Re: Review:Shadow of the Spidermoon

Yeah, trade makes for some interesting adventures.

You could play Pit, and consider each round a planet....
^The above statement is satire and not really a recommendation at all.

It's like characters buying groceries or shoeing their horses. It
happens...but not often enough it needs some sort of special mention.


>From: Static <eshum@????????.org>
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>Subject: Re: [SPELLJAMMER] Review:Shadow of the Spidermoon
>Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 15:43:06 -0400
>
>In our last episode, Thatotherguy said:
> >>         The last two chapters describe the 'Shadows of the
> >> Spidermoon' setting specifically. It seems to be a pretty standard
> >> sphere (though crystal spheres are never mentioned one way or the
> >> other in the articles at all). It's fairly pedestrian though the
> >> economics, politics, and ecology of the setting are poorly thought
> >> out. The setting establishes foes and societies, but never explains
> >> why anyone would spelljam at all [aside from the rapacious illithids
> >> duping the drow into conquering the other planets for them]. Is there
> >> any trade, and if so between which planets? What goods are they
> >> exchanging? If there is no trade then why did the humans develop
> >> spelljammers at all? Still, the setting is quite salvageable by a GM
> >> willing to put some work in.
> >
> >On trade, if there is none, then why do elven traders occasionally use
> >human ships (for their extra cargo room) as merchantmen?
>
>         That wasn't the point, I think.  The point was that the article
>provides no *reason* to trade.  It just assumes trade is there.
>
>-Static
>
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