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  • @TheMountainLynx
    @TheMountainLynx 2 роки тому +149

    "Wildspace. The final frontier. These are the voyages of the spelljammer Enterprise."

    • @thomasace2547
      @thomasace2547 2 роки тому +27

      Their 5 year session, to explore strange new worlds
      To seek out life, and new civilisations
      To boldly roll where no PC has rolled before!

  • @DavidAnderson-cw7oq
    @DavidAnderson-cw7oq 2 роки тому +103

    I just really hope they keep the fact that dwarves turn entire mountains into spelljammers, and they power their ships by crafting stuff

    • @joshuaehl1481
      @joshuaehl1481 2 роки тому +9

      The mechanics for this will be in the book. Much like the DMG having the ability to build magical items, the new expansion book has the ability to custom build your Spelljammer for your players.

  • @tristanmitchell1242
    @tristanmitchell1242 2 роки тому +1

    In Spelljammer, I can really see two ways to play. Either you get your own ship, or you travel from ship to ship. I honestly see the latter as better for low-level and the former better for high level.
    Travelling from ship to ship could take many forms. Maybe you book passage from one world or wildspace base to another, or you take commission as guards on ships that travel the phlogiston. Maybe you have to sneak aboard and stow away to reach the BBEG's secret moon base from which he will use a ritual to cast a twelfth level spell of annihilation, destroying an entire country on the planet below.
    With a bit of home-brew, you might be able to take Spelljammers not only to other material planes, but also to higher and lower realms. You escape from the Nine Hells on a small spelljammer, meeting up with a larger ship somewhere near the Elemental Plane of Water, and travelling to your base on your wizard's personal astral realm, all before going for a supply run to Krynnspace (Dragonlance setting).

    • @iongriffis2435
      @iongriffis2435 5 місяців тому

      Or the adventurers find a shipwreck they can repair and get themselves a bigger ship/upgrade or make enough coin to buy a bigger OR even they are gifted one from some society they have aided along the way so many options for imaginative DM's out there,

  • @SilentSooYun
    @SilentSooYun 2 роки тому +15

    Although the mechanics might have changed, the concept of the Living Ship already existed in the forms of the Elven ships like the Man-O-War: they were supposedly carved out of living plants that the Elves grew to suit their needs. They just weren't sapient like a Treant would be.

  • @Gojoseon
    @Gojoseon 2 роки тому +35

    When I heard “turtle ship” I immediately thought of the cannon-bearing Korean vessels used by Yi Sunshin.

    • @powerist209
      @powerist209 2 роки тому +1

      Sadly, in Forgotten Realms' Korea/Koryo...let's say that they are "willing to fault a foreigner than their own" and everyone had trousers and shirts with aristocrats wearing robes and there is a magic tailor but the academy is essentially Hwa Rang Do but written as generic Kung Fu-esque academy and no magic or Hwa Rang genre. There is Goguryeo, Baekje, and Silla, which are promptly disappeared after not!Yi Sun Shin (or other Korean figure who is a general and took over as emperor) decided to reunify it into one country (like maybe they could make them into provinces or autonomous kingdoms with him as arbitrator).
      Turned out "take popular things for fantasy" can have its limits, especially when you do Korea in 1989 (aka writers who probably took notes from Tae Kwan Do manual and your average players at the time didn't have K-Pop, K-Drama, or internet...so it will probably be even worse like it is Korean coded but it's gonna be Chinese and Japanese culture, didn't help that said king is Samurai and Koryo has ninja as well).

  • @githvaldi
    @githvaldi 2 роки тому +9

    40 years of D&D under my belt. Spelljammer was one the BEST experiences to run as a DM. I cannot wait to add this newest version to my collection. Imagine your party in a Batship stuck in the crossfire of a fleet of Illithid

  • @FeroDega
    @FeroDega 2 роки тому +1

    it's times like this when I remember that Todd Kenrick works for Wizards of the Coast. So it's essentially Dungeons and Dragons interviewing themselves I don't see how he could fully endorse the book knowing what was actually in it.

