I also made a neutral version called open without the heat subsystem for folks who just want to play dark sun with pathfinder and psionics, but i kept the box for psionic or psilike powers on the first page. No law rules the blasted wastes of athas, except the laws carved. While this document is rather large, do not let it daunt you. Dark sun campaign setting expanded and revised edition 2e. Yep, dark sun is coolheres the crazy way to kick it off. Summon the dead at your side, command devils and demons, leap through the shadows and become evil incarnate in this supplement for the worlds greatest roleplaying game. At the time of writing, the file is corrupted and cannot be opened. At their zenith, these wizards caused the sun to transform from a pleasant yellow glow to a raging crimson fireball on the horizon. Yes, the psionics unleashed and its psionics expanded books are great additions to any player that wants to incorporate psionics into a pathfinder game, and the flavor is just right for dark sun, in my opinion. Visitors will want protection from the exposure to so much light and heat. The character sheets on this page are not necessarily my own creation. In 1990, the tsr higherups, worried about decreasing interest in dragonlance, decided they needed a major new campaign world. But, after many thousands of years, powerful mages found ways to gain power through draining the planets vitality. The race was created by the magical experiments conducted during the first years of the age of the sorcererkings.
Pathfinder character sheets for dark sun since my upcoming ds game will be played with pathfinder, i made some custom character sheets. Kingmaker is the first partybased, singleplayer, isometric computer rpg set in the world of pathfinder, adapted from the fanfavorite kingmaker adventure path. Dark sun campaign setting psionics are allpervasive in athas, as almost every human, demihuman, and humanoid in the world is at least a wild talent. Weve decided that athas would be a neat choice setting. Information on pathfinder race mechanics can be found here, but are subject to the modifications inherent to the dark sun campaign setting. This site is recognized by wotc as the official dark sun site on the internet.
While different colors exist, the structures tend to mimic the sun and have a dark red coloring. Dark sun pathfinder campaign setting free ebook download as pdf file. Ive started preparing for my planestravelling pathfinder campaign to visit. Since some skills have be streamlined and condencsed for pathfinder, the classes page translates and lists changes where relevant for athasian characters. This race first appears in the 4th edition version of dark sun.
The dark sun creature catalog is a great book, it comes in a nice hard cover, and has nearly 200 monsters in it. I use a seperate proficiency sheet with the skills and powers rules. They answer to their sorcerermonarch and their own sense of. A templar dedicates himself to a particular sorcerer. Psionics are allpervasive in athas, as almost every human, demihuman, and humanoid in the world is at least a wild talent. There are eight available races, including halfgiants and the exotic insectlike thrikreen alongside the more traditional ones. Sourcebooks rulebooks, adventures, and supplements for playing the game. From handtohand combat in the mud pits of small forts to the grand games of the city. Dark suns is a setting that is wildly different than traditional fantasy, great for adventures where the odds are not at all stacked towards heroes. Athas, the world of dark sun, was once as pleasant as any other. Set on the desert world of athas, dark sun is about the struggle for survival. Please refer to the main dark sun article for further information prism pentad troy denning the verdant passage october 1991, isbn 1560761210.
These are races featured specifically for players aarakocra dray dragonborn 1 dwarf eladrin 1 elf genasi halfgiant goliath 2 halfelf halfling human mul pterran thrikreen tiefling 1 1. Ancient wars have left vast swaths of the planet sterile. I can nitpick half a dozen things, but some of them are simple personal preference. Not because there arent any good sheets available online, but because i wanted a a sheet that incorporates psionics from dreamscarred press better than the official psionic sheet and b something that.
