The Burnt World of Athas

Another repost article from Richard Baker. This one talks about using Dragonborn in Dark Sun 4e, and the Athasian twist placed on the core race.

Like most of Rich’s articles, he talks about several different subjects in the original, and we’ve edited this down to just the DS content. You can find the original in the internet archives.

A repost of the DS4 design posts. Rich teases a bit about how the core PHB material will remain more relevant than in earlier DS editions.

Rich has a pattern of addressing several topics in his blog postings. We’ve elided the non-DS specific content from this one. The original can be found in the internet archive.

Another in our DS4 designer diary reposts, this one comes from Rich Baker.

Originally retrieved from archive.org

Athas.org is given a Monster Manual exclusive preview, the Thri-Kreen.

This is part of a series of reposted blog articles from designers of Dark Sun 4th edition. These articles have been scattered through various reorganizations on Wizards’ site, and are now hard to find, or have vanished completely. We are collecting them here with permission from the authors.

Today’s entry comes from Rich Baker, and was originally posted on a Wizards Community blog. It’s since been swallowed by the dunes, but the web archive can be seen here.

This is the first of a series of reposted blog articles from designers of Dark Sun 4th edition. These articles have been scattered through various reorganizations on Wizards’ site, and are now hard to find, or have vanished completely. We are collecting them here with permission from the authors.

This article was originally posted by Rodney Thompson, September 14, 2009. You can find the original here.

Thri-kreen stalk the athasian wastes, using every advantage they have, from their ancestors wisdom to their own psionic powers.

Below are racial feats and utility powers suitable for thri-kreen in your 4th edition D&D game.

An earthen sandcrafter brings strange crystal statues to the Oba’s domain.

After the event of the Prism Pentad, the Sorcerer-King Andropinis has fallen, or has he?

The gap between the Stormclaw and Black Spine Mountains is some fifteen miles wide, and those who have never been there must wonder why the route through is termed a ‘pass’, or why Nibenay bothers to maintain a fort to guard the road.

As dawn broke over the distant Black Spine Mountains, we stripped the dead sand devils of their weapons and armour – their iron blades alone would more than pay for the cargo I had defiled – and dragged their corpses out into the desert a couple of hundred yards from the road.

Niklas once again explores rumors of an ascendant being, this time among the ssurrans of the Scortched Plateau.

This is a May of the Dead post, part of a Blog Carnival hosted by The Going Last Podcast. In this post Geneome discusses converting the AD&D 2nd edition Dead Lands Net Project to 4e.

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

The mountains had grown from a blurred, uneven line on the horizon to a recognisable part of the landscape by the time the sun sank beneath the western horizon.

This is a May of the Dead post, part of a a Blog Carnival hosted by The Going Last Podcast. As you may surmise the May of the Dead post has to do with undead, in this post The Wanderer, an Athasian who is famous for exploring the mysteries of the Dark Sun world tracks down Hak'Trin, rare undead thri-kreen.

A battle in the salt flats between two athasian priests of opposing elements. AD&D 2nd edition spell stats.

An assortment of weapons used by the birdmen from the Sands of Athas netzine for AD&D 2nd edition.

The skimmer’s crew took the news surprisingly well. Neren and Enamdis called a brief halt and gathered them together below the quarterdeck to explain what was likely chasing us and to make preparations for a possible night attack.

A part of The Sands of Athas netzine, Perilous Pages: Spellbooks and Scrolls Under the Dark Sun discusses the unique role of spellbooks on Athas.