Ive actually been trying to find your channel for awhile Chris, I loved the sea of silt video but I couldn't remember what channel it was on. Thanks to you both for putting this stuff out there!
Let's be real here: If someone from Dark Sun got to Ravenloft, they'd be dead from overhydration within 48 hours... and Strahd would be seen as straight-up benevolent.
CZcams will probably hide this comment for awhile, but thank you for the Dark Sun lore video. Dark Sun has quickly become probably one of if not my favorite official D&D setting, as well as a major influence on me. I love the land of Athas. I love the Cracked, Dying Red Sun, the Sorcerer-Kings, the Dragon's and all of that. I'm super excited for the future videos on this as well! I find the possibility of lives on the moons could be very interesting for a homebrew campaign set on one of them as well. With a unique take on Moon Elves, perhaps.
The thing I love about the setting is that it is a Halfling-only campaign, the only race you can pick is Halfling or some variant of mutant Dire-Halfling.
So as Conan Low fantasy fans, my Dad bought me books that appealed to his love of bodybuilding and Masculinity. The Cover of the Verdant passage instantaneously drew me in and I've read that book (the First Novel in the Dark Sun Prism Pentad) several times. Now as the modern forms of entertainment get all colorful and furry...I have gone back to the Conan-esque sensibilities and into Grimdark Low fantasy. Dark Sun will be my setting (for my D&D5e games) and Death a constant. This channel directly rekindled my love of these worlds and Lore. Thank you for your awesome and content rich videos!
Bodybuilding isn't so much as masculinity, but vanity - the same as the overly buff & busty women in this fantasy genre. Realistically, survivors of tough landscapes are often slim & sinewy, having to work hard for the very little food & water they can get. All the extra muscle just makes you tired & weak in comparison.
Love all the literary references and I would definitely try to build a John Carter character in the Dark Sun setting. The Barsoom series is seriously under appreciated in Sci-fi circles these days. I am greatly looking forward to this series!
My personal favorite d&d campaign ever, it's just so much more interesting to me than the more traditional fantasy settings you usually see in the games. If only we could get a new game based on the setting.
Yyyyeeaahh bbabbiii!! Dark Sun videos!!! I just spent the last 9 months creating a Dark Sun campaign for my friends! We havnt had a chance to start it up yet, but i had SO MUCH FUN making the campaign all on its own. Dark Sun is easily one of the top 3 settings for any D&D campaign
Fantastic introduction to the Dark Sun setting! I love what you've done with your Dark Sun Skyrim mod. Thank you for the shout out to Rise of the Veiled Alliance and my other Dark Sun adventures-a lot of love went into them.
Great video, I was very glad to see you followed up and made the Dark Sun content. I am looking forward to more videos on this setting as it is one of my all time favorites.
Yes CZcams has been actively acting out lately, I'm surprised even these fantasy videos are being censored/suppressed...this is harmless compared to the direction they wana go!!!
Dark Sun might be my favourite! I recently found your channel and pretty much binged all of your Conan content. Love the channel, keep up the awesome work my man!
interesting highly intriguing! Personally, the D&D universe is confusing, stereotyped and even so I am amazed at its particular cosmology and narrative development! I love your channel, especially sword & sorcery topics! Really ingenious comparative, analytical and thoughtful introduction to this desolate, brutal and barbaric realm! Keep rolling!
Confusing maybe but I think stereotyped is a little unfair. Especially with some of the original settings, while they may seem cliche today they weren't nearly as overdone in the 70s/80s as they are today.
@@KS-PNW 🤔 Thats , actully a good point!! And you know what? Your right! The 70s and 80s was quite am interactive revolution period of the Fantasy Tropics! I criticize More the generalization of the aspects, and yet i love how they ways are implemented in diferents perspectives. Like for example: the Witcher, Discworld, Spiderwick, ect
Confusing, eh? Take a look at Planescape. The center of the multiverse is... wherever you happen to be. Or it could be that torus spinning atop an infinitely tall spire. One of the two, I'm pretty sure.
