Re: Travel Times was: Cloakmaster Cycle query

>On page 14 it states that Teldin could use the cloak to spelljam a
>ship at 'more than four times normal spelljamming speed' and was
>helming the ship for twelve hours out of every twenty four. So he's
>travelling on average over twice as fast as a fully-manned normal
>spelljammer.

After he reaches Crescent, Teldin doesn't jam except during emergencies.
So that really only affects the Winterspace to Heartspace trip.

>Further complications: For the first run of the book (Winterspace to
>Heartspace) Teldin is just getting up to speed (and, we can presume,
>is travelling slower), however, it states on page 13 that he had been
>travelling for 'three weeks..., give or take' (According to "Tales of
>the Lance" Krynn uses 7-day weeks), at which point he had been in
>Heartspace for an undetermined amount of time. This trip started from
>the world of Whyst in Winterspace, how many days were needed to travel
>from Whyst to the flow are also unknown.

That's why I rounded that trip to 30 SJD.  I'll add an 'approx.' to the final product.

> Winterspace to Heartspace: 30 SJD {The Broken Sphere, p13}

>A Few other travel times I've found:
>
>Herospace to Faeriespace: 9 days ("Crystal Spheres", page 17)
>Faerispace to Herospace: 15 days ("Crystal Spheres", page 27) (Now
>from the context, they might have meant Greatspace, but they do say
>Herospace twice, I wonder if something got cut. Using the Astromundi
>map, they would need to return to Herospace to get to Greatspace)
>
>These have undefined start points, but do give travel times:
>
><Starting Sphere> to The Dead Shell Sphere: 25 days ("Skull and
>Crossbows", page 45) One of the possible starting locations given is
>the Rock of Bral.
>
><Starting Sphere> to Shadowspace: 10+2d4 days ("Heart of the Enemy",
>page 30) (Page 7 gives a journey time of about three weeks)
>Shadowspage to Moragspace: 1d4+5 days ("Heart of the Enemy", page 82)
>(Page 7 gives a time of about a week)
>Moragspace to <Starting Space>: about three weeks ("Heart of the
>Enemy", page 7).
>The module suggests using Realmspace or Greyspace as the starting
>sphere, but I have reservations about putting Moragspace that close
>in.
>
>I hope this all helps.

It might, thanks.  I'll look them over.

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