This site is recognized by wotc as the official dark sun site on the internet. The dark sun world of athas is arid and bleak, a wasteland with a handful of cities ruled by thousandyearold sorcererkings. The story is a continuation of the events in its predecessor, dark sun. Athas, the world of dark sun, was once as pleasant as any other. Be warned however that dark sun is harsh, and that if you find your self running around in platemale armor and are armed to the teeth with magic or steel weapons then your dm is doing the wrong thing. Bringing the heat starting a dark sun campaign alphastream. The artwork available in pdf format can be printed on any color printer, trimmed, folded and inserted into a dvd case. Shattered lands is a video game published in 1993 on dos by strategic. But, after many thousands of years, powerful mages found ways to gain power through draining the planets vitality.
Savage, exotic, and unforgiving, the world of athas is unique. Dark side of the sun dvd mollies fund mollies fund. Aug 01, 1995 years ago id read and enjoyed rhodess earlier the making of the atomic bomb. At their zenith, these wizards caused the sun to transform from a pleasant yellow glow to a raging crimson fireball on the horizon. A va campaign can easily take you to interesting places to gather magical supplies, take out defilers, or undermine other citystates. It also provides everything dungeon masters need to run 4th edition dark sun campaigns or include dark sun elements in their homebrew campaigns. Unleash your imagination into a vast, savage world, sunscorched and windscraped. Tolkien and robert jordan, then you may want to check it out. It features the adventures of a gladiator who escapes from the fighting arenas.
In this hot and desolate land, not much is flourishing. Even ships from the crimson sphere rarely visit athas, for the dangers of such a trip almost always outweigh any bene. When the sun goes dark tells how diana and sammy, two curious children, and their grandparents recreate eclipses in their living room using a. Hosts the official pre4e timeline and publishes its own supplements and articles. 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. List of dark sun modules and sourcebooks wikipedia. The world of the dark sun, athas is a desert world. Looking forward to dark sun wrathofzombies blog august 19th, 2010 9.
The adventure begins in the great gladiatorial arena of the city state of tyr. Please refer to the main dark sun article for further information prism pentad troy denning the verdant passage october 1991, isbn 1560761210. Report broken download starting a dark sun campaign originally posted in 2010 on my wotc blog. Oct 02, 2015 the dark side of athas is easy to capture. Now that the site is running properly again we will just have to wait to see if any of the editors return. On athas, clerics draw their magical energy directly from one of the four elemental planes. Dark sun expanded and revised campaign setting yumpu. There are eight available races, including halfgiants and the exotic insectlike thrikreen alongside the more traditional ones.
Lilliputian, the site had serious problems that lasted for over a year which meant it was meaningless to approve manuals for download. Unleash your imagination into a vast, savage world, sun scorched and windscraped. This time you prove four arbitrarily designated characters. Characters in dark sun are different than those in other campaign settings. The mailing list is a bit quiet nowadays as people prefer to use the message boards. Dark sun 2 wake of the ravager is the sequel rpg called dark sun shattered lands. It even had the comment card, the minicatalog and the poster. Download the dark sun players guide for special setting rules for characters. This week i am writing for the dms that are taking the intrepid step to create and run their own dark sun campaign. Download dark sun campaign setting 4e pdf free shared files from downloadjoy and other worlds most popular shared hosts. 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. This is theworld of athas, the world of the dark sun campaign.
This harsh environment has given birth to a number of new peoples and monsters, including two character races. To download the dark side of the sun dvd zipped archive rightclick two button mouse or controlclick mac with a single button mouse the download dvd link below. Shattered lands the dark sun world of athas is arid and bleak, a wasteland with a handful of cities ruled by thousandyearold sorcererkings. In 1990, the tsr higherups, worried about decreasing interest in dragonlance, decided they needed a major new campaign world. An interactive atlas devoted to the dungeons and dragons campaign setting of darksun. Because that was a history of atomic research, the manhattan project, and the resulting bombings of hiroshima and nagasaki, id expected dark sun to be a history in a similar style. Shattered lands is a turnbased computer roleplaying game that takes place in the dungeons and dragons campaign setting of dark sun. Our filtering technology ensures that only latest dark sun campaign setting 4e pdf files are listed. Years ago id read and enjoyed rhodess earlier the making of the atomic bomb. Please note that this is a work in progress, and also a work of heart.
I did some maps for the first dungeons and dragons comic bad day. It takes place in the dungeons and dragons campaign setting of dark sun, on a harsh desert world named athas. The cleric is a freewilled priest, tending the needs of the local people with his particular talents. Tthe dark sun crystal spherehe dark sun crystal sphere. Incredible concept though may be hard for some to wrap their brains around. Aug 24, 2015 the cleric is a freewilled priest, tending the needs of the local people with his particular talents. Idw has released a second comic series this one set in the classic dark sun world of athas. Prism pentad has 5 entries in the series overdrive rakuten overdrive borrow ebooks, audiobooks, and videos from thousands of public libraries worldwide. Would love an original infinity engine game of dark sun. Dark sun 5e by marsupialmancer created with gm binder. The third edition of the dark sun net handbook is finally out.
Until recently, they were ruled by powerful sorcererkings, both tyrants and protectors. Please refer to the main dark sun article for further information. The locale is draj, a citystate ruled by a powerful sorcererking. It is the primary world of the sphere, and is detailed extensively in the dark sun line of products from tsr. In development prealpha version of dark sun, a strategy game. The game takes place in the fictional land of athas, a dying and hostile desert world. Jul 12, 2018 characters in dark sun are different than those in other campaign settings.
After he defeated the army in draj from the first game, you have to go on a journey to. Time to play a fantasy, postapocalyptic, turnbased, licensed. If you want to try something that is more like the work of clark ashtonsmith and robert e. Once gained, one is forever a friend, but if that trust is betrayed, it is gone forever. Dark sun monster manual 5th edition hello all so i have been working on this for a few month now and its now close to be completed still need some ground work on the presentation, but well too lazy for that now. That was the reason for its fall, but its also the reason why i like it so much. The player can control a pregenerated party of four characters or create new ones at the beginning. Its been a few months of on and off work, but i am happy to present version 2. It is just in development, this is the first and free openalpha testing.
It is worth noting that no dwarf alive can read the davek script. Athas the world of dark sun has scarcely any metal, has an over. Set on the desert world of athas, dark sun is about the struggle for survival. You can choose from a halfgiants, halflingow, human and mystical thrikeens.
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. Dark sun campaign setting pdf version rpg item version. Please choose thoroughly every game you download and share the. The dark sun world puts so many of the fantasy stereotypes on their ears.
Cliffhangers are very cool and even seemingly unrelated episodes can turn out to be the key to a future adventure. Shattered lands, and take place in or around the citystate of tyr. Athas the world of dark sun has scarcely any metal. Subsequent versions of this product will incorporate final versions of the license, guide, and. Wizards of the coast has introduced a new line this summer, called dark sun, which is a remake of a 1991 product.
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