The file you are downloading is a special package created by gamesnostalgia so that you can easily run this dos game on windows vista, 7 and 10, without any additional effort. Dark sun players handbook for the 5th edition of dungeons. Ancient wars have left vast swaths of the planet sterile. Teintez vos vitres 9 ans d experience garanti a vie nouveau look protegez vos enfants des uv. But the important thing about dark sun is it is postapocalypse, and mutations are a trope of that genre. The burnt world of athas dregoth ascending dark sun. Wizards on the other hand must utilize the life force of plants to cast spells. Many races were extinguished from athas during the cleansing wars.
With our numbers dwindling week after week i wasnt sure if we d need more than one table. With the casting of each spell, a defiler destroys a portion of the worlds ecosystem, rendering it dead and sterile. It has rules and advice for handling survival challenges, arena encounters, desert terrain, and adventure creation. They have turned celebrating into an art form, and elf song and dance is captivating and seductive to non. I honestly didnt think i d ever see this world in print again, but after a decade and half, wizards of the coast finally came through with a completely revitalized 4th edition. Mar 08, 2021 the dark sun boxed set 1991, by timothy b. This is athas, the world ofthe dark sun campaign setting, a dying.
Oct 31, 2011 the romeinspired citystate of tyr was detailed, with its gladiatorial area, scheming nobles, and many different layers of intrigue. The dragon king lies dead, earthquakes rock the land, and revolution spreads like wildfire across the tyr region. May 18, 2020 dark sun is a lot like star wars to me. In an effort to provide a complete ruleset, ive constructed the rules for equipment and coinage as concise continue reading equipment and currency in athas dark sun. For all effects related to race, a mul is considered a dwarf.
The third edition of the dark sun net handbook is finally out. I cannot recommend it for new players due to the generally intense difficulty especially for good aligned characters, but for veterans who understand the mechanics and want something shying away from traditional fantasy but is still dnd, this is a good choice. Though the races of the dark sun campaign setting resemble those of other campaign. Dark sun campaign setting expanded and revised edition 2e a decade has passed since the age of heroes began. Rogues are common amongst merchant houses as astute guides, shrewd bargainers, and smugglers.
Every citystate has a thieves guild, and they often deal with wizards no questions asked, who pay fees not only for illegal components but for protection and anonymity. Races of athas dark sun new player options for fifth. 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. Shattered lands the dark sun world of athas is arid and bleak, a wasteland with a handful of cities ruled by thousandyearold sorcererkings. Fury of the wastewalker gives players and dms their first taste of athas, the world of dark sun. Equipment and currency in athas dark sun player guide for. Since athas has a limited supply of metal, equipment and coinage work very differently in a dark sun campaign as detailed below. They have turned celebrating into an art form, and elf song and dance is captivating and seductive to nonelves. Similar to kip, although a bit tastier and usually slightly more expensive.
Sold in dried strips, kipmeat jerky is rather tasty. Set on the desert world of athas, dark sun is about the struggle for survival. I feel like dark sun would not be a very good fit for 5e. 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. Stats for these monsters are presented in the terrors of athas pdf on. The defiler is a sorcerer who activates tremendous magical energy without regard to its effect on the environment. Each character has some flavour unique to the dark sun setting, including character themes. Apocalyptic magic, ancient dragon sorcererkings, and a desertdrenched world where survival is a strugglethese are the guideposts of dark sun. Apr 29, 2018 the dark sun campaign setting 2010, by richard baker, robert j. Take a look back at one of the greatest box sets ever. Dark sun book series by multiple authors includes books the verdant passage, the crimson legion, the amber enchantress, and several more. As an action, touch a creature to transfer either a disease or. The pdf files were retrieved from other sources, i scanned 0, all i did was compile what i owned. The archive includes the required emulator dosbox and its already configured.
