Just watched a dude make dragon sounds and move around minis but I was glued like I was watching game of thrones. Subscribed.

>you really gonna sick a dragon on 1st level level players? hell yeah i am! *Todd Howard taking notes*

Never get old kids, be like this man.

@manarayofhope2374

Жыл бұрын

Manchild marsh and butt chugger bay I love darksun

I like how you emphasize using the terrain to give an impression that you expand on with description. I think a lot of terrain crafters get too hung up on having every little detail in their terrain. I like to make mine a lil' generic so I can embellish details like you did with the wall...Awesome encounters also.

The first encounter in this video inspired me to run a campaign set in Dark Sun (more like what I found cool about DS shoved into my game's setting). It was a great success, and kicked off what turned into a full year of great gaming! We braved the blasted wasteland, fought and allied with many dragons, and rooted out nefarious aberrant plots. The captured NPC became someone the party took a great shining to as well! My table has since switched DMs and moved on to a different (also really cool) campaign, but we still reminisce and talk about it to this day. Thank you for the video!

I recently started a sandbox on Dark Sun. We went with an elder scrolls style opening, all captured prisoners walking in the arid desert, chained in a line. The past is their own, the future will be decided!

Great stuff in regards to the atmosphere. To keep it in line with Dark Sun though, replace the Black Dragon with an Air Drake or a Cloud Ray. There are no chromatic or metallic dragons on Athas! A dragon in Dark Sun is either an elemental creature or one of the sorcerer kings. No lizardmen either. Well, make that very few lizardmen, mainly around the Last Sea up in the far north. There are dragonborn though, or something very close. These are called Dray, a creation of Dregoth, undead sorcerer king of (New) Giustenal. Some of them deserted... into the desert, and live there as raiders and traders. *[edit]* Warforged are cool, just call them Psiforged. Consider them remnants of the Green Age, a forgotten army that your tribe of muls dug up and somehow managed to activate. *TL;DR:* None of the usual creatures! Everything is (at least a little) different on Athas!

@Runehammer1

6 жыл бұрын

nice! I have a cloud ray I made last year, but I treat those as rideable...

@rolandp.6133

6 жыл бұрын

Of course you made one! 😆 Is there something you haven't made? What's even left on your crafting bucket list? Your channel is a treasure trove of creativity. I'm trying to get more sandboxy with my stuff and you are helping. Thanks, man! Keep on hammering!

@jasonpaul6418

6 жыл бұрын

The back story to The Dragon and his champions is one of the best flavor backstory of darksun....no spoilers but fantasy genocide....

@paulofrota3958

4 жыл бұрын

Wtf... Rule #0 dude In the game there is whatever we want. There are dragons and lizards now. So what?

@redzgaming6880

4 жыл бұрын

@@paulofrota3958 IKR, that's basically the unspoken, unwritten rule of DMing any tabletop rpg.

Dude, this is the best DM explanation of cold opens that I've ever seen. I love the terrain and how you tell the story!

There's only one dragon on athas, and he breathes burning sand.

Your encounter design is the best part of your channel. Thanks.

Damn man! That's freakin' awesome Hank! I REALLY love the way you incorporate that charred, burning hot desert-sensation of the Dark Sun theme. SO COOL! Love it!

I am playing around with building a module of Dark Sun on Neverwinter Nights 1 toolset and you gave me some great ideas thanks!

Rockin - my favorite D&D setting, so glad you're doing a focus on it. I sometimes have a hard time structuring story; you continue to bring it!

Grateful I have this to watch when I get home. Thanks for all you put into the community Hank. ♡

I envy your ability to write down bare bone details and be able to run an encounter with those. I always end up writing too much.

Nice kickoff adventure. Inspiring stuff! Based on your recommendations, I bought a Dark Sun boxed set off ebay. You convinced me of its unique worldbuilding and its great "campfire" accessories for the table. I love that artwork, too. Thanks for all these inspirations!

awesome, just as always ! gives cool ready-to-use ideas, makes me want to get back to that setting and jump back into it right now ! your video is the perfect balance between kickstarting something in a simple effective way, and making it easy to build around into something big and complex. You are the best to explain, illustrate, and inspire at the same time

More Dark Sun? You spoil us!

