Dark Sun: Bronze Age D&D
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- Опубликовано: 20 авг 2024
- 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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The thing I liked most about Dark Sun campaign was the expansion of use of Psionic powers. With magic being illegal, Psionics was much more prevalent.
I had the Complete Psionic guide and the campaign box set back in the day. Probably still in moms basement. Lol
amazing how almost everything in the setting has some kind of psionic trait
The one thing I hated about the setting. lol. To each their own
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
Hoping that this series continues! Nothing else rivals Dark Sun for an evocative setting!
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.
dark sun best setting ever made
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
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
Loved both these dark sun videos, good combination of humour and detail cheers can't wait for more
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.
New subscriber Love this and used it for my new players
Really nice companion video to the 2.5hr epic vid from Michael Snow.
I’m sad we didn’t get more of these
It would be really cool to see more videos on this. Please
Good stuff. No idea why it took a year for RUclips to show me this.
hey man i wish you continued this series you do a great job of introducing dark sun and id love to hear more
Nice videos. Would love to see more dark sun stuff.
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.
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.
What is really hard about Dark Sun is finding a AD&D game for it lol.
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!
"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.
A friend of mine had a huge amount of forgotten realms novels and also the dark sun ones. I didn't know what d and d was but I borrowed the dark sun books because of the cover art. The series where they kill Kalak at the start was my first read of those books. The next 2 years were spent reading every dark sun series and then a large chunk of his forgotten realms collection. I actually found that series in a second hand shop like 10 years ago and read them again. Still have them but one of my dogs ate a good part of book 2 as a puppy.
Loved the Dark Sun series.
Just finished book two of Prism Pentad a couple days ago! Can’t explain in words how visceral and satisfying this setting is.
Phenomenal video -- love your content.
Slight nit pick. Clerics in Dark Sun used Elemental magic because the Gods didn't exist, so no divine magic.
Love the video keep it up.
The elemental clerics used divine magic, but it was split up based on the element. They were more like the druids than the Templars.
Waiting for the next episode ;)
Claw the unconquered fits this description!.
Very interesting review! I would imagine some of the Indus Valley civilizations of ancient South Asia (current Pakistan, Afghanistan, and northernmost India might have qualified as hydraulic despotisms as well.
Perhaps but we don't know a lot about that civilisation.
I have a start adventure idea for Dark Sun that starts in a great Underdark cavern, where there is a deep underground lake near the core of the planet. The core being "dead" like Mars, due to the Sun being Diminished in density..
I just subscribed. I've never played Dark Sun (back then, the other players in our group wanted only "mainstream" fantasy). But I've always been intrigued by the "Mad Max" vibe. So, I'd be interested in your take of how to translate the setting to 5e.
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.
Great intro to an amazing old-school D&D setting!
Please make more videos about Dark Sun especially after the events of Ur Draxa being destroyed & the various Sorcerer Kings dying.
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.
More! I recently got into dark sun. Love the setting
Please continue!
YESSSSS! Been looking forward to this, Deeds.
Love the content ❤️
Hope you make more :)
Thank you for sharing this was very interesting :D
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?
we need to game i have lots of darksun books and never have been able to game with anyone
Since metal is scarce, Dark Sun would be more like late Neolithic.
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
Damn shame ya don’t have anymore material
Good vids
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.
It's my favorite too.
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.
Please make more
I really wish they'd update Dark Sun for 5e because I love the idea of the setting. Sounds like I should do it myself. :D
With how wizards is doing things it won't ever happen because they would have to get rid of many things that go against the setting such as no war forged , no Tieflings , no dwarven or Halfling magic using spell casters , no gnomes , no Paladins , no sorcerers , no goliaths , no metal weapons or armor , no earthly animals ie no horses or camels .
Things they'd have to add weather that can kill entire parties , plants and animals that can ambush players by psionic means , bands of ex-slaves looking for the next meal or slave , halflings that would eat you in a heartbeat , thri-kreen with their weird incetoid ways , drowning in silt because you thought it was flat land , dying of thurst and hunger , being caught and sold as slaves , for dwarves dying without a purpose turns them into banshees , elves that trust no one not if their tribe including other elves , elves refuse to ride any animals and run everywhere unless captured and forced to ride in a cage and the list goes on and on .
If you want to know more about the brutal world of Athas then here is a link to the setting created by fans using official material .
athas.org/
@@williamlee7482 youre just describing the individual lore of the setting, which is kind of what wizards does every time they publish a setting book
I'm gonna guess you've never looked at the Eberron book (which is the only published setting that warforged are truly canon to without homebrewing it at a table btw)
@@Rockzilla1122 That was my entire point that their lore didn't match the dark sun lore at all .
You can't have the races , classes and animals like they did in the video and call it dark sun because it's not in the official lore of the setting .
They had a warforged , a Minotaur , a murder hobo fairy none of which can be found in dark sun .
Wizards version of the forgotten realms is trash because they only focus on the sword coast by creating one massive adventure and call it a campaign setting when there's no actual setting for the players to explore beyond what's in the book because it's just one big story adventure with a major boss fight ( I hate MMO terms used on reference to s&d ) at the end of the railroad
@@williamlee7482 You're missing that guys point. 5e as a system is totally distinct from the forgotten realms as a setting. You are conflating the two. One could easily use the dark sun setting including all the elements you described with the 5e rule set - For instance using simplified grapple mechanics and advantage/disadvantage instead of the convulted flowcharts used in the 90s
@@codyvandal2860 I'm not missing the point because I said wizards is only focussing on the sword coast for all of its adventures within the Forgoten Realms .
The rules set has nothing to do with the setting because I've used both the forgotten realms and dark sun setting with my GURPS 4th edition rules instead of d&d's rules .
My point about how they played dark sun was that they played it like it was just a desert world based on an earth like setting and not on the dark sun setting its self .
Nothing about it was dark sun , there are no earth type animals at all and none of the races they were playing are in dark sun because they were all killed off by the sorcerer kings and queens .
With a unique setting like dark sun that doesn't fit the normal mold like the Forgotten Realms or The World Of Greyhawk and not following the setting and playing it as if it was just another European type of setting the Forgotten Realms or The World Of Greyhawk is based on defeats the entire point of the setting .
MOAR
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
Really good video!
I’d like to talk to you about The City-State of Balic, but I don’t see a Facebook page or email I can send a message to. What is the best to contact you?
Hey there! Are you planning to upload more dark sun videos? I subscribed just in case 😅
Dark sun=Conan the Barbarian x Mad Max x The Bronze Age
Ive been designing this primitive world for about 8 years now, only to find out somebody already published it!?
Step 1: Research!
You should read the Dark Sun Prism Pentad
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Give me more
Do they make the miniatures for these themes?
So, Conan the barbarian
More people need to talk about Dark Sun!
(the hydraulic depotism section was a tad too long. Would've been more interesting to talk more about Darksun as a whole rather than go into that topic beyond a footnote)
im remembering that darksun had no appeal to me whatsoever as a kid. it was desolate and boring. it was monochromatic and the outfits were weird. the environments were all the same (desert), and it just sounded like endless monotony with no fun allowed. My assessment remains the same today, but now I am interested in checking it out XD haha though i almost talked myself out of it again. be careful thoughts/words have power
Its definitely not to everyone's taste :)