  • @coolguy9309
    @coolguy9309 2 роки тому +7

    A living ship isn't a new idea, although a treant one is. The Spelljammer was a massive living ship back in the OG manuals.

  • @MrFahqup
    @MrFahqup 2 роки тому +4

    I have always canonized Speljammer when running 5e. I never played in the outer sphere setting, but explaining trade routes between the spheres allowed for races, and tech from Ravnica to be present on Toril. (I love Loxodons, and now you can all be Loxodons. This was the sole purpose for doing this. Lol)

  • @therealncast
    @therealncast 2 роки тому +24

    I am so happy with all the Spelljammer videos coming out! Looking forward to more and can't wait to DM a Spelljammer campaign in August 🤩

  • @TheCrimsonElite666
    @TheCrimsonElite666 2 роки тому +74

    Some people have complained about the Neogi Deathspider being renamed into the Neogi Nightspider. Personally, I think "Nightspider" makes more sense for the Neogi considering that they're supposed to be slavers, calling their spelljammers "Deathspiders" feels contradictory to the idea that they're slavers.

    • @ANDELE3025
      @ANDELE3025 2 роки тому +15

      No. Its just that Neogi already had a Nightspider. It was their small assault/fighter spelljammer. You know like a airplane or ship used for night raids. Not one out of 3 main vessels that also held those doomed to die as fuel for the helm, slaves or food.

    • @TheCrimsonElite666
      @TheCrimsonElite666 2 роки тому +5

      ​@@ANDELE3025 I guess we'll find out in the future whether they omitted the old Nightspider to rename the Deathspider, or it's misnaming on Wizkid's part since I'm looking at their upcoming Spelljammer models.

    • @perezidente1
      @perezidente1 2 роки тому +5

      @@ANDELE3025 I thought that one was called "Mindspider" not Nightspider. Dang now I need to pull my original boxed sets out of the closet. Edit: Ok found it, Original Box Set (not War Captain's) Lorebook of the Void page 31. "Mindspider".

    • @captin3149
      @captin3149 2 роки тому +2

      @@perezidente1 Maybe the Nightspider is a new class and they still have Deathspiders and Mindspiders?

    • @perezidente1
      @perezidente1 2 роки тому +2

      @@captin3149 I guess so. /shrug I'll have to pickup the newer campaign setting set and see.

  • @MegaPIC1
    @MegaPIC1 2 роки тому +4

    some of my players are already talking about doing a campaign where the party are space pirates and basically add the hull of the ships they attack to their own vessel thereby making it bigger and more intimidating.

    • @captin3149
      @captin3149 2 роки тому

      Say, 6,000 hulls-worth perhaps?

    • @steinarbergstl5799
      @steinarbergstl5799 2 роки тому

      So they basically wanna deliberately make a 40K Space Hulk? All they need is a chaos, ork or genestealer infestation in parts of it. Or all three at the same time for added fun. :)

    • @TrollEater
      @TrollEater 2 роки тому +1

      The thing would be so slow and poorly maneuverable that it wouldn't ever catch anything that wasn't already disabled. Perhaps if the pirate fleet were to haul this conglomerate ship around while actually flying a multitude of smaller ships in order to catch new prey.

  • @danielmcpherson3891
    @danielmcpherson3891 2 роки тому +3

    The damselfly description makes me think of Firefly. This thought brings pure joy for a possible campaign.

  • @cloudstone123
    @cloudstone123 2 роки тому +4

    I remember the Hammership as it was called from original spelljammer. Also the Man-o-War and the Octopus.

  • @greenhawk3796
    @greenhawk3796 2 роки тому +2

    I made a spelljammer/elemental ship that looks like a small modern yacht that has a cargo bay that doubles as an escape pod where 3 fin-like sails are used to glide to hopefully safety.

