Ive actually been trying to find your channel for awhile Chris, I loved the sea of silt video but I couldn't remember what channel it was on. Thanks to you both for putting this stuff out there!
UA-cam will probably hide this comment for awhile, but thank you for the Dark Sun lore video. Dark Sun has quickly become probably one of if not my favorite official D&D setting, as well as a major influence on me. I love the land of Athas. I love the Cracked, Dying Red Sun, the Sorcerer-Kings, the Dragon's and all of that. I'm super excited for the future videos on this as well! I find the possibility of lives on the moons could be very interesting for a homebrew campaign set on one of them as well. With a unique take on Moon Elves, perhaps.
So as Conan Low fantasy fans, my Dad bought me books that appealed to his love of bodybuilding and Masculinity. The Cover of the Verdant passage instantaneously drew me in and I've read that book (the First Novel in the Dark Sun Prism Pentad) several times. Now as the modern forms of entertainment get all colorful and furry...I have gone back to the Conan-esque sensibilities and into Grimdark Low fantasy. Dark Sun will be my setting (for my D&D5e games) and Death a constant. This channel directly rekindled my love of these worlds and Lore. Thank you for your awesome and content rich videos!
Bodybuilding isn't so much as masculinity, but vanity - the same as the overly buff & busty women in this fantasy genre. Realistically, survivors of tough landscapes are often slim & sinewy, having to work hard for the very little food & water they can get. All the extra muscle just makes you tired & weak in comparison.
Yyyyeeaahh bbabbiii!! Dark Sun videos!!! I just spent the last 9 months creating a Dark Sun campaign for my friends! We havnt had a chance to start it up yet, but i had SO MUCH FUN making the campaign all on its own. Dark Sun is easily one of the top 3 settings for any D&D campaign
Fantastic introduction to the Dark Sun setting! I love what you've done with your Dark Sun Skyrim mod. Thank you for the shout out to Rise of the Veiled Alliance and my other Dark Sun adventures-a lot of love went into them.
interesting highly intriguing! Personally, the D&D universe is confusing, stereotyped and even so I am amazed at its particular cosmology and narrative development! I love your channel, especially sword & sorcery topics! Really ingenious comparative, analytical and thoughtful introduction to this desolate, brutal and barbaric realm! Keep rolling!
Confusing maybe but I think stereotyped is a little unfair. Especially with some of the original settings, while they may seem cliche today they weren't nearly as overdone in the 70s/80s as they are today.
@@KS-PNW 🤔 Thats , actully a good point!! And you know what? Your right! The 70s and 80s was quite am interactive revolution period of the Fantasy Tropics! I criticize More the generalization of the aspects, and yet i love how they ways are implemented in diferents perspectives. Like for example: the Witcher, Discworld, Spiderwick, ect
Confusing, eh? Take a look at Planescape. The center of the multiverse is... wherever you happen to be. Or it could be that torus spinning atop an infinitely tall spire. One of the two, I'm pretty sure.
Dark Sun might be my favourite! I recently found your channel and pretty much binged all of your Conan content. Love the channel, keep up the awesome work my man!
I feel like Green moon or Rao is a funny joke based on the Lore of Old Krypton. Rao was the sun god of krypton, green Kryptonite only works due to the fact that it isn’t exposed to red sunlight.
There should be an all races one already on the channel, but it depends on the demand at the time from donators and people who pay me. Right now those people more like Conan, but I suppose the next video I’d do in this series would be “All Sorcerer Kings in Dark Sun”
Love it man. Im training jiu jitsu in Brazil at the moment when i get back to new Zealand im going get i to DnD . I hope to find some people who play dark sun🙏. With the character creation is it a different set up in the sense. 1. You have to just pick a race from the dark sun world. 2. Can you make multi race. 3. Can you pick skills that reflect dark sun. Like survivalist and such. 4. What weapons and gear do you start with? Or do i pick that with my caracter creation?
I've always kind of hated how the D&D Multivurse kind of insists upon itself, regardless of how little it makes sense in relation to any given setting. On top of that, it insists that all D&D worlds, even those run by you and your friends are connected to it, even if you don't want it to be. Sure you can always rule it doesn't have a connection, but thene you have to explain that to every new player.
7:49 where did you get this improved map? I pride myself on having the most complete collection of darksun possible. I don't recognize that particular map. At least not in that detail.
Let's be real here: If someone from Dark Sun got to Ravenloft, they'd be dead from overhydration within 48 hours... and Strahd would be seen as straight-up benevolent.
