Spelljammer Boo Book: Spelljammer, Space, and Speculation!

[Osgood]

I’d be all over a Realms to Spelljammer campaign! Mostly adventure, with just enough setting information to expand on! I really hope that’s what it is, but I’ll probably be disappointed… it’ll be Boo’s Guide to Skullport or something like that.

 

[R_J_K75]

Realmspace is really cool, you have a planet of black Egyptian Ptah (God of Wildspace) worshipping Halflings (alot of folks don't know FR has black Halfling race, probably because as a Spelljammer cross over most aren't on Toril, they are on Anadar, but some might be on Toril as well), you have a Gas Giant with floating islands in it, Elminister owns a retreat there), Garden a giant plant planet with a Wa Colony on it, FRs Sun is inhabited, Glyth has drinkable Jelly Oceans, and a ton of other cool stuff.

Read Realmspace years ago, forgot most of it but remember it being a good read. In the 2E Lands of Intrigue boxed set theres a paragraph in the beginning of the Tethyr book which is a letter from Gamalon Idygor and places the Rock of Bral in the Tears of Selune in Realmspace.

would you want this to be an adventure? Or a setting book?

Im not one to use WotC adventures. I buy them and occasionally take pieces and drop them in our campaign but I prefer setting books. So Id like to see a SJ setting with enough of a page count to adapt the setting properly to 5E. If theyre selling $150 slipcase gift sets with 3 books, then I think people will pay that for a 3 book campaign setting book, a SJ PHB, DMG, MM. I know I would. Same thing goes for Darksun. These one and done 1 book campaign settings theyve put out last few years dont do much for me.

 

[Laurefindel]

Slightly off-topic, but who came up with the concept of giant hamster as a space-fantasy themed creature in the first place?

Did someone’s real hamster escaped during a game, started to chew one the player’s miniature while they weren’t looking and went « ahhh! Giant hamster! » or something?

granted, D&D has plenty of giant « something », but mostly because they would look menacing at 10-foot tall. Silly has been in the game pretty much from inception too but still; giant hamster appears like an oddly specific choice of critter…

[edit] oh and yeah, to me this spells « spelljammer confirmed! »

 

[Lyxen]

Slightly off-topic, but who came up with the concept of giant hamster as a space-fantasy themed creature in the first?

Did someone’s real hamster escaped during a game, started to chew one the player’s miniature while they weren’t looking and went « ahhh! Giant hamster! » or something?

granted, D&D has plenty of giant « something », but mostly because they would look menacing at 10-foot tall. Silly has been in the game pretty much from inception too but still; giant hamster appears like an oddly specific choice of critter…

Spelljammer was quite a bit tongue-in-cheek in overall theme, honestly it's hard to be serious when you have D&D Pirates in Spaaaaaace...

Some things were fairly serious, in particular the neogi (really great adversaries), but looking at the Giff and Giant Space Hamster, I think you can see that they did not take themselves too seriously.

 

[Laurefindel]

Spelljammer was quite a bit tongue-in-cheek in overall theme, honestly it's hard to be serious when you have D&D Pirates in Spaaaaaace...

Some things were fairly serious, in particular the neogi (really great adversaries), but looking at the Giff and Giant Space Hamster, I think you can see that they did not take themselves too seriously.

Oh yeah, forgot about the hippo WWI soldiers.

but you’re right, compared to all the weird stuff of spelljammer, giant space hamster is in the low ranks of gonzo…

 

[CharlesWallace]

Slightly off-topic, but who came up with the concept of giant hamster as a space-fantasy themed creature in the first place?

"Giant space hamsters did not evolve naturally, as one might guess. They were created by a gnome research committee attempting to develop a relatively passive creature large enough to wind up the giant rubber bands attached to the huge running wheels inside gnomish spelljammer craft."

So in conclusion- the gnomes did it!

Also, another thing I liked about Spelljammer (and it's a super small thing) is they had Hadozee, which sure felt like Yazirians from Star Frontiers.

 

[Lyxen]

"Giant space hamsters did not evolve naturally, as one might guess. They were created by a gnome research committee attempting to develop a relatively passive creature large enough to wind up the giant rubber bands attached to the huge running wheels inside gnomish spelljammer craft."

So in conclusion- the gnomes did it!

Ah, yes the gnomes, another very serious part of Spelljammer and indeed other settings...

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

After the event of the Sundering we shouldn't be too surprised by the Realmsphere suffered some reboot.

And what about the "outer" dragons (moon, solar, stellar..)?

 

[Faolyn]

Slightly off-topic, but who came up with the concept of giant hamster as a space-fantasy themed creature in the first place?

Did someone’s real hamster escaped during a game, started to chew one the player’s miniature while they weren’t looking and went « ahhh! Giant hamster! » or something?

granted, D&D has plenty of giant « something », but mostly because they would look menacing at 10-foot tall. Silly has been in the game pretty much from inception too but still; giant hamster appears like an oddly specific choice of critter…

[edit] oh and yeah, to me this spells « spelljammer confirmed! »

They were made by gnomes to run on the giant hamster wheels that power gnome ships.

 

[Maxperson]

RealmSpace has a lot of other planets as well, including Glyth which is ruled by illithids. But a cover that has both Boo (allegedly) a miniature-giant-space-hamster, and what is likely a Beholder behind him? Coincidence.... I think not!

The beholder behind him could be Large Luigi.