  • @Kragar01
    @Kragar01 2 роки тому +7

    Can we each have a ship? And each a different color? And can they join together to form some sort of…..Voltron type scenario?

  • @joshduhman2029
    @joshduhman2029 2 роки тому +2

    ive been DMing for a couple years now and i quickly gravitated to the spelljammer setting although i had to run a 5e conversion. my players had a ton of fun and im excited to get official rules and setting!

  • @Dannydarko27
    @Dannydarko27 2 роки тому +5

    I would've named the Tyrant ship the Beholders use the Eyesore or the Eye Soar

  • @costanzafaust
    @costanzafaust 2 роки тому +26

    idea for a one-shot: One of the crew is a doppelganger and there's also a mimic posing as a control console or escape lifeboat. Make the quests Among Us style maintenance tasks where the party has to split up ... did you hear something in the vents? 👽

    • @oghus
      @oghus 2 роки тому +1

      I had an idea for a one-shot, where you randomly make one of the crew members a doppelganger who just needs to survive until the end to win.
      Plot twist: all of them are doppelgangers, but don't know about each other.

  • @jmartin4396
    @jmartin4396 2 роки тому +4

    I'm still waiting for someone to talk about THE Spelljammer though. :) :)

  • @elricedge8116
    @elricedge8116 2 роки тому +3

    I’m so flipping excited about Spelljammer!

  • @thunderheadcinema6743
    @thunderheadcinema6743 2 роки тому

    I'm so excited for this. I've washed to do a spelljammer campaign and now there's updated content for it

  • @aimesspainz
    @aimesspainz 2 роки тому +2

    Oh man I want that turtle ship. 🐢 🚢 🌌

  • @ЯрославФилоненко-ы6ю

    This reminds me of Arcadia from Space Pirate Captain Harlock

  • @nickh3205
    @nickh3205 2 роки тому +3

    I hope we get a future expansion to spelljammer that gives us the giant manta ray ship

  • @Blufacia
    @Blufacia 2 роки тому

    2 questions and a comment
    1. What was that first ship in that first campaign?, I was waiting to hear what it might have been…
    2. Will there be development rules for the DMs to design their own? Pre covid I was running a campaign with Spelljammer, the players gravitated to a Hammerhead, but their main frenemy (was he the BBEG? Sadly the campaign died before the players could find out) flew a ship based off of GW’s Man oWar rules, the dwarven Ironclad. I can also see players wanting to mod airships from Exandria or Ebberon for Spelljamming.
    As to living ships, the Treant infused(?) concept is great, I’ve seen living ship homebrew ideas before (Elven ships with a soul, or ships based off of Farscape, or even Tyranid style ships (Eldritch abominations FTW)

  • @Dragonseye96
    @Dragonseye96 2 роки тому

    Thanks Todd. I've been learning a lot about this system watch videos you produce here and the Legend's streams. Too many years ago to count I used to play I. C. E. and M. E. R. P. so this is a nice change of pace. 👍

  • @toxictaro
    @toxictaro 2 роки тому +2

    That canon ship looks amazing

  • @VivaLaDnDLogs
    @VivaLaDnDLogs 2 роки тому +13

    One of my pet peeves is the fact that when someone say "Gifth", you can hear it as Githyanki, Githzerai, or Hippo People.
    Two of those things are similar, one is completely different!

  • @WormSlayer
    @WormSlayer 2 роки тому +1

    Can we please get Perkins running a Spelljammer campaign? XD

  • @ahcouplesday
    @ahcouplesday 2 роки тому +2

    Probably won’t be able to use a Tyrant ship? Challenge accepted.

  • @Reoh0z
    @Reoh0z 2 роки тому +2

    Wars have been fought over Giff or Jiff.

  • @demonoftheweb
    @demonoftheweb 2 роки тому +7

    By chance will there be rules to take vehicle already made, for example a Lighting Rail, and turn them into spelljammers?

