![]() ![]() Players are also given the opportunity to play members of the dray race. Among the monsters within are the Dray, a race of draconic humanoids. Because City by the Silt Sea was a boxed set, it had room for an extensive 32-page Monstrous Compendium. This was a slightly unusual connection as Dark Sun was largely cut-off from TSR's plane-jumping settings of Spelljammer (1989) and Planescape (1994). A "Planar Gate" found in the adventure allows travel to other planes. Besides giving more information on the Silt Sea, City by the Silt Seaalso explores the eponymous city of Giustenal, its sorcerer-king Dregoth, and the subterranean realms below.Įxpanding the Outer Planes. In doing so it followed in the footsteps of DSR4: "Valley of Dust and Fire" (1992), which first detailed the Silt Sea (and went even further afield!). City by the Silt Sea was one of the few early Dark Sun releases to explore the edges of the Tyr Region. It was an unusual adventuring format at the time and remains unusual today - except in Wizards of the Coast's Encounters program.Įxpanding Athas. A few mapped locales are used in the adventure, but they are entirely subsumed into the encounters format so that each of these locales fits into a single encounter entry. The adventure side of things continues Dark Sun's unusual encounter-based format - which lays out each encounter with a setup, start, encounter, reactions, statistics, and outcome. City by the Silt Sea is a combined setting and adventure supplement. Nonetheless, the campaign setting would be released in a Expanded and Revised (1995) edition the next year.Īdventuring Tropes. Given that TSR had canceled several lines in 1993, this wasn't a horrible sign for Dark Sun. ![]() After a couple of years that saw about a dozen Dark Sun releases each, 1994 instead saw Dark Sun publication halved, with: a trilogy of novels, two adventure, one supplement, and City by the Silt Sea itself. In 1992 that was the Dragon Kings hardcover (1992), in 1993 that was the Ivory Triangle boxed set (1993) and in 1994 that was the City by the Silt Sea boxed set (1994).Ĭity by the Silt Sea was also the last RPG release for Dark Sun in 1994 … and it had been a slightly lean year. Beginning with the Dark Sun boxed set (1991), TSR released one major supplement for the Dark Sun line every year. It was released in August 1994.Ĭontinuing the Dark Sun Series.
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