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Thread: How do you run Spelljammer?
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2014-01-03, 02:05 PM (ISO 8601)
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How do you run Spelljammer?
Has anyone here ever run a Spelljammer campaign. I like the idea and I have a few seeds of plot in mind, but I've never played in one. I don't really know what sort of adventures work well with the setting.
So have you played one? What did you think? How do you run it?
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2014-01-03, 02:27 PM (ISO 8601)
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2014-01-04, 12:10 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: How do you run Spelljammer?
Ah, Spelljammer. My favorite setting I've never played. I wish I could be more help, but the best advice I can probably give you is to ask again here: http://www.thepiazza.org.uk/bb/index.php
About half-way down the page there's a forum specifically for Spelljammer. Big Mac, ExTSR, and Night Druid are people you'll particularly want to talk to.Warhammer 40,000 Campaign Skirmish Game: Warpstrike
My Spelljammer stuff (including an orbit tracker), 2E AD&D spreadsheet, and Vault of the Drow maps are available in my Dropbox. Feel free to use or not use it as you see fit!
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2014-01-05, 02:38 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: How do you run Spelljammer?
Only incidentally, as one part of a planescape campaign. One adventure involved spelljamming.
I like the idea and I have a few seeds of plot in mind, but I've never played in one. I don't really know what sort of adventures work well with the setting.
You can also use a space piracy model for the game, but those tend to get boring once the characters grow so wealthy that there is no logical reason to support further piracy. You basically have to have a driven captain and dedicated crew united in the mission of doing some impossible task to make it work at high levels.
So have you played one? What did you think? How do you run it?Last edited by CombatOwl; 2014-01-05 at 02:40 PM.
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2014-01-06, 07:16 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: How do you run Spelljammer?
Pretty much this.
Back during the 2nd Ed days, we had a S.J. campaign going in which we were trying to find goblin space and get intel on when/if the next goblin war was going to start. So..basically exploring uncharted spheres looking for Orc fleets.
SpoilerAt that time one of the major plot hooks in S.J was rumors of the return of the goblins. The background for the setting told of a war in which the Orcs and other goblin kind attempted to take over much of known space but were eventually defeated. Several of the novels flirted with this but not enough to get anywhere."Sleeping late might not be a virtue, but it sure aint no vice. The old saw about the early bird and the worm just goes to show that the worm should have stayed in bed."
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