Re: Spacebuckler

Fantasy Flight Games produces Dragonstar, it's a good setting but not a
replacement for SJ. To the ones who are tired of all the Drizzt clones out there,
pick up 3.5 one of the main reason for the Drizzt cloning is cherry picking the
ranger class. They fixed that, now it behooves you to stick the class for
more than a single level. Now the ranger class more closely resembles Aragorn
than Drizzt which by all rights is as it should be. My thanks to the people of
Shattered Fractine for their continual effort in updating this setting to the
greatest version of this game I've seen to date. How many of you hate the
travesty that was the Polyhedron fiasco? Personally I'd like to take a couple
hundred copies of that near worthless rag and shove it where the sun don't shine on
one Erik Mona. Wonky cosmology indeed! Goofy Giff? Has he looked in a mirror
lately? Now some of the new ships are nice and I must admit I like what they
did to the Tradesman and the Illithid Dreadnaught but they butchered the noble
Hammership and made it a Slugship. Their cutlasses are a precursor to 3.5 and
some of the firearms were cool but the rest of it was just as confusing as
their idiot editor made of the original setting. I'm venting a little but when I
think back and reread that issue I still get a little steamed. Much better was
some of the ideas I saw floating around in a precursor article to the
excellant Campaign Components of Dragon Magazine designed to translate regular D&D to
SteamPunk which IMHO SpellJammer most closely resembles in tech level.
Well...maybe SteamPunk is a little advanced for most SJ spheres but it has
possibilities. Not just that SteamPunk article but an excellant book out of Bastion
Press called Airships also owes some of its ideas to our beloved SJ. In certain
respects if you combined Airships with FFG's Steampunk and used 3.5 rules with
certain modifications you'd basically have SpellJammer reborn. Although a
further worthy addition to this mixing pot would be material from Privateer Press's
Iron Kingdoms, but that's just me. I love SJ because I still love the concept
of it(the beasts they suggest in some spheres from the original boxed set
still sets the gears in my mind a whirring) but also due to my furry fetish. The
one and only time I was able to play in a SJ campaign was as a lupin
swashbuckling ranger (race and kit both from the Red Steel boxed set) who had a beef
against mind flayers. I'm in the middle of redoing him at present and writing a
story about him rendered with elements I mentioned above and some of my own
innovations. When finished is there anywhere I can post this tale?