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#1 habukberht Jul 07, 2010 19:48:02	So I am wanting to start a DS campaign with a friend doing some DM swapping.  Unfortunately we want to do this before the book comes out.  I need some ideas on what I should do in order to create a proper early campaign...  I figure I can just go about things as normal and then allow people to "retrain" their entire characters when we get the book just to see what is going on...  but I dunno, any ideas?
#2 ascottbay Jul 07, 2010 20:20:21	How much do you already know, and what aspect(s) of Dark Sun do you think you'll want to focus on (or which aspects drew you to the setting)? Have you checked out the forum stickies, and is there anything you feel they lack that might have helped you?
#3 RalofTyr Jul 08, 2010 1:36:15	Read up on the 2e and 2e revised stuff. It sounds like that will be included. Also, when reading, keep a note book with you; if you read something you like, write it down.  Then, you can go back to it and maybe create a cool adventure if you get a good idea.
#4 nimblegrund Jul 08, 2010 1:56:35	I would say you should build your characters based on the various premade characters out there.  Just use their 1st level theme powers, figure out their racial bonuses, and so on. Once the books come out, just let them re-choose their powers, or re-roll their characters or whatever.
#5 habukberht Jul 11, 2010 18:54:53	I think with the help of the other DM, I'm going to let people make characters and run through the first chapter.  This chapter will be a backdrop that will lead into the rest of the game after the books come out.  I dunno though...  he has veto power on this so we will see.
#6 Jacek Jul 12, 2010 0:53:00	The best that you can do is talk to the players and what characters do they want to make, also you can ask them what do they want in the adventure for their characters. For example I´m creating a templar for when the book comes out... so far I got that my urikite templar left Urik in search of his past, having recently discovered that he has parents, the templar got lost in the wastelands and found refuge in a cave, there was tyrian templar ghost that asked for revenge, obviously the urikite templar bargained the existence of the ghost in exchange of something... the ghost then promised the location of an steel longsword. So thats why my character heads to Tyr. It´s an idea that can help create a better adventure. "What do the players want for their characters" it´s always useful.
#7 big_goon Jul 14, 2010 10:27:09	Use the 'core' setting rules, and play a campaign in the 'past'. An adventure that plays before the world was defiled by magic and turned into a desert wasteland. Your characters can visit a thriving city in one age, and ruins when Dark Sun comes out. Show some signs of the world being defiled (scars of war, defiling magic, psionics, abominations from the far realms...). It's not Dark Sun... but it might work out.
#8 Palladinae Jul 16, 2010 3:08:11	Very nice idea. I play with one of running short, fantasy generic adventure in very specific location (valley in shadow of characteristic mountain). I'd like to show it as vibrant world: lush forest, streams of crystal clear water, dryads, nymphs, unicorns and tower of some good wizard). Then I plan to run Dark Sun as itself and drive PC's to that same area, but desolated, destroyed and defiled. Let them discover, what happened, what tragedies had place.
#9 diggles Jul 19, 2010 2:32:20	First and foremost you need to pick the timeline starting point. I chose FY30 which is 20 years after the events in the latest book.  There are only a few SK's left but they are even more powerful than before.  Soon one of them could become the first God in Athas. www.darksunwiki.com/darksun/index.php/Ti... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Sun
#10 Palladinae Jul 19, 2010 6:03:52	On the contrary I usually ran my campaigns about 50 to 80 years before Kalak's assassination.