Since i am currently without an rl game, i have time and energy to try a pbp game again. Races of athas dark sun new player options for fifth. Characters in dark sun are different than those in other campaign settings. May 31, 2010 download a pdf of all six dark sun characters this is dark sun week at dungeons master.
At their zenith, these wizards caused the sun to transform from a pleasant yellow glow to a raging crimson fireball on the horizon. Dark souls 5e 2 running a dark souls campaign dark souls i s a grim, dark some may even say, grimdark setting. The adventure begins in the great gladiatorial arena of the city state of tyr. Please note that this is a work in progress, and also a work of heart. Psionics are allpervasive in athas, as almost every human, demihuman, and humanoid in the world is at least a wild talent. This race first appears in the 4th edition version of dark sun. Not because there are no good pf sheets out there, but because i wanted to include the heat exposure subsystem that the game will use, and because messing around in photoshop is fun.
But, after many thousands of years, powerful mages found ways to gain power through draining the planets vitality. Hey guys, so ive been working on an upcoming dark sun game, and among other things im creating custom character sheets. And while im not 100% set on anything yet, one of my players suggested we do a dark sun campaign. The dark sun campaign setting was released in 1991.
Its been a few months of on and off work, but i am happy to present version 2. Dark sun 5e tribal waters characters obsidian portal. These are races featured as monsters, even though they might be playable as. Obsidian portal allows you to create campaign websites for tabletop roleplaying games. Dark sun 5e players guide, comprehensive im not a reddit native, but ive read enough good ideas, including many from reddit, and i wanted to share my work. Until recently, they were ruled by powerful sorcererkings, both tyrants and protectors. Dark sun dungeon world characterscondensed sheet pdf dark sun dungeon world characterscondensed sheet docx if you like this dungeon world dark sun conversion, you may enjoy the dray compendium class or the dark sun dungeon world monsters. Dark sun is a setting where resources are scarce, magic is fearsome, and metal is extremely rare. Over the past week there has been a great deal of discussion about the character sheets provided.
Better manage your group and your campaign, and have a better game. It also provides everything dungeon masters need to run 4th edition dark sun campaigns or include dark sun elements in their homebrew campaigns. Partial page renderer enabled, because your brew is so large. From the first moments of dawn until the last twinkling of dusk, the crimson sun shimmers in the olivetinged sky like a fiery puddle of blood. 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. Since dark sun is not your typical campaign setting.
Athas, the world of dark sun, was once as pleasant as any other. Dark sun 2e box set campaign setting converted to 5e with house rules. Authors the authors of the many novels and sourcebooks. If you arent familiar with dark sun, its a hardcore advanced setting set in a dying world named athas thats mostly desert. The biggest change is adding psionics as a spell list, using existing or refluffed spells. The wind is like the blast of a furnace, offering no relief from the oppressive heat. Dark sun fury of the wastewalker begins wednesday, june 9. 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. Other classes have been modified or clarified as to what is permitted for a dark sun setting. Where other settings make arcane and divine magic the ubiquitous force and the source of fantastic elements, dark sun uses psionics. Ancient divides among the elven people resulted in three main subraces. Now the material is available as pdf in but my players and i had stopped playing 2e long since, 3e didnt see any dark sun official books, and even though there was a campaign setting book for 4e, the fourth wasnt my edition at all. Choose one of the two subraces presented below or one from another source.
Jul, 2017 i put down not and not, but that is only because i havent and likely will never get the chance to play in a dark sun 5e game i am the primary gm of my group, so i get to play very little, but that is not to say that i am opposed to it. From the first moments of dawn, the crimson sun beats down from an olive tinged sky. Jun 05, 20 i also had need for a condensed version where each character was only two pages. Sourcebooks rulebooks, adventures, and supplements for playing the game. Nov 07, 2019 also note that prestigitation can light any combustible material for light, and my character would have kept a few sticks for warmth at night, but lets say that my character didnt light anything as to not attract attention. 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 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. Feel free to provide feedback in this subreddit or in private message.
Ever since the dark sun setting its a thorn in my side. In addition to the common player character races bound in the players handbook, players can choose to play aarakocra, half. The paladin and sorcerer do not exist as player classes in dark sun. Download the dark sun players guide for special setting rules for characters. Most of my character generators are going back online. Nov 07, 2019 in character thread ic coyotecode dice roller v. Jul 12, 2018 characters in dark sun are different than those in other campaign settings. Jun 01, 2019 this gives me the opportunity to run a whole new campaign.
Finally, dark sun also innovated the role of fiction in a game world. As enchanted items will be somewhat more difficult to come by, there are new weapon traits available for discovery. Dark sun s popularity endured long after the setting was no longer supported, with a lively online community developing around it. 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. Download a pdf of all six dark sun characters this is dark sun week at dungeons master. List of dark sun modules and sourcebooks wikipedia.
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