3 Encounters to start YOUR Dark Sun Campaign 

Manchild marsh and butt chugger bay I love darksun

nice! I have a cloud ray I made last year, but I treat those as rideable...

Of course you made one! 😆 Is there something you haven't made? What's even left on your crafting bucket list? Your channel is a treasure trove of creativity. I'm trying to get more sandboxy with my stuff and you are helping. Thanks, man! Keep on hammering!

The back story to The Dragon and his champions is one of the best flavor backstory of darksun....no spoilers but fantasy genocide....

Wtf... Rule #0 dude In the game there is whatever we want. There are dragons and lizards now. So what?

@@paulofrota3958 IKR, that's basically the unspoken, unwritten rule of DMing any tabletop rpg.

I would just make the warforged out of bone wood and chitin

But there exists the possibility for people to BECOME dragons, so maybe that draconian cult has just been out in the wastes working towards that goal just out of sight for who-knows-how-long? I mean I thought lizard people were extinct in the core book too, so there's already some hand-waving, ya know?

I just rip Dark Sun to bits when I goof with it tho :P

smash with cinder block

Outstanding. I never would have guessed. Thank you! (much rejoicing)

Jam hard, and jam free

Right?

haha joyful heresy

Murder hobos would die rather fast in dark sun due to everyone having at lest 1 psionic power and with the possibility of pissing off a templar because of causing unrest among the citizens . And trying to be a murder hobo in an ex-slave tribe is almost certain death due to many escaped slaves being gladiators , preservers and clerics of some sort along with other classes . Look for the dark sun book " slave tribes " to see what I mean

@@williamlee7482 Oh man, everything you just said there made me think even more that is PERFECT for murder hobos! We kick in the peasants door and steal his copper, NO he blasts you with a psionic and then a tribe of cannablistic slaves comes after you.

@@williamozier918 Doing that would be a death sentence and a TPK . Not only from those around the party but from the Templars who would either outright kill them , make them into slaves toiling away in a mine in so far off harsh area or targets for gladiators in the arena . And trying that in one of the many ex-slave tribes is also a death sentence because unlike normal d&d where peasants can be killed by kicking them these tribe members have character classes and most are a high level to have survived long enough to start up a tribe in the middle of nowhere . The party wouldn't last one encounter by being murder hobos . Athas is far to dangerous to be doing things like that and expecting to get away with it because party death is always close by waiting for the careless party to do something they think they can get away with . The players wouldn't have metal weapons or armor because Athas is a metal poor world and most things are made from stone , wood or non metal materials . Not to meantion kicking in a peasants door isn't going to get you anything of worth because they aren't merchants or nobility with money ( there is no copper , silver or gold prices it's all ceramic peices ) , they are literally dirt poor with nothing worth talking . Athas kills players who just go around being murder hobos because they aren't smart enough to understand that this setting is nowhere near any other d&d setting especially when an entire party can be TPK just by the elements alone . There are storms where the rain is boiling and will basicly cook the flesh on an unprotected character and clothing and armor are useless as protection . Murder hobos wouldn't last in either a city state or out in the wilderness at all . In no way shape or form is dark sun perfect for murder hobos because they would die in the first encounter putting an end to their rampage

The way I do it is that when the PCs are desperate for supplies and encounter said supplies, I have then roll a D6, on a roll of 1-3, a player has to take a brick out of a Jenga tower, if they topple the tower, they start hoarding whatever it is they need, and will attack the other players until they can either A) calm them down or B) they have no choice but to kill the PC that turned, this probably works better for smaller groups though.

Btw. Dark Sun is epic and is a nice change up from the current 5E stuff. Easy to modify into existing rules too.

yep its called 'hellworld'

I beat on it with a cinder block

I love that technique..use it myself.

I was curious about that myself... I'll have to beat on some foam with a cinder block too...

The answer to all subsequent crafting inquiries: 'I beat on it with a cinder block'. (The board is harsh, barren, and foreboding, befitting its utilization under the Dark Sun)

More like a fantasy version of Mad Max.

ha! yehp, so says the book, but I ALWAYS start level 1...it's the funnest level (is funnest a word?)

Along with black dragons and warforged roaming about which neither fit the setting at all

No biggy, in my game I'd make it a sun drake and make the Drac(Dray), into a group of Ssurans who worship it as some kind of God. Have the leader by a Sun Cleric/Defiler. Instead of a Warforged Make it a Chittin, Salt or Bone Golem. Ultimately its about the broader plot points you can make the rest how you want it in your own game.

nope. but the 'dragon kings' open it up, in my mind... and I like dragons lol

Yep..but i WANT a black dragon in my Athas!

lol that's a fair answer. FYI Dark Sun has a large variety of drakes though which can do the job here. Keep posting great videos, I really enjoy your work.

maybe... it is made by rocket pig

Runehammer did you 3D print it?

I imagine some dragons as being too savage to hoard.. they only consume

@@Runehammer1 i guess just seems a little out of character to eat such low nutrition of wood when theres bags of meat running around and if you reduce it to cinder it really adds a challenge to eat loose ash versus something chewy that keeps teeks sharp and clean???? if they are to savage how will they own or operate slaves? these creatures are extremely high intellect. i would immagine at the minimum if at epic evil the dragon would have a cruel horrific method. your dragons appear to be mindless eating ash. making them pretty low on the intellect and if they were smart why would they let any anything they see run away. to each their own but dragons in my world ar cunning and will 1 of 3 things ignore you like you pose no threat or use you in some way or wipe you out. i can see a epic evil dragon try to experiment how easy is it to pull your arms off how much pain can a human take before it dies maybe even impale your human with your great sword then imbedding the sword into its scales turning you into a meat armor hahaha. to defeat a dragon in my world you kill it while it sleeps or you out wit it and im pretty smart person i tend to think of powerful creatures with intellect far to challenging like gods. with low intellect monsters i can easy make mistakes or pull punches but genius level creatures cant pull punches unless they over confident they already won

yep

@@Runehammer1 cool. Was wondering. We never have. Sounds useful to help imagine combat situations. Since we do so much non combat encounter role playing we never tried. We just use paper and random markers. I suppose if you run a lot of dungeons crawls. Or do a lot of hack n slash it makes sense.