    • @zenuuleflamesinger1469
      @zenuuleflamesinger1469 2 роки тому +4

      That can be done by adding a spelljamming helm to the ship. Used to be 3 types of helm but guess we will have to wait and see

    • @meikahidenori
      @meikahidenori 2 роки тому +1

      Now this is a very cool idea!

    • @demonoftheweb
      @demonoftheweb 2 роки тому

      @@zenuuleflamesinger1469 And thats the hard part but it will be worth the wait..

  • @griner65
    @griner65 2 роки тому

    I am running a nautical campaign with spelljammer type ships and my players have had a treant ship for the last 2 years

  • @DungeonsNDreadnoughts
    @DungeonsNDreadnoughts 2 роки тому

    I'm sculpting some spelljammer ships right now.. yay!

  • @andrewvela9839
    @andrewvela9839 2 роки тому +1

    I must make one and call it "The Groot"

  • @brandonandreski1709
    @brandonandreski1709 2 роки тому

    It has been decades. I remember that multi page spread at the back of the magazine. Spelljammer Shadow of the Spider Moon. Ever sens then I have been wanting more from that.

  • @megamanx466
    @megamanx466 2 роки тому

    I hope this campaign gets supported even more than it was in 2nd Ed.! 😃

    • @StarFyreXXX
      @StarFyreXXX 2 роки тому

      Doubt it. 2e had quite a few spelljammer stuff. Editions since then haven't done as much with the settings (although 3e had a lot of fr stuff)

  • @Max-eo1td
    @Max-eo1td 2 роки тому +1

    Space Ships, Living Ships, Giant Spaceships Dreadnoughts, Behold my party our next destination is a space were no PC ever was.

  • @KristensEpicAdventures
    @KristensEpicAdventures 2 роки тому

    Amazing! Can't wait for the release of this book! I will definitely be reviewing it on my channel 🤓

  • @simonfernandes6809
    @simonfernandes6809 2 роки тому +7

    Do we get Neogi Death helms? Or Lifejammers? Spelljammer 2e could get dark...
    Hopefully we get gnomish sidewheelers. With Giant Hamster powered side wheels. How about the Lich Pyramid. Or the actual - city sized - Spelljammer.

    • @SilentSooYun
      @SilentSooYun 2 роки тому

      Technically, we already got all those decades ago... it's just a matter of converting them to the new system :)
      Personally, I've always loved the Nautiloid... or at least the wooden ship that existed before they made it a gross, living creature thing

    • @steinarbergstl5799
      @steinarbergstl5799 2 роки тому +1

      @@SilentSooYun No reason why both can't exist. The living creature thing being rare and exclusively used by the Illithids while the wooden ship is more common and simply styled after the living one and used by other races as well.

  • @utb15281
    @utb15281 2 роки тому +1

    I am thinking Firefly. The best TV show ever.

  • @jasons5632
    @jasons5632 2 роки тому +1

    Orcish Scorpian was my fav from day one.

    • @dylanmorris5352
      @dylanmorris5352 2 роки тому

      Don't you mean Scro :)

    • @jasons5632
      @jasons5632 2 роки тому +1

      @@dylanmorris5352 probably, it's been a minute 😂

    • @dylanmorris5352
      @dylanmorris5352 2 роки тому

      @@jasons5632 I do love how the Orcs of Wildspace wanted to make themselves be different than within the spheres, so they literally just said they're Scro, which for those who might be reading this, what is Scro backwards?

    • @denniscoffey6363
      @denniscoffey6363 2 роки тому +1

      @@dylanmorris5352 actually they were super intelligent. they where actually completely different than normal orcs. they really became a off shoot race of the Orcs. in fact they hated their "lesser" kin.

  • @fresh2924
    @fresh2924 2 роки тому +1

    excellent! cant wait to add a ship to my asteroid base

  • @davidragan9233
    @davidragan9233 11 місяців тому

    One question that came to my mind once I read through the adventure, how do the Dinghies that go between a Spelljammer and a smaller port work? do they have a Spelljammer Helm or something similar, or does it function through a different method?

