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The Ziggurat
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A celebration of Dungeons & Dragons, dark fantasy, and the apocalypse.
Dark Sun: Bronze Age D&D
Dark Sun is a post-apocalyptic, bronze age campaign setting for the Dungeons and Dragons role playing game. Experience the thrill of adventure in a blasted desert landscape beneath a crimson sun. Water is more precious than gold, arcane magic destroys the living environment, and an ancient cabal of immortal sorcerers rule what islands of civilization remain.
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Dark Sun: Post-Apocalyptic D&D
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Dark Sun is a post-apocalyptic, dying earth campaign setting for the Dungeons and Dragons role playing game. Experience the thrill of adventure in a blasted desert landscape beneath a crimson sun. Water is more precious than gold, arcane magic destroys the living environment, and an ancient cabal of immortal sorcerers rule what islands of civilization remain. I don't own the copyright to any of...
American: They take bribes, so they're EXTREMELY evil and corrupt. Greek: You just insulted my whole race! ... but you're right.
Since metal is scarce, Dark Sun would be more like late Neolithic.
Global warming is a thing...
I got super into Dark Sun recently (I'm a newbie to dnd who was introduced via 5th edition) but omg dark sun captivated my heart and wish it would be translated to 5e cause I want to introduce it to my friends so we can play a campaign of it.
Brilliant. I always remember it being referred to as “Dark Sun World”.
Love it. Larian should definitely make Dark Sun their next game.
hey man i wish you continued this series you do a great job of introducing dark sun and id love to hear more
I’m sad we didn’t get more of these
Nice videos. Would love to see more dark sun stuff.
Hate that I found these videos so late. You should totally make more Dark Sun videos. I just finished playing through Shattered Lands on Steam. Very cool old school game.
learning about hydrolic despotism is so cool. thank you for the great and informative video. im really looking forward to crafting adventures in this unique setting.
The thing I liked about Kalak he wasn't like borys or hammanu or nibeny he's just a high level sorcerer who grants the templars powers thanks to the two beheaded former dragon kings weylan and sacha
Prism Pentad would make a really epic TV series
Please make more videos about Dark Sun especially after the events of Ur Draxa being destroyed & the various Sorcerer Kings dying.
Dark sun=Conan the Barbarian x Mad Max x The Bronze Age
Love the content ❤️ Hope you make more :)
9:15 Yes but neither ancient egypt nor ancient persia had slavery. Also pumping water with manual labour would yield you a loss of water because the labourers would sweat more water than they could pump.
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Great video. I'm running Dark Sun right now, but every time I see someone talk about Athas, I learn something new.
Great video! I'm watching this in 2022, so I'm not super hopeful for more videos... But I just wanted to say I really enjoyed your channel, and I really enjoyed hearing you talk about dark sun. If you ever fancy making another video and telling us more about your thoughts on Dark Sun, I'll definitely be here for it!
Really good video! Would love to hear you talk more about dark sun, and the historical analogies behind it. Also anything you would do differently in your own running of Athas?
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Hey man! are u good? keep the videos coming. Definitely DS is my favorite campaing setting from D&D and you videos are good. Cheers from Brazil!
One of the better videos on youtube. Talks about ideas behind the setting and similar systems that existed in the real world. The quality is high and so I'm not surprised he has not made more videos since.
It would be really cool to see more videos on this. Please
What is really hard about Dark Sun is finding a AD&D game for it lol.
Great intro to an amazing old-school D&D setting!
Just stumpled unto your channel. Love it!
Tyr has more like 150,000 people including the rural estates - maybe up to 300,000 or so. Kalak intended to sacrifice 40,000 in his ascension ritual and even that was far from the whole population if the city. Source: currently reading the Prism Pentad
More! I recently got into dark sun. Love the setting
How did Razzat's magic effect the sun? What tier magic is that and can anyone else use similar powers?
Don't know if your still curious about how he did it but he effected the sun with his magic thru the use of two very powerful and ancient artifacts the dark lens and the pristine tower. And it is considered epic level magic which includes spells of 10th level and higher and should someone not only manage to find both the dark lens and rediscover the tower and be a master of magic in theory some one could effect the sun in the same or similar way. Hope this answers your year old question.
Can you do a lore vid on the lost city states in the north? Or perhaps a vid on the last sea… Hope hope hope
Damn shame ya don’t have anymore material Good vids
Claw the unconquered fits this description!.
Dude read the books. It explained everything with borys, Rajat, and what it took to entrap him and transformed the world.
Very cool video, i like historical aspects that aid in the World Building for the Dark Sun Campaign. it makes sense that people would put up with a less then satisfactory state of living cause the alternative is dying of thirst.
