Apr 28, 2018 regular sun exposure is the most natural way to get enough vitamin d, but too much sunlight comes with health risks. That party must then return the rod to the start space to win. This harsh environment has given birth to a number of new peoples and monsters, including two character races. Get your kindle here, or download a free kindle reading app.
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. A mul character adds two to his initial strength score and one to his initial constitution score. The 224 paged pdf starts talking about themes at about page 37 and picks. Shattered lands faqs, walkthroughs, and guides for. Fury of the wastewalker 4e on a trade road to the citystate of tyr, a caravan is assaulted by a deadly obsidian shardstorm, forcing the survivors to band together and navigate the wastes to safety. This race first appears in the 4th edition version of dark sun. How to download dark sun campaign setting 4e pdf files to my device. Now humans control all the cities and human magic is stripping the environment of its life force. The halfgiant appears in the original version of dark sun as a new character race. The dark sun product line had been running strongly since 1991, with adventures, rules, and novels all appearing in 1994. This campaign will be centered around the lost city of kurn north of the tablelands, seemingly abandoned by its sorcererking, and the true face of. Defiling radiant sorcerers have a corona that is a dark orange color streaked with black, like the dying dark sun itself. Dark sun creature catalog 2010, by richard baker with ari marmell and chris sims, was a monster manual for 4es dark sun line. For those of you unfamiliar with the dark sun setting, its pdfs can be found here.
Once the decision is made, the mul character will forever be considered either a human or demihuman in all ways. It also provides everything dungeon masters need to run 4th edition dark sun campaigns or include dark sun elements in their homebrew campaigns. In fact, during the blue age the halflings were the only intelligent beings on all of athas. 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. In this video i create some characters, beat the living snot out of things, talk to some fellow slaves along with beating some of them up as well. As a result, the dark sun campaign setting isnt nearly as different from the core rule set as the original dark sun box was. The lifeshaping handbook contains rules for creating lifeshaped items and creatures, 2 new character races, almost 30 new feats, 8 new prestige classes, 30 new monsters, and 3 adventure sites for introducing players to the new rules. Characters in dark sun are different than those in other campaign settings. An interactive atlas devoted to the dungeons and dragons campaign setting of darksun.
Crimson sands aka dso, a really nice roleplaying rpg game sold in 1996 for windows, is available and ready to be played again. Dark sun featured an innovative metaplot, influential art work, dark themes, and a genrebending take on traditional fantasy roleplaying. Tsr published the first dark sun adventure in 1991. Click download file button or copy dark sun campaign setting 4e pdf url which shown in textarea when you clicked file title, and paste it into your browsers address bar. You must find a way to escape into the hostile wilderness, join with other escaped slaves and create. 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. Dark sun, including information about the encounters program and new rules from the dark sun campaign setting. Skip ahead to may 2014 dark sun campaign setting 4e finally. But, after many thousands of years, powerful mages found ways to gain power through draining the planets vitality. Download a pdf of all six dark sun characters this is dark sun week at dungeons master. Dark sun collectors guide morrus unofficial tabletop rpg news. The lifeshaping handbook is designed for use in any dark sun 3. Mike mearls was asked about 5e dark sun found here ama.
Thrikreen of athas 1995, by tim beach and dori hein, is a reference book for the dark sun line. These are races featured as monsters, even though they might be playable as. They were the original inhabitants of the world, and all human, demihuman, and humanoid races are descended from them. 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. The world of athas athas is an endless wasteland, yet it has a majestic and stark beauty. Sourcebooks rulebooks, adventures, and supplements for playing the game. Shattered lands the dark sun world of athas is arid and bleak, a wasteland with a handful of cities ruled by thousandyearold sorcererkings.
No wonder then that the mighty dragon of ur draxa and. It was released for msdos in a somewhat unfinished state in 1993 by strategic simulations, and later patched to a more workable version. A sun blasted, windscraped wasteland, athas is home to multitudes of the most horrifically mutated creatures youll ever encounter. Then in 1992, tsr started using a new q suffix to mark all of their adventure books. This adventure series was part of an impressive marketing campaign that showed wizards support for 4e at its height. Until recently, they were ruled by powerful sorcererkings, both tyrants and protectors. The 2e version of dark sun is far superior for a conversion. However, if an opposing party is able to defeat the party. Shattered lands on the pc, gamefaqs has 3 faqs game guides and walkthroughs. Over the past week there has been a great deal of discussion about the character sheets provided. Apr 18, 2020 the crimson sun scorches the life from anything that crawls or flies, and storms of sand scour the foliage from the barren ground.
