Re: What are Spelljammer campaigns actually like?

Might I advise grabbing the Illithiad and Dawn of the Overmind if you can
find them. The Illithid mechanics in Lords of Madness are great, but wildly
at variance with the classical beasts. Overmind culminates in an SJ
adventure of truly grand scale. I hugely advise it!
-Loki

On 3/16/07, Tev <mightytev@?????.com> wrote:
>
> 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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