The dark sun world of athas is arid and bleak, a wasteland with a handful of cities ruled by thousandyearold sorcererkings. There are two generations of dray that were created directly by dregoth. The great elemental netbook, part 1 this is a very interesting book about the inner planes. These collections include various image, ebook and software archives. 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. In 1990, the tsr higherups, worried about decreasing interest in dragonlance, decided they needed a major new campaign world. 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. The dark sun campaign set introduces players to a savage world of. Its been a few months of on and off work, but i am happy to present version 2.
Cgr2 the complete gladiators handbook 2e wizards of. The trove is a nonprofit website dedicated towards content archival and longterm preservation of rpgs. It contains a list of creatures and personalities found within the dark sun setting. Dark sun campaing book, by shane lacy hensley 1994.
This is athas, the world of the dark sun campaign setting, a dying planet of savagery and desolation. Shattered lands is a turnbased roleplaying video game that takes place in the dungeons and dragons campaign setting of dark sun. This harsh environment has given birth to a number of new peoples and monsters, including two character races. They were the original inhabitants of the world, and all human, demihuman, and humanoid races are descended from them. We currently host various large scale collections amounting to hundreds of thousands of files. The sorcererking kalak is dead and tyr is a free citystate but the future of athas beyond that is up to the players. 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. Many monsters, prestige classes, spells or magic items from the core rulebooks simply are not available in athas. In fact, during the blue age the halflings were the only intelligent beings on all of athas. However, the sun is still a gracious soul and will treat the speaker with kindness and respect. The sun is a male, and is slightly aloof and hauty. An interactive atlas devoted to the dungeons and dragons campaign setting of darksun.
Authors the authors of the many novels and sourcebooks. Finally, dark sun also innovated the role of fiction in a game world. Dark sun creature catalog the front cover of the dark sun creature catalog release date august 17. Bloodsand arena free rpg day, june 2010 marauders of the dune sea august 2010 footnotes. Inappropriate the list including its title or description facilitates illegal activity, or contains hate speech or ad hominem attacks on a fellow goodreads member or author. It is worth noting that no dwarf alive can read the davek script. In addition, my site has many videos and articles on witchcraft, black magic, occultism, voodoo magic, esoterica, paganism. Dark sun book series by multiple authors includes books the verdant passage, the crimson legion, the obsidian oracle, and several more.
This site is recognized by wotc as the official dark sun site on the internet. Then the world became a desert filled with strangely twisted dwarves, elves and superintelligent dragons. Spam or selfpromotional the list is spam or selfpromotional. Dark sun campaign setting expanded and revised edition 2e. When first light casts its emerald hues over the sea of. Heres the link for my character tree video i mentioned. They are complete with full errata and are reorganized for ease of use. Characters in dark sun are different than those in other campaign settings. The adventure begins in the great gladiatorial arena of the city state of tyr. The crimson sun scorches the life from anything that crawls or flies, and storms of sand scour the foliage from the barren ground. Defiling and preserving survival mechanics history. Unleash your imagination into a vast, savage world, sunscorched and windscraped.
Dark sun campaign setting expanded and revised edition 2e a decade has passed since the age of heroes began. However, if an opposing party is able to defeat the party. Numerous new kits, details of the tyr regions arenas, quick summaries of combat rules, a martial arts system, and suggestions on how to run arena games are within these pages. The first party to reach the end of the track obtains the rod of divining. In this hot and desolate land, not much is flourishing.
Found here dark sun 3 campaign setting pdf download pdf dark sun 3. Apr 28, 2018 regular sun exposure is the most natural way to get enough vitamin d, but too much sunlight comes with health risks. The city of tyr has broken free of tyranny, though turmoil still hold. 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. I used 4es dark sun, and there are definitely problems with it. 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. Savage, exotic, and unforgiving, the world of athas is unique. For pdf download editions, each page has been run through optical character recognition ocr software to. Incorrect book the list contains an incorrect book please specify the title of the book.
