Lore of dark souls 1 as interpreted by the community. More about the dark kings when first heard that dark sun was being revamped for 4e. Then why a hardbound rules book devoted to higherlevel characters. Dragon kings highlevel characters, psionic enchantments, armies, war vehicles, rogue skills. The great elemental netbook, part 1 this is a very interesting book about the inner planes. All classes gain greater abilities when they advance beyond 20th level, including new 10th level spells. This adventure is designed for the storm kings thunder campaign, and is meant to enhance your partys connection to important events and npcs. The dragon king lies dead, earthquakes rock the land, and revolution spreads like wildfire across the tyr region. This page houses facts and interpretations related to the game, but you may also visit the dark souls lore forums to discuss with the community directly.
Dragon kings 2e explore the 10th level of magic only the most powerful characters are destined to rule athas. The sorcerer kings are the immensely powerful tyrants of many of the citystates in the tablelands. Borys, also known as the dragon, was the sorcerer king of ur draxa. These demons are mostly located at the end of each area. Dragon kings features tips for taking player characters from the dark sun setting all the way to 30th level. Crowdfunding will continue on the dragon kings site until january 1, and the pledges will be combined for meeting stretch goals. The dark sun campaigns future is bright, but for now its strictly bounded within the existing campaign map. Dragon kings is a new fantasy game world conceived and presented in fiction, art, and music simultaneously. The themes of this setting could fit in the dying earth subgenre and include survival against the elements, ecological disaster, resource depletion, survival of the fittest, slavery and poverty, and the widespread use of psionic abilities.
They say that it is the most difficult game of the generation and it made many peoples heads turn grey. This is why our complete dark souls walkthrough will guide you from the moment you land in the. Shattered lands the dark sun world of athas is arid and bleak, a wasteland with a handful of cities ruled by thousandyearold sorcererkings. The dragon kings pdf is out to backers, so i am posting an. The first section of the book offers rules for creating highlevel warriors, along with battlesystem options, and 50plus pages of highpowered spells. It is intended for use during chapter 3 and 4, where your party is roaming the savage frontier, and has material enough for 12 full sessions. Overview introduction to the third edition at last. It is true that the dragon kings amused themselves with their petty wars, rattling sabers to punctuate the passing of ages. Sun world, the sorcererkings, advanced beings, and other powerful characters set the tone. They are distinguishable by the fact that their name, and healthbar, shows up at the bottom of the screen. Dragon kings contains lots of information about magic, and so its natural that its also crosses over with the 2e tome of magic 1991 by providing rules for integrating that book of magic with highlevel dark sun play. The crimson sun scorches the life from anything that crawls or flies, and storms of sand scour the foliage from the barren ground. If youre playing a nondark sun 2e campaign with psionics, you owe it to yourself to pick up the will and the way for the ideas it offers.
The rest of the material is safe to skip but dragon kings should go back on your list if youre dming an epiclevel 2e campaign, because its expansion of campaign scope is worth imitating. Personally, i feel that both ravenloft products deserve mention on the list because the writeup on kalidnay and its sorcerer king is substantial enough that it may be useful for someone interested in dark sun lore even if the gender of kalidma and hisher high priest is inconsistent. The first in dragons new year of dragons anniversary series. The dragon kings world book tells many tales, many legends, and sets the stage for the many adventures to come. The dark sun creature catalog is a great book, it comes in a nice hard cover, and has nearly 200 monsters in it. Indeed, a production by from software is uncompromising, absolute, scant in hints and multithreaded. 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. Dragon kings is a new fantasy game world conceived and presented in fiction, art, and music simultaneously by timothy brown, creator of dark sun and 2300ad. I asked jeremy crawford last week for the stats for the five dragon masks that are described in horde of the dragon queen, and especially for the rise of tiamat, so tonight he updated me, and here they are. Its scales glowed red with the heat of the naked magma, and the clouds gathered beneath its wings like a storm of fire. Dark suns popularity endured long after the setting was no longer supported, with a lively online community developing around it. Black spine recently wotc rereleased the dark sun setting for 4e. The earliest entry for a capitalized dark ages in the oxford english dictionary is a reference in henry thomas buckles history of civilization in england in 1857.
