Re: Spelljammer and Planescape

On Thu, 10 Apr 1997 gantr@???.edu wrote:

> Actually, they *were* biologically and magically advanced.  Now, thanks
> to their level limits, they've lost a lot of their capabilities.  They
> are still just as arrogant as any other elf, if not more so.

The disposition of the elven race, manifested in the Elven Imperial Navy,
is one of coolest aspects of Spelljammer. Elves are normally portrayed as
nature-loving reclusive people, whereas the spacer-elves are a kind of
arrogant, "holier-than-thou" space police übermensch. It makes for great
role-playing potential and is a break from the norm. In fact, you can use
several aspects of US foreign policy as a model for the EIA :-')

Even if planars are used to "abnormal" people, you could use some
spacer-elves as a new kind of elf, it helps it you allow petioners some
kind of memory of basic disposition and manners.

> Incidentally, has anyone else ever considered that spacers would have the
> easiest time making the transition to Planescape?  They travel a lot, and
> are already used to hostile environments and unusual beings at the next
> barstool.

I absolutely agree, that is why my first (and last) PS character was a
rastipede smuggler from the Rock of Bral, used to encountering giff,
illithids, beholders, humans and other strange beings. The nice thing
about Sigil is that no-one cares if you've got 6 legs if you got
fiends, celestians or worse around the next corner.

Travelling towards oblivion,

Truls Rostrup / ssptr@???.???.no

"The weapon is an icon of the the fact that civilisation is founded on the
possibility of murder or enslavement, of a bestiality more complex than
that of the beasts" - Thomas Pynchon