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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BOZ" data-source="post: 1696630" data-attributes="member: 1241">i'm very glad i started this thread.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />even those of you who disagree with the idea fundamentally have pointed out things that Wotc (or a company they might choose to license to) would have to watch out for if they did try this.what such a book would need would be to sum up how to make such a campaign run in 3.5.  sure, you could do this yourself (and many have) and would therefore not need a book - but if you are willing to do it yourself, why complain if the company puts out an official book?  make you feel like you wasted your time doing it yourself?  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />and the points that some (merric in particular) only serve to reinforce what i said earlier - you already have the older books to use as reference material.  sure, a spelljammer book might only have a few paragraphs for the Astromundi Cluster - if you want to run your campaign there get the original book for all the flavor and crunch you need!  what the new sourcebook would feature would be how the spelljamming ship rules work, and how the classes/PrCs are updated, and give you some practical information.  an SJ book, for example, might introduce the setting to people who were toddlers in 1991 and haven't even heard of "D&D in space", then someone my age might show them the original books.get where i'm coming from?  do it, do it right, you'll win over some old fans and make some new ones in the process.  and so what if one book (the "campaign setting" book if you will) doesn't cover everything?  did the FRCS not cover everything on the setting - and if so did you not buy it for that reason?  how silly!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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