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<blockquote data-quote="Cthulhudrew" data-source="post: 3510653" data-attributes="member: 4090">That was kind of my biggest dislike of Spelljammer, actually. I really thought the concept sounded cool before the specifics came out (and loved the artwork for it), but didn't care for the phlogiston and crystal spheres- I didn't know at the time that there existed any basis for it in RW history, and was intrigued when I later discovered that it did- but it still didn't fit in with my conception of what the various TSR cosmologies were supposed to be like (as they had been presented) at that time.I'd have much preferred it if it had just been regular space travel, utilizing Astral travel for insterstellar transportation or the like (there was an article in Dragon magazine around the time Spelljammer first came out, in fact, that was pretty much like my conception of it- I think it was even called Astraljammers).I absolutely loved the notion of tying these various fantasy worlds together, and having them all exist in the same cosmology (one of the reasons I liked Planescape, too), but didn't care for the underlying means with which it was achieved. Had the whole thing been set up that way from the beginning, as you suggest, it might have gone down easier.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cthulhudrew, post: 3510653, member: 4090"] That was kind of my biggest dislike of Spelljammer, actually. I really thought the concept sounded cool before the specifics came out (and loved the artwork for it), but didn't care for the phlogiston and crystal spheres- I didn't know at the time that there existed any basis for it in RW history, and was intrigued when I later discovered that it did- but it still didn't fit in with my conception of what the various TSR cosmologies were supposed to be like (as they had been presented) at that time. I'd have much preferred it if it had just been regular space travel, utilizing Astral travel for insterstellar transportation or the like (there was an article in Dragon magazine around the time Spelljammer first came out, in fact, that was pretty much like my conception of it- I think it was even called Astraljammers). I absolutely loved the notion of tying these various fantasy worlds together, and having them all exist in the same cosmology (one of the reasons I liked Planescape, too), but didn't care for the underlying means with which it was achieved. Had the whole thing been set up that way from the beginning, as you suggest, it might have gone down easier. [/QUOTE]

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