Spelljammer Spelljammer Shows Up In The Wild - Check Out The Tables of Contents

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

 

[darjr]

 

[Ruin Explorer]

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.

Well, here's to hoping!

 

[Ruin Explorer]

That weirdly '60s/Art Noveau alt cover is somehow extremely appropriate for Spelljammer, I like it.

 

[Knightfall]

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.

While I would hope that would be the case, I don't think I'm going to hold out hope that we'd get such a book.

 

[Parmandur]

While I would hope that would be the case, I don't think I'm going to hold out hope that we'd get such a book.

Well, we are getting something Planescape, and this format seems as probable as an eberron style big book right now, but time will tell. Heck, maybe we'll get a slipcase, but with bigger books. Who knows.

 

[Parmandur]

That weirdly '60s/Art Noveau alt cover is somehow extremely appropriate for Spelljammer, I like it.

These are the first time I've gone for the alt covers.

 

[Micah Sweet]

IME raising prices to "combat inflation" on non-essentials (like D&D books) just makes it so that less people can afford to buy them, and the books will sell worse. Inflation is already hitting EVERYTHING ELSE that our customers need to buy. They're already struggling to justify buying a new D&D book.

WotC is clearly making up for keeping their price point by moving volume (or they wouldn't be seeing record profits all the time). It's a back-and-forth. As long as the product is priced reasonably, you keep moving them, therefore you can keep the price down, and so on.

But like I said, at least this price-hike comes with a format change. That eases the blow, as there's perceived value in the format (even if it comes with some increased production cost).

"Perceived" value is right.

 

[Shardstone]

It might be a reimagination and a continuation of a new meta plot. I am very keen to have a Dark Sun that floats around a black hole, that sounds a lot more interesting then the old red sun to me.

 

[Demetrios1453]

We really need to see what's on pages 20 and 21 of the Astral Traveler's Guide. It's in a chapter called "The Astral Plane", but those pages seem to be about Wildspace systems (which are presumably on the Material), and has sections for both "Travel Between Systems" and "Traversing the Astral Sea", which implies they can be separate processes (if they were the same, they would be a single section). So it seems there may be ways to go between systems without using the Astral, but without the actual text, it's not definitively clear if it is...

 

[Maxperson]

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.

It wasn't necessarily inaccessible. They left it to the DM to determine why Spelljamming was unknown on Athas.

"Athas. The world of the DARK SUN™ campaign is not on the spacelanes where Realmspace, Krynn-space, and Greyspace can be found. No spelljammer travels its skies; no ancient tome tells of the routes to its crystal sphere. Whether it is unreachable by spelljammer or merely so far from these worlds that any journey would take lifetimes is unknown. The current inhabitants of Athas have no knowledge of spelljamming. There is no way to know whether the closely guarded library of some sorcerer-king conceals an ancient tome revealing the basic concepts of wildspace. Even if such a tome were found, the defiling power of such powerful magic would certainly wreak havoc on the fragile balance of life on Athas."