Awesome! I've been missing these vids of encounters/room design! Those are my favorite! Thanks for the incredibly inspiring set of encounters!

And the dragons like "reeeeeoooow pkshhh" Subscribed

Wow...as always love this channel, i love darksun, owned both box set editions and read all the books, it has been my favorite setting since 91. Keep it up because iv started to write a new 3.5/pathfinder darksun campaign.

I think we all would love it if WOTC didn't have a skeleton crew for a writing team and pumped out sourcebooks for various awesome campaign settings... like Darksun or Spelljammer. Either way your stuffs a treat man, keep it up.

Fantastic scenario options! It's fun to hear you talk it through it.

3rd idea - could use silt golems of some kind instead of warforged. Would keep the treasure from getting out of control.

@jsizzlesaurusrex

4 жыл бұрын

I would just make the warforged out of bone wood and chitin

Great encounters! I want to run all 3! I am really happy that you are talking about Dark Sun so much - it is a really bad-ass campaign setting and tons of fun to play in. Awesome!

Brother dungeon master, I can only ask one thing of you. Spelljammer. Send help!

@joluoto

6 жыл бұрын

Jam hard, and jam free

@AFK0099

3 жыл бұрын

Right?

Dark sun is hella cool! Can't way to try this out

You had my subscription at "Greeting Programs". Fuck yea

Just remember, Water is more valuable than gold on Dark Sun. When your character is dying of thirst, their alignment is suspended and they are considered Chaotic Evil until they have found enough water to survive for another day.

@redzgaming6880

4 жыл бұрын

The way I do it is that when the PCs are desperate for supplies and encounter said supplies, I have then roll a D6, on a roll of 1-3, a player has to take a brick out of a Jenga tower, if they topple the tower, they start hoarding whatever it is they need, and will attack the other players until they can either A) calm them down or B) they have no choice but to kill the PC that turned, this probably works better for smaller groups though.

Fantastic ! I’d love to see more dark sun content !!!

Gersh Dangit, Hank! Now you got me wanting to play Dark Sun! Think I'll just steal a bunch and put it in my homebrew. That terrain got me like woah, brother! Keep it weird!

I used to love dark sun as a kid 10,11 dammit playing with my older brother and his friends he was severely loving the D&D and a few other major ones man this was nice

Awesome!! More Dark Sun stuff please! :D

Hell yeah! I thought this was just "3 Encounters to start YOUR campaign" showing up in my related vids again. But hell naw, this is some Dark Sun! Looking forward to devouring this video. Keep 'em coming!

Great video, thanks for the inspiration!

Please make more of those Dark Sun videos! I liked your encounters (apart from the warforged and how you presented mules as duergar and thri-kreen as defiler scientists). I'm looking forward to more. Please.

@Runehammer1

3 жыл бұрын

I just rip Dark Sun to bits when I goof with it tho :P

Just discovering this. Knowing the color scheme for the board would be huge. Great, great stuff.

Amazing work!

Love these ideas. 5e has the spell Maximillian’s Earthen Grasp which plays into your claws of the desert thing if you’re playing with those rules. Not so sure about using a dragon since there’s only ever been A dragon in DS lore, but I feel the appeal to theme!

@severignbuchanan2040

3 жыл бұрын

But there exists the possibility for people to BECOME dragons, so maybe that draconian cult has just been out in the wastes working towards that goal just out of sight for who-knows-how-long? I mean I thought lizard people were extinct in the core book too, so there's already some hand-waving, ya know?

I'm honestly using these... Amazing. Also a definite Subscription to this channel. Awesome info! :D

This is like the epitomy of awesome dm‘ing. great great job !

dope encounter!

