What if Athasian gnomes had survived the Cleansing Wars?
What If is a series of articles examining how the Dark Sun setting might be different if a single aspect were changed.
This week, we look at how Athas might be different if the gnomes - much like the lizardfolk of the Last Sea - had survived the Cleansing Wars.
What if moongates were more common, but were dangerous to use?
What If is a series of articles examining how the Dark Sun setting might be different if a single aspect were changed.
Moongates are a concept introduced in the 4e Dark Sun Campaign Setting, and supposedly provided a means to travel from Athas to the moons of Ral and Guthay, but the concept was never truly fleshed out. If used in a Dark Sun game, moongates should probably be quite difficult to find, with only a handful of gates to be found on Athas and maybe only one or two each on Ral and Guthay. But, what if they weren’t?
What if Dark Sun had no "Tolkien" races?
What if the Dark Sun’s development team had eliminated all of the Tolkien-type races from the setting like they had originally wanted to? In fact, what if they had gone even further and eliminated humans as well? Could that be a possible vision of a future Athas?
What if Dark Sun had no “Tolkien” races?