Re: SJ Reviews: The Dungeon Adventures

hi paul,

thx for the detailed answer! (c:

As I wrote, I try to come up with a "master-map" for my spelljammer uni-
/multiverse. I have a quite hard time to complete that map and would be 
really grateful if you'd send me the map you use for your jammers campaign.

[rant]
I still haven't decided which spheres I'll include (or - another important 
detail - how to handle traveltimes between the spheres). 

My problem: there are so darn many of them, and for each I need at least a 
blurb of information that I can pass on to my players when they start 
asking around, like "Oh, Refugee? It's a sphere where the Arcane have a 
base, and...[insert some basic information here]".
[/rant] ;o)

I attached my map, to show where I'm atm... 

[idea]
Did anyone (i.e. DM or SJ fan) out there try to come up with including the 
homeworlds of all(...!?!) the Spelljammer races? I mean... we have a few 
dozens of spheres, the majority being non-canon; but when I compare the 
races in the spelljammer-MC's with the sphere's descriptions, I rarely find 
any mention of a "homeworld"! I know that many races are living in space 
and likely won't have something as a planet of origin (focoids, 
gravislayers,...), but just for an example: 

Where the heck are the Hadozee coming from? From their MC-description 
(allied with the elves since the First Unhuman War) I guess they hail from 
a sphere near the Elven Territories - but I don't even find these spheres 
more or less detailed anywhere! 
- Are they restricted/secret? 
- Do (or CAN) the elves block these spheres from nonelven 
visitors/invaders? 
- Or is the flow route so secret that almost nobody knows where they are?

The same with the beholder spheres, the orc territories, the tri kreen,... 
almost any (corrent or past) major spelljamming race seems to miss their 
homesphere. ...or maybe it's only my lacking SJ knowledge?
[/idea


tauster


On Fri, 9 Feb 2007 19:47:31 -0500, Paul Westermeyer 
<westermeyer@???????.net> wrote:

>>I just found (by chance) another "almost official spelljamming-adventure":
>>
>>Dungeon #34 "The Lady Rose"
>>by  Steve Kurtz  (C)1992
>>
>>It's not a "real" spelljamming- adventure, but includes many SJ elements
>>(mage shots, giff, a ship with technology to that of the rest of the
>>gameworld...) and can be easily converted into a SJ adventure.
>
>Yep, it's in my 'Related Articles' review. :)
>
>
>>  I don't know
>>whether or not TALANGRAN is a canon sphere, but I found it on Paul
>>Westermeyers "Map of the flow"(1), where Dungeon #34 is mentioned as well.
>
>It's not a canon sphere, nope.  I'm actually redoing my sphere map as
>a published systems only resource, just like the timeline.  Talangran
>won't be in there, of course.
>
>I am planing to keep it in my Jammers campaign, however.  Most
>likely, I'll place it in one of the under-developed spheres, like
>Wayspace or Pathspace.
>
>>Did someone find anything else on talangran (canon or fanfic - as long as
>>it't well written, I don't care!)?
>
>Sadly, I don't believe it was ever followed up.  It was clearly
>inspired by the Spanish Empire of the 1600s, however.  I'd look there
>for ideas (and I'd stick with Spanish for names).  Oh, and don't
>forget the Dama Rosa is an advanced vessel.  Most of their ships are
>likely galleons.
>
>>I'm trying to make my own sphere map (at least to have a DM reverence, and
>>as basis for a player handout) and am looking for information on the
>>following spheres:
>>
>>- Winterspace (didn't read "the radiant dragon" - any other sorces?)
>>- Darnannon (anything else apart from Dungeon #36?)
>>- Greatspace (anything else apart from SJA3 Cyrstal Spheres?)
>
>I'll have info on all of these in my upcoming official Flow Map.
>Darnannon and Greatspace are really only detailed in those sources,
>though their may be an unofficial article on beyond the Moons
>detailing Darnannon.  Winterspace is detailed elsewhere, but the two
>planets we know are in it, Armistice, and Radole, are both described
>in detail in _Practical Planetology_.  There's a lot of information
>in _The Radiant Dragon_, and its one of the best Spelljammer novels.
>
>--
>"...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
>
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