Dungeons and Dragons Lore: Spelljammer Ships and Space 

AJ! Please more spelljammer videos! Combat, races, spelljammer itself! I need more of all of it!

Imagine how useful an air genasi would be in space since they can just constantly exhale fresh air and don’t need any for themselves. I imagine they can negotiate a few extra gold pieces in their pay rate.

Hey, unfortunately if X is portalled into wildspace, he will not have an air bubble! If it doesn't get teleported with him, there will be no air sticking to him. Air sticks to people when they leave an atmosphere, but if they get teleported without the surrounding air into wildspace, air will not magically appear around them.

So DnD space phyics are actually pretty similar to Mario Galaxy's, good to know.

My Spelljammer GM added the idea of using petrification for things like bulk transports, cargo-class passengers, or emergency life pods since a statue doesn't use resources. The character is turned to stone either at the beginning of the trip or when the pod is ejected and is changed back to flesh at the other end.

I'm running a spelljammer/ebberon campaign right now. A Warforged Juggernaut, Deva Wizard, and Changeling Artificer are the only ones standing in the way of the Starmind, an illithid super-hivemind that has begun to conquer the material plane for the Illithid empire once again now that the kingdoms of the gods that once defeated them have grown decadent and distracted.

I like your Spellajammer intro because it doesn't make my ears bleed at night.

I wanna do Treasure Planet now

"A lot of kilometers per hour" otherwise known as the average speed limit in Germany.

So gravity works kinda like Super Mario Galaxy? Also the notion of Dwarven mountains floating through space reminds me of the Black Fortress from Krull hah i love it!

Before Spelljammer, I had space-faring people. Spelljammer had me spend an entire summer converting and adapting my creations to Spelljammer and their creations to my universe. Working it to not be biased for my world's superiority was a challenge. I gave Spelljammer the travel time, Loom of Magus I made into a mega huge Silver Sphere of many solar systems. Once a spelljammer ship left the solar system on a bee-line to another solar system, speed was relative and it took a week. Classic Loom of Magus star travelers depended upon stargates and FTL travel. The bee-line areas and in-system had the Spelljammer wild space rules. Otherwise, it had Loom of Magus brutal rules based upon our universe. I could go on, but you get it and I'm sure you think of my pre-Spelljammer universe as more science fiction that AD&D... as I kind of do now.

More spelljamming videos please! These are tying in perfectly with the campaign I'm running!

Love the Spelljammer content AJ! Thank you!

"Hey, boss. What're we gonna do with all these junk potions?" "Fire up the furnace!"

I like how Ravenloft shows up in space. Black tendrils

D20 SPELL JAMER MINI CAMPAIGN SETTING Dungeon issue 92 * VOL.XVI, NO.2 May/ June 2002 May 2002 "Polyhedron" Spelljammer : Shadow of the Spider Moon " I have had this mag for nearly 18 years. I was about 25 years old when i bought it. Now I am 42 years old." My second game shop ran a d20 Star Wars 3.5e against d20 3.5e Spelljammer game. At first it took everyone by surprise , then it just turn into real good fun.

We had a sea faring group. we found an old and used an old galleon we found not knowing at the time about spell jamming. we just used it to fly over the oceans and such. well we would land out of soite of ports and drop into the water. well. in one city. they had contact with spell jamming ships from other spheres. well we met a wizard who had spell jammed and wanted to get of planet.so we found the helm chair and the helm. and he got some sailors who helped us and we left .Pickett space and went explore. this way me and my friends connected our campaigns and had loads of fun

Superior gnomish engineering I say. You should take into consideration that even the Illithid, who make slaves of just about everyone they meet, consider Tinker Gnomes to be bad slaves. Not because they are resistant to psionic control or because they otherwise revolt but because when they genuinely try to help, they have a tendency to break ships...

I just introduced some players to a spelljammer helm. This video could not have come at a better time, Thanks AJ :)

At 17:42 that one mention of the creation of objects creating divine energy capable of powering a ship inspired the entire concept of the world I came up with. Will tell about if anyone asks.

Wow I never expected the spelljamming ships to be so simple yet also in depth and so unique. I can see why a lot of people are intrigued by it.

What exactly is a Spelljammer manipulating in order to move itself threw space? Is it warping magical space like the spell weave or is it something else? Can Druid's use a tree with a spirt(s) of its own to pilot a SpellJammer Helm? What about Fire Elemental, can it power a furnace SpellJammer engine?

Ex Ample. Once fulfilled. Now eternally wanting.

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Hell yeah bro! Provides a, sometimes necessary, change of pace. Keeps things fresh & interesting. Love Spelljammer

In today's news....The Arcane embassy in Braal was the scene of growing protests as hundreds of recently up-rooted and unemployed vegepygmy sailors protested the Arcane's inclusion of atmosphere regenerating magic in Spelljamming helms and demanded a return to green technology! And now back to you AJ.

