Re: SJ Core Spells - Was: Whatever happened to the 3.5e conversions to the Spelljammer Spells?

In <URL:news:local.spelljam> on Wed 29 Mar, David Shepheard wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Loki" <george.williams.iv@?????.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 7:45 PM
> > Subject: Re: [SPELLJAMMER] Whatever happened to the 3.5e conversions to 
> > the Spelljammer Spells?
> >
> 
> > My suggestion is this: that we break them up according to waht product
> > they originally apppeared in (with another category for new ones). It
> > would mae for a more logical division. Personally I would classify the
> > ones from CoAS as the "core," spells so useful and common that
> > parrallel lines of arcane research have developed them in most SJ
> > capable/based societies. Much like cure lt. wounds and magic missile
> > are to groundlings.
> >
> > Just my two greens,
> > Loki
> 
> That sounds logical. You wouldn't even need the paralel reserch to happen as 
> helmsmen, travelling the spheres would take the spells *with* them. Even 
> with the reversible CoAS spells being seen as new spells, the SJ "core" 
> spell lists are still going to be very short.
[snip]

All this seems to make sense to me!

Whether Helmsmen would distribute spells that they have learned
in other spheres is an interesting question. The idea of 'guild
secrets' might come in, if they were (mostly) organised in some
way, or at least they might charge for them. Maybe even
initiation to different levels within the guild (say at least
Apprentice, Journeyman and Master). Non-guild Helmsmen might have
to work quite hard to get any SJ spells.

Do people think that the idea of a Guild of Helmsmen is worth
putting any effort into? So they are the ones that have the SJ
spells, and get upset (maybe even hiring assassins) if the spells
are getting distributed without their say-so? Various people
would obviously want to break the guild organisation, or take it
over? Join the guild, pay your dues, get access to the SJ spells
and other guild facilities?


At lot of this (and other SJ stuff) depends on how old the SJ
society is in a DMs particular campaign. Older societies will
very likely have wider information and spell distribution.

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