SPELLJAMMER Explained! | D&D Lore

[@thomasemich]

the wizard in the trans-am is the best thing I've seen on the internet

[@ChaosReacon137]

Hell yeah, wizard has a sick ride lol

[@therasslintheatre2960]

IIRC, it is from Space Station 13 Maybe that's how wizards break into the station and begin to wreak havok, because the station orbits near wildspace

[@VandalAudi]

It is SS13,...,fckn wizards ruining stuff up by turning crew into dildos.

[@yourbuddyunit]

Gotta get that tattooed with hdywtdt as the plate!

[@capealio]

Nofatchicks is the license plate

[@cameronpearce5943]

Man, this makes me wanna watch Treasure Planet again. That's the best example of Spelljammer I could show to somebody, and just a brilliant movie. Also the ships kinda work the same too

[@pikminmaster2165]

Yes yes! I love Treasure Planet too. PERFECT example for Spelljammer.

[@theshitposterscp]

Or wizardry 8

[@SkeletalCommissar]

I literally just did that to warm up my group

[@zacharyjochumsen9677]

@@pikminmaster2165 yeh soelljsmer if you make up you own dnd workd in the star wars glaxy

[@zacharyjochumsen9677]

@@pikminmaster2165 did you get my rep,y that spellnjwmmer is like kf some made a dbd world imnthevstar wars glaxy

[@AllThingsFascinate]

Yes, more spelljammer! Please! This was such a tease. Just started playing during 5e and I'm fascinated with this setting.

[@nonya9120]

Geezer here..... Many fond memories.. Perfect for high level characters and adding some to a lot of oddities. Good vid. Game on.

[@MDMDMDMDMDMDMDMDMD]

Don't forget to take your Centrum Silver or take 1 d8 back and knee psychic damage

[@nonya9120]

@@MDMDMDMDMDMDMDMDMD Ships cleric did a restoration. But the pills are like chips. Can't eat just one. Great heads up. Thanks. Game on.

[@ramuk1933]

I knew I would love Spelljammer, and it's even better and weirder than I had expected.

[@Minifigure17]

I'm calling it right now, the D&D Direct is about Spelljammer

[@RogueScholarMDC]

I only ever got to see a brief glimpse of it growing up and never got to delve into it at all. That's a setting that definitely needs to make a come back.

[@SirLucien]

The deal is, WE ALL WANT IT!!!!

[@y4notu236]

Hope they make a 5E module for Spelljammer I just found out about it a few weeks ago and it has become my favorite setting in D&D by far!

[@BahaBurst]

WOTC announced they are bringing back about 3 old fan favorite settings to 5e in these next few years, so here's to hoping!

[@Florian0799]

Well at least the trailer for Baldurs Gate III shows a Nautiloid so they did not forget about Spelljammer it seems.

[@pogeman2345]

@@Florian0799 not to mention the number of times nautiloids and spelljammer ships have popped up in the adventure modules.

[@qwer9676]

John Bahamonde planescape has got to one of them

[@asafoetidajones8181]

Sadly unlikely, as Diterlizzi specifically said he wasn't working with wiz on Planescape after buzz that he was; he was working with them for some random MTG thing. So they have an established business relationship and are on good terms, he's available, Planescape was visually dominated and defined by his vision, but he's not working on it. To me that means it's probable nobody is. The setting also uses alignment extensively, and 5e has deprecated that.

[@JPizzle44o]

This video cam at a perfect time. I'm working on a spelljammer lite campaign right now.

[@matan8074]

I segest checking out MrRhexx as he has a couple hours of spelljammer content.

[@jackeldridge4225]

This was the setting I used for my first homebrew campaign. We damn near ditched everything BUT the name and the afore mentioned ship. My friends and I not huge on high level campaigns. I came up with a campaign setting where the campaign world was the center of damn near all trade routes. I named it Mourningstar. I pulled gods from all the campaign settings. Massively tweaked the Helm rules as to not take the actual wizards out of play. (I basically allowed them to use spells through the helm) IE Conveyance/Audience was now ships internal communications if they had the spells. And security allowing for them to cast spells from safety of the helm using aforementioned spells. The was the Cyborg Orc collective known as the CyOrcs (That name still needs work) Taking inspiration from the myriad amount of artwork I created Clans of Beholders based on the art. Knuckle Eyestalks, Tentacle eye stalks, crown eye stalks and so on. My friends and I had a great time, and have had countless amounts of fun with what was My First D&D campaign. And alternate ideas for it still to this day craoss my mind. Sadly those rules and some of the product execution was it's most damning thing. In some parts it was either really cool/lackluster/or just meh. But I will always love this flawed beast.

[@jacobnavarro3675]

Nice choice of topic. I'm starting to see more and more of the 5e community talking about Spelljammer. I must not be the only one who's picking up on the little clues Wizards keeps dropping concerning this adventure getting revisited. I'm about to begin a sea-faring nautical campaign that will hopefully lead into some Spelljammer-y stuff for a follow-up adventure. Hoping that by that time Wizards will have made good on these little easter eggs.

[@lordshell]

I loved this setting. I literally have every supplement. Hard to pick a favorite adventure, but maybe Under the Dark Fist.

