Spelljammer I think Spelljammer will be more like Ravenloft then Strixhaven

[HammerMan]

An adventure with 2 crystal spheres limitedly done out (maybe 1 being realms space as much as I don't want more realms) followed the next year with a van richten stle book would be good.

 

[dave2008]

I think we may rather get a kind of mish-mash between spelljammer and planescape, as shown in BG3 where instead of flying through space and Phlogiston, the nautiloid flies through skies and the planes.

I have tended to think this too; however, now I am wondering if it goes the other way. What if the gave Spelljammer some Planescape touches. What if Sigil was its own Crystal Sphere.

Now I don't think this is what will happen, nor do I want it too; however, I just thought it was interesting to flip it a bit.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

I still want to know if the Crystal Spheres have Feywild and Shadowfell mirrors.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I still want to know if the Crystal Spheres have Feywild and Shadowfell mirrors.

Given that there is only one prime material plane, I think there is probably only one of the other planes too. Ravenloft and Feywild domains are the equivalent of crystal spheres.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Given that there is only one prime material plane, I think there is probably only one of the other planes too. Ravenloft and Feywild domains are the equivalent of crystal spheres.

What I mean is given that the Feywild & Shadowfell (and border ethereal & border Elemental Planes) funhouse mirror the the material planes geography. So where a Crystal Sphere exists in the material plane, a Crystal Sphere with a twist would also exist in the Shadowfell and Feywild.

Say your Spelljammer is parked 10 metres from the Crystal Sphere in Realmspace and you planeshift to the equivilant spot in the Shadowfell, if it's mirrored there should be a warped version of the Crystal Sphere 10 metres ahead of you, maybe the Shadowfell Realmspace sphere is made out of charred bone or obsidian, weaved together zombies or something (and the Feywild version might be made out of pure magical energy, or living wood, or solidified perfume).

 

[Paul Farquhar]

The sphere itself is not part of the geography of the plane. The area in the Feywild close to your home might resemble the geography around your home, but as you move deeper into the Feywild the geography becomes increasing different. It helps if you try and stop thinking in only three dimensions.

 

[Lyxen]

Given that there is only one prime material plane, I think there is probably only one of the other planes too. Ravenloft and Feywild domains are the equivalent of crystal spheres.

I would certainly not phrase it that way. First, although there is one prime, it is clear that it is deeply segmented, in particular although the Prime includes all D&D worlds, "They include magic-wasted desert planets and island-dotted water worlds, worlds where magic combines with advanced technology and others trapped in an endless Stone Age, worlds where the gods walk and places they have abandoned."

Second, the feywild is an echo of the material plane and "its magical nature is reflected in the two planes that share its central place in the multiverse. The Feywild and the Shadowfell are parallel dimensions occupying the same cosmological space, so they are often called echo planes or mirror planes to the Material Plane."

So no, feywild and ravenloft domains are for me extremely different from crystal spheres both in intent and description.

 

[Kobold Avenger]

I think one of the MtG settings is a Magitech Steampunk India, so there could be that.

I also think they'll do away with Crystal Spheres and the Phlogiston, as not too many people seem to be attached to the ideas of Ptolemaic Astronomy.

 

[Lyxen]

What I mean is given that the Feywild & Shadowfell (and border ethereal & border Elemental Planes) funhouse mirror the the material planes geography. So where a Crystal Sphere exists in the material plane, a Crystal Sphere with a twist would also exist in the Shadowfell and Feywild.

That is indeed my take, although because the worlds of the material planes are so wildly different, there might be some without an echo or some with even more echoes.

Say your Spelljammer is parked 10 metres from the Crystal Sphere in Realmspace and you planeshift to the equivilant spot in the Shadowfell, if it's mirrored there should be a warped version of the Crystal Sphere 10 metres ahead of you, maybe the Shadowfell Realmspace sphere is made out of charred bone or obsidian, weaved together zombies or something (and the Feywild version might be made out of pure magical energy, or living wood, or solidified perfume).

See above, there is no such guarantee. Moreover, to planeshift, you need a tuning fork attuned to the plane that you are going for, and oyu might end up in a completely different area of the echo, if it's even accessible.

 

[overgeeked]

If they ditch the stuff that made Spelljammer unique and cool (of course they will), I don’t see the point of them releasing it (besides nostalgia from us over 40s and a cash grab). But then they seem to do the opposite of what I want regularly, so it’ll be a generic mashup of Spelljammer and Planescape that covers both ideas, but doesn’t do either justice.