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No law rules the blasted wastes of Athas, except the laws carved by blades or shaped by magic. Civilized realms suffer under the oppressive rule of sorcerer-kings. Will you rise up, with allies to guard your back and your water? Or will the scorched lands under the dying sun claim yet another band of fools?

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Dark Sun Campaign Setting

Release Date: August 17, 2010

Aimed at players and Dungeon Masters, this game supplement explores the heroes and wonders of Athas—a savage desert world abandoned by the gods and ruled by terrible sorcerer-kings. Use it to build Dark Sun heroes and thrilling D&D adventures!

Dark Sun Creature Catalog

Release Date: August 17, 2010

This supplement for the Dark Sun Campaign Setting collects the most iconic and dangerous monsters of the Dark Sun campaign setting into one handy tome. It also contains other hazards and threats found in the desert wastelands and dungeon tombs of Athas.

Marauders of the Dune Sea

Release Date: August 17, 2010

Now that Tyr is free of Kalak the Sorcerer-King, opportunity abounds in the city and the surrounding wastes. But some see Kalak’s fall as the beginning of Tyr’s end, and the unpatrolled deserts nearby are rife with danger.

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The Verdant Passage

The thousand-year reign of the evil sorcerer king Kalak is coming to an end. But the city of Tyr -- like the rest of the world of Athas -- has been left a magic-blasted ruin, a desolate place of dust, blood, and fear.

The Crimson Legion

The city of Tyr is free at last. But with newfound freedom comes the chaos wrought of the bitterness of millennia of slavery. Tyr may have been freed, only to die.

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