I wanna be a dwagon king when I grow up. Like in the song "puff the magic dwagon king lived on Athas and ate everything"! But mostly I just want to eat halflings. Mostly. ?;- )
Dark Sun has fascinated me ever since I started playing 2nd edition. I have the second boxed set and have unfortunately couldn’t find a steady group to play. Players were turned off by psionics and the grim dark miserable setting. I still live it to death and have tried to read any bit of lore I can find. Cannibal halflings ftw!
As a student of history, I feel it isn't civilization itself that is corruptive, but rather a civilization's failure to root out, punish, and destroy corruption that is often its downfall. Dark Sun is a good example, as it was in failing to stop the use of corruptive, destructive magic that ultimately caused the calamity that brought about its current state. If such evil was exterminated on sight and hunted down wherever it might try to hide back then, the world of Dark Sun would be a better place.
It seems as if I cannot see a larger portion of the comments on this video. Which is strange and sincerely makes me wonder what the purpose would even be? It’s not like this is anything bad.
Dark sun is like a mix between Conan and barbarian and Mad Max Yeah dark sun this is my favorite setting in DMD before Dungeons & Dragons when the shit thanks a lot wizards but good video I like it. 👍
I feel like Green moon or Rao is a funny joke based on the Lore of Old Krypton. Rao was the sun god of krypton, green Kryptonite only works due to the fact that it isn’t exposed to red sunlight.
If youre doing DnD settings im going to personally request that you may please do my favorite (and one of if not arguably the best official dnd setting) Mystara!
There should be an all races one already on the channel, but it depends on the demand at the time from donators and people who pay me. Right now those people more like Conan, but I suppose the next video I’d do in this series would be “All Sorcerer Kings in Dark Sun”
A normal T-Rex is bad enough, but an Athasian T-Rex is psychic. That means that when you freeze up, taking Jurassic Park's advice that "their sight is based on movement", not only can it see you perfectly well with its eyes, but it can read your mind and think to itself "LOLOLOLOLOL What bad advice, LMFAO!"
A very very VERY minor correction, however volcanoes do not exist because of oceans, its the tectonic plates under either land or sea that create volcanoes, and lava comes from both. I digress, but good video.
"This is not the lava from some volcano, for athas lacks the oceans to make them." Huh? Oceans aren't necessary for volcanoes to form.. all lava is from the core of a planet..
Love it man. Im training jiu jitsu in Brazil at the moment when i get back to new Zealand im going get i to DnD . I hope to find some people who play dark sun🙏. With the character creation is it a different set up in the sense. 1. You have to just pick a race from the dark sun world. 2. Can you make multi race. 3. Can you pick skills that reflect dark sun. Like survivalist and such. 4. What weapons and gear do you start with? Or do i pick that with my caracter creation?
I don’t know why but I imagine the people of Athas to all have various southern accents instead of your usual fantasy British accents. You show up in athas and Borys has a THICK South Carolina accent
@@GrimDarkHalfOff The Half-Giants would totally have Australian accents. The Muul would either have Texan or Mexican accents depending on where they're from.
I've always kind of hated how the D&D Multivurse kind of insists upon itself, regardless of how little it makes sense in relation to any given setting. On top of that, it insists that all D&D worlds, even those run by you and your friends are connected to it, even if you don't want it to be. Sure you can always rule it doesn't have a connection, but thene you have to explain that to every new player.
Great job, this is excellent! I’m going to share it now. Thanks for the shout out.
Np, I'll pin your comment so people can find you!
Thanks again man.
Ive actually been trying to find your channel for awhile Chris, I loved the sea of silt video but I couldn't remember what channel it was on.
Thanks to you both for putting this stuff out there!
Cool, I’ll see you over there.
Thanks Santa
Ah, Dark Sun... The setting that spending more than ten minutes talking about will almost certainly get you demonetized. Love it!
Finds a teleport out of Dark Sun.
"YES FINALLY!"
"Whew... man, theres a LOT of mist here"
*reads sign*
"Ravenloft.... well shit."
