Athasian Unicorn
Rare and mythical even in the Green Age, the Athasian Unicorn survives today only in the foothills and Scrublands South of Kurn.
Elemental Fundamentals: Battle in the Salt Flats
Sheena and Kazaruth walked towards each other on the barren land of the Salt Flats. Each could see the other, but neither's face showed any recognition of the other. Both of them had been instructed by their Elemental Lords to travel through the Salt Flats. Neither of the inexperienced priests knew why, but did as they were instructed.
Elemental spells for your 2nd edition AD&D Dark Sun game.
Fiction - Lady of Shadows - Part 23
Part 23 of Lady of Shadows is up.
This was not going as I had planned.
As you did not arrive with an army, might I assume you are not here to arrest my nephew? Lord Talibs voice was so soft as to be almost a whisper. His pale eyes seemed to look past me, and I wondered if perhaps he were blind.
Closing the arena
After talking with some of the other staff at athas.org, I’ve decided to close the arena.
The code for the arena is based on a dead forum project; even when it was alive, the hacks that I made to enable single signon made things very difficult to keep up to date. Because of this, it’s become a drain on server resources, and has actually made it more difficult to keep other aspects of the site up to date.
Considering that the traffic on the arena numbers in the single digit posts-per-month range, I think it’s best put into mothballs.
While I’m going to be removing the site soon, I will be saving the database; if there’s a demand for it, I’ll see about setting up a read-only archive of the site.
Once the arena is removed, I’ll be undertaking some infrastructure modernization efforts – Some visible, some behind the scenes. I’ll talk more about that later.
[Dragon] The Widow's Spirit
This month’s Dragon magazine is live today:
Let the tarrasque run roughshod over your campaign. Save the town of Hochoch in the Grand Duchy of Geoff. Deck the halls with wondrous tapestries. Build fantastic inns and taverns from scratch. PLUS: The return of the decapus, the magen, the rhagodessa, and the thoul. We proudly present for your gaming pleasure, Dragon 418.
Rodney Thompson’s Eye on Dark Sun is titled The Widow’s Spirit, and features plot hooks relating to the bitter spirit of an executed templar-wife of Nibenay.
As usual, all Dragon content requires a DDI subscription.
G+ community
For anybody who happens to be on Google Plus, I’ve set up a Dark Sun community. Join up and introduce yourself; I’m interested to see what direction these go…
December's Campaign of the Month on Obsidian Portal is a Dark Sun campaign
Over at Obsidian Portal, December’s Campaign of the Month on Obsidian Portal is a Dark Sun campaign. The campaign is La Decade des Heros! by Athas.org member Pils. Congratulations Pils!
Fiction: Part 22 Lady of Shadows
Part 22 of Lady of Shadows is up.
Floating indolently in a steamy haze had resolved nothing. My shoulder still ached as I clambered out. So did my heart. I drew a little magic to quickly dry myself, wincing as the beads of moisture flashed into steam as though my skin were hot stone, then padded back to my quarters. I dressed quickly, in the charcoal-grey sampot, crown and collar. My makeshift leather armour would serve for the journey, but was not appropriate attire for visiting the manor of a noble house.
Fiction: Lady of Shadows - Part 21
Part 21 of Lady of Shadows is up.
The Temples baths were a late addition to the building, when the number of templar-wives in the Naggaramakam grew too large to be accommodated in the main bath-house near the eastern wall.
[Dragon] Ysrilla Lightstep
A new Dragon is up (DDI subscription required). This month’s Eye on Dark Sun article is “Ysrilla Lightstep”, by Rodney Thompson
Ysrilla Lightstep stalks the desert wastes of Athas in search of elusive prey, defying death to claim her prize.
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