Dark sun campaign setting 4e wizards of the coast dungeons. The third edition of the dark sun net handbook is finally out. Dark sun fury of the wastewalker begins wednesday, june 9. Whatever you do, do not use 4es version of dark sun. A once civilized paradise, athas, was based on awesome mental powers and the power of its wizard kings.
Im not a reddit native, but ive read enough good ideas, including many from reddit, and i wanted to share my work. Authors the authors of the many novels and sourcebooks. As a demihuman, a mul can become a multiclassed character in accordance with the multiclassed combinations table in dark sun boxed set. It contains a list of creatures and personalities found within the dark sun setting. A picture of bohemian ear spoons 4e dark sun collection in the. The crimson sun scorches the life from anything that crawls or flies, and storms of sand scour the foliage from the barren ground. Control over the 2e settings was largely handed off to official fan web sites, such as dark suns. Its been a few months of on and off work, but i am happy to present version 2. 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. In this hot and desolate land, not much is flourishing. 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.
The 4th edition setting places athas clearly within the world axis cosmology, but retains its traditional cosmological isolation. Other classes have been modified or clarified as to what is permitted for a dark sun setting. Lets take to the gorgeous, lush and sandy beaches of the utopian world of athas. I lay no claim to the art or many of the original ideas e. 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. The burnt world of athas dark sun campaign setting. I used 4es dark sun, and there are definitely problems with it. The first party to reach the end of the track obtains the rod of divining. A sunblasted, windscraped wasteland, athas is home to multitudes of the most horrifically mutated creatures youll ever encounter. The trove is the biggest open directory of rpg pdfs on the internet.
Not only did it include fiction for players to read. Finally, dark sun also innovated the role of fiction in a game world. Set on the desert world of athas, dark sun is about the struggle for survival. Instead powerful arcane users known as the sorcererkings drain the lifeforce. At their zenith, these wizards caused the sun to transform from a pleasant yellow glow to a raging crimson fireball on the horizon. This article explains how to safely get vitamin d from the sun. After he defeated the army in draj from the first game, you have to go on a journey to. The adventure begins in the great gladiatorial arena of the city state of tyr. 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. This time you prove four arbitrarily designated characters.
Download the dark sun players guide for special setting rules for characters. The paladin and sorcerer do not exist as player classes in dark sun. In particular, theres 53 groups of monsters, unique personalities plus their cohorts, 5 monster themes, and 12 hazards. As a result, the second dark sun adventure had a dsq1 prefix, even though it was a direct continuation of the storyline from freedom. 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. In 1990, the tsr higherups, worried about decreasing interest in dragonlance, decided they needed a major new campaign world.
Shattered lands is a turnbased roleplaying video game that takes place in the dungeons and dragons campaign setting of dark sun. After the battle the party are sent back to the slave pens to wait for their next match. Download the additional content pdf for the citystate of tyr. In the beginning of the game, the player controls a party of gladiators. In the bitter and desperate world of dark sun, psionics alone offer power without deep moral ramifications. The dark sun campaign setting was released in 1991. Then the world became a desert filled with strangely twisted dwarves, elves and superintelligent dragons. Please note that this is a work in progress, and also a work of heart. The dark sun campaign set introduces players to a savage world of. Dark sun 2 wake of the ravager is the sequel rpg called dark sun shattered lands. Athas, the world of dark sun, was once as pleasant as any other. Download dark sun campaign setting 4e pdf files tradownload.
Savage, exotic, and unforgiving, the world of athas is unique. Jul 12, 2018 characters in dark sun are different than those in other campaign settings. This site is recognized by wotc as the official dark sun site on the internet. But the force of nature that destroyed the caravan is under the malevolent control of the being known as the wastewalker, who will stop. Dark sun and why its great dungeons and dragons web dm duration. 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. The dark sun creature catalog is a 4th edition supplement released in august 17, 2010.