The gray turns out to be part of the mists of Ravenloft... ok thats actually not terrible lol
Let's be real here: If someone from Dark Sun got to Ravenloft, they'd be dead from overhydration within 48 hours... and Strahd would be seen as straight-up benevolent.
@@samuelthegreatoo Only one of the Sorcerer-Monarchs was imprisoned in Ravenloft, Kalid-ma of Kalidnay
CZcams will probably hide this comment for awhile, but thank you for the Dark Sun lore video. Dark Sun has quickly become probably one of if not my favorite official D&D setting, as well as a major influence on me. I love the land of Athas. I love the Cracked, Dying Red Sun, the Sorcerer-Kings, the Dragon's and all of that. I'm super excited for the future videos on this as well! I find the possibility of lives on the moons could be very interesting for a homebrew campaign set on one of them as well. With a unique take on Moon Elves, perhaps.
The thing I love about the setting is that it is a Halfling-only campaign, the only race you can pick is Halfling or some variant of mutant Dire-Halfling.
YES! ATHAS IS MY FAVORITE D&D WORLD!
Running Dark Sun using Savage Worlds is about the most fun you can have with tabletop gaming, in my opinion. A match made in heaven.
So as Conan Low fantasy fans, my Dad bought me books that appealed to his love of bodybuilding and Masculinity. The Cover of the Verdant passage instantaneously drew me in and I've read that book (the First Novel in the Dark Sun Prism Pentad) several times. Now as the modern forms of entertainment get all colorful and furry...I have gone back to the Conan-esque sensibilities and into Grimdark Low fantasy. Dark Sun will be my setting (for my D&D5e games) and Death a constant. This channel directly rekindled my love of these worlds and Lore. Thank you for your awesome and content rich videos!
Bodybuilding isn't so much as masculinity, but vanity - the same as the overly buff & busty women in this fantasy genre.
Realistically, survivors of tough landscapes are often slim & sinewy, having to work hard for the very little food & water they can get.
All the extra muscle just makes you tired & weak in comparison.
Love all the literary references and I would definitely try to build a John Carter character in the Dark Sun setting.
The Barsoom series is seriously under appreciated in Sci-fi circles these days.
I am greatly looking forward to this series!
I love Dark Sun! Unfortunately I've never found a gaming group that would play in that setting.
My personal favorite d&d campaign ever, it's just so much more interesting to me than the more traditional fantasy settings you usually see in the games. If only we could get a new game based on the setting.
I don't normally like fantasy but this channel has changed that. Especially this setting.
spicy 🔥 with a nice crunchy center and a enjoyable aftertaste nice job I will be coming back for a second helping
Yyyyeeaahh bbabbiii!! Dark Sun videos!!!
I just spent the last 9 months creating a Dark Sun campaign for my friends! We havnt had a chance to start it up yet, but i had SO MUCH FUN making the campaign all on its own.
Dark Sun is easily one of the top 3 settings for any D&D campaign
Man CZcams needs more Darksun content, thanks for doing these!
I am VERY eager for more Dark Sun content. Great stuff.
I love Dark Sun. It's so very - different - than many other settings. I also really like it's Mesopotamian influences (ziggurats etc)
Thanks my next video is going to be on the races of the world
I've played in the Darksun campaign since the first boxed set. I can't wait to see what kinds of videos you make about it.
I have been subscribed for a while…I love your channel never fucking stop.
More Dark Sun please!! Your channel is fantastic!!
Fantastic introduction to the Dark Sun setting! I love what you've done with your Dark Sun Skyrim mod. Thank you for the shout out to Rise of the Veiled Alliance and my other Dark Sun adventures-a lot of love went into them.
That’s why I’m here! Passion should be rewarded with passion! Love your stuff!
Love your dark sun content, more please!
I really want to do life shaper halflings
Excited for more Dark Sun. Always looking for more in this setting.
One of my favorites fantasy settings.
So happy you're covering Dark Sun!
I remember buying the source book many years ago, absolutely love it.
Thank you.
Tyvm for the new video!
I am super excited about this serious. Thanks for doing this setting.
I would definitely like to hear more about this dark sun for sure, great video man
More! I need more Dark Sun! I miss the creativity in 2nd ED so much.