[@DavidShepheard]

You could probably run an entire 1-20 level campaign inside the Vodani Empire, with a bit of work.

[@Simi822]

I loved the quest in BG2 where on Faerun you encountered Knight's of Solamnia and Cannibalistic Halflings from Athlas....very nice

[@Lantertronics]

Obsidian Entertainment would nail this if you gave them a license to make a Spelljammer computer game.

[@elliottlee5262]

This video is about to get a ton more views

[@Coophack6584]

2020 "I want sci-fi and D&D" WoTC- DID YOU SAY MAGIC THE GATHERING CONTENT! Paizo- Starfinder (I love it but its a mess to run)

[@perryfolk8796]

Starfinder is something I would recommend alongside using the Adventure Paths for beginners on both sides of the screen. At least using the APs, the rules flipping is cut down since its easier to prep for those situations.

[@henricusinstitoris2325]

This game is my childhood. Playing Spelljammer in the neighborhood with 4 friends

[@patrickdees5256]

We need more older modules brought in for 5e. These are genuinely good stuff.

[@eddiebaby1982]

Awesome! Can’t wait for more Spelljammer vids. I did one on the setting as I am currently playing in a Spelljammer campaign with my glamour tiefling from Wa, once first mate on a great Tsunami.

[@floridachomps2885]

I never understood why Spelljammer didn't take off. But seriously, I feel like it had so much potential.

[@simonfernandes6809]

It didn't take off originally because it wasn't a setting in its own right. And that was an issue.

[@a.m.pietroschek1972]

I remember an old screensaver on Spelljammer stating: D&D meets Star Trek - It is like porn for Nerds! With Baldur's Gate 3 somebody finally started copycatting those old Spelljammer adventures, so the next years may spoil another attempt by exclusively allowing toxic misanthropes to handle it.

[@Alexa_Temujin]

I love spelljammer, and this is mostly accurate (my spelljammer game ended a week ago). Where did you gather the idea that the flow is a transitive plane from, my understanding was that it takes up all the space of the infinite sized prime material plane, and that it just filled everywhere not in a crystal sphere, not that it was a transitive plane with the content of the spheres being separate material planes.

[@Jorphdan]

It is part of the prime material plane, I just interpreted it like that. The Phlogiston is just weird and inaccessible except through Crystal Spheres.

[@steves_thoughts]

I used to DM Spelljammer, back in the 90s. It truly was the best campaign setting imo, because you could play in any (or all) other canon settings, or none. You could create an entire system yourself. If you were a really bold DM, you could sandbox the universe. The space-based monsters were epic, huge, deadly, or all three. So many more ways, for the party to wipe themselves out. Really hoping that it gets reworked into 5e. 2ed, was classic, but I acknowledge the streamlining of 5e. Highly recommend checking out Spelljammer, especially if you like the idea of space pirates!

[@xSaraxMxNeffx]

i so desperately want spelljammer for 5e. ever since watching a campaign on youtube i just...i fukin need it man

[@StMalice]

With the Nautiloid prominently shown in the new Baldur's Gate III game, I'm sure Wizards will make use of this to bring it to TTRPG

[@WorgenGrrl]

So not only can you love your HeroForge figure...you can put a ring on it.

[@stray5188]

As a fan of spelljanmer I have to say you sum up the basics super well! Tahnk you

[@GMEunpluged]

Honestly 2nd edition lore but using 5e rules and mechanics makes for the best games simplifies gameplay whilst still using the good lore (its like the good china you take it out when you know it's appreciated)

[@Kugo]

never heard of spelljammer, seems interesting!

[@lumendelsol]

I hadnt heard of it either when we played years ago and then we found a rope ladder while traveling across the plains of greyhawk that led to a cloud high up in the sky. We all climbed up it, and we flipped to fk out. Now we own our own flying galleon and can adventure on land(planet) or out in space. WHAT AN ADVENTURE!!!! We got hooked...lol

[@briancherry8088]

5:47 - That's okay. Our scientists don't know how gravity really works either.

[@misomiso8228]

Spelljammer was always my favourite.

[@zenuuleflamesinger1469]

I think this is a very timely video as I predict Wotc will be announcing Spell Jammer for this summer or fall. Keep up the great work!

[@corrupt_reverend5123]

I'd love a video that goes into the actual session to session gameplay. Like, are the PCs on the ship the majority of the time, or do they just use the ship for transportation? Is battle usually ship to ship, or does the party generally board other vessels? I've always been intrigued by this setting. Thanks for the awesome content!

[@asafoetidajones8181]

All depends. Every setting that was a major part of Spelljammer - Forgotten Realms, Greyhawk and Dragonlance being the three main ones - has a sort of submetasetting in the sphere around them. Like, forgotten realms is a solar system, Toril is the third planet from the sun, and all the others are inhabited and detailed. Anadia (Anandia?) Is the closest to sun, it's hot and loaded with weird inbred sunbaked hill people halflings, there's Coliar, which is like communist star wars, with complex councils ruling everything and I think a lot of Lizardmen and aarakocra, garden, karpri, one is a big vine protected by xenophobic killer elves... I forget. Anyway, point being, in a Spelljammer campaign you are either making trips between planets in a sphere (relatively safe, not unlike sailing the ocean, visiting different continents and doing regular d&d exploring and adventuring - you're in Faerun, you do Faerun stuff. Maybe it's just LMoP.) Or OUTSIDE of a sphere, in wildspace, star trekking off into the unknown. Ship to ship battles are a thing for sure, but you can't do them too often. Disabled ships often mean a tpk out in wildspace, or if you're lucky, call the mind flayers for help. You know you messed up when it's time to voluntarily ask flayers to come get you

[@MultiCommissar]

Excellent timing. I bet that people were wondering why the heck was a Mind Flayer piloting a squid spaceship in the Baldur's Gate 3 trailer.