Now humans control all the cities and human magic is stripping the environment of its life force. In his reddit ama today mike mearls was asked by jesterraiin and now, the question. 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. Cgr2 the complete gladiators handbook 2e wizards of the. Psionic artifacts of athas dark sun campaign setting pdf free. From the dusty arenas of athas comes the complete gladiators handbook, ready to arm the fiercest dark sun campaign antagonist.
In particular, theres 53 groups of monsters, unique personalities plus their cohorts, 5 monster themes, and 12 hazards. Not only did it include fiction for players to read. Dark sun series book list in order, box sets or omnibus editions, and companion titles. Those who ferry valuable cargo from citystate to citystate must be astute guides, shrewd bargainers, sharpeyed, and able to fight in a pinch. That party must then return the rod to the start space to win. Jul 01, 2017 dark sun and why its great dungeons and dragons web dm duration. 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. Dark sun 2 wake of the ravager is the sequel rpg called dark sun shattered lands. Read articles, download magic books, watch videos, learn the secrets. A once civilized paradise, athas, was based on awesome mental powers and the power of its wizard kings. No wonder then that the mighty dragon of ur draxa and. The dark sun creature catalog is a 4th edition supplement released in august 17, 2010.
The first generation were scattered to the winds with the destruction of giustenal or banished by dregoth upon his resurrection. Dark sun featured an innovative metaplot, influential art work, dark themes, and a genrebending take on traditional fantasy roleplaying. May 16, 2018 melanin reduces the skins ability to make vitamin d in response to sunlight exposure. Please refer to the main dark sun article for further information prism pentad troy denning the verdant passage october 1991, isbn 1560761210.
After he defeated the army in draj from the first game, you have to go on a journey to. It was available on both floppy disk and cdrom, though the cdrom contained no additional content and was merely. 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. Whatever you do, do not use 4es version of dark sun. They have turned celebrating into an art form, and elf song and dance is captivating and seductive to nonelves. This article explains how to safely get vitamin d from the sun. These are races featured specifically for players aarakocra dray dragonborn 1 dwarf eladrin 1 elf genasi halfgiant goliath 2 halfelf halfling human mul pterran thrikreen tiefling 1 1. Many races were extinguished from athas during the cleansing wars. 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. The halfgiant appears in the original version of dark sun as a new character race.
It includes descriptions of each of the planes and new monsters that can be. Please feel free to mail corrections, comments, and additions to shannon. The world of athas athas is an endless wasteland, yet it has a majestic and stark beauty. 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. Piecemeal armor characters in a dark sun campaign seldom if ever wear complete suits of metal armor. 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. After the battle the party are sent back to the slave pens to wait for their next match. Jul 12, 2018 characters in dark sun are different than those in other campaign settings. Dark sun 5e by marsupialmancer created with gm binder. Many merchant house owners study the skills of the rogue.
I got an egalley of this book through netgalleydotcom. It was released for msdos in a somewhat unfinished state in 1993 by strategic simulations, and later patched to a more workable version. Please note that this is a work in progress, and also a work of heart. The 2e version of dark sun is far superior for a conversion. Mike mearls was asked about 5e dark sun found here ama. The sun is not an overly kind god, and will not give out free omnipotence and gifts to all those who ask, as it already gives plenty of help to the world. This time you prove four arbitrarily designated characters. This series contains the radiant classics, dark sun. Sourcebooks rulebooks, adventures, and supplements for playing the game. A sun blasted, windscraped wasteland, athas is home to multitudes of the most horrifically mutated creatures youll ever encounter. Dark sun info magic and survival work very differently on athas compared to the rest of the multiverse.
This race first appears in the 4th edition version of dark sun. Get your kindle here, or download a free kindle reading app. I hope it will be useful to anyone interested in magic and witchcraft, and wants to know more about them, beginners and professional wizards and witches. In the beginning of the game, the player controls a party of gladiators. Each player controls a party of six adventurers attempting to acquire and return with the rod of divining. It opens up with a fight with a multitude of monsters in an arena. Download the dark sun players guide for special setting rules for characters. The third edition of the dark sun net handbook is finally out.
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