Spotted in this post on Dragonsfoot, it appears the folks over at Athas.org have released the newest (and apparently final) version of their Dark Sun Core Rules book.
I have just given it a brief skimming-over, but it looks very cool. Chapters 7, 8, 9, and 11 in particular are pretty awesome and are also largely system-independent. Despite a lot of D&D 3.5 talk and rules, a good Castle Keeper or older D&D edition DM could parse through it all and come up with a really good campaign. Chapter 11 especially, "Other Ages of Play", will be a balm to those who don't like the infusing of the published "meta-plot" into the game.
Definitely worth a download and perusal if you have any interest in Dark Sun or Post-Apocalyptic Fantasy in general.
I have just given it a brief skimming-over, but it looks very cool. Chapters 7, 8, 9, and 11 in particular are pretty awesome and are also largely system-independent. Despite a lot of D&D 3.5 talk and rules, a good Castle Keeper or older D&D edition DM could parse through it all and come up with a really good campaign. Chapter 11 especially, "Other Ages of Play", will be a balm to those who don't like the infusing of the published "meta-plot" into the game.
Definitely worth a download and perusal if you have any interest in Dark Sun or Post-Apocalyptic Fantasy in general.
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We used to exclusively play Dark Sun back in the day. Even built our own "Skills and Powers" rules for it. That was probably 10 years ago now. I actually had a Dark Sun webpage on geocities like all the gaming blogs now days on blogger. Great fun.
You mention 3.5 edition but are they not o 4th edition now.
Sweet. I have the previous iteration (or maybe second-to-previous?) printed out, along with the critters and the Dead Lands material ...
It's huge. It also lives with the rest of my DS hoard.
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