Dark Sun! Here's my sub, like, comment and eternal gratitude. I am so starting to plan a Dark Sun surprise campaign for my group :D

You are a bad ass DM Bro man 😎 and I haven't played in 32 years but wish I knew you.

Our DM based his first Dark Sun session on your tips (he used the dragon) and it was awesome!

@Runehammer1

6 жыл бұрын

haha joyful heresy

1) Inever played alot of Dark Sun. 2) Of that I did play I would say Dark Sun is perfect for murder-hobo players, it allows them to murder hobo in a way that actually is an interesting and character building narrative. 3) I never thought of the 'you get one possession to start' rule, I almost want to try a campaign of it now solely for that twist.

@williamlee7482

3 жыл бұрын

Murder hobos would die rather fast in dark sun due to everyone having at lest 1 psionic power and with the possibility of pissing off a templar because of causing unrest among the citizens . And trying to be a murder hobo in an ex-slave tribe is almost certain death due to many escaped slaves being gladiators , preservers and clerics of some sort along with other classes . Look for the dark sun book " slave tribes " to see what I mean

@williamozier918

3 жыл бұрын

@@williamlee7482 Oh man, everything you just said there made me think even more that is PERFECT for murder hobos! We kick in the peasants door and steal his copper, NO he blasts you with a psionic and then a tribe of cannablistic slaves comes after you.

@williamlee7482

3 жыл бұрын

@@williamozier918 Doing that would be a death sentence and a TPK . Not only from those around the party but from the Templars who would either outright kill them , make them into slaves toiling away in a mine in so far off harsh area or targets for gladiators in the arena . And trying that in one of the many ex-slave tribes is also a death sentence because unlike normal d&d where peasants can be killed by kicking them these tribe members have character classes and most are a high level to have survived long enough to start up a tribe in the middle of nowhere . The party wouldn't last one encounter by being murder hobos . Athas is far to dangerous to be doing things like that and expecting to get away with it because party death is always close by waiting for the careless party to do something they think they can get away with . The players wouldn't have metal weapons or armor because Athas is a metal poor world and most things are made from stone , wood or non metal materials . Not to meantion kicking in a peasants door isn't going to get you anything of worth because they aren't merchants or nobility with money ( there is no copper , silver or gold prices it's all ceramic peices ) , they are literally dirt poor with nothing worth talking . Athas kills players who just go around being murder hobos because they aren't smart enough to understand that this setting is nowhere near any other d&d setting especially when an entire party can be TPK just by the elements alone . There are storms where the rain is boiling and will basicly cook the flesh on an unprotected character and clothing and armor are useless as protection . Murder hobos wouldn't last in either a city state or out in the wilderness at all . In no way shape or form is dark sun perfect for murder hobos because they would die in the first encounter putting an end to their rampage

Great ideas, all around

The opening encounter reminds me of the Red Dead Redemption 2 opening.

Asabi are a type of desert dwelling lizardfolk race that would fit well on Athas.

I can totally picture this game goin' down. I love me some Dark Sun!

Gotta find a source of water. Underground spring or lake. Maybe some cleric has a story about a water elemental initiation.

What method did you use to get your board so rocky, craggy and crack-y? It's beautiful.

@Runehammer1

6 жыл бұрын

smash with cinder block

@Stickman6O2

6 жыл бұрын

Outstanding. I never would have guessed. Thank you! (much rejoicing)

Dragons are not natural monsters in dark sun, they are high level defilers that went thru a ritual to transform in to dragons. Basically dragons are all 20th level wizards lol. Cool sanerio though.

I also love how these could be scaled. Like first encounter introduces the poverty of Athas and play into that for a bit, then they get a skiff, find the tower and really understand the wealth of the war forged and the metal they find in that encounter, then they bring back some of that wealth and make a real name for themselves, so they’re hired to go scout the Tower of Sand.

You come up with very cool encounters. When I get the time I've been wanting to do a stop motion series maiking my terrain and gear. I have been coming up with scenarios and it hit me it would make a great game. I don't have experience with gaming and might need to borrow your brain for a bit sometime.

