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!

 

[Charlaquin]

Nope. Apparently, Wildspace eventually just transitions into the Astral Sea. There's no border or sphere between them, it's a gradual change.

Well… We’ve seen half a page talking about the new cosmology. I think it might be a bit early to draw the conclusion that crystal spheres are out, especially cause they’ve been talked about by the devs as a thing that exists in the 5e lore.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

Well… We’ve seen half a page talking about the new cosmology. I think it might be a bit early to draw the conclusion that crystal spheres are out, especially cause they’ve been talked about by the devs as a thing that exists in the 5e lore.

I'm pretty sure Chris Perkins already confirmed that 5e doesn't have Crystal Spheres. I could be wrong, but I was pretty sure it was confirmed like a month ago.

 

[Ondath]

I'm pretty sure Chris Perkins already confirmed that 5e doesn't have Crystal Spheres. I could be wrong, but I was pretty sure it was confirmed like a month ago.

I recall Ray Winniger tweeting that Crystal Spheres and the phlogiston were no longer in Spelljammer the way they used to be, but the way he had written it had made me think that there was going to be some nods to these concepts in the book.

 

[Ondath]

To be perfectly honest, I'm not too happy with the Astral Sea enveloping the wildspace of every world. I kinda liked having different cosmologies and afterlives for each setting (so Dragonlance could have its three-plane set while Oerth uses the Great Wheel while my homebrew world can go wild) without needing to standardise the cosmology of every world (which was the biggest problem with Planescape imo - it made every world boring by tying all of them together under the same cosmology). That option seems to be gone if you're using 5e spelljammer now.

 

[JEB]

Well… We’ve seen half a page talking about the new cosmology. I think it might be a bit early to draw the conclusion that crystal spheres are out, especially cause they’ve been talked about by the devs as a thing that exists in the 5e lore.

Mearls and Crawford did mention crystal spheres (and the phlogiston) in interviews and on Twitter, but I don't think they've ever been mentioned in an actual 5E book. (Not that it would matter - the current devs don't seem to have any compunctions about contradicting established 5E lore.)

 

[JEB]

I recall Ray Winniger tweeting that Crystal Spheres and the phlogiston were no longer in Spelljammer the way they used to be, but the way he had written it had made me think that there was going to be some nods to these concepts in the book.

It would have been nice to at least include the concept in a sidebar - 4E's Manual of the Planes did.

 

[R_J_K75]

That is a seriously early broken street date.

Yeah, and afterwhile all these previews are a bit too much. 9 days left until the book releases, let it go already and leave something for me to look forward to. For the record I didn't read the ToC. Looks like at least one person changed their mind and decided not to buy this product because of this preview. Sometimes the internet is a pox on the world.

 

[Ondath]

Yeah, and afterwhile all these previews are a bit too much. 9 days left until the book releases, let it go already and leave something for me to look forward to. For the record I didn't read the ToC. Looks like at least one person changed their mind and decided not to buy this product because of this preview. Sometimes the internet is a pox on the world.

I don't understand why one person realising the book isn't for them and not buying it is a bad thing. Would it be better if that person paid $70 only to later regret buying the book because they actually don't like its contents?

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I don't understand why one person realising the book isn't for them and not buying it is a bad thing. Would it be better if that person paid $70 only to later regret buying the book because they actually don't like its contents?

Indeed. The point of having previews is so people can make an informed decision about whether to buy the product or not.

 

[R_J_K75]

I don't understand why one person realising the book isn't for them and not buying it is a bad thing. Would it be better if that person paid $70 only to later regret buying the book because they actually don't like its contents?

Does one person changing their mind really matter, no, of course not. Sometimes these gluts of previews become a bit too much.