Hi there! Name's Nic. I am 33 years old (almost 34), married, and I am an Electrician by trade. I have been playing rpg's since I was 11 or 12 years old starting with AD&D 1st and 2nd Ed (20+ years of experience). Dark Sun has always been one of my absolute favorite campaign settings to both play in and dm. I have been playing and dm'ing Dark Sun since it originally debuted back in 91 (if i remember correctly). Though I fell away from it for a while since I was not a huge fan of what they did to DnD after WoTC bought TSR out. Now that 5e is around I feel a bit more compelled to get back into the Sands of Athas!

I have recently been playing alot of Pathfinder games and running a homebrew, primitive world, vaguely inspired by Dark Sun on roll20.net.

However, I just recently received my first hard-copy of the Dungeons and Dragons 5e Players Handbook. Now I am highly interested in DM'ing a 5e Dark Sun tabletop campaign for my local playgroup, but have been unable to find much as for conversions over to the 5e mechanics.

This site seems perfect and I have many questions to better flesh out the conversion of Dark Sun (pre 4e) over to 5e. As a DM I love to provide my players with rich, interesting experiences, with plenty opportunity for role playing, not "roll-playing." I am really excited to find this site and hope to learn much and possibly contribute a bit as well, though most of my contributions would be towards DnD 5th Ed and Pathfinder conversions since my play groups despise 4e and 3.X.