Re: New Material

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/ae/20030821a

This article would seem to back up the assumption that Spelljamming 
helms only work on the Material Plane. I can't seem to find a reference 
as to what actually powers the ships on the Astral.

smu anonymous wrote:

>Ariel Sibal said [along with some other stuff but I don't to make the
post too long] <In my campaign my players might get involve as
mercenaries for any of the 6 groups involve or blunder into a "galactic
war". They might be also sent by human groups to investigate a reported
war in the astral plane and in elven held space. With the
>Githyanki's void cruiser and the Tomb of Gith scenarios, I am getting a
good feel for the campaign. I also found Githyanki astral ships on The
Dragon/ Dungeon magazine website, on their side bar.
[http://www.paizopublishing.com/dragon.shtml] If you
>have any more information, please send them my way at
asibal_2000(at)yahoo(dot)com. If you have books to recommend please let
me know also.>
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>It sounds cool but I was under the impression (though it may be false)
that Spelljamming helms only worked the prime material plane.
Planejammers do exist, but are drastically rarer and have different
magics making them function.   Githyanki Astral ships also function
differently then Spelljammers and regardless the physics of other planes
are much different than the physics of wildspace, though they could
easily attach a spelljaming helm so that when they entered wild space
they could move rapidly there too.  One problem I envision would be that
if you shifted to the astral all the air from your ship bleeds away,
while this isn't a problem on that plane (you don't need to eat, breath,
age, etc. on the Astral) when you come back to wildspace you no longer
have an air envelope.  (I am aware that the pirates of Gith can and do
planeshift to the astral with their ships, but that is a unique ability
of them and so the effects are not applicable to the rest of us)
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>"Loki" said <Blue Scro (The Third Eye of Dukagsh, a team of psions and
psychic warriors) may even find a way to translate a ship across the
dimensional barrier.I have already laid some groundwork in this
direction by having them spot an elven man o war on the elemental plane
of air.>
>
>Of course travelling to the inner planes is dangerous because the
enviroments tend to be rather nasty towards flesh and blood creatures
and ships that haven't been specially prepared.  On the quasiplane of
Vacume all your air bleeds off, fire and magma both incinerate you,
water your air pocket turns into so many bubbles,  Positve energy makes
you go off like a fire work, radiance you burn and your eyes get burned
out of your head by the dazzling colors etc etc.
>I wonder if you can have undead plants, cause the negative energy plane
spontaneously animates things killed there so it would be interesting to
see what would happen to an elvish or thri-kreen ship brought there.
>
>"The Psurlons -hyper intelligent, wormlike psionicists- slowly spread
throughout the Silver Void [another name for the Astral] establishing
fortresslike communities not unlike those of the Githyanki
themselves."..."Currently it seems that the main goal of Psurlons is the
complete and utter destruction of the Githyanki- which makes three races
seeking that same end"  from Monstrous Compendium Planescape Appendix
III.  So thats another race likely to get involved in any big action on
the Astral plane.  Since they originally came from the prime and only
emigrated after they destroyed their homeworld you could probably work
it into the campaign that they are trying to return to the prime and
establish an empire their as well.
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>The etheral also has large ships that are used to move about as well
and one could take a ship there too.  If you're looking for books, I
would suggest the folllowing.
>Planescape A guide to the Astral Plane
>If you're going to use the innerplanes get tsr 2635 The inner planes
>Planescape Monstrous Compendium Apendix III:  This one is monster from the
Astral, Ethereal, and Inner Planes
>Concerning the rebellious Gith, you should look into PS23 - The Vortex
of Madness and Other Planar Perils, it has a scenario entitled The
Citadel of Gith Reborn which is all about Gith rebelling against the
Litch Queen.
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