Lla1 Anattan Promo Cover by Methvezem
Greetings fellow Athasians!
After years of consolidating canon and fanon lore, and working with the Athasian Cartographers Guild to expand the world map, the Pristine Tower Development Group is finally ready to launch our Dark Sun Gazetteer series. Each book details a different distant region of Athas, providing both a compelling narrative as well as an overview of the key features of that region for DMs and lore junkies alike, and everything has been carefully researched to fit with 2e and 2e Revised canon.
For the first book in the series, we are exploring the Anattan Coast. Located beyond the Cerulean Storm on the far side of the Silt Sea, this region has been hinted at many times in lore, and has been mapped and developed by several different cartogophers and writers in our community over the decades. We’ve now consolidated all that amazing work and refined the lore into a single cohesive narrative.
Download our free netbook, join us across the Sea of Silt, and begin your expedition to the distant reaches of Athas today!
In addition to a number of updates and refreshed pieces of art that both books received, Faces of the Forgotten North now also features Encounter Tables, a table of Monsters Ranked by Challenge Rating, and brief mechanical descriptions of several new monsters described in Lost Cities of the Trembling Plains.
Faces Of The Forgotten North by Izhar Ben Yosef
It’s been a while in the works, but the Pristine Tower team is happy to announce the release of our next book: Faces of the Forgotten North!
Written as a companion to Lost Cities of the Trembling Plains, this book gives you all the mechanics, rules, and stats you’ll need to take the lore from Lost Cities and design your own campaigns set in the Forgotten North!
This book is a revision and update of the Faces of the Forgotten North Beta that has been on the site since 2007. This version is nearly 300 pages and includes all new content including additional monsters, expanded text for the stat blocks, a lot of new art, new artifacts, and an expanded Adventure Hooks section!
Looking for a 5e conversion for your Dark Sun game? Check out the Athascon 5e Players Guide V2.1. Until otherwise noted this is the conversion that we’ll be using for our 5e products.
I’m pleased to announce that our first edition-agnostic adventure, The Chthonian Womb, is now available for free! Download it today, and discover what deadly beasts and ancient secrets lay buried beneath Athas’ past!
After several years in the making, I’m pleased to finally announce the Athasian Cartographer’s Guild website is now reborn, thanks to the incredible efforts of @greyorm and the Pristine Tower dev team!
For those not familiar with the site, since 2000 this has been the most expansive source of collected canon and fanon geography for Athas and Dark Sun. And now the site and its maps have been comprehensively updated to better serve its purpose and help DMs and players explore the whole world.
Features:
-Entirely new structure which works across all sizes of computers and devices
-An upgraded planetary map with carefully constructed proportions and scales.
-New vector-based high detail maps for nearly all the map tiles covering the original revised map, plus the west coast of the neighbouring Anattan continent.
-A new scheme for encouraging aspiring mapmakers to join us.
I’m pleased to announce that our newest anthology of adventures, entitled Adventures in the Dead Lands, is available for free download! Come explore all the various regions of the Dead Lands with 14 unique adventures set to a wide range of levels. There are also rules within handling the practical aspects of adventuring in the lands, as well as rules for creating undead PCs (the Unbound).
Are your players ready for the challenge?
After several years of work and contributions by members of athas.org, the pristine tower project, and others in the community, we are pleased to announce an updated release of the DS3 core rules!
The latest version has the following changes:
updated easier to read layout
new organisational system with clickable table of contents links, and a more thorough index.
separate Player and DM Sections, and separate chapters for the timeline and inner planes respectively
new prologue discussing how to handle sensitive game topics with new generations of players
countless small refinements and expanded explanations/illustrations of rules and lore.
fully illustrated pages full of great art created by the Dark Sun community over the past 20 years
Join us, Sat March 2nd 4pm EST, in the Dark Sun Discord to meet and chat with the project managers behind the Pristine Tower Development group, as they talk about their latest and upcoming releases, and answer questions about previous releases and Athas.org articles
