Re: SJ Issues: Sj ships and Groundling Civs

> Sebastian wrote...
> How does everyone handle the effect sj ships can have on a groundling
> civ?

I solve this in two ways...

First, I have said that in the gravity well off large planetary bodies
spelljamming ships move slower than normal. I forget the rationale I
came up with, but it allowed ships to exit in a decent amount off time,
but makes them much slower going when travelling overland. I am not so
certain I will bother with this in the future.

My second solution is to play in a Spelljammer setting specifically
designed for Spelljammer (which the previous setting wasn't, I feel).
There is no Realms, Greyhawk to Krynn to worry about. The core worlds
of the setting are designed around the idea that spelljamming is a fact
of life (or, at least, this fact is more in mind than was in previous
settings). Instead of fretting that spelljamming ships might not work
with the worlds in the setting, I jettison those worlds and replace
them with worlds that need no such fretting.

It is the approach I wish they had worked with from the start.



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