So, Dark Sun: It's officially out. What do you think of it?

[VGmaster9]

Btw, has anyone ever done a campaign that has a Conan-esque feel and there are different sexy girls (like from Frank Frazetta's and Boris Vallejo's art) involved?

 

[Oates]

Ran Mongoose's Conan ... lots of loin cloths and scantily clad damsels to be ... er ... rescued.

I am not sure that Dark Sun conveys the feel of Conan to me, but until now I haven't really thought about DS in that way.

 

[Siberys]

One of DS's inspirations is Barsoom, and that definitely has muscley men rescuing scantily clad women.

 

[Irion]

Btw, has anyone ever done a campaign that has a Conan-esque feel and there are different sexy girls (like from Frank Frazetta's and Boris Vallejo's art) involved?

Hey - first post for me here.

Regarding a campaign with a 'Conan-esque feel'...that's how I always saw Dark Sun. Granted, this was back during AD&D 2E.

I remember reading an article somewhere that indicated Howard, Burroughs and Frazetta were influences for Tim Brown, Troy Denning and Brom et al...so I sought out the 'source material' so to speak. That definitely influenced how I saw Dark Sun going forward...as a conflation of Barsoom and the Hyborian Age while still managing to have elements that were wholly unique.

The 'feel' in the campaigns I ran had more in common with sword and sorcery (bloody, barbaric and sensual with strange magics and mesmerism (psionics)) than Tolkien-esque high fantasy.

So the answer is yes. The original DS was and is my preferred fantasy setting and I ran it with all the trappings that Brom and Frazetta's art implied. As for Brown and Denning's execution of the first boxed set and the Prism Pentad. I loved it. I was a kid so nostalgia plays a part. I have the new 4e books but have yet to read them.