Fifteen billion years from now, earth is a dying planet, its skies darkened by the ashes of burnedout galaxies, its molten core long cooled. Dark is the sun by philip jose farmer overdrive rakuten. The dark sun world of athas is arid and bleak, a wasteland with a handful of cities ruled by thousandyearold sorcererkings. Dark is the sun deyv, a member of a primitive tribe, ventures into the wilderness to find a wife.
Our filtering technology ensures that only latest dark sun campaign setting 4e pdf files are listed. 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. Get your kindle here, or download a free kindle reading app. The third edition of the dark sun net handbook is finally out. On the way, his soul egg, an object all people wear around their necks that is believed to house their souls, is stolen. Until recently, they were ruled by powerful sorcererkings, both tyrants and protectors.
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. It opens up with a fight with a multitude of monsters in an arena. Pathfinder character sheets for dark sun since my upcoming ds game will be played with pathfinder, i made some custom character sheets. Set on the desert world of athas, dark sun is about the struggle for survival. Beneath a crimson sun lie wastelands of majestic desolation and cities of cruel splendor where life hangs by a thread.
But, after many thousands of years, powerful mages found ways to gain power through draining the planets vitality. Having all wizards defile is a huge disadvantage especially in a desert world. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Please refer to the main dark sun article for further information. Download dark sun campaign setting 4e pdf free shared files from downloadjoy and other worlds most popular shared hosts. Shattered lands is a turnbased computer roleplaying game that takes place in the dungeons and dragons campaign setting of dark sun. The adventure begins in the great gladiatorial arena of the city state of tyr.
Sadly, none of these settings were very successful compared to greyhawk. This site is recognized by wotc as the official dark sun site on the internet. This series contains the radiant classics, dark sun. Then the world became a desert filled with strangely twisted dwarves, elves and superintelligent dragons. Shattered lands, and take place in or around the citystate of tyr. You must find a way to escape into the hostile wilderness, join with other escaped slaves and create. In part 1 of iantos tomb, a runaway gladiator and parttime slave hunter cross swords, forever entwining their fates on this savage desert planet. Dark side of the moon d20 dungeons and dragons tshirt. Dark is the sun is set so far in the future the universe is starting to collapse in on itself. Characters in dark sun are different than those in other campaign settings. Download the dark sun players guide for special setting rules for characters. Dont think of it as a library index, think of it as a street filled with bookstores and you have to talk to each shopkeeper. Athas, the world of dark sun, was once as pleasant as any other.
Shattered lands the dark sun world of athas is arid and bleak, a wasteland with a handful of cities ruled by thousandyearold sorcererkings. Dark sun not a homebrew, but excellent free material for running a d20 dark. After he defeated the army in draj from the first game, you have to go on a journey to. Dark sun featured an innovative metaplot, influential art work, dark themes, and a genrebending take on traditional fantasy roleplaying. Please refer to the main dark sun article for further information prism pentad troy denning the verdant passage october 1991, isbn 1560761210. All content included on our site, such as text, images, digital downloads and other, is the property of its content suppliers and protected by us and international laws. Download the dark sun players guide for special setting rules for. As written your rule gives no incentive to remain defiler.
The sorcererking kalak is dead and tyr is a free citystate but the future of athas beyond that is up to the players. Jul 12, 2018 characters in dark sun are different than those in other campaign settings. Da archive 2016 amended jan 3 2017 this is a compilation of most of the pdf share threads and the rpg generals threads from 2016. Shop dark side of the moon d20 dungeons and dragons tshirts designed by carlhuber as well as other dungeons and dragons merchandise at teepublic.
Dray are a race of intelligent draconic humanoids created by dregoth, the undead dragon king of giustenal. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading dark is the sun. In his reddit ama today mike mearls was asked by jesterraiin and now, the question. Dark sun world books collection of books set in on the world of athas.
Not because there arent any good sheets available online, but because i wanted a a sheet that incorporates psionics from dreamscarred press better than the official psionic sheet and b something that. 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. It takes place in the dungeons and dragons campaign setting of dark sun, on a harsh desert world named athas. Unleash your imagination into a vast, savage world, sunscorched and windscraped. Slaves are given human names while free halfgiants will take names based off the adopted culture. Sources to find more material and information on dark sun. Link is key worded for dark sun this is athas athas savage, primal landscape is the result of long centuries of ecological and magical abuses. In this hot and desolate land, not much is flourishing. A once civilized paradise, athas, was based on awesome mental powers and the power of its wizard kings.
In the beginning of the game, the player controls a party of gladiators. You can choose from a halfgiants, halflingow, human and mystical thrikeens. The dragons crown adventure is the exciting climax of the freedom module series in one final journey of epic proportions, the player characters must defend everything they have worked so hard to build. You will need the players handbook ph, dungeon masters guide dmg, monster manual mm, and the expanded psionics handbook xph to.
The game takes place in the fictional land of athas, a dying and hostile desert world. Turn the bottom edge under by onehalf inch and then another half inch and pin flat. Now humans control all the cities and human magic is stripping the environment of its life force. Mistrealm dungeons and dragons history dark sun campaign setting dark sun is a setting based on the harsh desert world of athas, that draws heavy inspiration from novels like dune and the barsoom series, which was once a lush planet teeming with life, but which has since been stripped of its fertility by uncontrolled use of defiling magic, although a small offshoot of. Through his experience as a champion of rajaat and an advanced being, dregoth came to believe that the dragon was the next step in human evolution, and created the. 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. At their zenith, these wizards caused the sun to transform from a pleasant yellow glow to a raging crimson fireball on the horizon. If you want to learn more about athas, see particularly, life on athas, but bare in mind some of the background information is post freedom or you can download. As a rule, ignore the race mechanics in the dark sun guide, except where we tell you not to. The crimson sun scorches the life from anything that crawls or flies, and storms of sand scour the foliage from the barren ground.
This time you prove four arbitrarily designated characters. Freedom is being threatened once again by an insidious new enemy, one who controls the use of psionics throughout the dying world of athas. Time to play a fantasy, postapocalyptic, turnbased, licensed. Nov 03, 2014 in his reddit ama today mike mearls was asked by jesterraiin and now, the question. Dark sun 2 wake of the ravager is the sequel rpg called dark sun shattered lands. The story is a continuation of the events in its predecessor, dark sun.
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