Dark Sun Campaign Setting 4e Wizards of the Coast Dungeons Dragons 4e Dungeons Dragons 4e. Explore a savage, wondrous world. We know youve got a cool bag with some smart ideas inside, so let us know Share your bag in our Lifehacker Go Bag Show and Tell Flickr pool, shoot me a message. Dark Sun is an original Dungeons Dragons campaign setting set in the fictional, postapocalyptic desert world of Athas. Dark Sun is notable for its innovative. Aimed at players and Dungeon Masters, this game supplement explores the heroes and wonders of Athasa savage desert world abandoned by the gods and ruled by terrible sorcerer kings. Use it to build Dark Sun heroes and thrilling D D adventures set in the Seven Cities of the Tyr Region, the Ivory Triangle, the Sea of Silt, and monster infested wastelandsor plunder it for your own D D campaign The Dark Sun Campaign Setting provides exciting character options for D D players, including new races, new character themes and class builds, new paragon paths and epic destinies, and new equipment. It also provides everything Dungeon Masters need to run 4th Edition Dark Sun campaigns or include Dark Sun elements in their homebrew campaigns. It has rules and advice for handling survival challenges, arena encounters, desert terrain, and adventure creation. It also presents a short, ready to play introductory adventure. Dark Sun Campaign Setting 2Nd Edition' title='Dark Sun Campaign Setting 2Nd Edition' />Dark Side Of The Moon is a music studio album recording by PINK FLOYD PsychedelicSpace RockProgressive Rock released in 1973 on cd, lp vinyl andor cassette. Product History. The Dark Sun Campaign Setting 2. Richard Baker, Robert J. Schwalb, and Rodney Thompson, was the core book for the Dark Sun setting in D D 4e. Continuing the Campaign Settings. When Wizards of the Coast began work on 4e 2. Campaign Guide, a Players Guide, and a standalone adventure. They maintained this plan through the 2. Forgotten Realms and the 2. Eberron, but by 2. Dark Sun Campaign Setting 2Nd Edition' title='Dark Sun Campaign Setting 2Nd Edition' />That year their third 4e campaign world, Dark Sun, was instead supported with a Campaign Setting 2. Creature Catalog 2. Marauders of the Dune Sea 2. It would be the last year that 4es campaign setting of the year received three books of support. Returning to 2e. During the AD D 2e era 1. TSR released an impressive array of new and innovative campaign settings, including Spelljammer 1. Ravenloft Realm of Terror 1. Dark Sun 1. 99. 1, Al Qadim 1. Planescape 1. 99. Mystara 1. 99. 4, and Birthright 1. However, during the 3e era 2. Wizards of the Coast turned away from these 2e worlds to instead focus on the more traditional campaign worlds of the Forgotten Realms and to a lesser extent Greyhawk as well as their new campaign world of Eberron 2. Control over the 2e settings was largely handed off to official fan web sites, such as Dark Suns athas. The announcement of the Dark Sun Campaign Setting was thus a big deal for 2e fans, as it marked the first sighting of an AD D 2e campaign world at Wizards of the Coast in a decade. Marketing Dark Sun. In order to sell this bold return, Wizards of the Coast kicked off one of their most coherent and extensive marketing programs during the entire 4e era. Dragon_Mag_173_Dark_Sun_intro_issue.JPG' alt='Dark Sun Campaign Setting 2Nd Edition' title='Dark Sun Campaign Setting 2Nd Edition' />They previewed Dark Sun with adventures at Winter Fantasy 3. Pax East 2. 01. 0, then produced another Dark Sun adventure for Free RPG Day 2. Bloodsand Arena 2. At the same time, they made Dark Sun the focus of their second season of Encounters, resulting in the long running Dark Sun Fury of the Wastewalker 2. As a result, there were actually a total of five books available for Dark Sun, not the three campaign books of 2. In addition, players had been teased all year by the time the Dark Sun Campaign Setting release in August at Gen Con Indy 2. Expanding D D 4e. The original Dark Sun box was one of the most innovative settings released for AD D 2e, in part because it dramatically revamped the AD D rules, changing everything from how experience was gained to what the standard classes did. This sort of revamp was much easier in D D 4e because of the design of its powers, which could easily introduce colorful special abilities. As a result, the Dark Sun Campaign Setting isnt nearly as different from the core rule set as the original Dark Sun box was even the sorcerous art of defiling has become whats essentially a tactical power. However, Dark Sun Campaign Setting did expand the 4e rules in one notable way it introduced themes, a third way to define characters, alongside class and race. These themes provided colorful backgrounds for characters and new powers, of course. Some of them, such as elemental priest, gladiator, and templar, also replaced some of the variant classes found in the original Dark Sun game. In the final years of 4e, themes proved very popular and were widely used in other settings. Expanding Athas. The new 4e version of Dark Sun wasnt quite a reboot, but it did rewind the clock of Dark Suns metaplot. Tyr has become a free city, which means that its set after the original Dark Suns first adventure, DS1 Freedom 1. Athas is a clean slate. Richard Baker described the teams intent in this by saying, We decided to create a version of Dark Sun in which the Prism Pentad storyline would be possible but not mandatory. The new Dark Sun rules changes implicitly created some changes in the Athas setting too. For example, the templars, who worshiped the sorcerer kings, have become warlocks while elemental clerics were somewhat decreased in importance due to the fact that their role became a theme. Similarly, the difference between defilers and preservers was much less black and white. Manual De Powerpoint 2007 Descargar Gratis. Finally, Athas was slightly revamped to include 4es standard tropes. The dray of Giustenal were turned into dragonborn, while tieflings also made an appearance. The standard cosmology of 4e was also introduced to Dark Sun. This was a pretty big change, as Athas had formerly been distant from the rest of the D D multiverse far from the spacelanes of Spelljammer and the planes of Planescape. Beyond that the Dark Sun Campaign Setting includes a new iteration of the Tyr Region for a new edition of D D. A few locations were slightly moved and the scale of the map was decreased, but otherwise it was Athas for a new generation. About the Creators. Baker had been working on D D since the early 9. Dark Sun Creature Catalog. Windows 7 Icons Pack Windows Xp'>Windows 7 Icons Pack Windows Xp. Schwalb and Thompson both got their start as freelancers in the d. Wizards created. Schwalb started writing extensively for 4e in 2. Thompson in 2. 01. About the Product Historian. The history of this product was researched and written by Shannon Appelcline, the editor in chief of RPGnet and the author of Designers Dragons a history of the roleplaying industry told one company at a time. Thanks to Robert Adducci for Dark Sun advice. Please feel free to mail corrections, comments, and additions to shannon.