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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Faolyn" data-source="post: 8861174" data-attributes="member: 6915329">Well, vocal group also on Reddit as well. But I would imagine that a person who had never played the setting before would find the lack of lore very unhelpful. If you're brand-new to the setting, then what do you do in it when you finish the included adventure, or as a side-quest during the adventure? Then if you get the people who really liked the original SJ buying the books and going "WTF?" at the lack of substance, it's going to put off the people who didn't know the setting but had been interested in it. I know that in the "Spelljammer Confirmed!" meme days on Reddit, there would always be people who hadn't played or read 2e stuff who asked about it, and a lot of older gamers who would then explain the setting in glowing terms. Which would then lead to the new players thinking it sounded awesome.Also, the books don't have any good ship-to-ship combat rules, which is one of the reasons why the person in my group who was planning on running it has decided not to. As for Treasure Planet, I just saw <a href="https://screenrant.com/treasure-planet-2002-disney-box-office-bomb-cost-reason/" target="_blank">one review</a> that suggests it's a combo of Treasure Island adaptations being overdone at the time and the very expensive animation. I never saw the movie (it's very likely that if anyone talks about a movie--any movie--that I haven't seen it), but I'd imagine that a combination of turn-of-the-century 3D and 2D animation might also have been off-putting at the time. Also, it came out at the same time as a Harry Potter film so it had heavy competition.</blockquote>

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