Tolkien and robert jordan, then you may want to check it out. When wizards of the coast began work on 4e 20082012, their plan was to release one campaign world a year, with each world being supported with a campaign guide, a players guide, and a standalone adventure. 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. It also provides everything dungeon masters need to run 4th edition dark sun campaigns or include dark sun elements in their homebrew campaigns. Its been a few months of on and off work, but i am happy to present version 2. In his reddit ama today mike mearls was asked by jesterraiin and now, the question. Savage, exotic, and unforgiving, the world of athas is unique. Cardmaster adventure design deck advanced dungeons and dragons game by rich borg. Dark sun featured an innovative metaplot, infl uential a rt work, dark themes, and a genrebending take on traditional fantasy roleplaying. Ancient wars have left vast swaths of the planet sterile. Concordance of arcane space is one of the books included with the original spelljammer campaign setting boxed set. Dungeons and dragons campaign settings dark sun the burning sands of athas duration. This set expanded the campaign area to eight times its original size. My resources are the revised dark sun campaign setting the one reworked to fit skills and powers, dragon kings.
Dark sun featured an innovative metaplot, influential art work, dark themes, and a genrebending take on traditional fantasy roleplaying. In that time, we have released updated core rules, two monster manuals, numerous setting supplements, such as city state of draj and wisdom of the drylanders, and the. Athas the world of dark sun has scarcely any metal, has an over. Earlier 2e settings such as dark sun and alqadim had been created with heavy influence from artists, and this was the case for planescape as well. Feel free to provide feedback in this subreddit or in private message. The dark sun campaign setting 2010, by richard baker, robert j. The burnt world of athas dark sun campaign setting. If you want to try something that is more like the work of clark ashtonsmith and robert e.
The dark sun setting has never had enough adventures. Our filtering technology ensures that only latest dark sun campaign setting 4e pdf files are listed. Learn the citys history, attend a council meeting, wander the citys business districts, and explore the mysterious under tyr the ancient ruins of the forgotten city upon which tyr was built. This site is recognized by wotc as the official dark sun site on the internet.
Many races were extinguished from athas during the cleansing wars. Review of dark sun campaign setting rpgnet d20 rpg game. This harsh environment has given birth to a number of new peoples and monsters, including two character races. An interesting little net book about all the trees to be found in the forgotten realms campaign setting. 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. Unsurprisingly, the seeds of metaplot were planted in the planescape campaign setting as well, primarily through mentions of the blood war and the mysteries of the lady of pain. Planescape campaign setting 2e wizards of the coast. Please note that this is a work in progress, and also a work of heart. Serves as a good introduction to the setting and the sort of campaign that makes it easy for the dm to add extra miniadventures in here and there. Pulpy forever war between natureworshipping barbarians and scholastic necromancers on an island nation after the end. They can also form an extended campaign following g, and followed by q. Bringing the heat starting a dark sun campaign alphastream. Contains more than 40 prestige classes for dark sun campaigns. These are complete in many aspects, but information is sparse in a few categories.
Review of dark sun campaign setting rpgnet d20 rpg game index. Cordell, is the official adventure for 4e dark sun. Masque of the red death and other tales by william w. Now humans control all the cities and human magic is stripping the environment of its life force. Dark sun campaign setting pdf version rpg item version. Many monsters, prestige classes, spells or magic items from the core rulebooks simply are not available in athas.
Oct 02, 2015 for my campaign, i knew i wanted to do my own thing and not use prepublished adventures. The default setting in dark sun is now just after the sorcererking of tyr was assassinated by unknown parties. There is no metaplot, no timeline advancements, nothing. I loved dark sun from the day it came out its a refreshing departure from the general fantasy cliches that still dominate the genre. Download dark sun campaign setting 4e pdf free shared files from downloadjoy and other worlds most popular shared hosts. Dark sun collectors guide morrus unofficial tabletop. The premier city of the dark sun campaign setting now lies complete for an athasian campaigns player characters. It is a world where magic drains the very essence of life. Chris flipse for helping with the layout and the ambush shortstory. The third edition of the dark sun net handbook is finally out. That was the reason for its fall, but its also the reason why i like it so much. Product history marauders of the dune sea 2010, by bruce r. The dark sun campaign set introduces players to a savage world of. Then the world became a desert filled with strangely twisted dwarves, elves and superintelligent dragons.
A once civilized paradise, athas, was based on awesome mental powers and the power of its wizard kings. The city of tyr has broken free of tyranny, though turmoil still holds the world in its merciless grip. For my campaign, i knew i wanted to do my own thing and not use prepublished adventures. This revised campaign set for the dark sun setting takes into account the extraordinary political and physical changes that the world of athas has undergone in the time since the release of the original dark sun boxed set. This 4e update of the dark sun campaign setting does an excellent job of incorporating 4es mythology without losing the harsh feel of the original setting. Players first create a character using the rules found in the phb. 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. As far as i know, its the only 2e setting out of the glorious variety of 2e settings that deeply embraces psionics and makes it a centerpiece of the setting. Good job that this 4th edition dark sun adventure is so good then. Dark sun campaign setting, expanded and revised wikipedia. Back in those halcyon days at the dorms when we were surrounded by gamers, played marvel super heroes most every night and spent our threeinthemornings at the kettle talking gaming and metagaming, we all wanted to be serious roleplayers, or thought we already were.