  • @priestly8164
    @priestly8164 2 роки тому

    “There’s small ships, big ships”
    Me: Potato ships.

  • @T-51_
    @T-51_ Рік тому

    I love the neogi death spider ship

  • @patrickvaughan5901
    @patrickvaughan5901 2 роки тому +1

    I'm excited! But I wish they would've went into a new ship or two actually. This was kinda like yea there's are bunch of ships. Here are ones you already know

  • @Comrade2261
    @Comrade2261 2 роки тому

    "The living ship" Reminds me of the Yuuzhan Vong from the Star Wars Expanded Universe.

    • @tompadfoot3065
      @tompadfoot3065 2 роки тому

      One of my favorite Easter eggs in a game is in KOTOR when Canderous Ordo is telling you a story and he describes going up against a Coral Skipper hiding in an asteroid field

  • @prettyboy251
    @prettyboy251 2 роки тому

    Did anyone else think of Farscape when he said there was a living ship?

  • @Einrich
    @Einrich 2 роки тому

    Like it. I'll play this in mix of ad&d2 meets d&d5 and show this game to my teens

  • @matthewboles6721
    @matthewboles6721 2 роки тому +4

    Love the idea of living ships. I want to ride one like Moya from Farscape. Could some culture create a TARDIS like vessel? If so, whom would it be?

    • @znorman23
      @znorman23 2 роки тому +1

      Gotta go see the Time Lords

    • @me-42by42
      @me-42by42 2 роки тому

      Not a time machine, but the Netherese 10th level spell "Valdick's Spheresail' instantly makes a 20x efficiency Spelljammer. Sadly, the spell can no longer be cast.
      Details: ua-cam.com/video/rEI0Qt3UO0Y/v-deo.html

    • @damionmurray8244
      @damionmurray8244 2 роки тому

      Moya was the first thing that came to mind when they mentioned living ships. Farscape was amazing.

    • @denniscoffey6363
      @denniscoffey6363 2 роки тому

      Gnomes, Full stop. all the crazy stuff groundling Gnomes make that blows up on a planet all of a sudden makes sense in space. if fact if memory serves it was them that used the giant space hamsters as power in the gnomish sidewheeler(see paddle boat in space)

  • @HowtoRPG
    @HowtoRPG 2 роки тому

    Thanks.

  • @jamesonstalanthasyu
    @jamesonstalanthasyu 2 роки тому

    If you don't need to breath in the astral sea/wildspace, which I believe they mentioned in another video, then why would a Life Ship powered/overseen by a treant need to generate air that got fouled or used up?

    • @Ssekkaha
      @Ssekkaha 2 роки тому

      Astral sea requires no air, wildspace does.

  • @_sphere_9654
    @_sphere_9654 2 роки тому

    And Planscape is coming out - when?

  • @NeonDruid13
    @NeonDruid13 Рік тому

    I know this is an old video but i hope this will get answered. Will we be seeing a re-release of the Spelljammer Novels? If i knew about them when i was a young D&D nerd playing 3rd in the 90's, i would have ate them up and begged for more.

  • @_skirdybirdy1788
    @_skirdybirdy1788 2 роки тому

    Who's the artist that made all these illustrations? Didn't see the name in the description.

  • @erroldrommond9149
    @erroldrommond9149 2 роки тому

    living ship, The Drifter *Pointing Rick Dalton*

  • @Burton-uu1sy
    @Burton-uu1sy 2 роки тому +1

    Does anyone know if ships will be sold individually as 3d or 2d miniatures, well as asteroids and the like so we can buy and paint want we want?

    • @TheCrimsonElite666
      @TheCrimsonElite666 2 роки тому

      Wizkids are going to sell 3D miniatures, but it looks like some of them will be bundled together.