This channel keeps getting better
Great video, I was very glad to see you followed up and made the Dark Sun content. I am looking forward to more videos on this setting as it is one of my all time favorites.
Thanks for the video!
Hey guys I think youtube is hiding your comments again. Let me know if you can see them. There should be 23+ so far.
I only see 2, one of them yours.
I see 27
2 is all I see
Yes CZcams has been actively acting out lately, I'm surprised even these fantasy videos are being censored/suppressed...this is harmless compared to the direction they wana go!!!
I was only able to see like 3 comments in the default setting, then when I went to "Sort by: Newest" they were all visible. Very suspicious.
I've been looking forward to this!.
Dark Sun is a fascinating setting... it willnever see a reprint.
Thanks for including all those sources!
(I changed the comment settings to “Newest first” and was able to see many more comments)
Thanks for this, i played Darks Sun in 2rd edition. This reminded me and I looked at the 4th ed book, and it's so expensive and rare.
i love the fact you actually shout and link other channels who also study the settings you talk about.
Dark Sun might be my favourite! I recently found your channel and pretty much binged all of your Conan content. Love the channel, keep up the awesome work my man!
Thanks brother!
I remember playing this in the 90's(God now I feel old)
Oh yeah, great stuff Grim Dark! 🤘😁🤘
Looking forward to this series
interesting highly intriguing! Personally, the D&D universe is confusing, stereotyped and even so I am amazed at its particular cosmology and narrative development! I love your channel, especially sword & sorcery topics! Really ingenious comparative, analytical and thoughtful introduction to this desolate, brutal and barbaric realm! Keep rolling!
Confusing maybe but I think stereotyped is a little unfair. Especially with some of the original settings, while they may seem cliche today they weren't nearly as overdone in the 70s/80s as they are today.
@@KS-PNW 🤔 Thats , actully a good point!! And you know what? Your right! The 70s and 80s was quite am interactive revolution period of the Fantasy Tropics! I criticize More the generalization of the aspects, and yet i love how they ways are implemented in diferents perspectives. Like for example: the Witcher, Discworld, Spiderwick, ect
Confusing, eh? Take a look at Planescape. The center of the multiverse is... wherever you happen to be. Or it could be that torus spinning atop an infinitely tall spire. One of the two, I'm pretty sure.
This is great
I wanna be a dwagon king when I grow up. Like in the song "puff the magic dwagon king lived on Athas and ate everything"!
But mostly I just want to eat halflings. Mostly. ?;- )
Be careful.
Athasian Halflings seriously might eat you first....
@@Titan360 Vicious little critters to be sure.
Awesome that you are covering Dark Sun! Ive been asking myself... Will WotC bring it back next? Will it be even a good thing?
Great setting! Keep working on this. I'm looking forward to you covering the rhulusti.
Would love to see a Hyborean Age cosmology
I love how you started this with the quotes!
Dark Sun has fascinated me ever since I started playing 2nd edition. I have the second boxed set and have unfortunately couldn’t find a steady group to play. Players were turned off by psionics and the grim dark miserable setting. I still live it to death and have tried to read any bit of lore I can find. Cannibal halflings ftw!
Hell yeah love this setting so much!
This is a really effective introduction
Thank you brother!
Please do more of these, I got into Dark sun lore pretty heavily and couldn't get enough of it, please keep these up !
As a student of history, I feel it isn't civilization itself that is corruptive, but rather a civilization's failure to root out, punish, and destroy corruption that is often its downfall. Dark Sun is a good example, as it was in failing to stop the use of corruptive, destructive magic that ultimately caused the calamity that brought about its current state. If such evil was exterminated on sight and hunted down wherever it might try to hide back then, the world of Dark Sun would be a better place.
Comments for the Comments god. And as always, more please
As the world look like just now we could use a barbarian king to push back the wicked.
Love me some Dark Sun
It seems as if I cannot see a larger portion of the comments on this video. Which is strange and sincerely makes me wonder what the purpose would even be? It’s not like this is anything bad.
Great video as always!
Can't wait to see more Dark Sun content.
