Spelljammer What is Spelljammer, video interview with Chris Perkins

[Micah Sweet]

It is not 2E Spelljammer, but it looks close enough. I never liked the Phlogiston, but I loved the concept of the 'Flow' within it. Replacing the Phlogiston with the Astral works for me. I am not sure about the change of Wildspace from the Big Empty to a Space Ocean teeming with life and color. There is a lot of empty out there. I like that feel for my games. All in all, I look forward to Spelljammer's rebirth.

Yeah, it doesn't feel like space if it doesn't look like space. I'm sure there's some good stuff to mine here though. I love Spelljammer enough to give it a chance.

 

[grimslade]

So you just travel with a spelljammer past a certain point in Wildspace and you're in the Astral Sea? So the Material Plane is just part of the Astral Plane now?

They have replaced Crystal Spheres with Wildspace Domains. There is no hard shell, you pass a shimmering veil and you are on the Astral Sea, able to go to other Wildspace Domains or tour Dead God husks and crystal monoliths. The Astral Sea is the Astral plane, so planar travel with portals seems possible but is not mentioned at all in the videos. They specifically say you can exist on the Astral Sea as the Githyanki do.

 

[Veltharis ap Rylix]

So you just travel with a spelljammer past a certain point in Wildspace and you're in the Astral Sea? So the Material Plane is just part of the Astral Plane now?

The Material Plane (which includes Wildspace) borders the Astral Plane - as it always has.

Go out far enough and you can find regions that enable you to cross between the two.

 

[Maxperson]

So you just travel with a spelljammer past a certain point in Wildspace and you're in the Astral Sea? So the Material Plane is just part of the Astral Plane now?

More like the Astral surrounds the the Prime and the edges are just one huge two way gate.

 

[Micah Sweet]

The Material Plane (which includes Wildspace) borders the Astral Plane - as it always has.

But no portals or special magic required, you just sail from one to the other. Seems like the same plane to me.

 

[Micah Sweet]

More like the Astral surrounds the the Prime and the edges are just one huge two way gate.

How do you line up what the night sky looks like from a planet to what it is when you're up there, especially if the stars themselves are apparently in a different plane with a bunch of riotous color between you and them?

 

[Veltharis ap Rylix]

But no portals or special magic required, you just sail from one to the other. Seems like the same plane to me.

There have always been places where the barriers between planes are thin and easy to pass through. That doesn't make them nonexistent.

 

[Micah Sweet]

There have always been places where the barriers between planes are thin and easy to pass through. That doesn't make them nonexistent.

Right. And now that place is a ways out in a sphere around every planet in the multiverse?

 

[darjr]

And you need a Spelljammer or some other conveyance that is a bit more than mundane.

 

[Micah Sweet]

And you need a Spelljammer or some other conveyance that is a bit more than mundane.

I wonder, if you got to the planar "barrier" could you just float through the veil on your own? Say, jump off the edge of your ship and fall through? If so, just about anything that would get you that far would do it.