Dark Sun campaign, anyone?

[Lord Coake]

My plan was to do a Dark Sun campaign using the 3.5e third-party sourcebooks found Here. Myth-weavers for sheets, of course. I would be open to homebrew, so long as it fits the setting in question, and I have a 2-3 homebrew rules of my own to address if/when this takes off. So, any takers?

[clanjos]

I'm always up for Dark Sun.

[Shadolord]

I'm in

[Dark Cloud]

I'm in as well!

[Lord Coake]

@clanjos@Shadolord@Blackmist16I guess I'll start working on an OOC. Expect it sometime tonight/tomorrow.

[Dark Cloud]

Is this third edition btw?

[Lord Coake]

@Blackmist163.5, and I'm sorry for the OOC delay, thing's have been very busy around here.

[Dark Cloud]

@Lord Coake

no worries just want to know stuff, and what classes are you going to allow like the Knight or the Duskblade, or even the Binder from some other expansions I own.

[Lord Coake]

@Blackmist16Knight wouldn't really fit with the setting, at least without a major fluff change. Duskblade would probably be fine. And Binder would be especially good due to not suffering from the persecution by churches, due to the lack of churches.

[Lord Coake]

@clanjos@Shadolord@Blackmist16OOC is up! It can be found Here!

[Dark Cloud]

@Lord Coake

Okay I will begin developing a character.

[OtomostheCrazy]

What exactly is a "Dark Sun" campaign?

[clanjos]

The Dark Sun of Athas is a campaign setting, like Greyhawk, Eberron, Forgotten Realms, or Ravenloft. It is, indeed, one of the bleakest settings in D&D, if not in all of fiction. The world is a desert, stripped clean of fertility by arcane magic- so your wizard's getting lynched. The civilized world is ruled by the Dragon-Kings, immortal wizards of vast power using arcane magic to kill the world faster and become dragons, which don't exist in Athas. EXCEPT the Dragon of Tyr, who is basically evil incarnate. Every bit of wildlife is psionic, and will kill you at the drop of a hat. The halflings are savage cannibals, the elves have no forests, the dwarves are a slave race, and gnomes, goblins, and orcs were wiped out in genocidal wars millenia ago. The art of forging metal is considered a lost art of a more advanced time.

Athas is a shithole. Such a shithole, in fact, that the average build for NPC's is "Third Level PC class." See that no-name beggar? Third level psion. See that slave? Third level Rogue. See that paladin? No you don't, Athas is such a shithole that the gods have abandoned it altogether. It's a blasted hellhole of a world, and there are no heroes- a Dark Sun game is about surviving.