Spelljammer Spelljammer Confirmed (MAYBE, April Fools?)

[humble minion]

When you're in Australia, and are around 16 hours ahead of the US where most of the media/entertainment/etc companies are, there's always a little bit of irony in April Fools season...

 

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Seven pages of thread and we haven't even addressed the (I assume to be a) Cowboy Bebop reference in the tweet.

"See you later, space cowboy hamster"

As opposed to a Steve Miller Band reference, an Avalon Hill computer game reference, or a Clint Eastwood movie reference?

 

[darjr]

My work here is done.

Wait a minute... did anyone else see the flying hamster in their space quidditch game?

? What is that?

 

[ersatzphil]

As opposed to a Steve Miller Band reference, an Avalon Hill computer game reference, or a Clint Eastwood movie reference?

Sorry, I didn't understand your comment at first, took me a minute to realize what the disconnect was: the tweet with the Spelljammer vid has the text, "3, 2, 1 - Let's jam!" which I suspect is a Cowboy Bebop reference. In fairness, it could just be a reference to operating a spelljammer helm. The words "space cowboy" don't appear in the tweet - every episode of Cowboy Bebop ends with the text, "see you later, space cowboy". Poor attempt at humor on my part.

I was wracking my brain for a solid 15 minutes trying to remember what movie Clint Eastwood had the line, "3, 2, 1 - Let's jam!"

 

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Sorry, I didn't understand your comment at first, took me a minute to realize what the disconnect was: the tweet with the Spelljammer vid has the text, "3, 2, 1 - Let's jam!" which I suspect is a Cowboy Bebop reference. In fairness, it could just be a reference to operating a spelljammer helm. The words "space cowboy" don't appear in the tweet - every episode of Cowboy Bebop ends with the text, "see you later, space cowboy". Poor attempt at humor on my part.

I was wracking my brain for a solid 15 minutes trying to remember what movie Clint Eastwood had the line, "3, 2, 1 - Let's jam!"

Ah! Okay, having not actually watched the video, I wouldn't have caught that. My fault there.

 

[BookTenTiger]

Years ago in school, I daydreamed about a 2d Street Fighter clone, where all the characters were the philosophers and theologians I was studying.


...I now have a title.

Ha! I had been doing the same thing, but with Philosophy-based Pokemon!

 

[ersatzphil]

A question for those who know more about Spelljammer than I do: "Eberron: Rising from the Last War" details 17 locations and then has a large block of the book describing Sharn. "Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft" details 17 domains, and then has a block of minor domains. I would add that the outer planes of the great wheel plus the outlands also adds up to 17. Does Spelljammer have 17 of anything?

 

[ersatzphil]

Ha! I had been doing the same thing, but with Philosophy-based Pokemon!

Opponent attempts to use post hoc fallacy on David Hume! It's not very effective.

 

[LordEntrails]

Smoke and mirrors. I mean, it's not like there's a spelljammer helm that's powered by giant space hamsters running in a wheel. Because that would be absurd.

So you are saying gnomes are really hamsters?

 

[Parmandur]

A question for those who know more about Spelljammer than I do: "Eberron: Rising from the Last War" details 17 locations and then has a large block of the book describing Sharn. "Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft" details 17 domains, and then has a block of minor domains. I would add that the outer planes of the great wheel plus the outlands also adds up to 17. Does Spelljammer have 17 of anything?

To add to that...Radiant Citadel has 16 Gazeteers for micro-settings, apparently.

If they did do something those lines, the Sharn equivalent would be the rock of Bral, a Sword & Sorcery city-state in an Adteroid Starbase. I could see them developing 17 Cruatal Spheres, similar to the Domains in Ravenloft...