I'm joining an ongoing campaign based on the Dark Sun campaign setting. I've been advised that all official sources are legal for character creation. Still, I would like to create a character that would fit in the setting. I usually play casters, but I'm aware that arcane casters are...not received well by the general population in this setting. So I want to play either a cleric or a druid. If I go druid, what circles would I be most likely to see in Athas? Land/desert seems obvious; are there others I should be looking at? Same question for clerics (sorry if I'm wandering off topic for this forum)?
I'd recommend druid rather than cleric because in original dark sun there were no clerics, and rather than a circle of the land I'd suggest going with moon druid and consider multiclassing into fighter or barbarian to represent the harsh world and destruction of the natural world forging you into a terrifying warrior of the dying world or a manifestation of natures rage respectively.
For spells and wildshape go with blight or flaming sphere and other painful destructive spells and your wildshape would be primarily snakes and giant scorpions since the larger beasts and predators wouldn't have enough prey to sustain them, plus poison and hardscrabble critters are more in theme anyways.
As a final note I'd suggest that as an entirely flavor element avoid preparing any healing spells, Athas is a harsh world and comforting things like healing are meant to be vanishingly rare on it.
All told I hope yall have fun.
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I'm joining an ongoing campaign based on the Dark Sun campaign setting. I've been advised that all official sources are legal for character creation. Still, I would like to create a character that would fit in the setting. I usually play casters, but I'm aware that arcane casters are...not received well by the general population in this setting. So I want to play either a cleric or a druid. If I go druid, what circles would I be most likely to see in Athas? Land/desert seems obvious; are there others I should be looking at? Same question for clerics (sorry if I'm wandering off topic for this forum)?
I'd recommend druid rather than cleric because in original dark sun there were no clerics, and rather than a circle of the land I'd suggest going with moon druid and consider multiclassing into fighter or barbarian to represent the harsh world and destruction of the natural world forging you into a terrifying warrior of the dying world or a manifestation of natures rage respectively.
For spells and wildshape go with blight or flaming sphere and other painful destructive spells and your wildshape would be primarily snakes and giant scorpions since the larger beasts and predators wouldn't have enough prey to sustain them, plus poison and hardscrabble critters are more in theme anyways.
As a final note I'd suggest that as an entirely flavor element avoid preparing any healing spells, Athas is a harsh world and comforting things like healing are meant to be vanishingly rare on it.
All told I hope yall have fun.