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Finally Accepting a 4E Dark Sun Setting

2 months ago
by Eugene in

I find it both amusing and inconvenient that as we approach the next D&D edition (aka D&D Next), I’m finally growing accustomed to Dark Sun in 4E. When it was first presented, I was rather disappointed at the lack of detail that the 2E setting possessed. The second edition had created a detailed story that was compelling and strong, whereas the fourth edition gave only basics and general concepts. I had thought that such a loss of canon would weaken the setting. (more…)

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d20 Dice Shape vs. Perceived Performance

3 months ago
by Eugene in

I hope everyone has seen the videos of Lou Zocchi discussing dice. In the videos he argues (quite well) that typical dice are manufactured in such a way that causes them to be misshapen causing both their overall shape to not be perfectly round and their edges to be improperly rounded. He (and others) have suggested that this misshaping causes the dice to be like an egg in that the die will more often roll with the sides of the “egg” displaying rather than the poles. So I decided to do some tests of my own to see if there was any weight to this idea. (more…)

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Ral Partha Dark Sun Mini Names: For the Record…

5 months ago
by Eugene in

Back in the 90’s, and I’m sure even now, miniatures where often based on preexisting art, and in some cases there needed to be some liberty in defining what the mini was supposed to be based on the art. However, being what I would deem a “Dark Sun art historian” there are some legacy Dark Sun minis that were identified as one thing and the art showed the subject to clearly be something different. It has always struck me rather odd that the mini descriptions would miss the mark by such a large margin. So let’s look at the 4 minis that were named/packaged incorrectly in a post 18 years too late. (more…)

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Mysteries of a Brom Dark Sun Image

10 months ago
by Eugene in

I was looking for a high res version of a Dark Sun image and I stumbled onto this site which had several of the Dark Sun artwork by Brom that I’m already familiar with. But something there caught my eye… (more…)

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The Ritual Tower

10 months ago
by Eugene in

The “Revenge of the Marauders” Dark Sun adventure in Dungeon 183 culminates in entering the Ritual Tower on the crawling citadel called Slither. The players are to enter the tower from the top and work their way down to where a primordial artifact called the blood jewel is found. I decided the moment I saw the adventure that it would be a disservice to the players not to build the tower for those encounters. (more…)

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