Yeah, the drow get used quite a bit. But it's strange how fresh these standard D&D races become when they're taken out of the usual context, inspired by Tolkein and Howard, and put into a new context, inspired by Burroughs.
Besides...there's pirates in flying ships, and that is always a good thing. And blind grimlock hordes who will eat your corpse after their illithid overlords devour your brain. Also big fun.
I know this has been argued to death, and I'm not trying to pick a fight, but I like this so much better than the original. It's the English major in me...I want a new game to FEEL different, to reflect different conventions, a different genre. This setting, in just a few pages, conveys a feel of the exotic and the unknown --- of unexplored worlds and forgotten kingdoms and infinite mysteries.
Anyway...if a Spelljammer TV series comes to pass, I hope that the producers will consider the "John Carter" movie in pre-production, and take a hard look at what space fantasy looked like in the days before Star Trek and Star Wars. I will be very sad if we end up with some "Andromeda meets Lord of the Rings" abomination with wisecracking heroes and wire fu.
So anyway...Andy and Erik, I hope the two million dollar TV pilot shows half the vision and imagination of your fifty-page mini-game.
