The Burnt World of Athas

The first time it happened, Kareth thought he was dying. Which, in the wastes, meant very little. The sun had already taken his water, his strength, and most of his thoughts. It burned overhead like a merciless eye, waiting for him to stop crawling. Sand filled his mouth. His tongue had swollen so badly it felt like a second throat choking him from within. He remembered falling. He did not remember getting back up. But something inside him refused to stay still. It wasn’t courage. It wasn’t hope. Those things had dried up days ago. This was something uglier, something desperate. A clawing, blind instinct that pushed against the inside of his skull. Then the world moved. Not the wind. Not the dunes. Something else.

The sand before him shifted, not by breeze, but by intent. It trembled, then parted, as if something beneath it recoiled from him. For a moment, just a moment, the dunes revealed a darker line beneath the surface.

Moisture.

Kareth’s mind seized on it, and the pressure inside his skull surged.

He screamed, but the sound never left his lips. It exploded outward instead.

The sand burst aside in a violent spray, exposing a shallow seam of damp earth. Not water. Not salvation. But enough.

He dug like an animal. Like something worse than an animal.

When he finally collapsed beside the muddy trench, clutching the dampness to his cracked lips, he realized he was laughing.

Or crying.

Or both.

A new psionic power - empower tattoo - for use in your AD&D Dark Sun games.

The FFN Offcuts are material that didn’t make it into the revised version of Faces of the Forgotten North for one reason or another. Today’s material covers the 2e version of an artifact: the Landguard, it’s associated items - the Thrones of the Landguard and the Chariot of the Landguard, and a number of new psionic powers.

New powers for your AD&D psionicist.

Life Siphon, a new psionic power for your AD&D psionicist.

A repost of articles from the Lawful Stupid RPG blog, this one featuring some alternate AD&D/2e psionics rules.

A new psionic power, capible of stalling the aging process.

One of the most flavorful aspects of psionics in Dark Sun is Mindscape Combat. Published novels and short stories written in the Dark Sun setting used a fantastic “mindscape” where psionic combat occurs.

Trained in the way by both his parents as a young dwarf, Zxavier is a purist of mind and thought.

Tramatic Turbulence is a High-Science psionic power created from one of Troy Denning’s novels for AD&D 2nd edition rules.