Re: The Spelljammer

>Hey, Mr. Westermeyer and others,
>
>I'm running a Spelljammer campaign right now, and one player would
>love to find the Spelljammer and destroy it. That's because she
>captains a smalljammer and has figured out what happens when the
>current Spelljammer is destroyed (after several tens of thousands of
>gold coins spent in libraries in space and several months of
>research, after bonding with the smalljammer).

Ahhh... that's different than actually running the LotS boxed set
campaign as described. :)

I shy away from Smalljammers. I kinda like them, but they seem
over-powered.  I think if one appears (and I'd never have more than
one in my game) it would be the property of a very powerful NPC. For
example, Meredith aka Lady Chaos from the comics.

>I have some of the same thoughts as you do about the Legend of
>Spelljammer boxed set, and if she finds the legendary ship, she
>won't be meeting CassaRoc or Master Coh or the others. I'm sure that
>I can do better than that. But then again, I have one
>advantage that no published game materials writer could ever have -
>I know my players, and I know how to wow them.

I don't judge it versus my own campaign writing, but against other,
similar, products. :)

>The Legendary Spelljammer should therefore be a marvel in any
>campaign. I don't think that Mr. Grubb or anyone else could have
>done it justice in a boxed set - though I'll give Mr. Grubb an A+
>for trying. (I did like The Fool - that was a nice touch). Naw, its
>mysteries should be each DM's individual creation, I would think.

My first thought was, 'No way Jeff Grubb wrote LotS.'  So I checked
and you were right. Huh. Just goes to show that no designer always
gets a hit, even one with a solid track record like Jeff Grubb.

It does explain why burid within the bad idea are so many usefyul nuggets. :)

--
"...How shall a man judge what to do in such times?!"
"As he has ever judged," said Aragorn "Good and evil have not changed
since yesteryear..."
J.R.R. Tolkien, _The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers_

Paul Westermeyer,  westermeyer@????????.net