Spelljammer Spelljammer Shows Up In The Wild - Check Out The Tables of Contents

Copies of Spelljammer are starting to show up. Mike Long of Tribality is in receipt of the books and has tweeted some photos!

 

[Parmandur]

Some photos of the poster map:

 

[Maxperson]

What was the deal with the Sun un Athas back in the day? I always thought the "Dark Sun" was metaphorical or a low light old star or something.

Here...

"I live in a world of fire and sand. The crimson sun scorches the life from anything that crawls or flies, and storms of sand scour the foliage from the barren ground. Lightning strikes from the cloudless sky, and peals of thunder roll unexplained across the vast tablelands. Even the wind, dry and searing as a kiln, can kill a man with thirst."

 

[vecna00]

Here...

"I live in a world of fire and sand. The crimson sun scorches the life from anything that crawls or flies, and storms of sand scour the foliage from the barren ground. Lightning strikes from the cloudless sky, and peals of thunder roll unexplained across the vast tablelands. Even the wind, dry and searing as a kiln, can kill a man with thirst."

To add on to this: If I remember correctly, the color of the sun also changed through the ages as things happened.

This could be what happens in the future of the setting.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

Price increases would have to happen eventually anyways, they haven't changed MSRP since 2014. But yeah, these tables of contents are promising that these will be tight and usable game objects.

I still maintain that they don't need to happen eventually (well, I mean eventually-eventually, maybe, but not now-eventually).

Not when they keep reporting record profits each quarter. But then, some people are fine with the idea that corporations need to keep growing profits. I am not. I think they need to stay profitable, sure, but I think that sustained growth is a folly that will only lead to eventual collapse.

It's Oroboros and it's eating its own tail. Nom nom.

 

[Kurotowa]

Here...

"I live in a world of fire and sand. The crimson sun scorches the life from anything that crawls or flies, and storms of sand scour the foliage from the barren ground. Lightning strikes from the cloudless sky, and peals of thunder roll unexplained across the vast tablelands. Even the wind, dry and searing as a kiln, can kill a man with thirst."

Dark Sun was drawing heavily on the tropes of the Dying Earth genre (of with Jack Vance's The Dying Earth is an example). Common setups in that genre are a sun that has faded to a dying ember, or alternatively one that had swelled into a red giant that fills the sky and scorches the land. The later situation has a heavy influence on Dark Sun's premise and aesthetics.

 

[Maxperson]

Dark Sun was drawing heavily on the tropes of the Dying Earth genre (of with Jack Vance's The Dying Earth is an example). Common setups in that genre are a sun that has faded to a dying ember, or alternatively one that had swelled into a red giant that fills the sky and scorches the land. The later situation has a heavy influence on Dark Sun's premise and aesthetics.

Yeah. I'm just saying that another take on a dark sun could be a black hole. Athas itself might still be the same as far as being inhospitable, etc. If so, I'm curious about how it gets light. Perhaps this.

"Material falling into a supermassive black hole powers the brightest continuous sources of light in the universe, and as it does so, forms a corona around the black hole. "

That corona could give off light to Athas somehow and even be red if the game wants it to be.

 

[darjr]

 

[Parmandur]

Well, well.

 

[darjr]

@Parmandur ninja

 

[vecna00]

Well, well.

There's a lot of wiggle room in "Sort of similar."

But mostly, it's kinda like it, but not.