Re: SotSM and Re: Dragon 315 Revists Old Settings

>So in this setting of infinite possibilities, let's all try to move beyond
>our own prejudices, and let's call a truce.  Let's each enjoy the parts of
>Spelljammer we enjoy, while allowing others to do the same, even if we
>disagree.

Yeah, I agree.  My comments about 3e were just because I am resentful at the
pressure to keep changing minor details that detract from the game and the
creative flow, and to keep buying new books and materials because they
changed one word.  I'm going to still call Celestial Dragons Celestial
Dragons, I don't care if they changed it or not.  Celestial Dragons are
central to my game sphere.  They are the link between the rulers of the main
planet and the deific powers.  Io specifically, the one God.  So they are a
sacred being, and I can't change the one word all over the place.  It's
already written down and a part of the alternate reality I've created.

I'm also not going to buy any more books, only electronic media.  I move too
much.  I've already bought enough books to fill four large bookshelves, and
I've given away or sold every one of them.  I move too much.  Can't pack all
that crap around.  CD-ROMs take up much less space, and are easier to
manipulate and move around.  I don't believe in pirating, and I think
smashing electonic media or pressuring it out due to fears of piracy is
paranoid and hurts us all.  If they came out with a CD-ROM with the 3E rules
on it I'd buy it, though, and maybe even put forth the time to learn them
and become less of a critic.  I used to dislike the Realms products for the
same reason.  All the hype and pressure to buy them turned me off.  But I
was going to actually finally bite the bullet and start buying Forgotten
Realms products, because NWN got me interested in the geography of the land,
but the Atlas CD is out of circulation.  I kind of wanted to be able to
connect the dots and know what was where in relation to what.  Someone's
paranoia killed that, though.  So no realms products for me.  NWN still
rules, though.  My campaigns are all going to be on my own world I guess,
with no overlaps so one can go back and forth between my world of Drav and
the Realms.

About the infinite infinities, I have a challenge to propose that draws on
that aspect of spelljamming.  Does anyone have a good idea how to bridge the
gaps between spelljamming reality and our own, mundane reality?  How can one
travel from space as we know it in our reality with science to a crystal
sphere surrounded by pholgiston?  What are some good ideas?  Travel via the
Astral plane is one, between alternate prime material planes, but I kind of
want to make a cosmology where the crystal spheres and space like our own
real space exist on the same prime plane.  The astral plane has been done.
I was also thinking of maybe using something like the RIFTS (warhammer)
setting to bridge the gap.  Maybe the spelljamming universe with its crystal
spheres could exist within the rifts, and when one leaves the rifts one is
in space where one needs space ships and technology.  But what would that
transistion look like and feel like?  How would one describe it?  How would
one go from one universe to the other?  Any creative ideas?

- Coyote, the Desert Dog

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