Ashes of Athas 13:Mob Mentality is live at https://buzzsprout.com/1744373/9070508!
This one is kind of long but a lot happens in here with some crazy combat shenanigans.
Learn about Ashes of Athas on Alphastream’s blog
Episode 12 of the One World Pod, Ashes of Athas 5e conversion is out. This actual play features a conversion to 5e and DMing by Josh dV with Raddu , Ayami, Greg, and Chad as players. https://www.buzzsprout.com/1744373 https://www.stitcher.com/show/ashes-of-athas
You can find it linked under the Media>Actual Play menus above. And follow them on Twitter @TheOneWorldPod
Wizards of the Coast has allowed Baldman Games to distribute their Ashes of Athas convention games to the non-convention crowd. You’ll be able to sign up to receive the chapters over at Baldman’s site.
[update: the forum page has gone offline; to request a copy of the adventure, send an email to thebaldman@baldmangames.com ]
Some important information from their announcements page:
- No one (not even us) can host the adventure files anywhere.
- Only the admins and Baldman Games can provide adventures.
- When you e-mail us (or send us a message via these forums), we will send you adventures, one chapter at a time.
- When contacting us, please include your e-mail so we can send you the files and the chapter(s) you need.
- You can run those adventures, or if you are a convention organizer, you can provide them to your DMs for use at the convention.
- You cannot otherwise redistribute or share or post the files anywhere. If you do, this will likely result in Ashes of Athas distribution being closed down!
- Adventures you received from us can be run anywhere you please (home play, stores, conventions, desert caravans...). You can run them multiple times - whenever you please.
- When you request adventures we will provide a link to pregens, maps, and campaign rules.
I suspect that, by having everyone request directly from the source, Wizards is looking to easily gauge the interest in the game; this is a good thing.
Today on the Going Last podcast, blogger and Ashes of Athas OP author/admin, Teos announced that the complete Ashes of Athas campaign will be available for home play.
Listen to episode 94 of Going Last at about the 52 minute mark for details.
As mentioned in the podcast you can also watch Teos talk to Mike Shea of Sly Floursh in their Looking Back on Dark Sun Organized Play Campaign video on Mike's youtube page.
EDIT: More information can be found on the BaldmanGames website in the Ashes of Athas Forum
If you’re wondering what’s happened with the Ashes of Athas home / non-convention play, it seems there’s been some kind of snag with distribution permission.
There’s a thread on the WotC site acting as a sort of petition, asking Wizards to prioritize resolving the confusion. If you’re interested in playing Ashes of Athas, and you can’t make the conventions, this is where you want to weigh in. Please remember that hostility just makes the overseers mad.
There are new Ashes of Athas pregen characters available, and Chapters 5 and 6 will be running at Gencon. Find more information and links here
The living campaign Ashes of Athas is expanding it’s play base beyond the larger conventions. They have a signup page where you can request a copy of the adventures to run in registered play at your local gaming store, or even with your usual gaming group.
More info and a signup form here.
Got the following broadcast from an old friend on the DS Mailing List, Teos. Figured I’d repost it here:
Fans of Dark Sun should check out the Ashes of Athas shared campaign that will be starting at the D&D XP convention January 27-30, 2011.
You can learn more here: http://www.baldmangames.com/aoamain (the page will be updated as we get closer to the convention).
All the best, and I hope to see many of you at D&D XP!
