Dark sun features a number of important distinguishing features that differentiate it from other dungeons and dragons campaign settings. Interms of an adventure, you could ofcourse convert one of the older ones. Posted in setting over 4 years ago the following plot hooks are meant for use in a dark sun campaign. Until recently, they were ruled by powerful sorcererkings, both tyrants and protectors. From the grim and dark world of ravenloft, to the noble and chivalrous dragonlance, they span all manner of interests and themes in order to provide as broad an attraction to players and dms of all strips. 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. Crystal spheres may contain multiple worlds and are navigable. The trove is the biggest open directory of rpg pdfs on the internet. I got an egalley of this book through netgalleydotcom. With new creatures that are playable and new monsters to fight, your campaign will be unlike any one ever experienced before. These collections include various image, ebook and software archives. Neverwinter campaign setting 4e wizards of the coast. What is a good setting for a dark fantasy campaign dnd.
Posted in setting over 4 years ago athasian plot hooks. Return to the first fantasy roleplaying epic set in the legendary dragonlance game world of krynn. Exploring themes of slavery and survival, dark sun releases. Oneclick unsubscribe later if you dont enjoy the newsletter. Dark sun campaign setting 4e wizards of the coast dungeons. Druid circles druid characters have access to the following primal paths. Dark sun campaign setting 4e explore a savage, wondrous world. Enter the name of the series to add the book to it. 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. Please note that this is a work in progress, and also a work of heart. 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. Characters in dark sun are different than those in other campaign settings. 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.
However the dark sun 2010 only made minor changes to the plans. But now, some reliable source has confirmed that dl also got a green light to 4e. Download the dark sun players guide for special setting rules for characters. Set on the desert world of athas, dark sun is about the struggle for survival. The dark sun campaign setting 2010, by richard baker, robert j. Oct 30, 2015 this week on the campaign trail i wanted to take a look at what support is available to run the dragonlance saga in fifth edition. The common knowledge section now includes a series field. Good job that this 4th edition dark sun adventure is so good then. Step into a world of gothic and egyptian horror and adventure, set in the campaign setting of ravenloft.
However, every some 5th adventures come with notes on how to adapt the adventure to different settings, dark sun included. We currently host various large scale collections amounting to hundreds of thousands of files. The setting essentially rewrites traditional lore, most of the old standard anyways playable. 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 the presentation, but well too lazy for that now. For those of us hoping to see official support for dragonlance or another setting, we have only been provided with limited resources. Mycampaignsetting 4e campaign setting mycampaignsetting and the following lines after the categories.
It also introduces the githzerai, minotaur, shardmind, and wilden races, the runepriest and seeker classes, and rules for creating hybrid characters. The poster maps are divided up into several pages, and a narrow strip of all cardstock sheets is cut off at the right side. I believe dragon age also has an offical ttrpg booksystem. Then the world became a desert filled with strangely twisted dwarves, elves and superintelligent dragons. Matthew mercer and his team have created an expansive book with. Playing a druid in a dark sun campaign is the same as it is in a fifth edition campaign, except with a few changes. The brutal climate and the oppressive rule of the sorcererkings have created a corrupt, bloodthirsty, and desperate culture that leaves little room for chivalric virtues common to fantasy settings hence why. The dark sun campaign set introduces players to a savage world of.
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 for a group of dungeon and dragons dnd. An interactive atlas devoted to the dungeons and dragons campaign setting of darksun. In 1990, in anticipation of that battlesystem skirmishes. Jun 01, 2019 to play a defiler sorcerer in a dark sun campaign, make the following changes. Dark sun featured an innovative metaplot, influential art work, dark themes, and a genrebending take on traditional fantasy roleplaying. Pages that are meant to organize, document, or detail the unique settings of a campaign should include the following line added after the breadcrumb. It also provides everything dungeon masters need to run 4th edition dark sun campaigns or include dark sun elements in their homebrew campaigns. The book introduces the psionic power source, and the psionic classes ardent, battlemind, monk, and psion.
Now humans control all the cities and human magic is stripping the environment of its life force. User summary the pdf version compiles all the box contents into a single pdf. This article is part of a series that examines a release from 2e dark sun and sees how and if it can be integrated with the new 4e version of the world setting. Mycampaignsetting setting you may want to add descriptive pages explaining how similar pages are integrated into the campaign setting, such as pages that list links to all available races or classes, or even detail variant rules applied to the campaign. This is athas, the world of the dark sun campaign setting, a dying planet of savagery and desolation. Common knowledge series advanced dungeons and dragons 2nd edition. Dark sun campaign setting expanded and revised edition 2e. Posted in setting over 5 years ago in the early 90s a set of dark sun art prints were given to game store owners to promote the unique art of dark sun. At 1st level, you can read and write any language that you can speak. 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. But the best of them is the losttohistory dark sun. List of dark sun modules and sourcebooks wikipedia. 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 magicians called. Fiend folio, deities and demigods, the manual of the planes, oriental adventures, unearthed arcana, survival guides, etc.
Review of dark sun campaign setting rpgnet d20 rpg game index. To create a series or add a work to it, go to a work page. Thanks to generous and dedicated backers, you can continue to explore the world of vinramar through features and updates on this page. The dark sun setting has never had enough adventures. A once civilized paradise, athas, was based on awesome mental powers and the power of its wizard kings. The main goal of essentials is to serve as a starting point for new players, but it offers new variations, power options and character builds not found in the previous books. The blistering sun beating down on our heroes in the new world of the datk sun. But for the lancers the dark sun announcement was like a cold bucket of water on their hopes. But tbh you could jump into the campaign at level 5 and not miss much, chapter 1 is probably the most lack luster part of this great adventure. Dragon kings recently wotc rereleased the dark sun setting for 4e. 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. The dark sun campaign setting, byrichard baker, introduces a wonderful new place to start playing the game dungeons and dragons.
This pack of entrancing horrors includes ravenloft. A brief history of the development of dark sun dark sun product line lists. Nov 03, 2014 in his reddit ama today mike mearls was asked by jesterraiin and now, the question. The only sorcerous origin available to sorcerers in a dark sun campaign setting is the defiler detailed below. A brief history of the development of dark sun dark sun product line lists dark sun product line categorical list not yet.
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