Rich Baker has been doing a retrospective on his time working on Dungeons and Dragons, in celebration of it’s 50th anniversary. He’s recently posted about the development of Dark Sun 4e, which includes the origins of what would eventually become the core 5e “Background” character pillar.
Watch The Brutal History of D&D’s Dark Sun by Exits Examined on Youtube.
Episode 210: Marauders of Nibenay, Part 1
Our heroes are caught between opposing forces and old misdeeds as a fresh threat arises in Nibenay. Their decisions will shape the fate of their home - and their lives - for many years to come…
Episode 211: Marauders of NIbenay Part 2
Cataclysm strikes the city-state of Nibenay! With their world crumbling around them, our heroes struggle to survive amidst the chaos.
Episode 212: Marauders of Nibenay Part 3
Deep in Nibenay’s Forbidden City, our heroes struggle to reach the Shadow-King’s citadel. But first they must face the sorcerer-monarch’s templar wives and roaming undead horrors!
Greetings fellow wanderers!
After several years in the making, I’m pleased to finally announce the Athasian Cartographer’s Guild website is now reborn, thanks to the incredible efforts of @greyorm and the Pristine Tower dev team!
For those not familiar with the site, since 2000 this has been the most expansive source of collected canon and fanon geography for Athas and Dark Sun. And now the site and its maps have been comprehensively updated to better serve its purpose and help DMs and players explore the whole world.
Features: -Entirely new structure which works across all sizes of computers and devices -An upgraded planetary map with carefully constructed proportions and scales. -New vector-based high detail maps for nearly all the map tiles covering the original revised map, plus the west coast of the neighbouring Anattan continent. -A new scheme for encouraging aspiring mapmakers to join us.
Come visit the our humble guild again for the first time! https://ds.daegmorgan.net/
A new episode of Bone, Stone, & Obsidian is up! In this one Jesse and Robert Talk about Templars.
Greg has dropped another set of “Red Sun Characters”no as tokens for VTTs.
Red Sun Characters 2 token set
Red Sun Characters token set
You can get this Dark Sun World of Athas shirt on Amazon.
Token artist Greg Bruni has made some “Red Sun” top down tokens for VTTs. Check them out. Greg Bruni’s Red Sun Tokens
I’m pleased to announce that our newest anthology of adventures, entitled Adventures in the Dead Lands, is available for free download! Come explore all the various regions of the Dead Lands with 14 unique adventures set to a wide range of levels. There are also rules within handling the practical aspects of adventuring in the lands, as well as rules for creating undead PCs (the Unbound). Are your players ready for the challenge?
To Tame a Land Episode 206: Merchant House of Amketch Part 4 With their enemies revealed, now our heroes face the consequences of uncovering the truth. They will pay the price for their deeds in blood and fire. https://cast.athas.org/podcasts/to-tame-a-land/episodes/206-merchant-house-of-amketch-part-4