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2 years ago ::
Oct 03, 2011 - 10:05PM
#21
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Date Joined:
Jun 21, 2005
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Well for the 3.5 stuff: www.athas.org/For a long list of links: www.siltskimmer.org/ though several have rendered been inoperative in the last year.
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2 years ago ::
Oct 04, 2011 - 2:40AM
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Date Joined:
Apr 22, 2007
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I'm dissapointed with the Dark Sun support in DDI. Thats why i've ended my subscription for the 2nd time and now i'm done. I will still continue to run my Dark Sun game and I'll do what i've always done. Run custom adventures or covert existing 4E (or old 2E) material to my needs.
I however do not feel that paying $10 is worth the DDI subscription. I understand that its a great value when you consider everything you get. But i'm not interested in anything else but Dark Sun. So to pay $10 a month to get the 2.5 page PDF article "House of the Mind" is not worth it to me. If there was a guaranteed Dark Sun adventure every issue it would be worth the $10.
I realize that its a business and that they need to make money, I just wish they could come up with a business plan that didn't cause them to be so fractured. It seems like to are spreading themselves too thin. Fewer worlds with more focus on those worlds would make me much happier.
Still i'm glad Dark Sun is at least one of those worlds and i'm happy that it's starting to get fiction book support.
For you, subscribing for one month out of each year is probably the way to go.
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2 years ago ::
Oct 04, 2011 - 5:36AM
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Date Joined:
May 29, 2001
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Well for the 3.5 stuff: www.athas.org/
For a long list of links: www.siltskimmer.org/ though several have rendered been inoperative in the last year.
Thanks for the plug 
Unfortunatly, my time I have been scarce and my Darksun campaign is on iatus while I am working on a Fading Suns campaign. I needed fresh air. I will come back eventually to DS.
So, with a DS out of my mind, I've been pretty lazy to update my DS website.
The Siltskimmer Page - www.siltskimmer.org
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2 years ago ::
Oct 05, 2011 - 10:31AM
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Date Joined:
Apr 12, 2003
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Was that a joke, Phoenix?
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2 years ago ::
Oct 09, 2011 - 9:36PM
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Date Joined:
Apr 20, 2009
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It's player interest that counts. My DS campaign is one of 2 I run and I play in 2 others. I'd love to write mine up fully but finding the time is a problem. I may post the bare bones of it. Most recently converted marauders of nibenay. The puzzle in the Nagarukum had my players going a while.
D&D is like religion. People focus far too much on the differences rather than the similarities.
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2 years ago ::
Oct 12, 2011 - 2:11PM
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Date Joined:
May 24, 2010
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I don't think it's possible to "kill" dark sun. I love it just the way it is. I'm running it on a weekly basis, and I love it. Part of what I love about dark sun is how much mystery their is. It isn't super-overpublished like the other campaign settings. I got my campaign setting, my beastiary, and the DDI supplements, and that's perfect. I can tailor the custom campaign I'm running and adventures exactly to the liking of my players and myself. The players can face the wastes with the mystery, terror, and thrill of the unknown, and we love it!
"Contemplation is the womb of treachery."
-Imperial Thought for the Day
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2 years ago ::
Oct 12, 2011 - 8:58PM
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I have enjoyed the dark sun campaign setting more than any other. It is currently the only campaign I am running, but my players can't get enough of it. I have noticed a lack of material concerning the world. For instance, Tyr is very well documented, but I've been grasping at straws for the rest of the world. I'm sure veterans of dark sun would cringe at the changes I've made to the setting, but it's working for me. I guess I could dig through the old 2e stuff, but I'd love a follow-up to the campaign setting containing more than 2 pages for each of the city states. I also wish they'd kept the format of Eberron and Forgotten Realms and released the campaign setting and player's guide separately.
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2 years ago ::
Oct 12, 2011 - 10:58PM
#28
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Date Joined:
Aug 22, 2007
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Honestly, we're still seeing an article every month. That's really quite good compared to the Realms and Eberron.
If one wants to get some more details on things, the Veiled Alliance source book can still be found for less than $10 and is one of the more comprehensive 2nd Edition books detailing the major city-states. But they redid the setting close to the original boxed set in part so that people could reimagine huge swaths of the setting without being tied down to the previous incarnations. The mystery is part of the fun.
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2 years ago ::
Oct 13, 2011 - 1:29PM
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Date Joined:
Sep 24, 2009
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This may sound odd but I rather enjoy the lack of material for Dark Sun. It helps with making the campaign world your own. As it is we're given very little of the known world which leaves it ripe for making up your own stuff.
If there's one thing I'd want more of would be new monsters/enemies/factions but I suppose DDI could handle that. I'd still rather have a book, but that's not the way of things anymore.
Host of the HTL Podcast Series: http://www.holdtheline.com/media/category/htl-podcast.6/ 
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2 years ago ::
Oct 13, 2011 - 3:16PM
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Date Joined:
Dec 22, 2001
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Dark Sun is my favorite D&D Setting and I think WotC is doing a great job with it. I'm fine if they never release another DS product for the entirety of 4e! The last thing I want is for them to fall into the traffic jam that is supplement after supplement that they got into with 2e and 3e.
They gave us enough to play Dark Sun; it's up to the Dungeon Masters now.
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