[@TheByteknight]

I remember coming across it in 1989 but passed. Looks like a contrived setting and the logical outcome of a company that has different campaign settings and trying to keep things fresh. It's reminiscent of the old DC comics that had Earth-1 and Earth-2 etc with regular trips by superheroes to the different Earths.

[@detaer]

I would be interested in this as a setting updates to 5e, until then hearing about it is really cool.

[@briancherry8088]

A friend of mine gave me a copy of the War Captains Companion and Lost Ships (which remains unopened). Now, I just need the setting guide to add it to my 5E stuff. Im hoping that WOTC will be reimagining Spelljammer tying into the Ghosts of Saltmarsh ship rules.

[@chrisgk7494]

Very interesting! The old editions settings are fascinating to me as someone who only played 5e, when this series ends maybe do darksun next?

[@wsorrentini]

The best high level setting

[@Sarpro72]

Excellent video. I’ve been using spelljammer for the last few months in my epic level campaign. The players are loving it so far, and every game is fresh.

[@MarvelX42]

VERY interested in this video series! Thanks!

[@denieruleo]

So excited for this series!!!

[@MrChupacabra555]

Never played in it much, but I loved the setting, and read the books so much they fell apart ^_^

[@sadlobster1]

I discovered a KZbin series based around this campaign, months ago made by Better Than Heroes. From the get go, I was reminded of the 80's cartoon, Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light and Brian Griffin's Space Shire 7 idea

[@viktord2025]

I tied Spelljammer in with my campaign setting by having Illithids make pit stops on the planet every now and again.

[@MrBrianb1066]

I bought two Spelljammer box sets and the Hollow Earth set at a KB Toys in the 90's. No idea how they got them, but I was glad to drop $30 for the trio.

[@Llamadangles]

Hey man great video!! I was thinking a Planescape series would be awesome

[@yvindheilo229]

Wow! This saves my weekend!!

[@Greymere42]

I remember the PC game. Back when they came on floppy discs!

[@geoffbarker8402]

Thank you so much. I already love this series.

[@Jorphdan]

I'm so glad!

[@nitindasiah991]

I love these videoes. Thank you so much for them.

[@Jorphdan]

Glad you like them!

[@Scortch-lo3xy]

love spell jammer

[@roguedeath98]

I strongly suspect Wizards is going to print Spelljammer in the next year or two. They had a nautaulous Mind Flayer ship in the opening of BG3, seems like a major hint.

[@DavidShepheard]

They used that same ship in a recent adventure.

[@andrewbeauman]

oh man I'm SO here for this.

[@dauchande]

I run a Planescape campaign because it includes all of the Spelljammer stuff, plus Sigil, the planes and the outlands. So anything can happen, and I do mean *anything*.

[@rpgden4553]

Fantastic timing, my players are about to go hunt a malevolent star.

[@inakiiribarrenlineros8594]

We need a Spelljammer revamp for 5e! Who agrees?

[@commandercaptain4664]

It would be the first adventure supplement I'd buy from Wizards (mainly sticking with core and Unearth Arcana).

[@illuminocalypse5210]

YES!!!! Omfg yes!! It really is a goddamned shame that virtually NONE of the D&Ders who started at any point after the pure kickassery that was AD&D 2ndEd. officially ended; these players will have never even heard of settings like Spelljammer, Planescape or Greyhawk (At least, I sure don't remember any 3rd or 3.5 Ed. Greyhawk content... or am I misremembering? Anyone happen to know?), and sadly even many of the old-schoolers all too often have precious little memory of Spelljammer - most remember that it was a thing back in 2nd Ed., that it was a kind of high-magic medievalesque setting in space, and that it was WEEEEIRD. And that's about where their knowledge on it stops! They're more likely to remember The Apocalypse Stone (which was kinda meant to be a figurative "Universe Eraser Button" fkr DMs who'd, for whatever reason, lost control of their games and whose players were running roughshod over it after finding some sort of overpowered exploit) Another detail most OGers tend to recall about Spelljammer is that, like Planescape - which is my personal favorite old AD&D 2ndEd. setting 😁 - it's a means for the party to venture to other campaign settings, allowing characters from Dragonlance or Dark Sun to wind up in Forgotten Realms or Greyhawk, etc. In my current gaming group (there are 6 of us, including me) I'm the ONLY ONE of us who now or has ever had ANY Spelljammer books, and I'm definitely the only one of us who's ever played it... On the other hand, pretty much ALL the old-schoolers I know DO fondly remember Planescape. Even if they've never actually played it they usually remember a lot of its bizarrest attributes (of which there're no shortages!). Hell, I personally find Planescape to be FAR weirder than Spelljammer... Planescape is essentially the ultimate crossover universe for all the world's religions (our world's IRL ones AND all the ones in the various settings). What REALLY bites about D&D 4th and 5th Eds. though is that, because Planescape was all but completely reliant on the old Alignment System for it to make pretty much ANY sense at all, it would be next to impossible to actually run a game in the setting without making some MAJOR House Rule adjustments first.