The thing I love about the setting is that it is a Halfling-only campaign, the only race you can pick is Halfling or some variant of mutant Dire-Halfling.
Love all the literary references and I would definitely try to build a John Carter character in the Dark Sun setting. The Barsoom series is seriously under appreciated in Sci-fi circles these days. I am greatly looking forward to this series!
Yes UA-cam has been actively acting out lately, I'm surprised even these fantasy videos are being censored/suppressed...this is harmless compared to the direction they wana go!!!
My personal favorite d&d campaign ever, it's just so much more interesting to me than the more traditional fantasy settings you usually see in the games. If only we could get a new game based on the setting.
A normal T-Rex is bad enough, but an Athasian T-Rex is psychic. That means that when you freeze up, taking Jurassic Park's advice that "their sight is based on movement", not only can it see you perfectly well with its eyes, but it can read your mind and think to itself "LOLOLOLOLOL What bad advice, LMFAO!"
Great video, I was very glad to see you followed up and made the Dark Sun content. I am looking forward to more videos on this setting as it is one of my all time favorites.
I wanna be a dwagon king when I grow up. Like in the song "puff the magic dwagon king lived on Athas and ate everything"! But mostly I just want to eat halflings. Mostly. ?;- )
Dark Sun is such a fantastic world setting. It's too bad that WotC is so weak-sauce right now. Even if they had the balls to try and bring it back for 5e, it'd be a toothless, spineless, hollow, embarrassment.
It seems as if I cannot see a larger portion of the comments on this video. Which is strange and sincerely makes me wonder what the purpose would even be? It’s not like this is anything bad.
Dark sun is like a mix between Conan and barbarian and Mad Max Yeah dark sun this is my favorite setting in DMD before Dungeons & Dragons when the shit thanks a lot wizards but good video I like it. 👍
If youre doing DnD settings im going to personally request that you may please do my favorite (and one of if not arguably the best official dnd setting) Mystara!
"This is not the lava from some volcano, for athas lacks the oceans to make them." Huh? Oceans aren't necessary for volcanoes to form.. all lava is from the core of a planet..
As a student of history, I feel it isn't civilization itself that is corruptive, but rather a civilization's failure to root out, punish, and destroy corruption that is often its downfall. Dark Sun is a good example, as it was in failing to stop the use of corruptive, destructive magic that ultimately caused the calamity that brought about its current state. If such evil was exterminated on sight and hunted down wherever it might try to hide back then, the world of Dark Sun would be a better place.
Dark Sun, or, the wonderful world of feral, cannabalistic halflings, giant, mean insect people, and no metal. Oh, and tne gods are gone, too. Good luck, clerics... There is still a way, lol. 😈
Dark Sun has fascinated me ever since I started playing 2nd edition. I have the second boxed set and have unfortunately couldn’t find a steady group to play. Players were turned off by psionics and the grim dark miserable setting. I still live it to death and have tried to read any bit of lore I can find. Cannibal halflings ftw!
I don’t know why but I imagine the people of Athas to all have various southern accents instead of your usual fantasy British accents. You show up in athas and Borys has a THICK South Carolina accent
@@GrimDarkHalfOff The Half-Giants would totally have Australian accents. The Muul would either have Texan or Mexican accents depending on where they're from.
I find it funny how not only is the world of dark sun super fucked up, but its cut off from planar travel through the gray too. Like its just this messed up lil planet in the corner of the phlogiston thats totally cut off
A very very VERY minor correction, however volcanoes do not exist because of oceans, its the tectonic plates under either land or sea that create volcanoes, and lava comes from both. I digress, but good video.
one thing i really dislike about Conan is that the story focus too much about civilization is corrupt while Cimmerian tribe themself are as corrupt with the only different is population size
Great job, this is excellent! I’m going to share it now. Thanks for the shout out.
Np, I'll pin your comment so people can find you!
Thanks again man.
Ive actually been trying to find your channel for awhile Chris, I loved the sea of silt video but I couldn't remember what channel it was on.
Thanks to you both for putting this stuff out there!
Cool, I’ll see you over there.
Thanks Santa
UA-cam will probably hide this comment for awhile, but thank you for the Dark Sun lore video. Dark Sun has quickly become probably one of if not my favorite official D&D setting, as well as a major influence on me. I love the land of Athas. I love the Cracked, Dying Red Sun, the Sorcerer-Kings, the Dragon's and all of that. I'm super excited for the future videos on this as well! I find the possibility of lives on the moons could be very interesting for a homebrew campaign set on one of them as well. With a unique take on Moon Elves, perhaps.
