Re: In-Depth Spelljammer Campaign

Well, usually you cna have good RPing, working on skils/spells etc in the
down time, fun/paranoia with crew memebers...running a ship loaded with
bizarre creaturtes form across the Spheres would be a an adventure in itself
;)

"Hat ye mean the giff got the half-elf pregnant?! It's not possible!...oh,
potion of polymorph......hm, giff give a truly impressive display of SHOTGUN
WEDDINGS...., remind me to secure the deck gun next time...."
:>

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----- Original Message -----
From: "woodelf" <woodelf@???.net>
To: <SPELLJAMMER-L@??????.???????.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 1:12 AM
Subject: Re: [SPELLJAMMER] In-Depth Spelljammer Campaign


> At 13:16 +1000 8/7/03, Andrew wrote:
> >1. How does one make the move to a "spelljammer is all" type of
> >campaign. How does one deal with the boredom of months in space and the
> >huge travel times? Do you DM's out there make simple roles to determine
> >total travel time and number of encounters or play out every day?
>
> Anytime they're going somewhere, they know the by-the-charts travel
> time (at least in-sphere--they haven't gotten into the Phlogiston
> yet).  So i find out ahead of time what they're doing: "Assuming
> nothing comes up, what're you gonna be doing for the first month
> ofthe voyage?"  That way, if something *does* happen, i can just skip
> to it, without short-circuiting player input, but also without giving
> it away.  So, if i know pirates are going to ambush them on the 20th
> day, i know they'll be about 3/4ths of the way through whatever they
> were planning to do that month, so i can cut in with the event
> appropriately.  And if nothing exciting happens during that month,
> we've already summed up what occurs, and can move on.
> --
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