Dark sun pathfinder conversion thursday, july 1, 2010. Muls grow as high as seven feet, weighing upwards of 250 pounds, but carry almost no fat at all on their broad muscular frames. The halfgiant appears in the original version of dark sun as a new character race. This is a land of blood and dust, where tribes of feral elves sweep out of the salt plains to plunder lonely caravans, mysterious singing winds call travelers to slow suffocation in the sea of silt, and selfish. Like the kingmaker adventure path upon which the game is based, pathfinder. It is a world where magic drains the very essence of life. While playing the pathfinder rpg, the game master describes the events that occur in the game world, and the players take turns describing what their characters do in response to. Specifically, athasexclusive monsters braxat, gaj, jhakars, etc. Dark sun 2nd edition had several odd rules, most which seem to have been forgotten. Psionic artifacts of athas dark sun campaign setting pdf free.
This is an a4 character sheet i designed for a pathfinder game in the old dark sun campaign setting. The skill list assumes the so called magicpsionic transparency whenever applicable, both forces affect each other as if they were one and the same, and skills are therefore not separated, and i included a small box for wild psionic or psilike talents which some player characters might have. Finally, theres wizards of the coast, whose free rpg day offering was a dark sun module of some description. A lot adapts oddly to pathfinder, but i enjoy everybodys take on so many different conversion threads. Halfgiants are one of the newer races to walk upon the burning sands of athas.
So im gonna run a pathfinder game for 6 players in the next few months after the current game ends. It also provides everything dungeon masters need to run 4th edition dark sun campaigns or include dark sun elements in their homebrew campaigns. Where other settings make arcane and divine magic the ubiquitous force and the source of fantastic elements, dark sun uses psionics. Im currently in the process of converting my 4e dark sun game to pathfinder, and ive run across a pretty big snag monsters. Authors the authors of the many novels and sourcebooks. While i havent yet had the time to design my own pathfinder character sheet, neceros sheet is very close to what i would create. Dark sun pathfinder character sheet page 1 by antariuk. The trove is the biggest open directory of rpg pdfs on the internet. The burnt world of athas dark sun campaign setting. Dark sun campaign setting expanded and revised edition 2e a decade has passed since the age of heroes began. Universal mul characteristics include angular, almost protrusive eye ridges, and ears that point sharply backwards against the temples.
Most muls have dark coppercolored skin and hairless bodies. Pathfinder roleplaying game core reference document november 6, 2009 by mike dusseault. Dark sun boxed set 2e amid the barren wastelands of athas lie the scattered citystates, each in the grip of its own, tyrannical sorcererking. Just got pf, love it, however i am missing my pdfs and it appears the site. It not only has monster info, but info about the sorcererkings and their cities, and stats about them so your pcs can actually battle them. All rogues bards and thieves in 2nd edition dark sun gained illusion spells at 20th level. Hello everyone, i have been out of it for a couple years now. Instead of the module, the online crowd gets to settle for the pregen characters. The dark archetypes consists of subclasses for each official class, along with magical items, spells and minions. The crimson sun scorches the life from anything that crawls or flies, and storms of sand scour the foliage from the barren ground. The main sheet is two pages, with an optional third. The player can control a pregenerated party of four characters or create new ones at the beginning. Until recently, they were ruled by powerful sorcererkings, both tyrants and protectors. Pathfinder roleplaying game core reference document.
The third edition of the dark sun net handbook is finally out. Baas, is the twelfth of the looseleaf monstrous compendiums. I cannot recommend it for new players due to the generally intense difficulty especially for good aligned characters, but for veterans who understand the mechanics and want something shying away. Developed by owlcat games and published by deep silver, pathfinder. Theyre into the concept of a postapocalyptic wasteland with psionics in higher usage. Every so often a building will have prisms, scattering the light into more colors than a traveler could imagine. Many of these rules are very simple in implementation, or only truly apply when creating characters. I think im done by now, got rid of some errors and adjusted the layout slightly. Link is key worded for dark sun this is athas athas savage, primal landscape is the result of long centuries of ecological and magical abuses. Dark sun campaign setting pdf version rpg item version. Im allowing anything drawn from the following sources, since i own physical copies for ingame.
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