Re: Spelljamming Question (or two)

On Wed, 1 Nov 1995, Odessius Knight wrote:

>  Howdy all....I have a question or two for anyone who would be nice enough,
> or brave enough to tackle.
>
>  I have been on this list for about three weeks.  I have seen a few
> interesting posts pass across my wires.  But I'm not getting the information
> that I need, so I will need to ask for it directly.
>
>  The "brave" part above, refers to the following.  I have been DM'ing a
> campaign (actually two) in the Forgotten Realms setting for about 4 years.
> I have been told, I am a talented DM, and my respective party size keeps
> growing.
>  So I have been giving a lot of consideration to moving one of my parties,
> out of forgotten realms, so I can keep them a bit more separated.
>  After thinking over and reading a little on Ravenloft, And then
> Spelljammer, I have opted for Spelljammer. But here's the tricky part.  I
> don't want to go out and buy tons of material relating to Spelljammer, since
> it may end up that I don't like it.
>
>  So.  I usually design the modules within my campaign to be relatively
> "Off-The-Cuff", which entails me creating a general outline, and basic NPC
> encounters (that are not combat oriented), and seperate sheets for the bad
> guys that they encounter.
>
>  Now how/what/where at to make this style work for me in Spelljamming?  I
> have the resource material, WildSpace, that a friend gave me, and I have
> looked, but not to seriously, at it, and decided to post this question here.
>  Can anyone help me in this?  Thanks!!
>
>         Odessius
>

The SJ Boxed set is all your really need. If you concentrate on Krynnspace
(the Dragonlance world), Oerth in Greyspace (the Greyhawk world) and the
other planets in Realmspace but not Toril, your party members probably
won't mix much with the FR members. However, if they do mix, the time
differences might be a bit difficult. You can still
however use the FR stuff sometimes when they land on Toril.

Even in Spelljammer, it can be a bit of a problem when one set of party
members goes off on an adventure while the others don't. One time, an
adventure that we ran on Fridays at our old school continued over the
school holidays, but only half the group of 6 turned up. After the holidays,
the group who did go was around 9th while the ones who didn't were around
3rd level. The DM finally did find a way to work it out, but it does mean
problems occurr.

Has anyone else had problems such as this?

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