OSR OSR Planejammer (+ thread)

[jgsugden]

I dropped my version of Sigil into the Astral Sea decades ago. It works really well in my setting due to a number of campaign specific factors.

Planar Configurations; How Do You Design The Multiverse?

As the title says, I want to know how others organize their planes. Do you use The Great Wheel, are all of your planes alternate versions of the Prime Material, do you have other planes? I wish to know what you have done. I have used a few different planar arrangements, The Great Wheel, a...

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Planejammer / Spellscape

So I've been thinking about this idea of combining spelljammer and planescape and it bothered me. I knew that a big aspect was that the "flavors", the tone if you will, didn't seen to match. But there was something else, and I think I just figured it out. It's the, ah, logistics. Sigil is...

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D&D 5E - Astral Recovery Adventure Ideas

Ok, so our campaign has kinda suddenly taken a hard left turn. GM and players are looking for ideas. It has been mentioned many times that it is my character's fault. It was late, I was tired, and forgot about a rule that 5E has kept in place. So ... Bag of Holding, Handy Haversack, and unique...

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Spelljammer - Spelljammer in 5e

So, I was wondering. How many of you have played Spelljammer in 5e? Please post below explaining how your experience doing so was. Any funny stories? Anyone seduced by a neogi, or obliterated by a Star Spawn? What changes have you made to your Spelljammer that the original setting didn't have...

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[Malmuria]

The last issue of the questing beast newsletter also contained links to some recent blog posts on alt cosmologies (here, here, and here)

 

[Eyes of Nine]

I am trying to think of this OSR module that has great city tables, and it's something to do with Verdant or Viridian or something green. I know, I'm sorry, that's not much to go on. Maybe have been created by someone named Brendan or Brandon.

Also, love the idea of motes in the astral sea; or islands. Any thoughts on how to handle ship to ship combat in a way that takes advantage of 3D-ness of this sort of combat without bogging down into too many details?

 

[Fenris-77]

The 3D thing is tough. I would be more tempted to add some maneuvers that capitalized in the idea but keep it TotM, Minis are a lost cause in the case.

 

[Aldarc]

I have Astral Sea in my toolkit already.

There is also Plane Below, which focuses on the Elemental Chaos and adventuring sites within (e.g., Sea of Brass, etc.).

 

[Fenris-77]

There is also Plane Below, which focuses on the Elemental Chaos and adventuring sites within (e.g., Sea of Brass, etc.).

I have that too, somewhere. I'm going to start with Astral Sea, which I never actually read, and see how I feel

 

[Aldarc]

Also consider looking at Stars Without Number and Worlds Without Number. You could likely retool Stars Without Number and its world/faction tools for plane-jamming, and also use the Worlds Without Number rules for fantasy play.

Edit: DOH! Somehow missed this wonderful suggestion from @loverdrive.

 

[Fenris-77]

I have both of those, and they're great. Crawford is the god of hexcrawls...

 

[Fenris-77]

So here's a thing about Planejamming, of whichever flavour. Gating the game is hard. So in 4E the Astral Sea supplement suggest that roaming the Astral Sea is a level 10+ sort of endeavor (which sounds right). I'd like to be able to run it from the get go, but gating is actually an issue. If the party starts with a ship, gating the game is hugely difficult. So how to do that?

The answer is the reason I pump Planejammer and not just Spelljammer redux. If the party starts off in Sigil, or another urban location, without a ship then their options are limited. If the early option is the kind of doors you find in Sigil, or taking passage on another ship, then it works. You have some time to work up to sailing the high astral seas. That's one version.

There's another version, one where people want to be jamming right off the get go. I appreciate why that might be a goal (it sounds cool to me). Gating that is a different issue, but one I need to solve.

 

[Eyes of Nine]

So here's a thing about Planejamming, of whichever flavour. Gating the game is hard. So in 4E the Astral Sea supplement suggest that roaming the Astral Sea is a level 10+ sort of endeavor (which sounds right). I'd like to be able to run it from the get go, but gating is actually an issue. If the party starts with a ship, gating the game is hugely difficult. So how to do that?

The answer is the reason I pump Planejammer and not just Spelljammer redux. If the party starts off in Sigil, or another urban location, without a ship then their options are limited. If the early option is the kind of doors you find in Sigil, or taking passage on another ship, then it works. You have some time to work up to sailing the high astral seas. That's one version.

There's another version, one where people want to be jamming right off the get go. I appreciate why that might be a goal (it sounds cool to me). Gating that is a different issue, but one I need to solve.

They can also be crew members on a jammer who are often members of the "away" team. Also opens up possibility for a West Marches style campaign, if you have any interest in that.