are descended from them. Dark sun collectors guide morrus unofficial tabletop. I think its a great, solid system on which to build, but now that were into phb3 and beyond, i want to see them pushing the boundaries. This harsh environment has given birth to a number of new peoples and monsters, including two character races. Shattered lands is a turnbased roleplaying video game that takes place in the dungeons and dragons campaign setting of dark sun. This adventure series was part of an impressive marketing campaign that showed wizards support for 4e at its height. Control over the 2e settings was largely handed off to official fan web sites, such as dark sun s. Basically it starts with a graphic novel set in the dark sun world, then after the graphic novel there is infomation monster stats, maps on running the story as a campaign for a group of dungeon and dragons dnd characters. This race first appears in the 4th edition version of dark sun. Campaign settings can include new player options such as races and classes, information about the world and its npc and monster inhabitants for the dm, or even entire readytoplay adventures. As a result, the dark sun campaign setting isnt nearly as different from the core rule set as the original dark sun box was. Description unleash your imagination into a vast, savage world, sun scorched and windscraped. Dark sun campaign setting pdf version rpg item version.
Not only did it include fiction for players to read. The dark sun creature catalog is a great book, it comes in a nice hard cover, and has nearly 200 monsters in it. This site is recognized by wotc as the official dark sun site on the internet. 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. Overview introduction to the third edition at last. Savage, exotic, and unforgiving, the world of athas is unique. The burnt world of athas dark sun campaign setting. Yep, dark sun is coolheres the crazy way to kick it off.
List of dark sun modules and sourcebooks wikipedia. 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. Each player controls a party of six adventurers attempting to acquire and return with the rod of divining. This is a land of blood and dust, where tribes of feral elves sweep out of the salt plains to plunder lonely caravans, mysterious singing winds call travelers to slow suffocation in the sea of silt, and selfish. Now the material is available as pdf in but my players and i had stopped playing 2e long since, 3e didnt see any dark sun official books, and even though there was a campaign setting book for 4e, the fourth wasnt my edition at all. That party must then return the rod to the start space to win. This particular guide focuses on the dark sun campaign setting, which initially ran from 1991 to 1996, and had a 4th edition reboot in 2010.
A, hopefully, challenging campaign with a postapocalyptic theme and a sandbox style. The third edition of the dark sun net handbook is finally out. Once the decision is made, the mul character will forever be considered either a human or demihuman in all ways. Shattered lands faqs, walkthroughs, and guides for.
Other classes have been modified or clarified as to what is permitted for a dark sun setting. As most dwarves are illiterate, this rarely arises as a problem, but when dwarves are forced to put words to record, they utilize a bastardization of common and barazhad scripts to convey meaning using dwarvish syllables. Huge step up from how terrible they were in 4e, and preserving is actually a. This article explains how to safely get vitamin d from the sun. Its been a few months of on and off work, but i am happy to present version 2. Download the dark sun players guide for special setting rules for characters. Finally, dark sun also innovated the role of fiction in a game world. The 224paged pdf starts talking about themes at about page 37 and picks up talking. Sourcebooks rulebooks, adventures, and supplements for playing the game. The halfgiant appears in the original version of dark sun as a new character race. Dark sun featured an innovative metaplot, influential art work, dark themes, and a genrebending take on traditional fantasy roleplaying. The burnt world of athas 4e dark sun monster index. As a demihuman, a mul can become a multiclassed character in accordance with the multiclassed combinations table in dark sun boxed set. In 4th edition, it is a variant of the goliath race.
A sun blasted, windscraped wasteland, athas is home to multitudes of the most horrifically mutated creatures youll ever encounter. The 4th edition setting places athas clearly within the world axis cosmology, but retains its traditional cosmological isolation. Mar, 2020 the crimson sun scorches the life from anything that crawls or flies, and storms of sand scour the foliage from the barren ground. The world of athas athas is an endless wasteland, yet it has a majestic and stark beauty. Dark sun creature catalog pdf version rpg item version.
Please note that this is a work in progress, and also a work of heart. Instead powerful arcane users known as the sorcererkings drain the lifeforce. In 1990, the tsr higherups, worried about decreasing interest in dragonlance, decided they needed a major new campaign world. However, will be using 3rd edition rulebook for dark sun, linked above. Dark sun, including information about the encounters program and new rules from the dark sun campaign setting. Dark sun 5e by marsupialmancer created with gm binder. These are races featured as monsters, even though they might be playable as. When first light casts its emerald hues over the sea of silt, or when sunset spreads its orange flame over the mekillot mountains, the worlds feral beauty stirs the untamed heart in each of us. It is set earlier on in the timeline tyr is still a free city.
Shattered lands the dark sun world of athas is arid and bleak, a wasteland with a handful of. Sep 15, 20 jerry holkins as the dungeon master mike krahulik as mantis eaglehawk scott kurtz as tuzul kris straub as two coins dark sun playlist. The first party to reach the end of the track obtains the rod of divining. This supplement for the dark sun campaign setting collects the most iconic and dangerous monsters of. I have a small but growing discord server that is dedicated to running weekly one shots and hopefully sometime soon, a full on west marches campaign and weekly standard campaigns in dark sun that has been converted to 5e. What did catch on, and stuck, was psionics as a part of dark sun. Athas is a brutal and violent world so having a backup character helps the game keep moving in the event that your pc is slain and torn apart by savage beasts, expires due to dehydration, is eaten by a tribe of halflings, or meets one of the thousand other deaths the dm has been cackling madly.
Mar 27, 2018 dark sun was a popular campaign setting first introduced in 1991. Points of light, also known as nentir vale, the core setting dark sun eberron. The trove is the biggest open directory of rpg pdfs on the internet. An interactive atlas devoted to the dungeons and dragons campaign setting of darksun. Terrors of the desert dark sun monstrous compendium i. In fact, during the blue age the halflings were the only intelligent beings on all of athas. I dmed way back in high school when it first released but havent been able to find a game since then to play. Authors the authors of the many novels and sourcebooks. Crimson sands aka dso, a really nice roleplaying rpg game sold in 1996 for windows, is available and ready to be played again. Characters in dark sun are different than those in other campaign settings. Shattered lands on the pc, gamefaqs has 3 faqs game guides and walkthroughs. Athas, the world of dark sun, was once as pleasant as any other. 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.
We would like to show you a description here but the site wont allow us. At their zenith, these wizards caused the sun to transform from a pleasant yellow glow to a raging crimson fireball on the horizon. This series contains the radiant classics, dark sun. Set on the desert world of athas, dark sun is about the struggle for survival. The dark sun for 4e is very similar to the original but not the same. It not only has monster info, but info about the sorcererkings and their cities, and stats about them so your pcs can actually battle them. It was released for msdos in a somewhat unfinished state in 1993 by strategic simulations, and later patched to a more workable version. Im not a reddit native, but ive read enough good ideas, including many from reddit, and i wanted to share my work. However, if an opposing party is able to defeat the party. 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. I got an egalley of this book through netgalleydotcom. Ever since the dark sun setting its a thorn in my side. I read up on dark sun for 4e a few years ago and always wanted to play the setting. But, after many thousands of years, powerful mages found ways to gain power through draining the planets vitality.
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