So as Conan Low fantasy fans, my Dad bought me books that appealed to his love of bodybuilding and Masculinity. The Cover of the Verdant passage instantaneously drew me in and I've read that book (the First Novel in the Dark Sun Prism Pentad) several times. Now as the modern forms of entertainment get all colorful and furry...I have gone back to the Conan-esque sensibilities and into Grimdark Low fantasy. Dark Sun will be my setting (for my D&D5e games) and Death a constant. This channel directly rekindled my love of these worlds and Lore. Thank you for your awesome and content rich videos!
Bodybuilding isn't so much as masculinity, but vanity - the same as the overly buff & busty women in this fantasy genre.
Realistically, survivors of tough landscapes are often slim & sinewy, having to work hard for the very little food & water they can get.
All the extra muscle just makes you tired & weak in comparison.
Yyyyeeaahh bbabbiii!! Dark Sun videos!!!
I just spent the last 9 months creating a Dark Sun campaign for my friends! We havnt had a chance to start it up yet, but i had SO MUCH FUN making the campaign all on its own.
Dark Sun is easily one of the top 3 settings for any D&D campaign
Fantastic introduction to the Dark Sun setting! I love what you've done with your Dark Sun Skyrim mod. Thank you for the shout out to Rise of the Veiled Alliance and my other Dark Sun adventures-a lot of love went into them.
That’s why I’m here! Passion should be rewarded with passion! Love your stuff!
I've played in the Darksun campaign since the first boxed set. I can't wait to see what kinds of videos you make about it.
I love Dark Sun. It's so very - different - than many other settings. I also really like it's Mesopotamian influences (ziggurats etc)
Thanks my next video is going to be on the races of the world
I have been subscribed for a while…I love your channel never fucking stop.
interesting highly intriguing! Personally, the D&D universe is confusing, stereotyped and even so I am amazed at its particular cosmology and narrative development! I love your channel, especially sword & sorcery topics! Really ingenious comparative, analytical and thoughtful introduction to this desolate, brutal and barbaric realm! Keep rolling!
Confusing maybe but I think stereotyped is a little unfair. Especially with some of the original settings, while they may seem cliche today they weren't nearly as overdone in the 70s/80s as they are today.
@@KS-PNW 🤔 Thats , actully a good point!! And you know what? Your right! The 70s and 80s was quite am interactive revolution period of the Fantasy Tropics! I criticize More the generalization of the aspects, and yet i love how they ways are implemented in diferents perspectives. Like for example: the Witcher, Discworld, Spiderwick, ect
Confusing, eh? Take a look at Planescape. The center of the multiverse is... wherever you happen to be. Or it could be that torus spinning atop an infinitely tall spire. One of the two, I'm pretty sure.
Dark Sun might be my favourite! I recently found your channel and pretty much binged all of your Conan content. Love the channel, keep up the awesome work my man!
Thanks brother!
Oh yeah, great stuff Grim Dark! 🤘😁🤘
Tyvm for the new video!
I love how you started this with the quotes!
As the world look like just now we could use a barbarian king to push back the wicked.
I feel like Green moon or Rao is a funny joke based on the Lore of Old Krypton. Rao was the sun god of krypton, green Kryptonite only works due to the fact that it isn’t exposed to red sunlight.
Great video! Do you think would ever do a video on kenshi btw?
This is great
Dark Sun Cannibal Cultists, Holla!
Love me some Dark Sun
Great channel. Good fortunes.
The worlds greatest Campaign Setting.
Hello, then can we expect another video from this series? Really enjoyed this content!!!
There should be an all races one already on the channel, but it depends on the demand at the time from donators and people who pay me. Right now those people more like Conan, but I suppose the next video I’d do in this series would be “All Sorcerer Kings in Dark Sun”
Very good 👍
I love this setting! I plan to run a campaign of it over on Discord and Roll20! :D
Love it man.
Im training jiu jitsu in Brazil at the moment when i get back to new Zealand im going get i to DnD .
I hope to find some people who play dark sun🙏.
With the character creation is it a different set up in the sense.