[@subzero9113]

@@illuminocalypse5210 I am in exactly the same situation You are in My Friend. I taught My Kids with 2nd because there were so many options for settings. Now they complain that 5th is too dumbed down so We went back tp 2nd and did some Spelljamming. I never had a chance at Planescape but i would def try it.

[@stevencooper564]

It's coming. There's even a crashed ship in Icewind Dale, it has to be coming, lol.

[@wildmage79]

I still have all of my Spelljammer books. I would lose my shit if they release 5e and would buy it all. I've been thinking about home brewing my own 5e version.

[@Grinnar]

I've never done Spelljammer, but I'm very interested.

[@rjh7101]

Great video as the norm. Now where is the one on the Giff.?? Need Space Hippos 😁

[@Lngbrdninjamasta]

Yaaaaas effing spelljammer! I can't wait for more of this

[@Dlnqntt]

I was giddy with joy when I saw the nautiloid in the Baldur's Gate III trailer.

[@Jorphdan]

So cool!

[@DavidShepheard]

They have put one of those types of nautiloids in Rime of the Frostmaiden.

[@ApocalypseHound]

My players just got their hands on the spelljammer ship I was waiting for them to discover, so this video is timely for me. :D

[@mtyler3047]

Thanks for all your hard work!

[@Dark-Lord-Of-The-Sith]

My current Drow campaign, my evil elf players found a Whaleship under Waterdeep. They are tasked to set up a trade outpost in another far off place other than on Toril.

[@DavidShepheard]

Aha! The spelljammer port hidden in the Underdark below Waterdeep. It took me a while to find out that Forgotten Realms had put that there.

[@Dark-Lord-Of-The-Sith]

@@DavidShepheard when they say Waterdeep is The City of Splendor, they weren't kidding!

[@TheQuietKid13]

Thank you for spelljammer content!

[@Jorphdan]

No problem! I'm excited to do more with spelljammer!

[@darenyoung1872]

I have played it. And playing it now I love it

[@capesword111]

My aim is to use OSRIC with Spelljammer, actually. I like how you presented the old school setting. Well done.

[@AAron-gr3jk]

My prediction for 5e spelljammer: the rule that a cleric cannot contact their deity and cast spells will be removed. This penalises one class from participating in adventure. Instead, they'll create a alt rule for Deep Astral exploration and it will be more like an encounter hazard. A variant rule to be used sparingly as the DM creates encounters. That way the old school purists can just do that always, and the rest can ignore it. Similarly for the wizard having to give up all their spell slots for a day to attune/power the spelljammer ship. What can a wizard do when you get boarded, stay on the sidelines for the whole encounter? They'll nerf or axe this "feature"

[@greenhawk3796]

I'm using Eberron to sorta do spelljammer-esq stuff

[@maarek71]

I played the original when it first came out. It was fun and a nice change from all the other settings.

[@sporksabre]

Have a feeling these vids might be getting more views soon as Spelljammer was just announced.

[@Jorphdan]

Here's hoping

[@DM_Lazenby]

I found it from a reddit thread about the new announcement

[@adammiller8617]

Acknowledged the novels and comics: +1 Pointed out SJ Boxed set is available in PDF & POD on Drivethru: +1 Pointed out SJ shaped the cultures of Beholders & Mind Flayers: +1 Got rules about how long air envelopes last correct, down to how much air a person carries with them while drifting in the void: +1 Got rules around portals correct: +1 Got rules about the phlogiston correct: +1 Got air quality rules correct: +1 Got rules around clerics regaining spells correct: +1 Got the distinction between Spelljammer (the setting), Spelljamming (the action), the Spelljammer (individual ship), and Spelljammers (the type of ship) correct: +1 Nitpicks (dons uber nerd hat): Mostly graphics-related - Champions of Mystara ship card, Dark Sun & Mystara not officially in SJ (added by fans later :) ), and objects need to be 25' long to have a gravity plane (gravity is actually unrelated to air envelopes). Overall, well done! You got the rules down pat and picked up on some of the less well-known aspects of the setting. I found nothing that makes my eye twitch. :)

[@craigtucker1290]

Corrections, fan added connections to Dark Sun is not canon and does not follow the lore of Dark Sun and for this reason should not be used. Including Mystara does make sense, though none of the Mystaran ships use helms. Birthright and Lankhmar could also be added, but trying to adapt Spelljamming to either setting would be difficult since neither one has Spelljammers visiting. Also demi-planes are inaccessible like Ravenloft without additional means which will also exclude most of the astral, ethereal, inner, and outer planes. Priest are not completely cut off from their deities in the phlogiston, they are extremely limited. Priests can still gain low level spells which still come directly from the powers they worship (a change from the 1st edition rules) and classes like the paladin whose powers are granted by their power (as opposed to how they are done in 5th edition) are also affected. Some powers are lost, others are reduced, while some remain unaffected.

