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Copies of Spelljammer are starting to show up. Mike Long of Tribality is in receipt of the books and has tweeted some photos!

 

[Parmandur]

Which is totally understandable. But I greatly appreciate the decision to make Doomspace its own (mini-)setting that just plays in the same thematic space as Dark Sun, instead of putting literal Athas into spelljammer.

I mean, if Forgotten Realms and Greyhawk can share so many traits, why not other Settinfs?

 

[Ruin Explorer]

So, the Adventure basically consists of 4 "Modules" in the classic sense each divided into 3 chapters.

The Adventurer's Guide is mostly Ship plans, it seems.

Neogi confirmed.

@darjr looks like you missed the Adveers Guide and double posted the Campaig .

There basically doesn't seem to be an actual setting at all there, just sort of an "implied setting", which is kind of bold.

 

[Charlaquin]

Athas was already in Spelljammer.

I guess, technically, but it was inaccessible. And there was good reason for that. Being cut off from the rest of the multiverse was a big part of what made Dark Sun, Dark Sun.

 

[sevenbastard]

The Map has the Juggler's Folk listed. So they went with Jugalos

 

[Ruin Explorer]

I mean, if Forgotten Realms and Greyhawk can share so many traits, why not other Settinfs?

Because it means those settings have less value?

You're effectively pointing out that Greyhawk and the FR being so similar means that both are kind of lesser, more generic, more "basic". More settings sharing more characteristics is a bad thing, not a good one, from the perspective of selling settings, I'd suggest. People don't buy or become interested in a setting because it's largely the same as another setting, and the FR is why GH has never successfully come back since the 1980s (they are sufficiently similar). Making more settings like that is going to make the problem worse, not better.

 

[Parmandur]

There basically doesn't seem to be an actual setting at all there, just sort of an "implied setting", which is kind of bold.

More of a campaign genre booster pack than a full blown "Setting" in many ways. Even more so than Strixhaven.

 

[Charlaquin]

I mean, if Forgotten Realms and Greyhawk can share so many traits, why not other Settinfs?

Exactly. I’m all for there being an Athas-like planet that you can fly your spelljammer to and have Barsoom adventures on. It would be much more difficult to get me onboard with that planet actually being Athas. This seems like a great solution to get some of that Dark Sun flavor in your Spelljammer adventure without harming the isolation element of Dark Sun itself.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

More of a campaign genre booster oack than a full blown "Setting" in many ways. Even more so than Strixhaven.

Yeah seems that way. Which isn't very different to how the original Spelljammer was conceived, to be clear, but it is somewhat surprising.

I really hope they don't take the same approach with Planescape, but I think it's a done deal that they are, from that UA.

 

[Parmandur]

Because it means those settings have less value?

You're effectively pointing out that Greyhawk and the FR being so similar means that both are kind of lesser, more generic, more "basic". More settings sharing more characteristics is a bad thing, not a good one, from the perspective of selling settings, I'd suggest. People don't buy or become interested in a setting because it's largely the same as another setting, and the FR is why GH has never successfully come back since the 1980s (they are sufficiently similar). Making more settings like that is going to make the problem worse, not better.

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I simply mean that it makes plenty of sense for another world in the Spelljammer cosmos to have some of that Dark Sun apocalyptic energy and Monsters without being Athas.

 

[Parmandur]

Yeah seems that way. Which isn't very different to how the original Spelljammer was conceived, to be clear, but it is somewhat surprising.

I really hope they don't take the same approach with Planescape, but I think it's a done deal that they are, from that UA.

I don't think that Planescape would be handled exactly the same way, though I could see a similar format. I think the Sigil/Outlands Gazateer would be many times larger than the Rock of Bral is here and probably dominate such a book.