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[M_Natas]

I find the adventure a little light on the rules part of spelljamming and battle in wildspace.

I hope the boxed set gives us more on
"how does spelljamming actually work"
"can there be ships without spelljamming devices to fly trough wildspace?"
"Do they really fly with 4mph trough space?"

I would love to DM a homebrew spelljammer-adventure, but I hope there are some more clarifications on the rules of the setting, and not what was shown in the Intro-Adventures. In those you could replace spelljammers with normal ships without needing to change anything else.

 

[Bolares]

I find the adventure a little light on the rules part of spelljamming and battle in wildspace.

I hope the boxed set gives us more on
"how does spelljamming actually work"
"can there be ships without spelljamming devices to fly trough wildspace?"
"Do they really fly with 4mph trough space?"

I would love to DM a homebrew spelljammer-adventure, but I hope there are some more clarifications on the rules of the setting, and not what was shown in the Intro-Adventures. In those you could replace spelljammers with normal ships without needing to change anything else.

The adventure mentions that some rules will be present in the boxed set. 'The ship’s spelljammer can make the following attack when the ship runs into another object or into a Gargantuan creature (see “Crashing” in chapter 2 of Astral Adventurer’s Guide)." So I assume there will be some ship combat rules there. I would think they will be similar to those presented in Saltmarsh

 

[overgeeked]

I missed skill challenges so much...

They're sort of skill challenges. More like expanded group checks...not that different than what's presented in Ghosts of Saltmarsh. Kinda boring though. Three rounds of the characters picking one of two skills and making the exact same rolls.

 

[Micah Sweet]

They're sort of skill challenges. More like expanded group checks...not that different than what's presented in Ghosts of Saltmarsh. Kinda boring though. Three rounds of the characters picking one of two skills and making the exact same rolls.

So, they are skill challenges

 

[Bolares]

They're sort of skill challenges. More like expanded group checks...not that different than what's presented in Ghosts of Saltmarsh. Kinda boring though. Three rounds of the characters picking one of two skills and making the exact same rolls.

That's..... exactly why I miss skill challenges

 

[Bolares]

So, they are skill challenges

Streamlined skill challenges I'd say

 

[overgeeked]

That's..... exactly why I miss skill challenges

"I like being bored."

First time for everything and to each their own, I guess.

 

[Bolares]

"I like being bored."

First time for everything and to each their own, I guess.

That's the take you got from my post? Maybe I wasn't clear. I was saying (or trying to say) that the adventure made me miss skill challenges.

 

[overgeeked]

That's the take you got from my post? Maybe I wasn't clear. I was saying (or trying to say) that the adventure made me miss skill challenges.

The skill challenges here are rigid and boring. The skill challenges in 4E were also rigid and boring. But you miss 4E skill challenges...

So what exactly did you miss about 4E skill challenges?

 

[GMforPowergamers]

They're sort of skill challenges. More like expanded group checks...not that different than what's presented in Ghosts of Saltmarsh. Kinda boring though. Three rounds of the characters picking one of two skills and making the exact same rolls.

So, they are skill challenges

Streamlined skill challenges I'd say

That's the take you got from my post? Maybe I wasn't clear. I was saying (or trying to say) that the adventure made me miss skill challenges.

I miss them too Strixhaven has a sports game that uses a skill challenge like mechanic. These are far from perfect, but I love the idea WotC is trying to make them work again. I need set ups for prolonged non combat challanges... up next special class features to interact with them.