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waaaay back, in second when i was first introduced into the world of Dark Sun, i ran a half-giant gladiator named Maxx; i based him off of Spartacus. he had amassed such fame, and a considerable fortune, that he had actual won his freedom, although he never left his dojo. he stayed, becoming a trainer for the new gladiators, and a loyal friend to his one-time owner. a slave uprising one night would be his undoing; he bravely defended the house of his former owner, even acting as a shield as the patron escaped with his family. his reward? the templars had come in as he was defeating the last of the insurgents, and Maxx was attacked, captured, and put to execution with the others…while the patron, his one-time owner, his friend, watched with complete indifference. that campaign lasted a year and a half… i had a few tears at the end of it; the DM had told the story, ran the game, with such excellence that it was, for lack of a word, perfect! shout out to Jeremy Swan; you’ll always be second to NONE, brother!
I played an elf Druid/thief from the Water Hunters tribe who made a pretty penny smuggling spell components and the occasional scroll. I took a proficiency in the transverse pipe flute so that I could pass myself off as a bard to the guards. The other players didn’t even know I was a Druid until the first time I cast a spell.
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Please continue!
Dark Sun is the best fantasy scenaries for AD&D for me. After Dark Sun, Planescape is the best. But I love Dark Sun, and I'm adapting this to 5e as homebrew. I adapted the Complete psionics handbook too. But I have been woorked too hard on this, because I have to do and translate all for portuguese, because in Brazil Dark Sun never was been released.
Nice. I have worked for a year in an adaptation of Dark Sun before Dragon's King events, like borys death (basically the boxed set)
I would be curious about what happened after dreagoth comes out and makes his appearance during hamanus time as the dragon of urik when Rajat returns or tries to
"A strange way to operate an economy" - not if you realize that the coin itself was not invented until around 700 BC. It may have even been the force which brought an end to the Greek Dark Ages. But yeah, for a long time the coin as well as the idea of portable personally exchangeable wealth simply does not exist. Anything you wanted you either had to barter or beg (the clerics) for, which often makes me wonder about those early societies and if maybe they weren't all technically slave states. Everyone was the property of the state they belonged to and controlled from the top down. Which could also explain why the devastation of the bronze age collapse was so total. Once the ruling powers were wiped out nobody was sure how to rebuild and replace what was lost. Good video! Dark Sun is cool too :-)
Dark sun is reminiscent of 3rd millenia BCE (early bronze age). Most civilization was city states (except Egypt and short lived Sargonian empire), metal was reserved to nobles and military and economy there was regulated by the temples. The Iron age except it's first two centuries was far more advanced then that. In the Levant literacy could be 10-20% of males already and Kingship concept advanced from god-kings to divine right with priesthood more separated from kingship
If you ever played the original fallout (also apocalyptic desert landscape) the water consortium decides to start using special bottle caps as tokens which can be exchanged for one cup of water at their central hub. Since that hub was the most defend location of the most precious resource the value of the caps were pretty stable and eventually became a widely used currency.
Phenomenal video -- love your content.
As a rule I don't use offical materal directly. But definitly Dark Sun, along with books like 'The Shadow of the Torturer', and 'The Wizards and the Warriors'. typify the sort of world building I go for. With worlds that have grown old, and that the magic in them is a result of something corrupting, or weird. So much so that, the very world it's self have become warpped by the misuse of magic. Not from a game I ran, but the druid in the party tried creating a wall of thorns, and summoned a grove of meat trees with human head fruits instead. As the influence of the campaign's version of daemons were corrupting nature in the area to a point where it was interfering with elemental/natural magic. When asked if he wanted to experiment with the phenomenon further by casting summon natures ally, he declined unfortunately.
As to the gunslinger book line. It was when Roland and company went to Magus as apprentice gunslingers. Think it was like 4th book.. tricky because it was a flash back book to Roland's past.
Brom has forged his own style. He did all the artwork for TSR's Dark Sun expansion. I met him once at a convention and he was very kind. Krampus is now my favorite fantasy book. To whom it may concern, these are my 3 favorite art books: - Aviation Art by Lou Drendel - The Joy of Art by Carolyn Schlam - Great Fighter Jets of the Galaxy 1 by Tim Gibson
Baxa did the rest of the art. The whole series was pretty much just those two.
A friend explained Dark Sun to me as D&D's version of the world of Conan. That's always how I've thought of it.
Not really, Conan is in the past and very much have on cultures and kingdom
I always thought of Dark Sun as "Barbarian Fantasy", as it reminded me of stories like 'Conan The Barbarian' (both the Comics and the films), Kull the Conqueror, and the animated movie 'Fire and Ice'. Primitive, brutal, and unforgiving worlds with healthy dose of the monstrous and supernatural. Also, everyone in Dark Sun's artwork is ultra ripped and displaying it proudly.
Do they make the miniatures for these themes?