Re: REVIEW:Evermeet: Island of the Elves

>> Spelljammer, while I was very glad to see the SJ scenes she continued the
>> mistake she made in her earlier SJ novel _The Radient Dragon_ (the first
>> TSR novel with an Evermeet court scene, I believe). In Spelljammer,
>> according to the offcial boxed set, the helm does _not_ keep the
>> atmosphere
>> surrounding a ship while in space, that's a natural result of the fantasy
>> gravity system.  In both novels she describe the helm as retaining the
>> envelope, and describes the air envelope leaving when the helm goes down.
>> This unfortunate inconsistency has caused many arguements on the SJ list:)
>>
>        Which I for one like. I have the helms in my campaign do this so I
>might be a little bias. :-)

I spoke with her a little off list about this.  I don't want to put words
in her mouth, but I think its safe to say we should consider this
piccadillo from the novels as a typo; an editorial snafu. It was something
which added drama at each instant, but the inconsistancy simply wasn't
picked up by her or the editor.  Not a big deal, if this was in a Realms
product folks would likely just note it and move on, but then Realms or
Greyhawk have new products coming out, they don't have to dig for
references like us.  (not that your system doesn't work for you, Chris,
though i admit I find the science of making that adjustment fit for all the
other SJ products a little daunting (the sargossa adventures, or the Rock
of Bral:)))