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#1 RalofTyr Jun 04, 2009 23:24:00	Last October I went to Death Valley. Here are some pics that mimic Dark Sun topography. Badlands (Artist's Canyon) Salt Flats(Devil's Golf Course). Note the snow on the mountains. The next pic was taken up there. The Forest Ridge (Telescope Peak) Verdant Oasis (Salt Creek) There are actually fish in that creek. Sand Wastes: Rain is actually trapped deep within the dunes and plants with very, very long roots tap it. Stony Barrens/Scrub Plains (Ubehebe Valley)
#2 phoenix_m Jun 07, 2009 9:58:48	Salt Flats(Devil's Golf Course). Not quite Ral, think more along the line of Bonneville. The Devil's Golf Course is more... unique.
#3 RalofTyr Jun 07, 2009 14:06:55	Not quite Ral, think more along the line of Bonneville. The Devil's Golf Course is more... unique. You'll have to agree that the Devil's Golf Course looks more Dark Sun than the Bonneville flats.
#4 Tectuktitlay Jun 07, 2009 14:15:29	You'll have to agree that the Devil's Golf Course looks more Dark Sun than the Bonneville flats. Nah. There is most assuredly something very "Dark Sun" about a stark, flat, utterly desolate stretch of land with nothing as far as the eyes can see, save mountains an indeterminable distance away. Just as a salty/rocky badlands is quite apropos. Change the color of the sky to olive green, and add a faint reddish tint to the land itself, and both would fit in beautifully.
#5 terminus_vortexa Jun 08, 2009 16:28:03	Differences of opinion about what most resembles Athas don't take away from the spirit in which the pictures are selected and shared. Thank you for your contribution to my mental imagery for Athas, RalofTyr.
#6 brun01 Jun 09, 2009 9:27:46	Add two moons and make the sky olive and this is Athas in my head. Great pics!
#7 phoenix_m Jun 09, 2009 17:30:22	Tweeking the hue a little:
#8 lastard Jun 11, 2009 6:43:37	Here a few more spooky images - not photoshopped. the blue is real! too much defiling going on... ;) ah, and you might mentally replace the ducks in one of the pictures with drik! Lastard
#9 lastard Jun 11, 2009 7:02:02	Here are a few more... Do you think this plant is psychic? Obviously something with large spiny tentacles is hiding under this one... The Jagged Cliffs Area... Signs of water from ages ago... More defiled plants and soil... Lastard
#10 Tectuktitlay Jun 11, 2009 15:23:18	Tweeking the hue a little: Get that sky just a bit more yellow, and you'll be golden. Oh, and all these pics are lovely, folks. :D
#11 phoenix_m Jun 11, 2009 19:27:59	@Lasard: I love some of those images, but you should warn folks about that non-existant metal fence running through the last one. As for those creatures they aren't ducks, there CR:5 flying hydro-leaches, they're the reason people of the Tablelands yell "Duck!" @Tet... Tek... sorcerer King dude with really hard to pronounce name... Oh yeah Tectuktitlay (:D ): Yellow?, and here I thought the ground was looking too purple.
#12 delerak Jun 11, 2009 22:42:58	These are awesome.
#13 lastard Jun 12, 2009 4:53:37	@ Phoenix_M: What is metal? ;)
#14 Tectuktitlay Jun 12, 2009 9:08:34	@Tet... Tek... sorcerer King dude with really hard to pronounce name... Oh yeah Tectuktitlay (:D ): Yellow?, and here I thought the ground was looking too purple. Hehe. Yeah, the ground is slightly magenta/purple. Just a shade. However, olive really is a yellow-green. Purple and a yellow-ish color complement one another. However, you might very well want to make the ground more reddish/orangish, because an olive sky will make the ground appear even more purple than it already does. ;) Oh, and mispronounce my name again, mortal, and I will have my priests drink your blood!
#15 phoenix_m Jun 12, 2009 17:39:22	Oh, and mispronounce my name again, mortal, and I will have my priests drink your blood! But we Kreen have Ichor, your so called priests would never survive such a process. And before you say it, death by the hands of am immortal - is there a worthier way to die while fighting. I really need to get back on topic don't I... :D