Re: What are Spelljammer campaigns actually like?

I've recently got hold of a load of second hand Spelljammer stuff, after my
interest was piqued by the stuff I read in Lords of Madness. May do a
Illithid/Beholder themed campaign.

On 15/03/07, Jason Hosler <techneonate@?????.com> wrote:
>
> --- Scott Hackman <scottbert85@?????.com> wrote:
>
> > What I'm asking here is, what sort of Spelljammer
> > games have people run, and
> > can space travel make possible new kinds of
> > adventures that don't really
> > have parallels in groundling games?
> >
>
> In the campaigns I've run the scope of spelljamming
> allows for the building of truely gigantic alliances
> between varieties of races to combat certain threats.
> One of my first campaigns was centered around the plot
> of the "Under a Dark Fist" adventure.  Over the course
> of a year the PCs acted as the primary brokers of a
> seven sphere alliance of over thirty different races
> and cultures to do a direct assault against the
> Vodoni.  Even after they defeated them, there was
> still several months of visiting each individual
> sphere in the Vodoni empire to purge the last of the
> wolves.
>
> You just can't top Spelljammer for variety of
> environment and degree of scope.
>
>
>
>
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