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.
Daniel Bandera revisted the DS 4 monster index, updating for the final time a list of all 4th edition Dark Sun specific monsters, and where to find them.
See it here.
Two “new” releases up on D&D Classics: The original AD&D2 Dark Sun Boxed Set, and the 4th edition core book, both now available as PDF.
Muls are a hardy race. They survive when the other races of Athas would die; they push past the limits of endurance that would kill even half-giants.
Here are a set of feats and powers for use with Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition with your mul characters.
Daniel Bandera compiled this great monster index for all of the 4th edition D&D Dark Sun monsters and their sources. His sources include all of the released adventures including game day & free rpg day as well as Dungeon adventures & Ashes of Athas adventures.
A new Dragon article by Rodney Thomson:
Balic is a city-state of splendor and tyranny, where the sorcerer-kings need for control clashes with his appreciation for beauty. Nowhere else is this contrast more typified than in the Ivory Dungeon, a secret prison where Andropinis keeps those who are too dangerous to be held in normal prisons, and who are too valuable to kill.
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In places where defiling's magic hasn't yet reached Athas offers a verdant bounty to those who use her magic to power arcane spells. Included in this article are two arcane theme terrain powers
A new Dark Sun adventure, for characters 8-10th level, appears in Dungeon magazine:
The adventurers must find a suitable place to plant a precious seed of life that the party has previously acquired. They travel to a remote island in the Sea of Silt to plant the seed far from the influence of the sorcerer-kings. Once on the island, they find that it is not as uninhabited as they had been led to believe.
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Another Dungeon article by our friend and Ashes of Athas admin, Teos Abadia is online today.
Many in the harsh desert world of Athas look with envy to Tyr as a place fortunate enough to have found freedom. They fail to realize that Tyrs freedom has been costly, leaving the city on the brink of chaos. A secret organization known as the True believes that Tyr must return to its former ways. They seek nothing less than to restore Kalak or another sorcerer-king to the throne.
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This is a May of the Dead post, part of a Blog Carnival hosted by The Going Last Podcast. In this post Geneome present and discusses converting the AD&D 2nd edition Dead Lands Net Project to 4e.