If you can find them, Gale Force 9 made these gorgeous enormous vinyl maps for the setting - one of the Tablelands, another of Tyr - that are stunning.Įdit: For adventures, I'd recommend Dragon's Crown and City by the Silt Sea. The accompanying monster manual has some really neat ideas in it as well. Rules aside, it's a very tight, lucid look at the game world. You also won't go far wrong if you can get your hands on a copy of the D&D4e campaign setting. It's for D&D3e, but stuff like City State of Draj and Faces of the Forgotten North have lots of system-agnostic coolness to use. You'll also find plenty to plunder over at (with the added disclaimer that I worked on a bunch of that stuff too, heh). I found it to be crammed with ideas and adventure hooks and it serves well as an adjunct to Dark Sun, an unexplored area, or an alternative period in the game's history. If you get nothing else, get this.Īs for Dragon Kings, if you're talking about Tim Brown's "spiritual successor" to Dark Sun, I'll recommend it as well (with the disclaimer that I worked on the book, so am biased). The revised boxed set is very good, but it doesn't have the deep and rich focus of the Wanderer's Journal. It's a system-free setting book from the original boxed set and captures the essence of the world like nothing else has. I would heartily recommend getting the Wanderer's Journal. Veiled Alliance, despite nominally being about secretive wizards, also has decent overviews of the city-states, so is invaluable for that alone. Dune Trader in particular is good for a look at the merchant houses, which are the glue that holds the cities of the Tablelands together. Outside those, then you have more areas opened up in the box/packet thingies such as City by the Silt Sea and Ivory Trigle and so on.ĬHILL covers the main supplements well - all of those will give you a strong overview of the various aspects of the setting. * Valley of Dust and Fire (ties into the meta-plot and reveals a new, very dangerous region) * Beyond the Prism Pentad (post-meta plot stuff) Its pretty out-there stuff (and builds on the back of hte meta plot) * Dragon Kings is more about high level play and other options. The you have the published adventures: See here: It depends on what you're looking for but I always found City State of Tyr, Veiled Alliance, Slave Tribes and Dune Trader useful - the others were a bit more specialized. If that isn't enough for you, there's plenty more.įrom 2nd Ed you have the splatbooks that take a look at specific parts of Athasian life that could each be good to mine for campaign ideas: That monster is a treasure trove of setting info, maps and so on. If rules are not a concern then I firmly recommend the 2nd Edition Revised Box campaign set - this beast: The event was a rebellion that ended with the death of Kalak, the Sorcerer-King, and the independence of the city-state of Tyr.I GM'd Dark Sun for years back in the day, and it's my favorite DnD setting - so I have some suggestions that may help. It allowed the player characters to take part in the pivotal event of The Verdant Passage, the first novel in the Prism Pentad novel series. Rumors abound as to the nature of the spectacle: some believe it will bring with it the longed-for manumission of countless slaves others fear the annihilation of Tyr and her people as a sacrifice to Kalak's hunger for power and a secret few believe it will be a day of revolution -a day for freedom!ĭesigned for four to seven players of starting levels, the DM's Book and Player's Book inside this pack provide the Dark Sun game DMs with a Campaign base in Tyr, and give PCs a brutal introduction to Athas. He has promised the city a grand celebration when the monument is done, complete with the most brutal arena spectacle in Tyr's long history. Now, after a century of slave labor, Sorcerer King Kalak's great ziggurat nears completion. As you wander the city, form the wreck of the elven warrens to the sanguine splendor of the arena, you realize that the citizens of Tyr thirst less for water than they do for freedom. Freedom is the first Dark Sun adventure published after the release of the initial boxed set.Įnter the ancient and corrupt city of Tyr, whose tyrannical Sorcerer-King has ruled for a millennium.
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