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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kurotowa" data-source="post: 8421412" data-attributes="member: 27957">Not every detail has to be preserved to respect a setting's legacy. If you refuse to update anything, why even publish a new book? The themes and narrative weight can be carried on while less important surface details get shuffled around. Take the example of this year's Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft that reworked many of the people and places while still retaining the core essence of Ravenloft. If you thought that book went too far, well, you're probably not going to be happy with the new Spelljammer book either.Are the phlogiston and crystal spheres essential to Spelljammer? I don't think so. I had the whole dang novel series, and what was important was that it D&D In Space!(tm), not that fire spells were sometimes off the table. The locations, the politics, the strange new races and the old familiar races in new roles... those are what make Spelljammer cool. Not head scratching references to old disproven scientific theories.</blockquote>