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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jgsugden" data-source="post: 7990490" data-attributes="member: 2629">My modified version of it is a huge part of my setting.We don't have phlogiston or crystal spheres.  Instead, Spelljammers travel the Astral Sea.  Ports in the Astral sea connect via gates to places in the Prime Material Plane, outer planes, etc...  It is the method by which the nonmagical can visit another plane, travel between worlds in my PMP (as in from Earth to Mars), or sometimes just travel more quickly across the Primary Campaign world (you can travel between major cities across my world via gates that pass through the Astral plane).  There are ways to travel between the three major cities on my primary world in less than a day - ways that are heavily guarded.  My version of Sigil is located on the Astral Plane.  It is a place where thousands of Gates connect to different realms - all within the same city.  It is the 4th largest city of trade (behind the Cities of Iron in Dis, Brass in the Elemental Plane (just 1 plane for the 4 elements) and Gold in the Heavens), but is primarily a place people pass through as my Lady of Pain is a … bit … temperamental.  People do not want to set up many shops there, but merchants and their wares pass through so often that you can find almost anything if you're quick enough or schedule a delivery.Dwarves sail the Astral Sea to get to gates to the Elemental Plane so that they can mine the rich mineral deposits there.  Elves consider the space sacred and patrol it to enforce the laws they claim apply across the entire Astral Sea.  Giff mercenaries, Githyanki marauders and Wererats (Pi Rats) are three other common sailors of the Astral Sea.The largest dungeon in my campaign setting (my Dungeon of the Mad Mage) is located in the corpse of a God that floats in the Astral Sea.  Due to several <s>contrivances</s> reasons, it can only be approached via Spelljamming.At this point, everything I use to run Spelljamming is Homebrew due to the evolution of it, but it all started decades ago with the boxed set rules modified to fit into my existing campaign.  The weaponry of my Spelljammers tends to be canons, catapults and other 'mundane' materials.  This is because there are a lot of pockets of Anti-magic in the Astral plane that these things sometimes coast through.  They can coast through some of these things for days with the only way to correct course being the recoil from a cannon.</blockquote>

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