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Sunstone

first published on 1990-09-28

Presenting the Sunstone, a minor artifact for use in your Dark Sun games.

Cities of Athas - DM and Player Summary Sheets

Written by Logarium, and first published on 2023-01-29

In the Ivory Triangle boxed set, they had these cool card handouts with player and DM summaries for Gulg and Nibenay. I always wished that they had them for the other cities. So I made some.

[Repost] Dark Sun out of Development

Written by Rodney Thompson, and first published on 2014-10-09

In today’s design repost, Rodney Thompson announces that development on Dark Sun 4e has finished. He talks of his love of the original setting, gives us some idea of what we can expect: A return to the pre-Prism Pentad days.

[Repost] Dark Sun dragonborn

Written by Rich Baker, and first published on 2014-10-01

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.

Dark Sun Sprint

Written by Rich Baker, and first published on 2014-09-19

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.

Deserts of Athas

Written by Rich Baker, and first published on 2014-09-09

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.

Fun in the Sun

Written by Rodney Thompson, and first published on 2014-09-04

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.