I was wondering through some old posts and noticed that a hand full of people made reference to playing dark sun in the green or even the blue age. Why?
I’ve read all the novels and many of the supplements but I seem to have missed something. The cleansing wars are certainly something to RP but I have always been under the impression that the rest of the Green Age was very similar to many other genres. I’m not even sure if I have enough info on the Blue Age to give the players a full feel for it.
I guess what I’m getting at is; can you even call it Dark Sun when everything that makes Dark Sun special hasn’t happened yet?

I don’t know about everyone else, but I’ve had a few fleeting thoughts about transporting my DS players to the Blue or Green age for a session or two in the past, just for a change of pace.
Other then that, I agree, the Green Age is like nearly any other classic setting and the Blue age so completely unexplored as to be nearly unusable - but not totally (Broo haa haa).

Now that I think about it, it could be interesting to take seasoned Athasians and give them a little history lesson. I would still only take them as far back as the cleansing wars, though.

Persoanlly, I have no interest in playing anything other than the Brown Age. I don’t really even like the Age of Heros, only because I don’t think that it has the same feel to it as the original boxed set.
The Blue Age seems like a throw-back to an age of dinosauers, and the Green Age is too much like every other RPG fantasy setting. Besides, if there is really a desire to explore something different, why not have the PCs venture out into the Kreen Empire, or explore the Northern Lands?
Yeah, I agree – why would anyone want to play any other Age?

Personally in my own little version of Athas the Green and Blue ages didnt exist in the ways described in the second box set and beyond. I am PERFECTLY happy with the fact that pixies, orcs, GNOMES and other of such creatures never even set FOOT on the planet.
Magic still ate almost all the life on the planet and the so called cleaning ways would have been epic battles between city states or even nations ruled by mighty sorcerer-kings just as the world is today.
As posted in other posts I to have not and will not progress into the Age of Heroes or implement the changes written about in the PPs. It doesnt need something to set it along side other settings, nor does it need a sugarcoating with the disappearance of THE Dragon and the various Sorcerer-Kings/Queen.

Phoenix, I have considered doing just that. I.e. running a campaign starting out in the Blue Age with 2-3 sessions, with the destruction of the brown tide being the end of part 1 of the campaign. In part 2, the Green Age, the characters are involved in building a community with all the new races available. The community is then destroyed in part 3 – the Cleansing Wars. Then comes the Brown Age, and finally the Age of Heroes.

The PCs will be pre-generated for each age, but there will be a link between the characters across the ages, so they will have flashbacks of the past (e.g. the players´memories from the earlier parts).