1. You have to just pick a race from the dark sun world.
2. Can you make multi race.
3. Can you pick skills that reflect dark sun. Like survivalist and such.
4. What weapons and gear do you start with?
Or do i pick that with my caracter creation?
have you ever heard of mystara
I've always kind of hated how the D&D Multivurse kind of insists upon itself, regardless of how little it makes sense in relation to any given setting. On top of that, it insists that all D&D worlds, even those run by you and your friends are connected to it, even if you don't want it to be. Sure you can always rule it doesn't have a connection, but thene you have to explain that to every new player.
7:49 where did you get this improved map? I pride myself on having the most complete collection of darksun possible. I don't recognize that particular map. At least not in that detail.
7:24 I also can't find in my collection.
Both maps I found online then edited to have a higher resolution by adding pixels
The science of discontent thing is from Dune I’m pretty sure. Someone can correct me if I’m wrong.
Yeah it’s almost like I put that in the title
Your opinions on almuric if you've read it?
Just looked it up seems interesting
Half a foot slip? 😂
Dont hate the player hate the game
Ah, Dark Sun... The setting that spending more than ten minutes talking about will almost certainly get you demonetized. Love it!
Finds a teleport out of Dark Sun.
"YES FINALLY!"
"Whew... man, theres a LOT of mist here"
*reads sign*
"Ravenloft.... well shit."
The gray turns out to be part of the mists of Ravenloft... ok thats actually not terrible lol
Let's be real here: If someone from Dark Sun got to Ravenloft, they'd be dead from overhydration within 48 hours... and Strahd would be seen as straight-up benevolent.
@@samuelthegreatoo Only one of the Sorcerer-Monarchs was imprisoned in Ravenloft, Kalid-ma of Kalidnay
Ravenloft is a HUGE upgrade from Athas. Metal, water, soil, food, and all you have to worry about is being prey. You're already prey in Athas.
The thing I love about the setting is that it is a Halfling-only campaign, the only race you can pick is Halfling or some variant of mutant Dire-Halfling.
Love all the literary references and I would definitely try to build a John Carter character in the Dark Sun setting.
The Barsoom series is seriously under appreciated in Sci-fi circles these days.
I am greatly looking forward to this series!
YES! ATHAS IS MY FAVORITE D&D WORLD!
I am VERY eager for more Dark Sun content. Great stuff.
I love Dark Sun! Unfortunately I've never found a gaming group that would play in that setting.
Hey guys I think youtube is hiding your comments again. Let me know if you can see them. There should be 23+ so far.
I only see 2, one of them yours.
I see 27
2 is all I see
Yes UA-cam has been actively acting out lately, I'm surprised even these fantasy videos are being censored/suppressed...this is harmless compared to the direction they wana go!!!
I was only able to see like 3 comments in the default setting, then when I went to "Sort by: Newest" they were all visible. Very suspicious.
Awesome that you are covering Dark Sun! Ive been asking myself... Will WotC bring it back next? Will it be even a good thing?
Running Dark Sun using Savage Worlds is about the most fun you can have with tabletop gaming, in my opinion. A match made in heaven.
My personal favorite d&d campaign ever, it's just so much more interesting to me than the more traditional fantasy settings you usually see in the games. If only we could get a new game based on the setting.
So happy you're covering Dark Sun!
I remember buying the source book many years ago, absolutely love it.
Thank you.
A normal T-Rex is bad enough, but an Athasian T-Rex is psychic. That means that when you freeze up, taking Jurassic Park's advice that "their sight is based on movement", not only can it see you perfectly well with its eyes, but it can read your mind and think to itself "LOLOLOLOLOL What bad advice, LMFAO!"
It can also breathe fire
@@GrimDarkHalfOff The PCs are specifically not moving.....
...so they don't get a Reflex Saving throw for half damage....
More Dark Sun please!! Your channel is fantastic!!
Great video, I was very glad to see you followed up and made the Dark Sun content. I am looking forward to more videos on this setting as it is one of my all time favorites.
spicy 🔥 with a nice crunchy center and a enjoyable aftertaste nice job I will be coming back for a second helping
I would definitely like to hear more about this dark sun for sure, great video man
I don't normally like fantasy but this channel has changed that. Especially this setting.
I wanna be a dwagon king when I grow up. Like in the song "puff the magic dwagon king lived on Athas and ate everything"!
But mostly I just want to eat halflings. Mostly. ?;- )
Be careful.
Athasian Halflings seriously might eat you first....
@@Titan360 Vicious little critters to be sure.
Man UA-cam needs more Darksun content, thanks for doing these!
