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Lost Cities of the Trembling Plains now available for download!

Posted by Adam Cieszlak 3 months ago

Athas.org and the Pristine Tower Development Group are very pleased to announce the long-awaited release of Lost Cities of the Trembling Plains!

Download it today and discover:

  • The geography, history, and cultures of the region known as the Forgotten North.

  • Descriptions for the five strange seasons experienced by residents of the region.

  • Area descriptions and maps for several major settlements, including both settlements of the living and ruins occupied only by the undead.

  • Player’s Guides to key cities and settlements in the region.

https://athas.org/products/lcottp

Rich Baker on DS4

Posted by flip 7 months ago

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.

Episodes 210-212 of Dark Sun: To Tame a Land podcast are live.

Posted by Raddu 7 months ago

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!

The Athasian Cartographer's Guild is now Reborn!

Posted by Raddu 8 months ago

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/