Dark Sun

[Niemz]

What are your favorite Dark Sun stories and characters?

[theyeti1775]

I would have to go with the story of Rikus in the first book. But past that, the novels changed the entire setting vastly from the Campaign Setting release.

Yeti

[DM=DisputeMediator]

I have a couple of Ral Partha figures that were originally supposed to be based off of prominent Darksun characters. However, they are infamously associated with a couple of my players' earlier PCs in the Forgotten Realms, and trust me, they will not soon be forgotten! Man, the tales... But this is a Dark Sun thread, so I will leave this post at that.

[matanthunder]

;D

Darksun was never really my cup of tea but I do so like the idea of a Psionic PC. I have a question to import from another part of the site.

Other than the spells that were offered in the Dark Sun campaign, HAS ANYONE EVER SEEN COMBO SPELLS/PSIONIC POWERS listed anywhere on the net or in another gaming system.

I would like to see how they were done. Dark Sun left me a little flat saying Lv 10 magic spells were somehow combo spell/powers.

I hope others can lend some light to the question.

Later

[Dunkelzahn the Great]

Well I've only played it one time and the DM told us to write up three characters to start with. My first for that campaign was a human proficient marks man with the sling it wasn't so much of what he had done as how he died. (Character death stories are so much fun to share)

I remember he had gotten severely injured in a fight and the party decided to use a shelled husk as a stretch to carry my character. A long the ravine they here a low rumbling and figured out it was a flash flood.

Well someone had the bright idea to tie off the stretcher so I wouldn't float away. The DM played the logic and physics card on the situation and declared that I drowned in the flash flood

[TheGratefulNed]

I think my favorite (of admittedly few) Dark Sun PCs was Irthal, a Dwarf Cleric of Earth. Stix was DMin and the rules we were using were slightly modified, but he became almost impossible to hurt. I remember one time in particular, we were traveling with a trade caravan as mercenary guards and a huge sandstorm kicked up. Everyone went inside the heavily armored main caravan wagon and Irthal decided it was getting too cramped inside and stepped out. Everyone else tried to warn him about the danger, he sat in the blowing, biting sand and meditated. Now because of his level and class, he could ignore a certain amount of Earth...sand and dust included. So basically he was easily breathing in the air and not getting anything in his lungs and not taking a pummeling from the torrent. The storm subsided and he knocked on the back of the wagon to tell everyone that it was safe to come out.

I'm also currently playing an Athasian Elf Scout in Stix's Dark of the Day game. He's one of the very few primes in a planescape game and my character had no idea of where he ended up or how. But he has thoroughly delighted in all of the WATER and METAL on the planes and how freely you can get a lot of it.

[Renthallin]

I have to say Dark Sun was my favorite to play and DM. I really liked how it strayed from the norm of Fantasy RPG in almost every way. I just wish I had the time to either DM it again or could find a DM willing to run it as it was truly the most interesting setting I have ever encountered.

[Taican]

I've never managed to convince my group to try a campaign in DarkSun. It looks like it would be a blast to play to me, but they just see the limitations...

[Niemz]

DarkSun is the only campaign my group has not tried...

[Taican]

II have the box set for it, and several modules for it. I've read the Tribe of one Trilogy, and really enjoyed the world in the stories. But my players have never been interested in it. I even tried to include it in a Spelljamming campaign, but it didn't fly.

[Renthallin]

admin said:

DarkSun is the only campaign my group has not tried...

But we should......

[Niemz]

Oh...I have enough storylines for that...sitting in a tent in 128° heat...

[jacks]

hello im playing AD&D i need some spell combos for mage. from spell list 1-3

[Stix]

Hey, this thread reminds me!

I'm running a Dark Sun "mini-game" on Dark of the Day. It may at some point synch up with the overarching Planescape game, but a good bit of it will happen on Athas.

One more for the gladiatorial pits? I'm basically going to run the introductory combat as character creation for anyone who isn't familiar with the system; all you need is race, class, alignment, and ability scores.

[Renthallin]

I signed up on your board. Unfortunately I dont think I will have the time to keep up with this board, yours and the other Niemz Realm boards I belong to. Maybe when things quiet down with school a bit I can pop over and actually make a character. So far I have just been nosing around and reading stuff.