Re: Whatever happened to the 3.5e conversions to the Spelljammer Spells?

Comments on Domains and spells:

1) They are integral to the way that 3.5 Clerics work and should be kept.
2) I think that we should keep them simple and stick with just
Wildspace and Stellar (Shattered Fractine's approach I believe...)
3) If we go with those domains I think they should become normal
rather than prestige domains. It would be counter to the 2nd Edition's
approach of having these spells be common if you had to adopt a
Prestige Class to get them.
4)I think Detect Powers should become an innate cleric ability. If you
pray for spells and your god does not have a prescence in theat sphere
you should (through your divine connection with that power's sphere of
influence) be able to tell that there is a similar although different
force present. In my game I usually make the cleric in question role
play out a conversation with a proxy of the pertinent power. That
leaves it up to the player to convince the proxy that he should get
spells despite worshipping a different god. The reason most clerics
don't know they have this ability is because they are groundlings and
it never comes up. Watching a cleric of a lawful war god trying to
convince the proxy of a chaotic one to give him spells can be really
funny<g>
5) The way that I have approached having a groundling cleric going
into wildspace is that they have a vision of their god (usually in a
trance or dream) in which the god offers to let them substitute an SJ
Domain for one they already have in order to "spread the faith to the
rest of the spheres." Again good excuse for fun role playing without
having to add in more mechanics.
6)  I think that there should be sphere specific spells that can only
work in a particular sphere (i.e. Atromundi Cluster, the Realms, etc).
If you want to be able to use them elsewhere adopt the Planescape idea
of Spell Keys. A spell key allows a caster to use a spell normally
even if it would not work at all on the plane he is currently on. If
that idea does get adopted I HIGHLY reccomend a ruling that Spell Keys
are ineffective in the Flow (there is no planar access so they
emphatically should not!) In the 3.5 conversion we added 1 segment to
the casting time when using a spell key. There are also Spell Foci
which work the same way, except they affect an entire school or domain
rather than a particular spell. These are great hooks. "To cast that
one outside it's sphere of origin you must use a __________, found
only ___________".

Thats all off the top of my head. Oh, BTW I am solidly in the Convert,
not adapt camp...
Loki