Definitely wanting to get my headspace back into crafting some adventure brews. Definitely getting out of practice with the dang pandemic.

NEED MORE DARK SUN!!!! AAARRRGGGHH!

This dude is awesome! You ever immediately just like someone?

I think we need a video called So Much Dark Sun! Like your So Much Molok video. Great Stuff.

This and your Molok stuff have inspired me to do my own Dark Sun game. Do you have any plans to do more Dark Sun room design in the future?

This has convinced me to revisit Athas

I like the scenario that begins with all the players being slaves in gladiatorial cages. They meet each other in the cages or in the arena. The players decide to overthrow their keepers and free all the slaves ... So much room for a good story and great game-play. Tell a good story and make your players feel like they made it because of a good plan and sheer will against overwhelming odds. Don't be over generous but don't punish to the point of apathy. "Be a fan of the players." But never let up on the tension. =)

Pleeeaaase make a video on how you made this awesome board!

dragons are a very different thing on darksun but i like alot of these ideas

Rusty bronze, you say? Yep, that'd be a big hint that we're on an alien world! ..Just fuckin' with ya. Not a bad intro to Dark Sun, though. Compare and contrast with Skyrim's opening for giggles. Being saved from execution by a "timely" dragon attack is a sure sign of Great Destined Heroes in High Fantasy, but in Low Fantasy it's an unnatural disaster you poor schmucks will be lucky to escape alive.

Dang! Churnnin' out the videos. Beastmode.

Fun fact darksun has darconnods and wingless paridaclah men

Hey dude! Nice video! Just wanted to know how you did your battle styrophone desert for your Dark Sun campaign. Could you do a video to show us in the futur? Really liked that kind of video! ;)

I know this might be a bit of a tangent, but would heartily recommend the combat music from Heroes of Might & Magic 3 and 4 for Dark Sun combat.

Nice ideas, for the first scenario I would use a Bullet instead of a dragon, that would explain why most of the caravan is gone and you can have your players start a small game of "the floor is lava" (maybe toppling a statue over the sand). The seconds is also cool, but you could make it more eerie without monsters and in the middle of a sandstorm (trying to scale a wall while sand hits you like a wave, while you only hear the deafening sound of the wind... try not lose sight of your group or you are screwed). The last scenario can be a nice chance to have a player be a warforged, but you would need to change the threat... no sarlaac? add a sarlaac!

I might change the story slightly some what where the damsel is being sacrificed on a bonfire by these Lizardfolk.

You should make more darksun videos

Fcking amazing!

Anyone know if Hankerin did a video about painting up his terrain that nice, sandy red color? So awesome!

@Runehammer1

6 жыл бұрын

yep its called 'hellworld'

Can see using warforge in F.Realms but that type of encounter in Dark Sun...why not introduce nuculer technology and call it fallout haha. Fun encounter ideas though.

Good ol' "rusty bronze"

Amazing. How was the texture on the large foam game board done? It really looks like a weathered sandstone or shale. Very cool.

@Runehammer1

6 жыл бұрын

I beat on it with a cinder block

@theDMsCraft

6 жыл бұрын

I love that technique..use it myself.

@ModerateHipster

6 жыл бұрын

I was curious about that myself... I'll have to beat on some foam with a cinder block too...

@sargondp69

6 жыл бұрын

The answer to all subsequent crafting inquiries: 'I beat on it with a cinder block'. (The board is harsh, barren, and foreboding, befitting its utilization under the Dark Sun)

Where did the wood to make the wagons come from? Are there trees on Athas? (If players ask that question)

