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<blockquote data-quote="D_E" data-source="post: 6994434" data-attributes="member: 49225"><p>Understandable <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The original reference is either in the Illithiad (the 2e version of the 3.5e <em>Lords of Madness</em>) or the <em>Dawn of the Overmind</em> Spelljammer adventure (also 2e, which Google leads me to believe was the last of a trilogy of adventures alongside the Illithiad and using the material therein).</p><p></p><p>I KNOW I bought a copy of the Illithiad at one point, but I can't find it now. At the time I was disappointed by how much of it had actually been reprinted in <em>Lords</em>, and didn't end up reading it closely. I don't remember seeing anything about Penumbra in there, but see previous sentence <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />.</p><p></p><p>HOWEVER:</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.thepiazza.org.uk/bb/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=6539&hilit=penumbra#p87752" target="_blank">I have located a discussion</a> concerning the size of Truespace as depicted in <em>Dawn of the Overmind</em>, which includes quotes from the adventure and confirms that Penumbra was an Alderson disk in that adventure as well.</p><p></p><p>______________</p><p></p><p>An unrelated note: Did you place the Rock of Bral anywhere? Is it too small? My understanding is that it was never assigned a specific sphere (and included explicit instructions to the DM to place it in whatever sphere he wanted it for his campaign), so it should probably be in the "Worlds Without Known Crystal Spheres" section.</p><p></p><p>______________</p><p></p><p>P.S.: Do you know about <a href="http://www.spelljammer.org/worlds/articles/SphereGuide/Guide%20to%20the%20Spheres.pdf" target="_blank">The Guide to the Spheres</a>? It attempts to bring together references and info for all the canonical Crystal Spheres, though it does include info from systems other than 2e D&D. It lists <em>Dawn of the Overmind</em> as the source for Penumbra, which would suggest that it has indeed been a disk starting from its earliest appearance.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="D_E, post: 6994434, member: 49225"] Understandable :) The original reference is either in the Illithiad (the 2e version of the 3.5e [I]Lords of Madness[/I]) or the [I]Dawn of the Overmind[/I] Spelljammer adventure (also 2e, which Google leads me to believe was the last of a trilogy of adventures alongside the Illithiad and using the material therein). I KNOW I bought a copy of the Illithiad at one point, but I can't find it now. At the time I was disappointed by how much of it had actually been reprinted in [I]Lords[/I], and didn't end up reading it closely. I don't remember seeing anything about Penumbra in there, but see previous sentence ;). HOWEVER: [URL="http://www.thepiazza.org.uk/bb/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=6539&hilit=penumbra#p87752"]I have located a discussion[/URL] concerning the size of Truespace as depicted in [I]Dawn of the Overmind[/I], which includes quotes from the adventure and confirms that Penumbra was an Alderson disk in that adventure as well. ______________ An unrelated note: Did you place the Rock of Bral anywhere? Is it too small? My understanding is that it was never assigned a specific sphere (and included explicit instructions to the DM to place it in whatever sphere he wanted it for his campaign), so it should probably be in the "Worlds Without Known Crystal Spheres" section. ______________ P.S.: Do you know about [URL="http://www.spelljammer.org/worlds/articles/SphereGuide/Guide%20to%20the%20Spheres.pdf"]The Guide to the Spheres[/URL]? It attempts to bring together references and info for all the canonical Crystal Spheres, though it does include info from systems other than 2e D&D. It lists [I]Dawn of the Overmind[/I] as the source for Penumbra, which would suggest that it has indeed been a disk starting from its earliest appearance. [/QUOTE]
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