The Burnt World of Athas

A number of quests suitable to spark your imagination.

For today’s clairvoyant missive in the name of the Athasian Survey Project, I bring news of my journey south along the coast of an area sometimes described as “The Forgotten North”.

We recently added a new Files section to the Resources menu of the site. This is a fantastic addition to the site allowing us to have a repository of content that is not a product, but instead a small standalone downloadable resource file such as maps, handouts, etc. These files can be tied to specific products so if you’re in the Freedom product you’ll see associated files for download.

In the Ivory Triangle boxed set, they had these cool card handouts with player and DM summaries for Gulg and Nibenay. I always wished that they had them for the other cities. So I made some.

Join the Traveller as he visits Silt Side and Eldarrich Island. A reimagining of the original series (posted on the Dark Sun Facebook group) with rewritten entries and more locations, all still with the intention of highlighting rarely visited areas on the Revised 2nd edition map.

The mainstream of legends about the Temple of the Sands came from Gulg. It seemed their belief that the temple was a place literally built by the moon, Guthay. I believe this is due to the strange material of which it is made, though I cannot be sure.

Join the Traveller as he visits Trade Nest and the village of Ral. A reimagining of the original series (posted on the Dark Sun Facebook group) with rewritten entries and more locations, all still with the intention of highlighting rarely visited areas on the Revised 2nd edition map.

Join the Traveller as he visits Trade Nest and the village of Ral. A reimagining of the original series (posted on the Dark Sun Facebook group) with rewritten entries and more locations, all still with the intention of highlighting rarely visited areas on the Revised 2nd edition map.

Join the traveller as he reaches Saragar. A reimagining of the original series (posted on the Dark Sun Facebook group) with rewritten entries and more locations, all still with the intention of highlighting rarely visited areas on the Revised 2nd edition map.

Lynne Abbey introduced the concept of client villages for the city-state of Urik.This article brings us details of Tyr’s client villages.

Join the traveller as he crosses the Scorched Plateau. A reimagining of the original series (posted on the Dark Sun Facebook group) with rewritten entries and more locations, all still with the intention of highlighting rarely visited areas on the Revised 2nd edition map.

This is a new series of articles designed to provide DMs with encounter or location ideas to add flavor to their campaigns. This particular article discusses various ways to characterise and describe your taverns, inns, and similar locations in Dark Sun, to enable DMs a way of using that trope while still maintaining the Dark Sun atmosphere.

A reimagining of the original series (posted on the Dark Sun Facebook group) with rewritten entries and more locations, as he visits rarely visited areas on the Revised 2nd edition map.

Join the traveller as he crosses the Barrier Wastes. A reimagining of the original series (posted on the Dark Sun Facebook group) with rewritten entries and more locations, all still with the intention of highlighting rarely visited areas on the Revised 2nd edition map.

Random generators are always nice to have for DMs that need some inspiration or some name. Here are some Dark Sun specific generators from around the web.

A reimagining of the original series (posted on the Dark Sun Facebook group) with rewritten entries and more locations, all still with the intention of highlighting rarely visited areas on the Revised 2nd edition map. This episode features Spoil and the Glowing Desert.

Originally posted on the Ur-Braxa website.

A reimagining of the original series (posted on the Dark Sun Facebook group) with rewritten entries and more locations, all still with the intention of highlighting rarely visited areas on the Revised 2nd edition map.

A remake of the original series (posted on the Dark Sun Facebook group) with rewritten entries and more locations, still with the intention of highlighting rarely visited areas on the Revised 2nd edition map.