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Dungeons & Dragons, 4th Edition
Dark Sun Creature Catalog
Monsters and other threats from the world of Athas.
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. The creatures and threats presented herein make worthy encounters for Athasian heroes or the heroes in your “homebrew” D&D ® campaign.
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. The creatures and threats presented herein make worthy encounters for Athasian heroes or the heroes in your “homebrew” D&D ® campaign.
144 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2010
About the author
Richard Baker
84 books230 followersA best-selling author and award-winning game designer, Richard Baker is known for his novels in the Forgotten Realms setting and his work on the Dungeons & Dragons game. His Realms novels include Condemnation (book 3 of the War of the Spider Queen), the Last Mythal trilogy, and the Blades of the Moonsea trilogy. He is currently working on a new military-themed science fiction series centered on the character Sikander North; Valiant Dust, the first book in the new series, debuts in November 2017 from Tor Books.
A native of Ocean City, New Jersey, Rich graduated from Virginia Tech in 1988 and went on to serve as a surface warfare officer in the United States Navy. When he's not writing fantasy or science fiction, he works in game publishing. He's the founder of Sasquatch Game Studio, a small game company based in Auburn, Washington.
Rich currently resides in the Seattle area with his wife, Kim, and their daughters Alex and Hannah. His interests include gaming (naturally), history, hiking, racquetball, and the Philadelphia Phillies.
A native of Ocean City, New Jersey, Rich graduated from Virginia Tech in 1988 and went on to serve as a surface warfare officer in the United States Navy. When he's not writing fantasy or science fiction, he works in game publishing. He's the founder of Sasquatch Game Studio, a small game company based in Auburn, Washington.
Rich currently resides in the Seattle area with his wife, Kim, and their daughters Alex and Hannah. His interests include gaming (naturally), history, hiking, racquetball, and the Philadelphia Phillies.
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October 30, 2020
Well, to start off, I'm a gamemaster who runs homebrew adventures in a homebrew world in a homebrew game system, so while I'm certainly familiar with Dungeons and Dragons, I don't personally play it. (I found its reliance on magic and character classes to be a little too limiting for the types of stories I wanted to tell, and, rather than try another system like any sane person would, I decided to patch together my own.) However, when I saw this bestiary at my local library, I had to give it a read.
While this volume still has the familiar fantasy standbys (drakes obviously, as well as a spattering of forehead-alien humanoids), there are a number of less familiar threats. My personal favorites are the Zombie Cactus and Hunter Cactus, with the Floating Mantle, Mekillot, and Cloud Ray coming in a close tie for second. I can easily see myself using a lot of these creatures in desert settings across a large variety of games. In particular, I think they would be useful for post-apocalyptic campaigns (which is technically what the Dark Sun campaign setting is in a fantasy rather sci-fi sense) as well traditional fantasy or pulp adventures.
Personally, I would have preferred fewer humanoids or at least more non-humanoids, but that seems to be the nature of most bestiaries.
3.5 stars
While this volume still has the familiar fantasy standbys (drakes obviously, as well as a spattering of forehead-alien humanoids), there are a number of less familiar threats. My personal favorites are the Zombie Cactus and Hunter Cactus, with the Floating Mantle, Mekillot, and Cloud Ray coming in a close tie for second. I can easily see myself using a lot of these creatures in desert settings across a large variety of games. In particular, I think they would be useful for post-apocalyptic campaigns (which is technically what the Dark Sun campaign setting is in a fantasy rather sci-fi sense) as well traditional fantasy or pulp adventures.
Personally, I would have preferred fewer humanoids or at least more non-humanoids, but that seems to be the nature of most bestiaries.
3.5 stars
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