EENick
2009-06-24, 10:21 AM
Hey all,
I was looking through my old 2nd edition stuff they other day when I found my old copy of the Astromundi Cluster setting Spelljammers one attempt to make an real stand alone setting.
I have fond memories of this as a disaster of good intentions. It had so much flavor but so much didn't make logical sense or was poorly written to the point of making people who were willing to buy space elves scoff at things as silly.
Still I loved the sun mages, their war with the Mind Flayers and some of the adventure ideas.
Like one where the Sun Mages had a sort of pleasure moon in orbit which was powered by enslaved demons. I thought the idea of those demons getting loose and trapping your PC's on the now powerless artifical moon was a great fantasy twist on the Aliens horror Scenario.
In light of all the hard scifi lately I really wish there was a way to update spelljammer and the Astromundi Cluster so it wasn't quite so darn rediculous. I mean they managed to make Space Cowboys work in Firefly there must be a sane way to do spelljammer.
I was looking through my old 2nd edition stuff they other day when I found my old copy of the Astromundi Cluster setting Spelljammers one attempt to make an real stand alone setting.
I have fond memories of this as a disaster of good intentions. It had so much flavor but so much didn't make logical sense or was poorly written to the point of making people who were willing to buy space elves scoff at things as silly.
Still I loved the sun mages, their war with the Mind Flayers and some of the adventure ideas.
Like one where the Sun Mages had a sort of pleasure moon in orbit which was powered by enslaved demons. I thought the idea of those demons getting loose and trapping your PC's on the now powerless artifical moon was a great fantasy twist on the Aliens horror Scenario.
In light of all the hard scifi lately I really wish there was a way to update spelljammer and the Astromundi Cluster so it wasn't quite so darn rediculous. I mean they managed to make Space Cowboys work in Firefly there must be a sane way to do spelljammer.