[@TheDungeonDive]

Wow! You got the approval of Adam Miller!

[@DavidShepheard]

@@craigtucker1290 Thri Kreen of Athas mentions Spelljammer. CGR1 The Complete Spacefarer's Handbook basically says that nobody knows where the crystal sphere of Athas is, and that the Sorcerer Kings know nothing about spelljamming. So there is a canon link that Athas is part of the Spelljammer universe. But I think it would need to be discovered by players. There wouldn't be maps and charts. If anyone really wants to run a crossover game, they could use the Crimson Sphere homebrew sphere, on the official Spelljammer fansite, written by the person you are replying to. ;-) www.spelljammer.org/worlds/CrimsonSphere/ Technically, Mystara was added to the Spelljammer universe by an adventure in the First Quest boxed set. The adventure takes the PCs from Karameikos to wildspace: www.thepiazza.org.uk/bb/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2574 It's an obscure link that even I didn't know about, but it's a canon link from the 2nd Edition era. CGR1 The Complete Spacefarer's Handbook states that the Mists of Ravenloft sometimes appear in wildspace and that ships that sail into them can end up trapped in Ravenloft. One of the SJA adventures suggests to the DM that they might want to have the big bad evil guy get sucked into Ravenloft at the end of the adventure. (CGR1 does advise not doing crossover adventures between Spelljammer and Dark Sun or Ravenloft. But it does briefly show how to do them.) The planes are accessible from wildspace by canon. Wildspace and the Phlogistion are both part of the Material Plane. The Phlogision is cut off from the planes, but anything inside the crystal sphere can link to the planes using all the normal methods. By Spelljammmer canon the Pirates of Gith live in the Astrra Plane (they are githyanki) and travel to wildspace to attack spelljamming ships. They especially like elven ships, as they have the ability to move living ships between the Material Plane and the Astral Plane. (That implies that they can not move non-living ships onto the Astral Plane without other assistance.) There are a bunch of creatures from the Plane of Fire that have a hammership made from bronze that has sails made out of fire, in one of the SJR products. (They obviously could not leave their crystal sphere and go into the phlogiston, as their sails and their bodies would explode.) Lankhmar was never owned by TSR. They had a licence for it. So any "Lankhamarspace" conversion is going to be a fanon one. The same applies to Conan, which was also a 1st Edition licensed D&D setting. (Other IPs that have had official D&D products include Wilderlands, Kingdoms of Kalamar, Diablo, Warcraft and Rokugan - the Legend of the Five Rings world. You won't see anything other than fan conversions for them.) Birthright is do-able. WotC never mentions Birthright, but there is a Birthright community at The Piazza and they could help the Spelljammer community at The Piazza to work on fanon. A Blackmoor/Spelljammer crossover sphere would also be possible. Council of Wyrms could also be used, but, by CoW canon, it is set in the distant past and could not be used alongside Greyspace, Krynnspace and Realmspace in the era of the rest of the SJ products. Jakandor could be used, but there isn't much to work with. A Night Below conversion to Spelljammer does exist: www.thepiazza.org.uk/bb/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=25389 Tale of the Comet could also be used. The mix of science fiction elements with space fantasy elements would not be something I would be interested in, but it's a valid mix and the technological stuff could be given an explanation that is more similar to the way that Eberron does things. There are a bunch of other one-shot D&D worlds that could have Spelljammer crystal spheres built around them. (Chris Perkins wrote one of those worlds for WotC and he still works for WotC, so that could be given a sidebar in a 5th Edition Spelljammer book.) I've got a topic about using Aelos, from CM6 Where Chaos Reigns, with Spelljammer, over at the Spelljammer forum: www.thepiazza.org.uk/bb/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=9420 Moving onto D&D worlds published after WotC took over D&D, the 3rd Edition OA featured a section on how to build your own campaign world. That world (Mahasarapa) was expanded in a Web Enhancement. And the Campaign Option series was revived with Ghostwalk. (The fanon name for the crystal sphere of Ghostwalk is "Manifestspace".) Eberron got a canon link to Spelljammer in the 3rd Edition product Monster Manual V, where nautiloids that could travel to other planes was used as the plot device to get Thoon from the Far Realm onto Eberron. Nentir Vale (the Points of Light world from 4th Edition) could also be used as the basis of a Spelljammer crystal sphere. I doubt that WotC would create full blown crystal spheres for all the worlds they can legally create crystal spheres for, but it would be nice if they created sidebars that listed the worlds of all of the ones they are allowed to use. If they did that the Adventurer's League team could publish adventures that expand upon that and they could be sold via DMs Guild.

[@jamessmith5666]

Phlogiston = Nebula Crystal Sphere = Dyson Sphere That's how I see it. I'm also building a model of a Spelljammer for our 16 year ongoing campaign so more more more!

[@Jorphdan]

very cool!

[@DavidShepheard]

Crystal spheres actually predate Dyson spheres. Look up Celestial Sphere on Wikipedia to see the spherical model of the universe that projects stars onto an invisible sphere. That mathematical concept is still used to align telescopes today (even though everyone knows it is not real). There is actually a Dyson Sphere in Spelljammer called Herdspace. You might like that.