I've been patiently waiting for this video

Love the Spelljammer stuff 👍👍🤙

I've been using the spelljamming ships for Planescape settings, but I can't wait for more Spelljammer setting videos.

I so missed this setting. But the idea of monks just meditating and making ships run...So fun. By the way you can work out how much food, water a. Crew needs very easily (per day) and then the amount of air the ship has per ton can be figured out too you get two numbers per person. That lets you track it easily.

God I've been waiting for this video and it's everything I could've wanted! My campaign setting thanks you once again AJ!

Man that sounds so cool! I always wanted to play spelljammer but never got around to it.

There's is where I'm going after the elemental plain of water for my group in dnd, awesome video

Thanks for the video!

To put it even more simply ... From "Departure" to "Arrival" just roll a 1d8+2 and that's how many months it takes, loosely based on the math.

I would say that the Dwarves using the power of forging to fuel their ship is just a cultural reskin of the same form of power that comes from worship and mortal intent. Their crew must zealously believe that in forging magic items they are performing an act of divinity that radiates power from them, power that fuels the ship!

Use a Spelljammer too get to Athas and fight a draconic sorcerer king using some Nicol Bolas level stats. That sounds like a good time. Especially with some epic level characters piloting a souped up Nautiloid in an aerial dogfight with a god tier dragon that eventually results something akin to the ending of How To Train Your Dragon, but in space, and with a phlogiston explosion. This is why my DM never lets me get the dangerous artifacts. I want to do something stupid and epic XD

Dude, what about the giant Space Hamsters used by Gnomes and the horror story they tell of the Great Space Hamster coming to exact revenge for the enslavement of her children? Which it turns out is actually Boo, the dwarf's animal companion in Baldur's Gate. If you disenchant it it grows to full size and eats you and the end boss if I'm remembering correctly. Maybe it's just D&D legends like "The Gazebo"

Great video!

Good job on the intro AJ!

Spelljammer! thanks AJ

Excellent!

Why not rely on a supply of renewable goodberries? Is it an "exaggerated consumption will cause nausea, vomiting, stomach cramps, explosive diarrhea and anal bleeding"-type of situation? Or is it more a "druid or ranger could be lost and/or killed - so... what do we eat now?"-type of situation? Edit: Goodberry really trivializes some survival elements (then again so does "Create food and water")

MOOOOOORRE!!!

Thanks AJ.

Great job! And feel stupid for not seeing this earlier

Do you think we’ll see a SpellJamner Adventure in September? We should know by Friday!

The Crown Of The Stars was similiar to an Ultimate Helm, the main difference being that an Ultimate Helm could power and direct ANY ship, while a Crown Of The Stars was a bit more limited, it couldnt power The Spelljammer, and some other, lesser ship types.

Exciting developments! Are you planning a video on inter-species diplomacy/trade?

Full speed ahead, Scotty!

Ah, the ancient Golarion space travel.

Sharing this with my dm friends

I love the idea of Spelljammer, but there is a plausibility problem that always comes up for my players and its not that physics work differently. It is that magical spells allow near instantaneous travel between planes (crystal spheres). It is very hard to present a space-faring economy as being realistic given the time, power levels, costs and risks involved in spelljamming, when they could just plane shift, teleport or use gate spells. Things can also get extremely wonky extremely quickly and not in a good way, when you have totally incompatible character types from one crystal sphere end up in another. A Drow on Krynn for example is just incredibly out-of-place, but a character from the Dark Sun setting arriving on any other world can be game breaking.

I wonder if spelljammers come in Lion shape.. and can combine in to a giant Lion Man. With a name starting with a V, ending with a Tron. You say Volt, I say Tron. Voltron. The netflix show is great D&D inspiration

Thanks for your videos, you made a great work in any of them. Could you cosider to make series of videos about other classic D&D settings, like Dark Sun, Ravenloft, Planescape, etc?

I want to read the CloakMaster cycle now

I want my Mystic, my Bard, my Lore Wizard, and my Bladesinger to go on space adventures

Speaking of ki helms. What about ninjas in space.

I wanna steal a Nautaloid

I feel like such a nerd right now 😅

Helms have never replaced air. Where is AJ getting this?

From the Adventures in Space boxset, minor helms gives a ship's rating of 1/3 caster level, while a major helm grants 1/2. What is your source for "highest spell slot +1 / -2"?

18:18 Does anyone have a link to more information to anti furnaces? Could you do an equivalent of coin clipping on magic items with that? For instance could a magic trader use his stock to leech of an imperceptible of magic?

Have you done dark sun?

Also, would love it if you'd provide a list of where all the art in the video came from. The one that really caught my eye was the space station ring city at 16:16.

