by DarkGrifis- Year: 1996
- Platform: Windows
- Publisher: Total Entertainment Network
- Developer: Strategic Simulations, Inc.
- Theme: D&D / AD&D
The world of Dark Sun began at TSR, Inc. as an Advanced Dungeons and Dragons Second Edition pen and paper game series, taking the races of Forgotten Realms and placing them on the scorched and ruined world of Athas. Although the paper games had a cult following, after a couple of issues, for whatever reason, TSR discontinued the series, leaving fans to continue its development and growth via work consortiums online. While the Dark Sun series was still in production, computer games were conceived and worked on by SSI Inc.., who also developed the Forgotten Realms series such as Pool of Radiance and Menzoberranzan with TSR. The fruits of this development were AD&D; Dark Sun 1: Shattered Lands and Dark Sun 2: Wake of the Ravager, both DOS 6.2 games.
