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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 7884170" data-attributes="member: 93670">Your assertion that mars attacks was at all horror makes me figure that you never saw any of the old war of the worlds & other alien invader movies of their time that it was poking fun of.  The absurdity of spelljammer is a problem for  multiversal verisimilitude though because a lot of that absurdity is also linked to cranking the cargo cult treatment of magic that you see in Forgotten Realms & Greyhawk up to 11.  That was fine when those were the only settings, but darksun & eberron had not been published in 1989 when SJ was released.  Both of those settings take an often darker take on magic as a (semi-lost) science & magic as a still advancing science.  It's possible to cargo cult & even silly up magic as a (lost) science for tables that want to do that, but not really the other way around.... examples of doing that kind of thing include jaws>sharknado war of the worlds>mars attacks Independence day>iron sky, etc but there's just not enough meat to the plot in order spin the sugary nonsense of the spoofs into the more serious source material without putting in serious work to invent something new.</blockquote>