[@BetterThanHeroes]

Love the video @Jorphdan! Been a fan of your vids for awhile now. Come hang with us if you wanna see some Spelljammer in action :)

[@hankhillz]

I'm on a spelljammer. Everybody look at me I'm on a spelljammer

[@NucularRobit]

I'm... on a... spelljammer.

[@temmy9]

I used witchlight marauders as an elder evil. was awesome

[@ns0557212]

Yo it don't matter what platform they take as long as its a peaceful one. We be jammin' mon!

[@toonkrijthe7565]

Spelljammer is awesome. I am about to start a new 3.5 game and if the players are lucky enough, they will find an abandoned spelljammer ship. Besides, who can resist the giant space hamster.

[@jeroenimus7528]

I’m interested in your take on the Kickstarter “Blackstorm Realms”. It seems to link different settings to eachother kinda like Spelljammer does?

[@Nildread]

Yeah. I'm really torn if I should back it or not. It kinda seems more like their own setting with rules for in-between travel tagged on, to me anyway. I know they explicitly say it's for tying other worlds together, but putting a realm generator behind a stretch goal makes me concerned. At the minimum I would expect a book that's meant to have rules that tie worlds together to have rules for traveling in ships or whatever, and then random encounter type stuff like the random island generators in the theros book.

[@DrossPedantic]

Is there an available reference anywhere to which deities hold influence in multiple crystal spheres and by what names they go in each?

[@asafoetidajones8181]

Well, yes, they're called campaign setting sourcebooks.

[@DrossPedantic]

@@asafoetidajones8181 from what I've seen, those stay focused on their own settings.

[@asafoetidajones8181]

Well, generally speaking, settings correspond to spheres. Like ok, Forgotten Realms is only one continent on one planet of seven(?) in Realmspace, but the FR pantheon rules the entire sphere, and nothing else. Similarly Krynnspace is largely hermetic in those terms. It's more in the planar question where you see pantheons mingling, like for example Hiddukel has a layer in the abyss.

[@sharkforce8147]

@@asafoetidajones8181 some of them you can pretty easily guess. paladine is also known as the platinum dragon and is the deity of all metallic dragons... it shouldn't take long for anyone remotely familiar with bahamut to figure out they're almost definitely the same. likewise with tiamat/takhisis. that said, it largely isn't important; the 2nd level spell mentioned in the video covers you for a week in *any* crystal sphere, and you may not even need it if there is a deity that might assist you purely because they have similar goals or an alliance with your deity; a priest of tyr, for example, might find that the norse pantheon is worshipped in a given sphere and be able to receive spells, and a priest of thor might travel to realmspace and find that tyr is willing to grant you spells because he's on pretty good terms with thor. many of the racial pantheons are worshipped in most spheres, and frankly, the bar for "worshipped in a sphere" is quite low; something like a single community of 100 worshippers for 1 year means your deity counts as being worshipped in that sphere, as I recall. and that even assumes you don't just worship one of the common wildspace deities as well; celestian or ptah, for example. the big takeaway is that the limitations are designed in such a way as to make you feel like clerics actually get their power from a deity, not to make clerics suck. you should almost never need to avoid a crystal sphere purely because it will take away your character class (by which I mean, there might be places your deity can't reach... but there are plenty of other reasons to avoid whatever crystal sphere dark sun is in anyways, even if you *could* find it, which is by no means guaranteed =D )

[@DavidShepheard]

There is talk of spacefaring religions, in the AD&D Adventures in Space boxed set and in CGR1 The Complete Spacefarer's Handbook. Ptah and Celestian are two deities known to be connected to space who are worshipped in most spheres. You also have things called Polyglot Faiths (where a priest worships an entire pantheon and can get power from any of the gods) and Planar Churches (where a priest worships the deities on an entire Outer Plane and likewise can gain power from any of them). Plus there is the Path and the Way from Shou Lung (which works in a similar way, but which is also split into separate faiths by some Shou spacefarers). But Jeff Grubb didn't go into an infinite amount of detail here. A GM was supposed to make this up, as they went along. And if a player chose a groundling deity for their PC, they are intentionally making things harder for their PC. If you look at Greyhawk and Forgotten Realms you can see that the non-human deities are almost identical. So you can extrapolate that for Greyspace and Realmspace And if you compare Dragonlance to Greyhawk and Forgotten Realms, you can see that Dragonlance restricts all races to a small number of universal deities and that racial pantheons don't hold power there. So @Asafoetilda Jones is right in that the Dragonlance, Greyhawk and Forgotten Realms sourcebooks will let you work a lot of this out. You could also compare the Dragonlance Lexicon wiki (on Dragonlance Nexus) the Great Library of Greyhawk Wiki (on Greyhawk Online) and Forgotten Realms Wiki (on Wikia) to get all the deities mentioned in the various subsettings and regional sourcebooks. Building out from the Radiant Triangle, you can extrapolate from the crystal sphere descriptions. In Greatspace, from SJA3 Crystal Spheres, the locals worship the Greek Pantheon (at least the non-evil deities) so you can rule that the deities from Legends & Lore are present there. Darkspace, however is a sphere that didn't have clerics, where everyone got killed. So there is no worshipper base to support any local religions. So nobody should have their clerics automatically regain spells there. Faeriespace has all the locals worshipping some sort of universal force of nature, called Shrakma, so if clerics try to tap into their deity, they might get offered spells from the force of Shrakma instead. (And might be allowed to freely accept them...but need to atone if they do take them...instead of using a Contact Home Power spell.) How easy it is to find worshippers of deities in foreign spheres is something that never really got developed, so you might want to extrapolate churches on spacefaring asteroids, as you go along. But Celestian and Ptah, should have been able to establish churches in most spheres. If you use the Rock of Bral in it's own sphere (which I would recommend if you own the Spelljammer novels that detail some of it) you can use the churches in the Bral sourcebook to start you off, add in most of the Elven Pantheon for Spiral and put some other non-elven deities there, as it's an open society where non-elves are treated equally. SJR2 Realmspace and SJR6 Greyspace seem to want to lock down some religions to only working on small areas of Toril. I would generally go with CGR1 The Complete Spacefarer's Handbook and rule that, if there is a church anywhere in the sphere, you can worship that deity throughout the sphere. But it's up to you how much work you put into this.