Dark sun is like a mix between Conan and barbarian and Mad Max Yeah dark sun this is my favorite setting in DMD before Dungeons & Dragons when the shit thanks a lot wizards but good video I like it. 👍
Great video! Do you think would ever do a video on kenshi btw?
I feel like Green moon or Rao is a funny joke based on the Lore of Old Krypton. Rao was the sun god of krypton, green Kryptonite only works due to the fact that it isn’t exposed to red sunlight.
Dune either before or after Frank Herbert's Dune.
A Dune like fantasy.
I'm new here and I'm looking forward to seeing more!
I sometimes threaten my players with throwing their characters into Athas when they're getting too rowdy.
Awesome
Oh boy oh boy oh boy 🎉
If youre doing DnD settings im going to personally request that you may please do my favorite (and one of if not arguably the best official dnd setting) Mystara!
Very good 👍
OOOH Dam I am glad you dable on this setting!
Nice beginning words from the all father in mad max😂😂😂😂
Dark Sun Cannibal Cultists, Holla!
The worlds greatest Campaign Setting.
Great channel. Good fortunes.
Yes to all of this!
Great video
Hello, then can we expect another video from this series? Really enjoyed this content!!!
There should be an all races one already on the channel, but it depends on the demand at the time from donators and people who pay me. Right now those people more like Conan, but I suppose the next video I’d do in this series would be “All Sorcerer Kings in Dark Sun”
Sweet.
Thank-you for the video
Lawful Stupid has a great 34 episode live play for Dark Sun
I love this setting! I plan to run a campaign of it over on Discord and Roll20! :D
Great stuff
Hello, great video!
Great vid.
A normal T-Rex is bad enough, but an Athasian T-Rex is psychic. That means that when you freeze up, taking Jurassic Park's advice that "their sight is based on movement", not only can it see you perfectly well with its eyes, but it can read your mind and think to itself "LOLOLOLOLOL What bad advice, LMFAO!"
It can also breathe fire
@@GrimDarkHalfOff The PCs are specifically not moving.....
...so they don't get a Reflex Saving throw for half damage....
A very very VERY minor correction, however volcanoes do not exist because of oceans, its the tectonic plates under either land or sea that create volcanoes, and lava comes from both. I digress, but good video.
"This is not the lava from some volcano, for athas lacks the oceans to make them."
Huh? Oceans aren't necessary for volcanoes to form.. all lava is from the core of a planet..
Love it man.
Im training jiu jitsu in Brazil at the moment when i get back to new Zealand im going get i to DnD .
I hope to find some people who play dark sun🙏.
With the character creation is it a different set up in the sense.
1. You have to just pick a race from the dark sun world.
2. Can you make multi race.
3. Can you pick skills that reflect dark sun. Like survivalist and such.
4. What weapons and gear do you start with?
Or do i pick that with my caracter creation?
have you ever heard of mystara
Fuck yeah
Noice
Yes
My N'wah!
I don’t know why but I imagine the people of Athas to all have various southern accents instead of your usual fantasy British accents. You show up in athas and Borys has a THICK South Carolina accent
Yes and Australian
@@GrimDarkHalfOff The Half-Giants would totally have Australian accents. The Muul would either have Texan or Mexican accents depending on where they're from.
I've always kind of hated how the D&D Multivurse kind of insists upon itself, regardless of how little it makes sense in relation to any given setting. On top of that, it insists that all D&D worlds, even those run by you and your friends are connected to it, even if you don't want it to be. Sure you can always rule it doesn't have a connection, but thene you have to explain that to every new player.
Imagine this dark sun but with baldur gate 3 gameplay.
Conan in Dark Sun perhaps?
An early comment for the comment throne.
What is the game footage at 6:52 the one with the lizard man, is it conan exiles ???
Oh no, HEAVILY MODDED Skyrim
This sounds like a primarch homeworld
The science of discontent thing is from Dune I’m pretty sure. Someone can correct me if I’m wrong.
Yeah it’s almost like I put that in the title
U did a lot of extra work just to say the sun is actually dark and the title isn’t a lie