TheSword
Legend
So if you want to kill Kalak. Dig out the Campaign Hell’s Rebels by Paizo. Reskin it to Darksun, and make Khalak the big bad. Replace the opera with the arena. It is a perfect revolution based campaign across 1-14 levels. If Dark Sun is released as a setting book but not a campaign for 5e then I would definitely run that.Even some of us old grogs never got to kill Kalak. We read about it in the novels.
I do think if they put out a Dark Sun book it should roll back the setting to the original boxed set, with Kalak alive. That would be a fantastic adventure path. Killing Kalak. But, again, you'd run into all the problems of slavery being such a huge part of the setting. It could be done, of course, I just don't think WotC is willing to do it. At least, not in a way that won't either offend or piss off a large chunk of some group with a stake in the setting. I mean, look at the Ravenloft book. One of the Domains of Dread was a plantation with slavery in the original, but was changed to a prison in the new one. They're not likely to touch Dark Sun without ripping that part out of it.
Part 1: The heroes get caught up in a crackdown on freedoms in the city and become designated as rebels.
Part 2: The heroes discover and then clear a hideout in the city, complete with lingering magical protections (an old Veiled Alliance safehouse?)
Part 3: The Heroes seek allies from outside the city (a rival sorcerer king, one of the slave tribes, or the halflings of the forest ridge?
Part 4: The rebellion happens across the city
Part 5: The heroes have to secure the city and deal with the aftermath, including a threat they created themselves in part 2.
Part 6: Their ex ruler isn’t finished with them and reaches out from beyond the grave/the grey. The Pcs have to end the ex rulers threat for good.
Part 2: The heroes discover and then clear a hideout in the city, complete with lingering magical protections (an old Veiled Alliance safehouse?)
Part 3: The Heroes seek allies from outside the city (a rival sorcerer king, one of the slave tribes, or the halflings of the forest ridge?
Part 4: The rebellion happens across the city
Part 5: The heroes have to secure the city and deal with the aftermath, including a threat they created themselves in part 2.
Part 6: Their ex ruler isn’t finished with them and reaches out from beyond the grave/the grey. The Pcs have to end the ex rulers threat for good.
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