More Dark SUn tidbits by Rich Baker

[Shroomy]

Here is the belgoi picture he's talking about.

 

[Silverblade The Ench]

THAT is one of may absolute all time fave frikkin' pieces of art, seriously I treasure the Dragon mag with that cover!!
hey anyone know if you cna get a poster of that? (legit)
Hence my passion for making Dark Sun art (and Spelljammer is so damn fantastic in looks, to)

meh, any player who can't accept that folk can get called out of their camp while their character is ASLEEP and thus not notice it...*rolles eyes*, grrr! Go with the flow, for goodness sake!
Belgois scared my players, this is a good thing!
"Dont' split the party" so smart enemies do exactly that.

easy ways ot beat it, if you are smart, liek tie stirng with noise makers around cmap, warns of intruders or mind numbed victims walking out into the desert (note, they are under a complusion...so, they would wlak into traps etc)
the other way is to do the obvious:
DON'T CAMP ANY WHERE NEAR BLOODY BELGOI!
You know, hire a ranger, hm? lol
Blegoi should be one of the scariest things to encounter on Athas, IMHO, especially since they can have enormous tribes that can wipe out villages and threaten cities.

anyway, they don't suck out life energy, iirc, they suck out water? hm?
I recall Tembo for sure sucked life energy, gave negative levels, but that's because of them having nasty psionic powers. Imagine a sadistic pig-wolverine-bug-eyed-monster crossbreed, feral hunter but with high smarts and a sadistic, cowardly taste for chidlren and other weak prey. they were bad.

oh for art they should hire this guy!
http://gandhi.gfxartist.com/artworks
alas, some of his Dark Sun pics aren't showing any more, gah!!!

 

[GMforPowergamers]

meh, any player who can't accept that folk can get called out of their camp while their character is ASLEEP and thus not notice it...*rolles eyes*, grrr! Go with the flow, for goodness sake!
Belgois scared my players, this is a good thing!
"Dont' split the party" so smart enemies do exactly that.

2 points...

1) what normaly happens (and I am trying to tech my players not to) is my PCs set two watches, so there are always 2 people up, and the first moment it happens the one not effected yells to wake everyone up.

2) so you pull 1 PC away...the others do what?? sit and wait? then the others wake up and that 1 PC goes for a food run?
Remeber not spliting the party is in game as much as out of game...spliting the party means people sit out, witch is not fun...

 

[ProfessorCirno]

The Feywild of Athas

Called it...?

 

[Phaezen]

The Feywild of Athas
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Called it...?

is in pretty poor shape (more on that in another post, I guess), so centuries ago the belgoi abandoned it and became roving nomadic predators in the deserts.​

Confirmation Feywild has a place in the Athasian 4e cosmology. But it appears it is not like what we have seen elsewhere in WotC products.

Not surprised to see that they have found a place for the Feywild, also looking forward to see how it is different from the normal feywild. Some possibilities suggest themselves:

• Super Desert ++
• somehow corrupted by the shadowfell?
• other?

Anyone have any clue?

 

[Rechan]

Anyone have any clue?

Maybe Defiling has an even bigger impact there. Like, Plane of Negative Energy bad.

 

[Silverblade The Ench]

GMofpowergamers

lol, they aren't exlcuded, they get to run the belgoi, and get XP for suitably slaying their comrade

 

[WalterKovacs]

Maybe Defiling has an even bigger impact there. Like, Plane of Negative Energy bad.

Considering that the feywild is more magical and more nature/wilderness oriented ... it seems like a place where defiling would be more powerful and more devastating.

 

[Hawke]

oh for art they should hire this guy!
Gandhi - My artworks - GFXartist.com - Served over 20,000,000 artworks
alas, some of his Dark Sun pics aren't showing any more, gah!!!

Woah, good stuff there. Definitely has captured the feel in some of that art. If they can't chain up brom... they should have a look.

 

[GMforPowergamers]

I found something new ont he WotC site...

Dark Sun Creature Catalog D&D Rules Supplement Dark Sun Richard Baker and Bruce R. Cordell 08/17/10
Dark Sun Campaign Setting D&D Supplement Dark Sun Richard Baker and Robert J. Schwalb 08/17/10
Marauders of the Dune Sea D&D Adventure Dark Sun Chris Sims and Chris Tulach 08/17/10
Dungeon Tiles: Desert of Athas D&D Accessory D&D Wizards RPG Team 06/15/10

so now we have 4 DS products (unlike every other setting gettting 3) but still no Player's guide...I hope it is comeing up in september...