Spelljammer What is Spelljammer, video interview with Chris Perkins

[SkidAce]

All this tracks. But what are you seeing when you look up at the night sky from a planet's surface? Becayse you sure as heck aren't seeing Wildspace.

Maybe the colorful wildspace is in the middle of the galaxy, and from somewhere out on the edge it would look like our Earth's?

 

[MonsterEnvy]

Some interesting things I noticed on the map are two dead Gods near Realmspace, Doomspace Wildspace near Realmspace, and Astral Domions? Are those the other Planes? They don't seem to be arranged in a wheel, rather they are staggered through the Astral like Wildspace systems.

The Outer Planes were never actually in a Wheel Shape except in the portals in the Outlands, which is implied to be where the Wheel Shape came from in design model. In the Astral Plane they were stated to be all over the place.

Oooh! Do the dead gods or dominions resemble anything? I think they seem familiar to me.

This dead god

It looks a bit like Tu'narath the Githyanki city.

 

[darjr]

@MonsterEnvy That's it!

 

[GMforPowergamers]

Pretty sure Dark Sun was reachable, it was just not easy to leave.

I may not remember the exact words but that crystal sphere was locked... so you needed powerful magic to breech it...then when inside it you followed darksun rules so you then had a harder time breaching to get out

 

[HaroldTheHobbit]

I was one of the sPElLjAmMeR!1! crowd and was looking forward to the book, even if it included the astral plane. But from how Wiz describe it now, I actually think I'll pass on this one.

The party in my current campaign is full on spelljamming, which I have based on homebrewing from the old material and some good DM's Guild stuff. And that's how I'll keep going it seems.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

The Outer Planes were never actually in a Wheel Shape except in the portals in the Outlands, which is implied to be where the Wheel Shape came from in design model. In the Astral Plane they were stated to be all over the place.


This dead god

It looks a bit like Tu'narath the Githyanki city.

Nice observation skills, I guess Tu'narath is now one of the Forgotten Realms closest neighbours.

 

[Hexmage-EN]

Oooh! Do the dead gods or dominions resemble anything? I think they seem familiar to me.

The use of the term "astral dominions" is particularly interesting to me as that was the term for the realms of the gods in 4E. Perhaps in the new Spelljammer astral dominions will be something along the lines of Planescape's gate-towns.

 

[Kurotowa]

Our next video is on the ships, with designs both new and old. A bit brief but interesting none the less.

 

[Veltharis ap Rylix]

For what it's worth, Perkins specifically mentions being able to deplete your ship's air supply, so it seems Wildspace is still mostly airless.

 

[darjr]

D&D 5E - Spelljammer ships with Chris Perkins

I too am drawn to the ships, many sci fi settings for me the ships help define them. I love the idea of a culture like Jeep culture around the damselfly and the new ship, the lvimvg ship, made of a treat t so it can refresh your air envelope.

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