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<blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 5156988" data-attributes="member: 8461">From what I've heard The Goblin's Return and Heart of the Enemy did a very good job showcasing what Spelljammer is all about. Which is as it should be, given that they were the setting's first adventures.Personally, though, the best Spelljammer material I ever read was in Dragon Annual #1, with a truly excellent article by Roger E. Moore on the scro. Very, very good stuff there.I also liked the Crystal Spheres adventure for its pace (chasing a vampire across worlds and spheres), but I don't know how it actually plays.Finally, I really had a bone to pick with both The Astromundi Cluster and Under the Dark Fist. The former should have been a short supplement, and not a boxed set, whereas the latter should have been a boxed set, and not a short adventure.Simply put, I didn't think that Clusterspace (the name of The Astromundi Cluster's sphere) was all that interesting, and it certainly seemed okay for setting a campaign in, but not that gripping. By contrast, Under the Dark Fist has an empire of twelve crystal spheres entering a war of conquest against the whole of known space, particularly the &quot;Golden Triangle&quot; of Realmspace, Greyspace, and Krynnspace. That should have been a massive, epic adventure that could barely fit into a single boxed set...not a 64-page module.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Alzrius, post: 5156988, member: 8461"] From what I've heard [i]The Goblin's Return[/i] and [i]Heart of the Enemy[/i] did a very good job showcasing what Spelljammer is all about. Which is as it should be, given that they were the setting's first adventures. Personally, though, the best Spelljammer material I ever read was in [i]Dragon Annual[/i] #1, with a truly excellent article by Roger E. Moore on the scro. Very, very good stuff there. I also liked the [i]Crystal Spheres[/i] adventure for its pace (chasing a vampire across worlds and spheres), but I don't know how it actually plays. Finally, I really had a bone to pick with both [i]The Astromundi Cluster[/i] and [i]Under the Dark Fist[/i]. The former should have been a short supplement, and not a boxed set, whereas the latter should have been a boxed set, and not a short adventure. Simply put, I didn't think that Clusterspace (the name of [i]The Astromundi Cluster[/i]'s sphere) was all that interesting, and it certainly seemed okay for setting a campaign in, but not that gripping. By contrast, [i]Under the Dark Fist[/i] has an empire of [b]twelve[/b] crystal spheres entering a war of conquest against the whole of known space, particularly the "Golden Triangle" of Realmspace, Greyspace, and Krynnspace. That should have been a massive, epic adventure that could barely fit into a single boxed set...not a 64-page module. [/QUOTE]

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