I will mostly draw from the original boxed set version of dark sun, though i will freely pull from the revised boxed set, the 4th edition books, and any random bits that i think will fit the world of athas. Jun 01, 2019 in dark sun, this means an arcane caster must be either a defiler or a preserver. The birth of dark sun, a world of apocalypse prime. In this setting, some races dont exist, and the dwarf might instead be a hairless devotee to the sun, the halfling a stealthy cannibalistic hunter, and any wizard likely hides her spellcasting lest a mob hang her for defiling what precious life clings to the earth. Clerics draw power from the elemental planes, not gods. Bloodsand arena free rpg day, june 2010 marauders of the dune sea august 2010 footnotes this page was last edited on 1 february 2021, at 20. You must find a way to escape into the hostile wilderness, join with other escaped slaves and create. 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. Please note that this is a work in progress, and also a work of heart. Until recently, they were ruled by powerful sorcererkings, both tyrants and protectors. This compilation was created for people like me who own most of the sw game materials who really cant carry all of them to every session. You will need the players handbook ph, dungeon masters guide dmg, monster manual mm, and the expanded psionics handbook xph to make use of the material in this book.
Muls, for example, are just as vulnerable to effects that affect dwarves as their dwarf ancestors are, and they can use magic items that are only usable by dwarves. List of dark sun modules and sourcebooks wikipedia. In 1990, the tsr higherups, worried about decreasing interest in dragonlance, decided they needed a major new campaign world. Its set in the postapocalyptic world of athas, which is a desert wasteland brought to ruin by magic. 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. It is a world where magic drains the very essence of life. Dark sun campaign setting pdf version rpg item version. It was released for msdos in a somewhat unfinished state in 1993 by strategic simulations, and later patched to a more workable version. Whether slave or free, elves prefer to keep elven names. About us we believe everything in the internet must be free. Feel free to provide feedback in this subreddit or in private message. Dark sun featured an innovative metaplot, influential art work, dark themes, and a genrebending take on traditional fantasy roleplaying.
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. Free downloads for the dark sun campaign setting, including forest maker, mauraders of nibenay, and psionic artifacts of athas. The dark sun setting isnt a place for your typical bearded dwarf with a love of beer and gems, cherubic halfling, or charging knights and gnome wizards. Athas, the world of dark sun, was once as pleasant as any other. Dark suns is a setting that is wildly different than traditional fantasy, great for adventures where the odds are not at all stacked towards heroes. Dragons game, one that broke free of the traditional medieval. All you need to do is uncompress the zip or 7z file into your games folder e. 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. Many monsters, prestige classes, spells or magic items from the core rulebooks simply are not available in athas. Works really well for that feeling of ancient terrors, decadent kings, and a brutal land that swallows up entire civilizations. To transfer an item to another char acter, select that. Oct 10, 2009 its been a few months of on and off work, but i am happy to present version 2.
In it, the bad guys have already won and consolidated their power. It also provides everything dungeon masters need to run 4th edition dark sun campaigns or include dark sun elements in their homebrew campaigns. The city of tyr has broken free of tyranny, though turmoil still holds the world in its merciless grip. Continuing my series on dark sun, its time to dig into the currency and equipment of athas. In this hot and desolate land, not much is flourishing. A dragons hoard of all the tabletop rpgs you need from dungeons and dragons, pathfinder, world of darkness, to shadowrun all available for free to download.
Druids and rangers are empowered by the unseen spirits of the land. Computer games set in the dark sun world were among the best available at the time. 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. Athas with this stunning image of a dark sun sorcerer queen. Dark sun series book list in order, box sets or omnibus editions, and companion titles. In this setting, some races dont exist, and the dwarf might instead be a hairless devotee to the sun, the halfling a stealthy cannibalistic hunter, and any wizard likely hides her. See more ideas about fantasy art, fantasy, dungeons and dragons. Harmless, tasteless slugs that store water inside their bodies. But i have been disappointed at times when it comes to the products that are attempting to present those ideas.
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