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Black Spine
Item code: TSR2428
Type: Boxed Adventure
Release: 1994
Design: Walter Baas
Dustin Browder
Tom Prusa
Jonathan Tweet
Editor: Jim Butler
Lance Kandler
Ann Goetz
Steve Maggi
Developers: Mortimer Clyde
Wally Travino
Rachel Bachman
Art Coordination: Peggy Cooper
Cover Art: Brom
Interior Art: Tom Baxa
Cartography: Diesel
Format: Boxed, booklets and maps
Print Runs:      First (1994)
Rarity: Common
Value
@NrMint:
$18
ISBN: 1-56076-824-X
Cover Price: $25.00 U.S.
Weight: 850 grams
Dimensions: width: 22.0 cm
height: 27.5 cm
depth: 2.3 cm

Collectors arcana: The new boxed format contained several booklets. The outer boxes soon proved to be too weak to support their contents in everyday life of a gamer. Most available used copies are smashed or have tears. This is true with most shrinkwrapped copies, too. Clarify the condition of the outer box before purchase or bidding with the seller when purchasing used copies of Dark Sun adventure boxes.

"Unkown to even the mightiest of the great sorcerer-kings, a fire is stirring deep beneath the barren soil of Athas. Sheltered by the titanic bulk of the Black Spine mountains, a terrible force has ripped open the very fabric of time and space. Now a shimmering portal stands open and a long-forgotten enemy assembles its sinister forces to invade the kingdoms under the dark sun.

The only thing that stands in the way of this terrible fate is a band of heroes. Assembled from the four corners of this tortured world and bound together by the tangled cords of fate, they must face an enemy the likes of which they have never seen before. The odds are against them, but they dare not fail. The fate of the world is in their hands.

Black Spine is an adventure for 4 to 6 characters of 10th through 13th level. The previous flip-book modules (Black Flames, Merchant House of Amketch and Marauders of Nibenay precede this adventure, but they are not necessary to enjoy Black Spine."
Box contents

  • "Adventure Book One": 96-page booklet (see picture at the bottom).
  • "Adventure Book Two": 96-page booklet (see picture at the bottom).
  • "Adventure Book Three": 96-page booklet (see picture at the bottom).
  • "Yathazor, City of Calamity": Fold-out map, colored
  • "Galanaki, The City of the Queen": Fold-out map, colored
2428XXX1901: Adventure Book One

2428XXX1902: Adventure Book Two

2428XXX1903: Adventure Book Three
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