No.226967
It's time for a thread for the true best D&D setting- motherfucking DARK SUN.
>tyrannical sorcerer kings
>badass bug people
>cannibal halflings
>elves are wandering tribes of thieves, bandits and con men who run across the desert instead of relying on beasts
>no pesky divine gods
>element worship
>slavery is everywhere
>arcane magic uses life energy and taints the land
>badass psionics everywhere
>half-dwarves
One of my most successful and longest running campaigns I've ever ran was a Dark Sun game. I created 4 playlists, each at least 90+ minutes long in total of setting appropriate background music, made laminated maps of it for my players to use, have hoarded every publication of it I could find, even bought and read a couple of the novels.
No.226969
commencing dark sun art dump
No.226996
how about some athasian monsters
No.227001
Athas is basically a Dire Australia.
No.227015
some of the sorcerer kings here
No.227018
Why do all these arts have metal equipment? I thought metal was rare on Athas?
No.227019
>>227018
whoever is pictured is likely to be a significant hero or wealthy person
otherwise, it might look like its metal, but it is obsidian, stone, or bone.
No.227036
that was all my folders of all official art. Now I have a folder of just misc dark sun art, some of it is official, some if it is just art that I thought looked like it belonged in Dark Sun.
No.227050
and that's it for all the art in my Dark Sun folder.
I could post pdfs now if people wanted them.
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No.227061
>>227055
Starting with 2nd ed.
Couple of the pdfs in my folder are too big for ∞chan though, including the core campaign setting books.
Should I make a mega with all my Dark Sun pdfs in it?
No.227079
Dark Sun is great. Whenever my players start fucking with planar magic, I always have Dark Sun on my table of planewalking mishaps. Whenever I make a new setting, it's always got a little Dark Sun in it.
No.227112
so the whole setting is a giant desert hell? how do people get food?
No.227114
>>227001
that 5th pic is a cool monster.
what does it do?
No.227147
>>227112
Yes, it's a post-apocalyptic world where unfettered arcane magic destroyed the environment.
People fight for food and other resources, so just survival is a challenge.
No.227183
>>227112
Water is a big problem.
Also, there are lots of insects that don't need much water, so humans have to eat insects, I guess.
I never really understood Dark Sun Ecology.
No.227217
>>227112
The whole planet isn't desert hell, just most of it. There are mud flats and some jungles. Places that get some moisture raise crops. People in the desert tend to raid others for their water. The city states have wells. There are oasis here and there.
No.227242
>peruse art dump
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>no bitching hat
Son I am disappoint.
No.227250
>>227061
I'd definitely appreciate a mega.
No.227705
>>227114
Its called a floating mantle. They're giant jellyfish-esque creatures that are giant balloons of a lighter-than-air gas that burst into a fiery explosion when killed because the gas within them is flammable.
They mainly can be found over and along the silt sea.
>>227112
>>227183
Water is a big problem, but there's still wells and fertile land. It rains once every decade or so in most regions. Up in the mountains, the apty named Forest Ridge its quite wet, get high enough into the mountains and it'll even snow…sometimes.
There's even a Sea somewhere on Athas, though it is the Last Sea (as it is called).
>>227250
Dark Sun folder is uploading.
I realize I'm missing some pdfs from Athas.org and other sources that I used to have, but my Dark Sun folder still contains most Dark Sun material to be found on the web.
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No.227720
>>227705
>>227718
Thanks a lot my man.
No.227754
>>227718
Magnificent. Nicely done, anon.
No.227850
>>227705
DARK SUN = HARD FUN
No.228039
Dark Sun is my favorite thing to come out of D&D (with Planescape being a close second). Reading the books and boxed sets is actually interesting, nowadays reading most settings my mind gets rebellious and I just scan and look for important bits, but with Athas the actual history, politics, and especially geography was truly engaging.
Dark Sun is the single greatest setting to run any kind of hex crawl or exploration-based game in. Not only that, but each and every one of the City States could serve an entire campaign. It's a magnificent piece of world building, and I don't think it's ever been beaten.
No.228165
Found some more art. Most of it is by one dude…and sort of deviantart tier terrible.
Sharing anyway, some of it is half decent.
Particularly the banners of the Merchant Houses, though not made by the same guy as most of the other art.
No.228171
Any frenchfags want to translate this for me?
I don't want to rely on google translate for this.
>http://siltskimmer.org/_misc/lexique_fr.html
No.228176
Weapons now.
These aren't so bad.
No.228187
>Wizards closed down their old forums
>as a result shit tons of decent fan-made Dark Sun material has been lost forever
Why
No.228211
I found pdfs of the Prism Pentad novels.
I've read the first three- very good. Gives a lot of cool insight into the setting. Learned a lot of badass things.
Elves in tribes are named after the first interesting thing they do after they learn to run, before this they are all called "little one."
The entire series will be added to the mega >>227718
No.228429
Wanted a quick reference for character alignment and water distribution for the players in the Dark Sun game I'm running, so I just copied it straight from the 2e setting book and made a word doc.
Also uploaded to the mega.
No.228436
>me from 2 years ago sorted 8 hours of music into 4 contextual playlists for Dark Sun
I'm pretty sure I did that when I was hyped as fuck up on adderall.
But that makes sense. I also remember having outlines of more music to sort to add to the playlists.