This video details how I used the existing Savage Worlds rules set to be able to play in the world of Athas, or to use in your own desert of desolation sci fantasy wasteland! #swade #darksun #dnd
Nice! I've really come to enjoy Darksun as a setting and Savage Worlds seems perfect for matching the tone. It even has Savage right in the title. That being said I will probably run my first trip to Athas in D&D 4e more because I have been feeling nostalgic for 4e and want to try out some house rules for the system.
I had one of my favorite gaming groups during 4E. Went from level 1 to 20. I don’t have a lot of positive vibes for the system, but the group it gave me was priceless! I think Savage Worlds more elegantly handles Psionics, defiling, balancing wildly different capability races, and generally sword and sandals gaming. That said, I’d give my right big toe to have a group that would play a proper 2e game of Dark Sun consistently! Until that happens though, Savage Worlds is probably the best fit!
Back in the land of the Commentariat! This is great! Being a product of the 90s, I think you're exactly on point about how extreme and how metal it was. I sometimes think Mork Borg in a way is like a darker cousin to games like Dark Sun. I remember reading the novels voraciously too. This is great stuff. I felt like it would be lame to ask for a copy without first saying how awesome it is to see this mashup! I would suggest that the concept exploded repeatedly and blew the other stuff I was interested in off the table. And there's no soaking that! Now I think I need to go listen to some Pantera and Dinosaur Jr to get in the headspace!
lol. Sending the file your way sir! Thanks for making BBB on your list of stops after being placed in the Big Brother time out corner for a minute. I enjoyed making this, so after it has been out in the wild for a bit I may do a monster list/encounter table, with the appropriate existing Savage Worlds monsters.
Thanks Dean. The toolkit of Savage Worlds is very accessible and flexible. The Fantasy Companion does a great job suggesting setting rules for SPECIFIC campaign settings, even naming Dark Sun amongst them! Great system!
I have that one, and while I liked it, I didn’t like some of the solutions… I also felt that the system was close enough to D&D I would probably just play the real thing at that point… it was that realization that helped me decide to convert for Savage Worlds.
This looks really well done. Dark Sun was my main setting in the 90s and up until they remade the boxed set, I had literally every book and supplement TSR produced, even the novels. That said, considering I have it all on pdf, I have a hard time trying to re-do the setting. I figure why go through the difficulty of tweaking everything, when I can still just play the original? Don’t get me wrong, all the reworks I’ve seen have looked awesome.
Totally understand that take, and appreciate the kind words as well. At least in my area, finding a group to play AD&D is tougher than finding one to play Savage Worlds. So, by doing the conversion, I can expose players to Athas that otherwise would miss out.
Great work, man. I'm sending an email to check your conversion out in more detail. I love Dark Sun and any way to get that setting more love is doing good work to my mind. Thanks for this!
Dee Bee, thanks buddy I appreciate it. If the video does well enough, I am thinking about writing a referenced index/encounter generator with monsters from Pathfinder Bestiary, Fantasy Companion, and Core Rules.
@@booksbricksandboards783 Oh cool. I love that you are keeping the DIY origins of this hobby alive. I sent the email, btw, but I am not sure I got the address right. If you don't get it, maybe let me know in the comments here if you have the time. Cheers.
I never got to play Dark Sun bitd, but I had the rules and was a fan of its non-standard concept and design. And of course the art. Brom went on to dominate the scene for a while there. I tried to read some of the novels, however, and was deeply disappointed in them. TSR's fiction was hit-or-miss at best.
@@booksbricksandboards783 Well, actually, the Pentad's the one I meant. I read all 5 books, didn't like one. ymmv, I guess. I don't like avocados either...
LOL well you wouldn’t get along with my wife then, because avocados are a favorite of hers, and as such, come up a lot in our house meals! We’d get along fine though, I just like different novels than you. 😀
