Rajaat ruled the Pristine Tower no more. He was taken to the Steeple of Crystals and forced to use its arcane artifacts to make Borys into the Dragon.
About the PTDG
The Pristine Tower Development Group (PTDG) was started in 2020 by Jack Meyer and Adam Cieszlak.
Our mission is to build a harmonious and expansive collection of extended playable Dark Sun content for all editions of D&D based upon canon and popular fanon works of the past several decades. Since our start in December 2020, we have grown into the semi-independent publishing arm of Athas.org.
We are a strictly volunteer collective of writers, editors, game designers, artists, project managers, cartographers, and proofreaders who all share a passion for the Dark Sun setting.
Joining Us
Are you working on a project for Dark Sun and would like support in seeing it to completion? Would you like to be a part of a bigger team and see one of the unfinished projects of Athas.org be completed to a professional standard?
Come join us!
The only thing we ask of our membership is that they regularly contribute to our work, and help us keep our momentum going.
To find out more, or join us, contact Jack Meyer (@Neujack) or Robert Adducci (@Raddu) on the Arena Forum or Discord.
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.
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?
After several years of work and contributions by members of athas.org, the pristine tower project, and others in the community, we are pleased to announce an updated release of the DS3 core rules!
The latest version has the following changes:
updated easier to read layout
new organisational system with clickable table of contents links, and a more thorough index.
separate Player and DM Sections, and separate chapters for the timeline and inner planes respectively
new prologue discussing how to handle sensitive game topics with new generations of players
countless small refinements and expanded explanations/illustrations of rules and lore.
fully illustrated pages full of great art created by the Dark Sun community over the past 20 years
Join us, Sat March 2nd 4pm EST, in the Dark Sun Discord to meet and chat with the project managers behind the Pristine Tower Development group, as they talk about their latest and upcoming releases, and answer questions about previous releases and Athas.org articles