[@itzplant3196]

Hope he does a Kara-Tur playlist or maybe Dark Sun

Let's get through spelljammer first. If they can understand spelljammer they might be able to understand Dark Sun. And whatever you do don't try to spelljammer into Athas.

[@itzplant3196]

@ oh of course definitely dont overload them.

[@Cloakedinvision]

lucky we are getting a 5e spelljammer now. but these great videos have given me a lot of new info to start crafting into my game now. thank you so much

[@Jorphdan]

You're welcome! Thanks for watching

[@augustwest9727]

Yeah, mindflyers and beholders but it really fleshed out Umber Hulk's and Neogi

[@gabrielrussell5531]

8:30 This is why Moradin is the best. He's recognized everywhere. 9:00 Is that an official acknowledgement that Lathander is just a knockoff/misinterpretation of Pelor?

[@joluoto]

I have seen Lathander as Pelor's son who was sent to the Forgotten Realms to run his franchise there,because Pelor as a true Grognard couldn't bother with it.

[@andyenglish4303]

@@joluoto If Pelor set up shop in the 4E setting then he can't be *THAT* much of a grognard.

[@MCEvans66]

I've noticed that Spelljamer elements are slowly working there way into 5e officially. These are mostly in Mad Mage.

[@frankieramos1748]

Yeah I’ve found that too. There’s even a nautaloid being chased by githyanki on dragons in the bauldurs gate 3 trailer also minor spoiler for a location in the new ice wind dale rime of the frost maiden There’s even a crashed nautaloid full of gnome mindflayers with laser pistols if that’s not spelljammer then I don’t know what is!

[@pogeman2345]

They're also showing up in the books that add monsters such as Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes having the giff and the neogi.

[@NoActuallyGo-KCUF-Yourself]

This is not new. 2e and 3e Waterdeep and Undermountain have Spelljammer ships, ports, and lore.

[@jonnyleeg4058]

M-m-m-more please!

[@RighteousBeardArts]

I just started running a homebrew Spelljammer campaign in an Asian Wuxia style setting for 5E.

[@DavidShepheard]

Do you have that online anywhere Dex Chu朱? I always liked the Shou Lung elements in Spelljammer, but there are not enough Asian-style places for them to go to in their ships. They never really got used to best effect.

[@RighteousBeardArts]

@@DavidShepheard So far it's just been a lot of cultural flavouring and description. I've compiled notes for things like the pantheon, analogous cultures, or major factions, which I'd be happy to share on google.drive. For more asian mythology inspired monsters there's the Monsters of the Orient resource off dmsguild.

[@luke_fabis]

If and when WotC revives Spelljammer, I really hope they tie in Eberron and their various Magic: the Gathering worlds. But especially Eberron. An elemental airship with a spelljamming helm bolted to it sounds like a ton of fun. Especially one that has a fire-based elemental ring. A Warforged space pirate, ripping through the Phlogiston like a shining comet, with a giant flaming trail would be so cool. It’d be even cooler if it were canon.

[@briangronberg6507]

How is Spelljammer reconciled with Planescape? Does each sphere have its own planar structure? This seems sensible-the planar structure of the sphere Eberron inhabits (Eberronspace?) isn’t the same as Krynnspace, Athlaspace or even, I suppose, Earthspace

[@Jorphdan]

Spelljammer is strictly just an expansion of the prime material plane. The Phlogiston is technically a transitive plane but it is ONLY connected to the prime material plane. So in a way it's an extension of the prime.

[@Tzimisce]

Spelljamming allows you to move between different prime material planes, while various planar travel methods allow you to travel between planes including using them as short cuts to other prime material planes. Within a crystal sphere, you'd basically use planar rules for that setting, and outside a crystal sphere planar magic simply doesn't work. Some spheres, like Athas, may work strangely or even be locked.

[@briangronberg6507]

Thanks guys!

