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1 year ago ::
Apr 04, 2012 - 12:39AM
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ok i enjoy the new 4th edition material about dark sun , well some off it but i use a combination off rule sets form all. I am starting a new campaign now that school is almost over on the VT beta site , which i just posted so please have a look if you would like to join. I hope it will turn out to be a long running campaing, with that said i could use some help with the time line it has always thrown me ffor a loop in the origanal setting i want the campaign to start before kalaks death so that would be 165th kings age winds defiance or priets defiance in the 170th kings age ? thanks in advance.
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1 year ago ::
Apr 04, 2012 - 7:23AM
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Don't know if you have found this, but: athas.org/eventsKalak's death is 190th Kings Age, year of Priest's Defiance.
How long before Kalak's fall do you want? 164th King's Age is when Dregoth is killed. 165th King's Age is when the Dragon starts his Levy to strengthen the seal.
Ant Farm
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1 year ago ::
Apr 04, 2012 - 8:42AM
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Hagis has it right. It's in the 26th year of the 190th Kings Age.
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1 year ago ::
Apr 13, 2012 - 9:26AM
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ok i guess ill set it in the 190th kins age i a not sure on the year of ? i want my group to basicaly live the prisim pentad in that they gget the heart wood spear any ideas (god the time line makes me nuts ) thanks in advance
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1 year ago ::
Apr 13, 2012 - 10:30AM
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The year is called Priests Defiance
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1 year ago ::
Apr 14, 2012 - 6:37AM
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In most of my campaigns, I've been pretty vague about the exact timeline (being flexible for narrative purposes), but in Dark Sun I've found it necessary to be pretty exacting about it. There's a ton of important stuff that happens as history moves on, and I'm also making it important for my players to be aware of the "coincidences" when certain things line up (they haven't put them all together yet). Obsidian Portal has been very useful for this--I keep calendar information on three wiki pages there. Here's the basic Athasian date information: www.obsidianportal.com/campaign/the-lost...Here is a list of years: www.obsidianportal.com/campaign/the-lost...Note that my campaign begins one year AFTER most Dark Sun campaigns. I set the date of Kalak's assassination on the first of the year--the gladiatorial games where he was killed was part of a huge celebration as the completion of the ziggurat coincided with the first of the year--and my game started the day after the one-year anniversary of his death. So your game will probably be in Priest's Defiance or earlier. As the game goes on, I add important dates to here: www.obsidianportal.com/campaign/the-lost...There is also a huge secret DM's section of that last wiki that nobody can see but me; I add events from it to the public calendar as the PCs find out about them. Note that I did not write/create the information in the calendars above; it was taken from the Dark Sun books, plus from some web sources, and then changed a bit to fit my own campaign.
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13 months ago ::
May 25, 2012 - 10:52PM
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Note that my campaign begins one year AFTER most Dark Sun campaigns. I set the date of Kalak's assassination on the first of the year--the gladiatorial games where he was killed was part of a huge celebration as the completion of the ziggurat coincided with the first of the year--and my game started the day after the one-year anniversary of his death.
Note that if you wish to follow the Prism Pentad, the events of the Crimson Legion novel begins six months after Kalak is assassinated AND takes place in Free Year 2. So, by the novel timeline, King Kalak's death has to be midway through the year, at the earliest.
As per the conversation had on this very topic (see arena.athas.org/forums/the-pit/topics/fy...), it seems the best option would be "sometime after Noon on Low Sun, Morrow 3, The Year of Priest’s Defiance, 190th Kings Age".
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13 months ago ::
May 27, 2012 - 6:38AM
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Sep 10, 2007
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thank you all so much for the suggestions and i will look at the links asap i want them to start not to farahead of kalak's death enough to find the heartwood spear the obsidian oracle ( dont worry no sun wizard' she is was to unique in my opion to re-create,lol) so it would be 190th Kings Age, year of Priest's Defiance. 26th year correct ? and thanks for keeping my all time campaign alive and a big thumbs up to atahas. org i love the fan submited storys .. thanks again all
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