Dark Sun, Asticilian Gambit Dsq3 Game Adventure (Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, 2nd Edition)

121 Pages·1992·5.4 MB·English

by  Anthony Pryor

Asticlian Gambit
A DARK SUN(cid:153) Campaign Adventure
Player(cid:146)s Book
Credits
Design: Anthony Pryor
Editing: Timothy B. Brown with Michele Carter
Cover Art: Brom
Interior Art: Tom Baxa
Typography: Gaye O(cid:146)Keefe
Cartography: Steve Beck
Graphic Design: Dee Barnett & Sarah Feggestad
Graphic Production: Laura Samuels
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Nibenay(cid:151)Home of the mysterious Shadow King. It is a vast, walled city, full of
buildings covered in bizarre reliefs. Substantial rice paddies lie all around end even
within the city itself, tended by legions of slaves and their grim Mul overseers.
Nibenay seethes with activity. Ordinary citizens hurry from place to place under
the watchful eye of the Shadow King(cid:146)s warriors. Slaves haul goods for merchants,
while crodlu and inix crowd the streets, carrying cargo, both living and nonliving.
Templars walk past the ornate buildings, swaggering confidently. To your surprise,
you realize that all of the Nibeni templars are women.
You put this down to the infamous eccentricity of the Shadow King, who rarely
ventures from his vast walled palace near the center of the city. In the distance, you
see the king(cid:146)s compound. In the center is a vast carving-the bust of a grim,
dangerous(cid:151)looking man.
(cid:147)See?(cid:148) says a templar, pointing. (cid:147)That is the head of our sacred and beloved
Shadow King. No mere mortal may enter his inner sanctum.(cid:148)