With you there on creating my own creatures! Bestiary creatures just have too much history/lore, other general preconceptions, and have become generic, especially in groups that have been playing for a very long time! Generic critters take all of the mystery and suspense of the setting. Some very high fantasy settings purposefully leave out the mystery of strange beasties, strange places, and strange/unfortunate occurrences. I think this is some sort of social commentary we consciously or subconsciously insert into settings that allude to the general acceptance of different and unfamiliar things in our world today, be it different cultures, mindsets, or even desensitisation to disasters and the atrocious acts of mankind....... but....I like a good ol' fashion game that feels like a Slavic folktale or H.P. Lovecraft story: rife with mystery, suspense, and terror of the unknown and unknowable. I have even created a wicked random table that creates both Aberrant Life and Eldritch Beings. It's fun to see the kinds of creatures that it churns out! All it takes is a number of features and abilities, along with some narrative to tie it all together, and, BAM! You got yourself some custom critters that are as much a surprise and anomaly to you as they will be to your players.

Awesome video! What dragon mini is that?

@Runehammer1

6 жыл бұрын

i made it!

in first encounter the dragon breath is DC 12 sleeping gas Pc's who make it can wake up other PC's. lizards wont wake up others and the dragon makes passes until all lizards are asleep.

So who else wants to see a tutorial of him making a game board? Seeing him drinking mead while bashing stuff with a cinder block is fitting for his channel right? I know I’d love to see it. Let’s do this!!

@AvgKsHunter

6 жыл бұрын

Btw. Dark Sun is epic and is a nice change up from the current 5E stuff. Easy to modify into existing rules too.

Can you do your top 10 darksun monsters?

Level 1?! Sorry, kid. You must be 3rd level to board the Dark Sun ride.

I just discovered your channel with Trap Theory, it is awesome. Also just saying but there is no black dragon on Athas, according to the 2nd edition box the only dragon is THE dragon and according to further expensions only high level psionists can become dragons (which doesn't really happen often du to the sorcerer-king issue).

@Runehammer1

6 жыл бұрын

Yep..but i WANT a black dragon in my Athas!

@jello195

6 жыл бұрын

lol that's a fair answer. FYI Dark Sun has a large variety of drakes though which can do the job here. Keep posting great videos, I really enjoy your work.

If I were to start a campaign off in this fashion and this setting I wouldn't have the Caravan be trashed I would have it just passing by them so maybe just maybe the best option for the party is to rob the Caravan he he ho ho, moral compass where did it go?

Runehammer, you are the best. I want to play as a player in a Dark Sun game that YOU are hosting. please

Level 1 players? In DarkSun?!?... Must be a 5th edition thing.

@williamlee7482

3 жыл бұрын

Along with black dragons and warforged roaming about which neither fit the setting at all

@christulloch3473

Жыл бұрын

No biggy, in my game I'd make it a sun drake and make the Drac(Dray), into a group of Ssurans who worship it as some kind of God. Have the leader by a Sun Cleric/Defiler. Instead of a Warforged Make it a Chittin, Salt or Bone Golem. Ultimately its about the broader plot points you can make the rest how you want it in your own game.

Wait wait wait! Tucson!?! I'm in Phoenix! What's bringing ya down to these parts? Inspiration for Dark Sun?

That giant worm in the background... looks amazing. do you have any photos of it anywhere?

@Runehammer1

5 жыл бұрын

maybe... it is made by rocket pig

@dorkyorc4441

5 жыл бұрын

Runehammer did you 3D print it?

You start at lvl 3 in darksun sir

@Runehammer1

5 жыл бұрын

ha! yehp, so says the book, but I ALWAYS start level 1...it's the funnest level (is funnest a word?)

This game is Kenshi, on the table.

Or go with psionic rock, psionic tree or psionic water. 😁

I'm a patreon and a believer for a long time. My handwriting kills me. Any tips?

Are there even dragons other than the sorcerer lords around in Dark Sun?

@Runehammer1

9 ай бұрын

nope. but the 'dragon kings' open it up, in my mind... and I like dragons lol

Dark sun feels like dune, I'm sure their are sand worms out there lol

@argyrispouggouras3378

6 жыл бұрын

More like a fantasy version of Mad Max.

i thought walter white is talking

There are no true dragons on Athas.

Dark sun,also known as modern day australia.

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