Re: On the use of the Jammer against the Vodoni:

Edward Quigley wrote:
> I just wanted to add the Jammer to the list of planet/sun/sphere busting forces.  As a holy
> grail it makes a perfect player campaign to find a way to control it, complete your mission
> (save the alliance),and get off (after being abandoned by elven high command).  As far as
> the Spelljammer itself not allowing its use for wanton destruction of life, I think a careful
> Captain could avoid harming the inhabitants while trouncing the Vodoni in hit and run tactics.
>  Unless there is more to the Spelljammers motivation unknown to me (a likely possibility,
> what are the novels about? and their titles?), the Jammer in the hands of a well briefed
> alliance commander with an ultimate helm could take the fight to the vodoni spheres.  You
> dont need the cooperations of the various factions to fight the external menace (although all
> those heavy weapons would help).  In our campaign, the PC united the neogi, illithids, and
> beholders, and giff, and left the  other humanoids to hang (including the EIN).   With this
> limited pseudoalliance a true captain could: a) destroy many Vodoni ships in hit and run
> tactics b) perforate the heck out of the vodoni sphere, allowing alliance forces the element of
> surprise c) put out the vodoni sun d) rain down Spheres of Annihilation on the planet e)
> capture some vodoni ships , assimilate their crew, ( or let Non captain PC's kill them), and
> analyze the captured ships for weaknesses).  This obviously would have to wait for a
> number of really difficult tasks (finding a Ultimate helm, finding the Jammer, boarding it,
> surviving etc etc)

  Umm... you forgot the fact that the Spelljammer would attempt remove
any captain that would continually destroy (like what happened to Romar,
the Fool, before he became the master lich). Sure, the Spelljammer would
put up with the destruction for a while (and telling the captain it's
not a good thing to do), but after a while the shivaks would boot the
captain and lock him in the Dark Tower. Only an evil captain would use
the Spelljammer as a doomsday weapon. More details on this in the
section about Captains on the Spelljammer.

> PS Unfortunately in our campaign the last captain was deathly afraid of tarrasques
> ;)

  I'll just make sure I don't try to become the next captain ;)

Magus Zeroc
Falx's surface is full of tarrasques