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In better days, the Dragon Kings ruled beneficently over the face of Khitus. The city-states around the Inland Seas thrived beneath their wings. They let each nation and each civilization flourish in its own idiom, all free peoples, unmolested, unafraid.

But those days lay buried beneath dust and sand.

Over the centuries, the Dragon Kings retreated gradually from the world, and in their absence malignancies grew. Greed, war, and pestilence emerged to blight the land. The world’s best days faded into memory.

Now the Dragon Kings are spoken of only in hushed tones, for fear of incurring their wrath. They oversee the savage plundering of Khitus, the theft of anything and everything of value. Their raiders steal it all—metal, gemstones, even food and weapons—and march the weak away in chains. Worse still, the Dragon Kings employ powerful magic to redirect entire rivers and keep the very clouds for themselves, leaving a scorched wasteland of bones and despair.

Khitus is a world in need of heroes, but who can face these wicked Dragon Kings?

Dragon Kings is a rich and diverse fantasy setting that emphasizes a unique struggle of good versus evil and desperate survival on a dwindling world being quite literally plundered dry.

Chapter 1: One World Among Many
Chapter 2: The Struggle for Khitus
- Bev al-Khim: Mysterious pale-skinned agents and brokers
- Boneshards: Deadly assassins scarred by hidden weapons
- Dramidge: A magic college of isolated wizards devoted to dragons
- Gare Attessa: The omnipresent Chroniclers, royal advisers and watchers
- Kuad Ahir: The Awakened, followers of the Prophet
- Merchants: From peddlers to caravan masters, the world’s traders
- Nyutu: The All-Seeing, transient entertainers with unique mental powers
- Qath Manhir: Equivocally honorable brigands and enforcers
- Raetann: Bureaucratic Water Guild, emergent challengers to power
- Rakar: A magic college, the Cozeners, keepers of slave decoys
- Shadazim: Right Minders, new clergy of the ancient gods
- Trakeen: The Faithful, worshipers of the departed Dragon Kings
- Yenfansa: Feared and little-understood Devil’s Children, the White Eyes
- Attites: Human negotiators and peacemakers
- Chindi: Human matriarchal traders and warriors on the fringes of the known world
- Cold Skins/Oritahl: Lizard men of the swamps with growing awareness
- Krikis: Bug men that hoard bright lode
- Makadan: Human warrior culture and source of many Khitan mercenaries
- Nordor: Human barbarian stone carvers from the frigid north
- Pachyaur: Elephantaurs of the equator
- Penmai: Daring acrobatic humanoids with prehensile tails
- Prajalu: Short, stocky humans feared as poison makers and child stealers
- Watu: Slaver elephantaurs
Chapter 3: Races & Realms
Chapter 4: The Cities
Chapter 5: Traversing the Wastelands
Chapter 6: Traces of the Daragkarik
Chapter 7: Bestiary
Chapter 8: Sorcery’s Mind
Chapter 9: Gods & Demigods
Chapter 10: Khitus in Flux

Dragon Kings is the new fantasy role-playing setting by Timothy Brown, co-designer of Dark Sun and 2300AD.

The Dragon Kings World Book is system-agnostic—look for the free PDF rules supplements to play with your favorite game systems, including the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, Savage Worlds, and 13th Age!

Written by Timothy Brown
Cover Art by Brom
Interior Art by Thomas Denmark, Thomas M. Baxa, Thomas Babbey, and others
Cartography by Alyssa Faden

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SSP1001E

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?

Thanks!

The Angelic Dragon

Nov 1, 2014, 04:58 pm

Khanji wrote:

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.

Evil Midnight Lurker

Nov 1, 2014, 07:49 pm

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.

It's really...:

...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.

The NPC

Nov 1, 2014, 08:40 pm

So... Does one not simply walk into Nordor?

Bard of Ages

Feb 13, 2016, 01:36 pm

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.

The Dragon Kings:

Were just mortal people with alot of power who took the forms of dragons later in life.

But, the setting itself is mostly fluff. To get some crunchy stuff you can pick up the free rules supplement pdfs.