If there moving on the same path couldn't they still move towards a destination and be moving at tactical speed relative to each other? Seems like a risky move but could be worth it if the people navigating can keep track of that, it's not like it would really even affect combat.

I would think that a Non-spellcasting party member should be able to control the helm with a ring of spell storing and a spell cast into it. If used kind of like a reserve tank of power and mental strength while that your mage was resting

So stars are other crystal spheres?

Very interesting. I can't say I like the mechanics for steering the ship. Having to either hire a high level caster or sacrifice your own caster's spells just to pilot the ship efficiently doesn't seem quite fair to me. Personally I would just make a piloting skill and give it to everyone, with proficiency going to a few clases, and of course the rogue being able to take expertise in it as well, you know, because Swashbucklers... this way you'll never be truly stuck in space because your pilot is incapacitated, but not everyone is going to be a crack pilot as well. I would also create a number of mounts, like jet bikes and rocket surf boards that behave just like a ship, but are more nimble and can't do interstellar travel. Would a hex grid or square grid be more appropriate for mapping out this setting? And of course the first story arc to pop into my head while thinking about this setting: The party are back home, visiting an old friend who used to adventure with them. Miss Jessica Hawkins retired from the adventuring life, settled down and had a family. They opened the Benbow Inn shortly after and had a son, Jim Hawkins. Well, Mr. Hawkins ran out on them, the wanderlust getting the better of him, and so for several years its just been Ms. Hawkins and Jim running the Benbow. Tonight the gang has gathered to hold a late night birthday party for young Jim, who just turned 17, when they hear a loud crash outside. In the burning wreckage of a small skiff, they find a half crazed, panicked and blind dwarf named Billy Bones.... Treasure Planet was almost made for this setting. :)

Have you done a video on The Spelljammer?

So, I didn't hear it mentioned, can beings traveling from sphere to sphere also travel from the sphere of one overgod to another without any consequence (apart from time and distance)? for instance, if a group of say dwarves were to travel from Toril, leave their sphere, traverse impossible distances and enter a crystal sphere made by Thoon rather than by Ao, would they end up like the Obyrinth, all......altered?

does the notion of speed of light exist in Spelljammer?

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Do you guys think wotc will ever release 5th edition spelljanner

Hey aj ever think of teaming up with Dungion Dad with you powers combined u could realy map out wild space "but not make captain d and d youd need nerdarchy for that

Okay i really like this Spelljammer stuff! Though i do have a quick question to make sure im not misunderstanding. So cosmologicaly the material plane holds many planets right? Like Torril and lets say Earth for ease sake cuz idk any official other worlds for dnd. Now other planes are seperate right? Would these other planes have a similar cosmology potentionaly? Ot for example would a mirrored plane like the Feywild have an entire Feywild version of each and every planet in the material plane??? @_@ like if we put our solar system in DnD would there be a feywild Mars in theory? Am i just taking this thought too far probably but its interesting >_>

oh this is awesome. lmao and I have a PC what has a elvish war gallon ..... stolen ofcorse...... and nothing to do with it sitting o Toril. and a dragons horde of gold...... "Oh DM!........ I have a idea of what I want to do......." yes I'm sitting in Waterdeep. well in a sea cave near Waterdeep.

So wait... a spellcaster using a spelljammer drains all their slots even if they only used it for a short while or is that if they go past the exhaustion level?

So Toril and many of the D&D Planets occupy Hyperspace aka Realmspace? That's how you explanation comes across to me at least :) Perhaps that is the separation of Earth and Toril (Since Earth does exist in Forgotten Realms but is "Far Away") I wonder what Happens if a Spelljammer Ship accidentally happens into Earth Space? The ideas ponder.

Is there Axe-Poison in wild space?

Wait-wait-wait....15:35, Githyanki building cities on dead giants? When did that happen? Where can I find the material on that???

hey AJ, off topic but... When you say an Obyrith is trans dimensional by nature and can be in numerous locations simultaneously, do they do this through creating aspects (like other demon lords do it) or is it an ability unique to Obyriths? i tried searching around for this info, but no luck.

I had no clue there was a SpellJammer video game, and it ran on MS-DOS. lol

How to be a space pirate :D

And now, anyone playing DCC RPG knows the source of Phlogiston ;)

Woot I was 1000 XD

Aaah these rules are so weird when compared to real life. Also tryed to make a campgian for spelljammer that would create a more comprehensive world for the characters. Had a seris of political factions. It takes an exhustive amount of energy from a single person.

Where are the 5e conversion rules?

Cant just use goodberrys? W A T C H M E

what happens if someone turns on a decanter of endless water on a spelljammer, and just leaves it on?

I will absolutely never sweep that physics under the rug. lol. that stopping distance is instant death.

Mindspider? wtf \😀/