[@DavidShepheard]

@@Jorphdan Sorry, but the phlogiston is also part of the Material Plane. It is not a Transitive Plane. It's one of the few mistakes you made in your otherwise awesome video. If you check the 1e Manual of the Planes rules for weapons loosing a plus, when taken to other planes, it makes Spelljammer a way to get magic items from world to world...without loosing magical bonuses. (Later editions of D&D seem to have dropped that rule, but it seems to still be in place for the way that Jeff Grubb designed the phlogistion and crystal spheres.) 2nd Edition had Planescape, as a universal thing (although Dragonlance novels do not use the Great Wheel cosmology). 3rd Edition stepped away from that a bit, with Forgotten Realms getting a bit of a rebooted cosmology. 4th Edition rebooted things a bit more. The 5th Edition mantra on this, from shows like Dragon Talk, seems to be that all of these different interpretations of the planes are equally valid (so if you believe that the Great Wheel exists and try to navigate via that model of the universe, you will find places you are looking for). From a Planescape point of view, each setting has a fixed size (the size of the crystal sphere) and planewalkers going to that setting have to hit a target somewhere within that sphere. But mostly planewalkers seem to want to arrive on planets, rather than in wildspace. If there are a number of celestial bodies in a crystal sphere a planewalker might theoretically want to go to any of them. There are fire elementals that have moved onto the surfaces of some suns and fire planets, for example. There is even a bronze hammership, with sails made from fire that is crewed by Azer. (Obviously that ship could not go to the phlogistion, without everyone dying.)

[@craigtucker1290]

@@DavidShepheard Planescape, which replaced Spelljammer, does use the the similar rules for losing enchantment as you move magical items away from the plane of creation. However, Dragonlance, Greyhawk, and Forgotten Realms are on the prime material plane so they do not lose enchantments when shifted from one setting to another. Even if you use the ethereal plane to get from one setting to the next, the loss is only temporary and the item reverts back to normal when back on the prime material plane. It should also be noted that the phlogiston does not cut one completely off from the powers, it is still possible to get low level spells and retain some granted powers while other granted powers may be diminished or lost as in the case of paladins. Since this was never developed further in the case of specialty priest with granted powers similar to paladins, it would be very subjective what would be affected and what wouldn't be affected, but you could use the paladin modifications as a guide.

[@DStrormer]

Awesome. This'll be fun to watch as my only other info on Spelljammer comes from WebDM and MrRhexx.

[@DavidShepheard]

Go look up AuldDragon's Spelljammer Primer video. He has a ton of information in that. You can also visit Spelljammer: Beyond the Moons or go talk to the folks at the Spelljammer forum at The Piazza.

[@cameronpearce5943]

I like to imagine the crystal spheres look kinda like the Mirror Dimension effect from Dr Strange the closer you get. Like as you draw nearer you begin to see the inky void behind the stars start to shimmer

[@DavidShepheard]

Very good video. You have a few mistakes here Jorphdan, but this is more accurate than any of the other videos I've seen 5th Edition fans making.

[@josephstewart324]

I was there for the game drop in 89! Advanced AD&D all the way!!! ...yeah I'm old

[@thurmanstevenson5692]

Sweet I can’t wait for more

[@dakotagarcia997]

I fuck with this hard. I’ve been working on a spelljammer type setting without even knowing. It’s called Archaia The setting takes place in a moon cluster that sort of acts like it’s own mini solar system but exist in an ethereal atmosphere you can breath in known as the Adastrium

[@arch3ddraftsman]

my favorite setting (and current setting) second only by Planescape

[@dB_Cooper_Music]

Anyone know where that phlogiston map is from?

[@sharkforce8147]

you'd have to be more specific, he used several. in any event, I'm about 99.9% certain they're all fan-made. I'd probably have to ask around on the piazza forums for you to figure out which one was made by who, if I can find it, but I suspect if you just google "spelljammer sphere map" or something of that nature, you'll find some of those maps yourself.

[@DavidShepheard]

The white map is Nerik's map: www.thepiazza.org.uk/bb/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=6292 Nobody ever gives him credit when they use his map, so sometimes people think it's an official map. The official map had far less detail on it, as the detailed Spelljammer multiverse was relatively simple. Nerik has been working to get everyone else's fan created crystal spheres onto a single map for years.

[@dB_Cooper_Music]

@@DavidShepheard Thank you! I had seen the map before it was more I was interested if it was a homebrew map or from one of the spelljammer books. Between 2nd and 3rd edition there are so many books sometimes its hard to track down sources from this stuff.

[@chrisleffler2435]

Ooooo... a new series! Spell jammer! Awesome! This was always fun to discuss, but none of my groups ever got around to it. So many games and only one weekend per week. I would really like to see a new 5e Spelljammer. Perhaps with a bit of Eberron and Ravnica thrown in for fun. I also hope you cover Yazirians/deck-apes that were put in Spelljammer from Star Frontiers. They were my favorite TSR race in the 80's.

[@ShineyCrow]

I really hope that the fact Baldur's Gate III is so Mindflayer and Githyanki centric will encourage WotC to release some 5E spelljammer book(s, but I shouldn't be too greedy).

[@capnahayes]

I've thought about running Spelljammer in Savage Worlds Adventure Edition. Ever heard of Savage Worlds?

[@AubriGryphon]

Welcome to the spell jam