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The text explains how classes define abilities and party roles, then details Athas-specific constraints: all characters start illiterate unless they gain the literacy non-weapon proficiency, and swimming proficiencies are generally unavailable due to the desert setting. 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The gladiator, templar, and trader fill roles that are largely unique to Athas, while the bard is so heavily modified that it should be considered anew class as well.  \nA character’s class is one of his most defining features. It’s the source of most of his abilities, and gives him a specific role in any adventuring party.  \nLiteracy: All characters on Athas start play illiterate. In order to become literate with a language, they must acquire the literacy non-weapon proficiency. Only templars and members of the nobility have access to literacy at its base cost. All other characters pay two slots to learn literacy, and do so illegally to boot. Those who openly display their skills at reading and writing are in for an unpleasant shock.  \nSwimming: Athas is a desert world; most inhabitants never have access to any sort of large body of water in which they could learn to swim. As a consequence, the swimming non-weapon proficiency is unavailable to all classes, with the exception of clerics of elemental water and paraelemental rain. Those Athasians who do live near water (such as the tribe of Dragon’s Bowl, near the Lake Pit, learn not to enter the water. It is often home to creatures far more adept at swimming... and at devouring other swimmers.  \nCharacter Trees: Some Dark Sun games use a system of character trees, a set of multiple interlinked characters who are all connected in some way. This allows players to use different characters suited to whatever adventure is at hand, and also provides a means to easily replace characters slain in the course of adventuring on Athas. The character tree system is entirely optional.  \n47  \nCharacter Classes  \nPriest  \nAthas is a world without true gods. Some believe they abandoned the world long ago, while others claim that Athas has never had deities, and has always been alone in the cosmos. Powerful sorcerer-kings often masquerade as gods and demigods but, though their powers are great and their worshippers many, they aren’t true gods. The world does, however, provide sources of priestly magical power. Such belief-inspired magic is separated into three distinct areas, each with a class suitable to its application.  \nClerics are priests who tend to the needs of the local people with their particular talents. Most worship oneof the four prime elemental forces: earth, air, fire, or water. Others follow the paraelements: magma, rain, silt, and sun. Clerics call upon magical energies from the associated planes, specialising in one element’s magical application on the Prime Material Plane of Athas. Like the elements themselves, the power they draw upon isn’t benevolent or malevolent; it only cares that its natural form in the material world is preserved.  \nDruids, the second type of Athasian priest, associate themselves with the spirits that inhabit special geographical locations on Athas. Every oasis, rock formation, stretch of desert, and mountain has a spirit that looks over it and protects its use. A druid allies with a particular spirit, acting as that spirit’s earthly counterpart and drawing magical energy from it. For example, an oasis has its own spirit and a single druid who lives there to protect it and preside over its use by humans, demihumans, and animals.  \nTemplars worship the sorcerer-kings and draw their magical energies through them. The sorcerer-kings grant magical spells to their templars for services rendered. If a templar falls from favour, or if his sorcerer-king is killed, the templar loses all magic spells. In addition to their magical powers, templars have great secular authority over the citizens of their sorcerer-king’s city-state.  \nNote that the use of priestly magic never adversely affects the ecosystem in and of itself. The net result of the spell may affect the environment (such as summon insects or lower water), but the use of the","cbCaiqElbcH1vXbw","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiqElbcH1vXbw","pdf",19323656,61,"English","# Character Classes\n## Literacy\n## Swimming\n## Character Trees\n## Priest\n## Cleric","[{\"question\":\"What are the three types of Athasian priestly power, and which class fits each?\",\"answer\":\"Belief-inspired magic is separated into three distinct areas, each with a class suitable to its application: clerics, druids, and templars, each drawing magical energies differently in the godless setting.\"}]","Blog 08 - Dark Sun Classes - Character Classes | PDF",1791232099,94]