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<blockquote data-quote="Crothian" data-source="post: 5178676" data-attributes="member: 232"><p>Welcome to the Astral Sea, a place filled with adventure and challenge. This book is packed with information and places and seems like at times it barely touches on the surface of everything that can be in the Astral. I think Wizards could have filled a tome twice this size and not had it felt drawn out or complete. The artwork in the book is as high quality as ever and some of it really gives one the feel of the old Spelljammer campaign setting from second edition. Calling the Astral a sea and having boats that fly through it I think doa great job of reworking some of what made Spelljammer great without the need include some of the less liked aspects of the setting. It is also part of the Astral Sea that can be ignored if one feels it is a little to science fiction a complaint I have heard about Spelljammer. </p><p> </p><p>What I most like about the book is its attention to adventure details. It is not an adventure obviously but it really sets up a lot of ground work for DMs to set their own adventures here in the Astral Sea. It has a good focus on the major players and what motivates them. The motivations I find are the key to adventures and plot. It has some good ship to ship combat rules and and some stats for a pair of Astral ships. Instead of listing many different ships stats it talks about what makes ships from different dominions different and how the basic ships stats would be modified to fit a dominion ship. I like that approach as it makes it very easy to follow this example to create other ships from DM created dominions to do something different for the PCs. </p><p> </p><p>There are many Divine Dominions talked about in the book. It does a good job of not repeating information found in the Manual of the Planes and that book would be very useful for capturing the feel for these areas. With all the books it is nice to see them building on one another. There are some nice encounters set up some using ships other not but all of them offer good ideas for the type of fun one can expect in some of these different places. There are lots of domain described both big and small. There are new races though not described for player characters that live here. The book has Cauatls, Githyanki, Maruts, and Quom. Each is given a nice history that fits well into 4e and looks at their cultures and goals. </p><p> </p><p>There are many new monsters presented throughout the book, more then I was expecting. There are almost 50 of them ranging from mostly paragon tier to epic tier. The most powerful in the Hundred Handed One an Elite Soldier 29 and inspired from the titans of greek myth. </p><p> </p><p>The Plane Above is a good solid book detailing the Astral Sea. It is filled with adventure ideas and a few campaign arcs that can really bring a campaign to something different. It is the type of book that can get creative and present places that are a little bit odd but fit into the infinite wonder of the Astral Sea. I did get this book for review purposes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Crothian, post: 5178676, member: 232"] Welcome to the Astral Sea, a place filled with adventure and challenge. This book is packed with information and places and seems like at times it barely touches on the surface of everything that can be in the Astral. I think Wizards could have filled a tome twice this size and not had it felt drawn out or complete. The artwork in the book is as high quality as ever and some of it really gives one the feel of the old Spelljammer campaign setting from second edition. Calling the Astral a sea and having boats that fly through it I think doa great job of reworking some of what made Spelljammer great without the need include some of the less liked aspects of the setting. It is also part of the Astral Sea that can be ignored if one feels it is a little to science fiction a complaint I have heard about Spelljammer. What I most like about the book is its attention to adventure details. It is not an adventure obviously but it really sets up a lot of ground work for DMs to set their own adventures here in the Astral Sea. It has a good focus on the major players and what motivates them. The motivations I find are the key to adventures and plot. It has some good ship to ship combat rules and and some stats for a pair of Astral ships. Instead of listing many different ships stats it talks about what makes ships from different dominions different and how the basic ships stats would be modified to fit a dominion ship. I like that approach as it makes it very easy to follow this example to create other ships from DM created dominions to do something different for the PCs. There are many Divine Dominions talked about in the book. It does a good job of not repeating information found in the Manual of the Planes and that book would be very useful for capturing the feel for these areas. With all the books it is nice to see them building on one another. There are some nice encounters set up some using ships other not but all of them offer good ideas for the type of fun one can expect in some of these different places. There are lots of domain described both big and small. There are new races though not described for player characters that live here. The book has Cauatls, Githyanki, Maruts, and Quom. Each is given a nice history that fits well into 4e and looks at their cultures and goals. There are many new monsters presented throughout the book, more then I was expecting. There are almost 50 of them ranging from mostly paragon tier to epic tier. The most powerful in the Hundred Handed One an Elite Soldier 29 and inspired from the titans of greek myth. The Plane Above is a good solid book detailing the Astral Sea. It is filled with adventure ideas and a few campaign arcs that can really bring a campaign to something different. It is the type of book that can get creative and present places that are a little bit odd but fit into the infinite wonder of the Astral Sea. I did get this book for review purposes. [/QUOTE]
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