Back in 2014, I did a post on " Different Dark Suns ." There I kept the dying earth desert as the essential element but changed ot...

The party's caravan arrived at the Silver Springs Oasis. Eowen and Egon went to try to deliver a message given to them by the elf Iseela...

The last two sessions of our Forbidden Lands Dark Sun campaign saw the party (now having made the acquaintance of the dune peddler Egon the ...

I've run two sessions now of Dark Sun using Forbidden Lands (and the Burning Sands Dark Sun adaptation you can find online). To keep i...

"The effect of this cannot be understood without being there. The beauty of it cannot be understood, either, and when you see beauty in...

The original Dark Sun campaign setting calls the Sorcerer-King Nibenay "a bizarre and enigmatic figure." He is seldom seen by his ...

Cosmology is really on comes up and references to certain monsters or magic in the original Dark Sun campaign setting, but in the second ed...

Here I'm going to break a bit more with Dark Sun as published than I have in my previous posts. I'm afraid I don't really like t...

Supreme over other kings, lordly in appearance, he is the hero, born of Uruk... - The Epic of Gilgamesh I am Hamanu, King of the World, King...

In the Dark Sun campaign setting, the city-state of Tyr is presented as on the brink of some drastic change. The Sorcerer-King Kalak has co...

  We're told in the original Dark Sun campaign setting that the Templars are "clergymen devoted to the sorcerer king of their city....

  Under the description of humans in the original Dark Sun campaign setting it's noted that: On Athas, centuries of abusive magic have n...

 " I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls. My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat ." - Job 30:29-...

art by Alcatena The main action of the first Dark Sun material is set in the Tyr Region, also called the Tablelands. This is an area a bit b...

While I haven't heard its creators name specific works, it seems clear that the Dark Sun setting draws inspiration from Planetary Romanc...

 Thinking about doing something with this old post condensing my ideas about Dark Sun. Here are some images that get me in the right frame ...