Re: Star Trek to Spelljammer

On Mon,  6 Jan 1997 01:22:50, -0500 JMcF@???????.com ( JAMES E MCFARLAND)
writes:
>I've read over what I've seen on the ST to SJ conversion so far, and
>I'm not overly impressed.
>
>I'm not sure the write-up devised would work very well with a
>"purist" Spelljammer setting.  It seems more like you are taking just
>the ship and it's crew and shoving it into the SJ universe.
>
>For instance, the Computer.  Computers, while necessary aboard a
>science based starship, would not meld very well with a magic based
>spelljammer.

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If you can have Intelligent swords, you can have an intelligent ship...
It could be done by psionics or magic...

>One item I think should be made praiseworthy, the notes on
>encountering the "Galactic Barrier", using psionics based rules to
>determine what happens to whom.  That goes along the lines of a more
>AD&D based system.
>
>...And no, I'm not going on like this because I did the other ST=>SJ
>writup.  ;)
>
>Chris McFarland
>
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