D&D's Failed Space Setting

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  @r3negadex · 8 months ago

  Maybe I'm just weird, but I kind of like the idea of each solar system having vastly different laws of physics and magic from each other. It really makes the worlds feel chaotic and unique, and I love it when reality is more of a suggestion than a physical law.

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  @Beefgar · 8 months ago

  I’m starting to think that, just maybe, people like Spelljammer.

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  @TomTubesYou · 8 months ago (edited)

  I must have missed the part in the video where he explained WHY this is so stupid, because all I hear is how awesome it is.

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  @thebohemian814 · 8 months ago

  isnt the &quot;Pseudo Science&quot; the point?<br><br>This isnt our space, this is what the greek thought was space, and it was supposed to be weird, wild and strange. <br><br>Like that&apos;s the draw.

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  @elitemook4234 · 8 months ago

  The crystal spheres and phlogiston is a lot more interesting then if space worked exactly as it does in real life just with magic.

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  @Dae-D-Ellis · 8 months ago

  Bro Spelljammers wacky cosmology is LITERALLY the reason I thought it was worth looking into. Personally, I love it, and am hella surprised you didn&apos;t seem to

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  @nigelhirth2181 · 8 months ago

  All that and still didn&apos;t mention the actual Spelljammer. Like the Great Spelljammer, the singular ship the whole setting is named after, and everyone is kinda chasing after.

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  @ilycitActivity · 8 months ago

  idk honestly I really like strange and esoteric cosmologies. Much more appealing to me than just regular ol space.

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  @somebodyrandom27 · 8 months ago (edited)

  It is fucking TRAGIC how badly 5e fumbled it&apos;s version of Spelljammer.<br><br>The core idea of the setting is that it&apos;s Retrofuturistic. The designers at TSR were told &quot;make a space setting&quot; and decided to make something creative and unique instead of just D&amp;D in space.<br><br>That&apos;s why you have weird old pseudoscience stuff like the Crystal Spheres and Phlogiston. Because it&apos;s meant to be how someone in a medieval fantasy world would imagine space travel.<br><br>But the 5e version of the setting was pretty much missing any interesting rules for the titular vehicles, which are the entire point of the setting.

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  @josescalcagno · 8 months ago

  Always been a fan of the spelljammer setting precisely because of the really wild and esoteric ideas it uses as a base.

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  @RJ_Ehlert · 8 months ago

  I find it very intriguing when a fantasy world works like ancient philosophers thought it did.

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  @ognyannedev5979 · 8 months ago

  Did he ever actually explain why the things he called dumb were dumb? Except for the multiverse part.

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