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Where did you see this? (oh, in the video?)

I think the current DMG is pretty good, although it does perhaps assume you have a basic understanding of what you're doing. Something that teaches new DMs would be great. I wish they would get someone like Justin Alexander in as a consultant to write about scenario structures and enabling...

Book of Many Things is a Xanathar's/Tasha's sort of book, I suppose. It's interesting because I would presume a lot of that kind of stuff (the DM-facing stuff anyway) will be incorporated into a revised DMG in 2024.

Well, this will be very interesting to see what they are doing with races and backgrounds to balance them against the more recently released ones. Depending on how it looks, I might use the UA rules in my upcoming Spelljammer campaign.

I'll probably change it to "You have a fly speed equal to your movement, with the condition that you cannot gain height, and you descend 1' for every 5' horizontally that you fly."

I definitely had the same thought about the Realmspace info. It was so weird to have it suddenly appear as an appendix to an SJA episode when the "Astral Plane" chart that does appear in the final product includes Realmspace as a system, and it would indeed make sense if the Monstrous Compendium...

My very first time playing was about 1983. I was about 7, and it was at a school festival/party. It must have been one of the parents running it. I don't remember too much about the adventure except that there were colored portals at one point and we had to choose which one to go through...

It's a bit lackluster IMO. The fourth panel is the only new content. The random encounter charts are nice but they are duplicated from the Boo's Astral Menagerie book and not particularly worth taking up two panels with. The first panel wastes half its space on two diagrams that are pointless...

That's be a good check to see if it's at least in the range of plausibility. I'm just trying to find a reinterpretation that doesn't explicitly contradict what's written there (because that will confuse players).

I think it's badly written, but when you're gliding you're not falling, so I wouldn't allow them to drop 500' a round. That would be something like 284 mph otherwise. I think a reasonable interpretation is that you can descend up to your speed in a round, gaining 5' of free horizontal movement...

I mean, this is all from the 2014 PHB, where there is an explicit disclaimer that says that they are just taking inspiration while filling out the various alignments and spheres of influence that the game requires:

Hecate is listed in the Astral Drifter background as one of several gods that your character had a "Divine Contact" with and learned some secret or cosmic lore. The options given are as follows (and I added their alignment and source pantheon): Corellon (CG, elves) Tymora (CG, Forgotten Realms)...

I would think those are two separate attacks.

Also, "astral". 🌠

Exactly, but now I have to figure out whether to allow them a free feat, and if so which ones, and what to do with players who don't want to be bothered picking a feat.

It is annoying, because not everyone in a Spelljammer campaign is a Wildspace or Astral Sea veteran. It's perfectly reasonable for someone to start off as someone who grew up on the Rock of Bral and never yet voyaged off the rock, or even the classic groundling start where the first adventure is...

Glad I'm not the only one who sees the importance of a Barsoom type planet! I am building my own home system but there will be a "fantasy Mars" and it sounds like a lot of the Dark Sun monsters will go nicely there, as well as a "fantasy Venus" of sultry jungles and swamps and lush forests. Home...

I hope the artist will be selling a high resolution version of the Rock of Bral map!

Spelljammer was explicitly designed to link the worlds of Forgotten Realms, Greyhawk, and Dragonlance (as well as any homebrew settings). I frankly think that's the least interesting aspect of Spelljammer, but that was one of the main design goals of the (meta)setting.

Most if not all of the Candlekeep Mysteries adventures do specify a Forgotten Realms location (not to say you couldn't easily relocate them). And in 2020 there was Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden.