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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SSquirrel" data-source="post: 1448890" data-attributes="member: 5202">The Spelljammer conversion ran from pages 15-65, counting the cover art for the section.  50 pages.  There's 2 full page, 7 1/3 page, 5 half page pieces of art and 1 page of ads in there.  This does NOT count the art for  the ships.  The first 3 pages are cover, intro, credits and table of contents...plus a 1/2 page piece of art.  They probably could have cut out say 1 of the full page pieces of art (Ashen most likely) and fit all of the info for crystal spheres and phlogiston there, but they didn't.    What is really to cover?  Phlogiston burns, the spheres are there.  They use the term mini campaign for a reason.  It's a small evrsion of the campaign and enough info to run something based in a particular area in this case.  If you need to run something beyond that add it back in.  As it is, I'm perfectly happy without the info.  From a design standpoint it's extraneous stuff anyway.  The reason for phlogiston is to give an early science feel to spelljamming, but this one is more swashbuckling even than 2E SJ was, so skip the science angle and just have fun, which the mini campaign does.  Quick glance in my War Captains Companion gave maybe a half page-1 page about phlogiston and crystal spheres...no game stats, all flavor text.  Hell anyone who was interested in the mini campaign probably did a websearch and found out about those things and either thought they were cool and incorporated them or ignored it as lame.     Yes it was a decision that a either/or kinda situation but I prefer the way they went b/c it meant they could add more info about the campaign setting, prestige classes, equipment etc.  Give me the stuff that REALLY matters and let ME worry about the rest.  Hagen  REG>I have to agree with ya about purists in general.  Granted I'm a hardcore Tolkien nut, but I still really enjoyed the movies.  TTT was the main "huh?" factor heh.  Dark Sun, SpellJammer, Tolkien...there's always going to be people for ANY system who think it should be unchanged basically.  Which is why we still have 2E floating around.</blockquote>

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