Dark Sun is such a fantastic world setting. It's too bad that WotC is so weak-sauce right now. Even if they had the balls to try and bring it back for 5e, it'd be a toothless, spineless, hollow, embarrassment.
Excited for more Dark Sun. Always looking for more in this setting.
It seems as if I cannot see a larger portion of the comments on this video. Which is strange and sincerely makes me wonder what the purpose would even be? It’s not like this is anything bad.
Comments for the Comments god. And as always, more please
I am super excited about this serious. Thanks for doing this setting.
I sometimes threaten my players with throwing their characters into Athas when they're getting too rowdy.
Dark sun is like a mix between Conan and barbarian and Mad Max Yeah dark sun this is my favorite setting in DMD before Dungeons & Dragons when the shit thanks a lot wizards but good video I like it. 👍
I've been looking forward to this!.
Thanks for the video!
If youre doing DnD settings im going to personally request that you may please do my favorite (and one of if not arguably the best official dnd setting) Mystara!
Dune either before or after Frank Herbert's Dune.
A Dune like fantasy.
"This is not the lava from some volcano, for athas lacks the oceans to make them."
Huh? Oceans aren't necessary for volcanoes to form.. all lava is from the core of a planet..
Would love to see a Hyborean Age cosmology
Great setting! Keep working on this. I'm looking forward to you covering the rhulusti.
This channel keeps getting better
I remember playing this in the 90's(God now I feel old)
Thanks for this, i played Darks Sun in 2rd edition. This reminded me and I looked at the 4th ed book, and it's so expensive and rare.
More! I need more Dark Sun! I miss the creativity in 2nd ED so much.
Love your dark sun content, more please!
I really want to do life shaper halflings
An early comment for the comment throne.
Dark Sun is a fascinating setting... it willnever see a reprint.
One of my favorites fantasy settings.
Looking forward to this series
As a student of history, I feel it isn't civilization itself that is corruptive, but rather a civilization's failure to root out, punish, and destroy corruption that is often its downfall. Dark Sun is a good example, as it was in failing to stop the use of corruptive, destructive magic that ultimately caused the calamity that brought about its current state. If such evil was exterminated on sight and hunted down wherever it might try to hide back then, the world of Dark Sun would be a better place.
Dark Sun, or, the wonderful world of feral, cannabalistic halflings, giant, mean insect people, and no metal. Oh, and tne gods are gone, too. Good luck, clerics... There is still a way, lol. 😈
Hell yeah love this setting so much!
Thanks for including all those sources!
(I changed the comment settings to “Newest first” and was able to see many more comments)
Lawful Stupid has a great 34 episode live play for Dark Sun
Dark Sun has fascinated me ever since I started playing 2nd edition. I have the second boxed set and have unfortunately couldn’t find a steady group to play. Players were turned off by psionics and the grim dark miserable setting. I still live it to death and have tried to read any bit of lore I can find. Cannibal halflings ftw!
U did a lot of extra work just to say the sun is actually dark and the title isn’t a lie
Sadly on its way to become woke by Wizards of the Wokeshite
I'm new here and I'm looking forward to seeing more!
i love the fact you actually shout and link other channels who also study the settings you talk about.
Conan in Dark Sun perhaps?
Oh boy oh boy oh boy 🎉
What is the game footage at 6:52 the one with the lizard man, is it conan exiles ???
Oh no, HEAVILY MODDED Skyrim
Awesome
Please do more of these, I got into Dark sun lore pretty heavily and couldn't get enough of it, please keep these up !
Great video as always!
Can't wait to see more Dark Sun content.
Great video
Fuck yeah
Sweet.
I don’t know why but I imagine the people of Athas to all have various southern accents instead of your usual fantasy British accents. You show up in athas and Borys has a THICK South Carolina accent
Yes and Australian
@@GrimDarkHalfOff The Half-Giants would totally have Australian accents. The Muul would either have Texan or Mexican accents depending on where they're from.
This is a really effective introduction
Thank you brother!
I find it funny how not only is the world of dark sun super fucked up, but its cut off from planar travel through the gray too. Like its just this messed up lil planet in the corner of the phlogiston thats totally cut off
Noice
Yes
My N'wah!
A very very VERY minor correction, however volcanoes do not exist because of oceans, its the tectonic plates under either land or sea that create volcanoes, and lava comes from both. I digress, but good video.
one thing i really dislike about Conan is that the story focus too much about civilization is corrupt while Cimmerian tribe themself are as corrupt with the only different is population size
Nice beginning words from the all father in mad max😂😂😂😂