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I feel a need to have my Survival skill maxed out...
PDF option coming?
Working on it. :)
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So obviously this is a variant of Dark Sun (or a reimaging of Dark Sun, however you want to call it). What I'd like to know is (a) what's the difference between this and the materials on Athas.org, or more recently the re-imagining of Dark Sun in Dragon/Dungeon Magazine, and (b) is the material similar enough to match with other Dark Sun materials I bought for 2E?
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So obviously this is a variant of Dark Sun (or a reimaging of Dark Sun, however you want to call it). What I'd like to know is (a) what's the difference between this and the materials on Athas.org, or more recently the re-imagining of Dark Sun in Dragon/Dungeon Magazine, and (b) is the material similar enough to match with other Dark Sun materials I bought for 2E?
Good questions.
Same flavor overall, but different reasons for things, definitely a different world.
Arcane magic doesn't suck the life from the world -- but magic has a vast alien consciousness, it doesn't like being used to cast spells, and it inflicts bad luck on wizards and the things they care about. The wizards may accept their unpleasant lives, or deliberately cultivate false emotional connections so that magic's vengeance falls on other people or places.
The world is dying -- but not because of arcane magic; some unknown force is draining the water from the world.
...aliens sucking the oceans up through a space elevator. No, really.
Iron is uncommon, not because the world is ancient -- civilization is a new thing -- but because a mysterious rusting plague is destroying metal faster than it can be mined.
So... Does one not simply walk into Nordor?
This book is great if you LIKE dark sun, and you could easily port rules, maybe even some modules and setting stuff in. But it is a different take on the wasteland world.
But, the setting itself is mostly fluff. To get some crunchy stuff you can pick up the free rules supplement pdfs.