D&D 5E PlaneJammer: Sailing the Astral Sea

[werecorpse]

Yep, sorry. I like the idea of the Astral as having a space/the oceans vibe I’m just looking at using your ideas for my game so I’m prying into how you see it working.

 

[Reynard]

Yep, sorry. I like the idea of the Astral as having a space/the oceans vibe I’m just looking at using your ideas for my game so I’m prying into how you see it working.

I have never liked the idea that it was purely a realm of thought. I like it better as a Kirby-esque cosmic sky full of planetoids and nebulae and, obviously, inhabited god corpses. Plus I think the whole spelljammer aspect works better if it is a "sea."

 

[Reynard]

What are folks' favorite sea going campaign references that I can adopt to sailing the Astral Sea. Stuff with rules for boats and naval combat and trading, etc...

 

[weedenbc]

Late to the party on this thread, but has anyone found any naming conventions or ideas for githyanki astral ships? I'd like to add one to a current 5e campaign but haven't come across anything about naming conventions.

 

[Rabulias]

Late to the party on this thread, but has anyone found any naming conventions or ideas for githyanki astral ships? I'd like to add one to a current 5e campaign but haven't come across anything about naming conventions.

My own game briefly involved some githyanki astral ships, and I had the following names:
Venomous Spite
Defiant Slash
Silver Fang
Hateful Strike

 

[overgeeked]

Get the 4th edition astral sea books. Also collect the Iomadra articles from Chris Perkins.

Where would one find these? A quick search doesn't reveal much.

Also look at the random sector generation stuff from Traveller, I often wish there was something similar for planar locations or places in the astral sea. Or for places in a fantasy sea.

You could cobble something together from the various hex generators, I'm sure. Shoot for the more weird end of the spectrum and throw in the Traveller random generators for good measure. Hmm...that might be a fun project.

 

[Voadam]

Where would one find these? A quick search doesn't reveal much.

The Plane Above: Secrets of the Astral Sea and Manual of the Planes are the 4e books on the Astral Sea. I don't know whether the Iomadra articles are web postings or 4e Dragon or Dungeon articles.

 

[overgeeked]

The Plane Above: Secrets of the Astral Sea and Manual of the Planes are the 4e books on the Astral Sea. I don't know whether the Iomadra articles are web postings or 4e Dragon or Dungeon articles.

Thanks. I have the 4E books, I was referring to the Iomadra articles.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

Where would one find these? A quick search doesn't reveal much.

I would think they’d be on DTRPG/DMsGuild. I know the mag issues are.

 

[darjr]

Thanks. I have the 4E books, I was referring to the Iomadra articles.

Wizards put them up in a collected PDF
And I misspelled it. Iomandra.

http://www.wizards.com/dnd/files/DM_Experience_2011.pdf