Only the most powerful characters are destined to rule athas. Brown only wrote the dragon kings 1992 hardcover, while denning moved over to fiction with his work on the prism pentad series 19911993. Dragon kings is largely a crunch book that portrays the world of athas only through its rules. Read of the dragon king pretenders in their black fortress, of the factions and strange races vying for control of the wastelands and their sandblasted cities. The tablelands have been thrown into turmoil, the likes of which have not been seen since times forgotten. The dark souls series is the spiritual successor to from softwares playstation 3 exclusive demons souls. It is true that, occasionally, another city would be swallowed by the. Futhermore, we see the transformations undergone by magicusers.
Ign s walkthrough of dark souls 2 carries you through your arrival in drangleic into the vast realm of new game plus. Warriors with vast armies of followers campaign for glory. Find out things you always wanted know this episode. The great dragon is a ferocious creature with tremendous psionic powers. The third edition of the dark sun net handbook is finally out. The dragon kings steered everything from their omnipotent perches, content in their superiority, but ever thirsting for challenge. Dragon kings new musicartgame project the dark sun creator tim brown. The battles also takes place in arenas, blocked by foggates. List of sorcerer kings king borys of ur draxa, king kalak of tyr, king tectuktitlay of draj, king dregoth of giustenalnew giustenal, king hamanu of urik, queen abalachre of raam, king nibenay of. Mindscape publishing is raising funds for dragon kings players rulebook for 5e on kickstarter. Dragon kings serves two purposes one obvious, one not. Authors the authors of the many novels and sourcebooks. Sourcebooks rulebooks, adventures, and supplements for playing the game.
Masque of the red death, a new look for class acts, and comics, including order of the stick. The dark sun campaign setting was released in 1991. Ever wanting more unique and diverse characters, i implemented every new proficiency i could find. Dark sun campaign setting advanced dungeons dragons 2nd edition timothy b. Borys was one of rajaats th champion of rajaat that was responsible for cleansing athas of theinferior.
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. The world of dark souls is massive to say the least. Jeremy is super awesome for letting me know the dragon masks the dragon masks impart more to the dragon whisperers because of blessings. It includes descriptions of each of the planes and new monsters. Dark souls ii was released in north america for the playstation 3 and xbox 360 on march 11, 2014, on march, 2014 in japan, and on march 14, 2014 in the eu. Poster maps are represented in a four page pdf, each page showing one side of the two poster maps from the set dark sun. Defile the land and raise your own empire as one of dark suns godlike dragon kings. The concept of the dark ages was also in use, but by the 18th century, it tended to be confined to the earlier part of this period.
Dragon kings are the most powerful characters of athas, and rule the world. Optional bosses, have an marker next to their name on. If you do not have either boxed set, they can be purchased from rpgnow. Posted in setting over 6 years ago tim brown dragon kings. The dragon kings kickstarter closes this thursday, but dont despair. This is a collection of the work of many players and dms for. Dragon kings was another early dark sun release that revealed the settings origins as. Dark sun psionics wild talents free download as pdf file. The 12song dragon kings album mp3s, as well as the mp3s of all 12 songs as instrumental soundtracks, the pdf version of the world book, both the pathfinder and savage worlds pdf rules supplements, and the pdf version of the gazetteer book, the pdf versions of the game screen and the new dune marauders adventure, and the pdf version of the exclusive poster map. Dragon kings is a complete setting for any fantasy roleplaying game system. This article is part of a series that examines a release from 2e dark sun and sees how and if it can be integrated with the new 4e version of the world setting. A guide to highlevel adventurers in the world of the dark sun. You must find a way to escape into the hostile wilderness, join with other escaped slaves and create.