| |
|
| Table of contents |
|
2 Playable Races 3 Interesting Personages 4 External Links |
Player characters in Dark Sun are markedly tougher than other campaign settings - most start at third level with attributes on a 4-24 scale as opposed to the normal 3-18 scale. Most characters also posses some degree of psionic talent, making even the lowest slave suprisingly formidible. Athasian races include half-giants, more inteliigent than their counterparts in other worlds, muls, the unique dwarf-human breed, thri-kreen, a race of savage mantis men, and Aarakocra, a race of winged bird men. Even "normal" D&D races are substantially different - for instance, most halflings are vicious cannibals!
Psionics is highly developed on Athas even in animal minds, and almost every individual is born with a "wild talent" or two. Schools of the minds exist, mostly maintained by and serving the dragon kings.
Athas is ruled by several dragon kings, former champions of Rajaat, one of the earliest defiler wizards who was obsessed with racial purity and ordered the extermination of all non-human Athasian races. Some of his champions failed in their tasks and some rebelled, slaying their master and working in concert to raise themselves to highest levels of power resulting in the transformation into a dragon.
Unique Characteristics
Playable Races
Interesting Personages
External Links
Dark Sun is also a gothic music club in Athens, Greece (Peristeri). It is well-known among the gothic subculture of Athens and it is notable because of its unusual decoration.