    • @znorman23
      @znorman23 2 роки тому

      You could use a rock from the garden for an asteroid

    • @Burton-uu1sy
      @Burton-uu1sy 2 роки тому

      @@TheCrimsonElite666 yeh I saw the painted bundles, but I hope they'll sell things individually and un painted

  • @samw.6876
    @samw.6876 2 роки тому

    I converted every single 2e Spelljammer to 5e after Ghosts of Saltmarsh was released lol...we'll see how many adjustments I will need to make when this book drops

  • @vgmaster9
    @vgmaster9 2 роки тому

    Wonder if there will be spaceships like the ones in WoW.

  • @brete2103
    @brete2103 2 роки тому

    Will this be an up and coming module release for neverwinter d&d platform for play station/xbox/pc? If so... this would be very ambitious but also amazing!
    Please say something... 😅😅

  • @kaskando
    @kaskando 2 роки тому

    Incredible! I'm taking my players to the end of the universe to fight an eldritch horror that dreamt up the universe. These books could not have come at a better time.
    I've been running this campaign for 6 years now and they've reached beyond level 20 at this point. They've broken their level caps and are onto even bigger things!

    • @pepnfresh244
      @pepnfresh244 2 роки тому

      I hope you mean Azazoth. 😈

    • @kaskando
      @kaskando 2 роки тому

      @@pepnfresh244 It's a homebrew deity/being I made called Xakryell, also known as "The Dreamer"

  • @shawndougherty6732
    @shawndougherty6732 2 роки тому

    If Chris need someone to play with I free. In the afternoons

  • @Year2047
    @Year2047 2 роки тому

    But do they require spell slots? I am not going to tell my players they need to play a caster but it be useful to know.

    • @Ssekkaha
      @Ssekkaha 2 роки тому

      In the adventure, (Spelljammer academy) your players get split into two, the Spelljammer corps, and the Spelljammer cadets. It isn't explicitly stated, but it seems to be casters and martials split.
      Later, in the Spelljammer Nexus, it makes mentions "No ability checks are needed" when flying a mock spelljammer. I imagine it's going to be spellslot based by default. Personally I'd like if Psionics like the psiknight could be included but, I don't make the lore

  • @TrollEater
    @TrollEater 2 роки тому

    I just wish there were some spelljammer miniatures that didn't cost a fortune. The Wizkids ones are ridiculously priced.

  • @SteelHeartEddy
    @SteelHeartEddy 2 роки тому

    You know,
    Athas is accessible through the use of a spelljammer..
    Is it time?
    Has Dark Sun finally come to fruition?!
    I'M HANKERING TO THROW A HAMMER AT AN EVIL DRAGON WIZARD, *PLEEEAAAASE!*

  • @MythicalMerchant
    @MythicalMerchant 8 місяців тому

    wow

  • @jules-pierremalartre7800
    @jules-pierremalartre7800 2 роки тому

    Wizkids models, pretty please.

    • @daviddalrymple2284
      @daviddalrymple2284 2 роки тому

      They've got six different assortments for preorder right now!

    • @jules-pierremalartre7800
      @jules-pierremalartre7800 2 роки тому

      @@daviddalrymple2284 Ships? Or just characters/monsters? I want a ship, dammit, lol!

    • @TrollEater
      @TrollEater 2 роки тому

      @@jules-pierremalartre7800 There are a bunch of ship models. They are stupidly expensive.

  • @ahrengrebner4618
    @ahrengrebner4618 2 роки тому

    What a tease! There's almost no content in this one :(

  • @Grey_Codex_gaming
    @Grey_Codex_gaming 2 роки тому

    The party probably won't use a beholder tyrant ship.... looks askance at spelljammer academy

  • @michaellittle226
    @michaellittle226 2 роки тому

    LOL . Giff not Jiff .
    To each their own .

  • @benry007
    @benry007 2 роки тому

    I just dont understand how there is space in these books for everything. There are three 64 page books. 64 pages is nothing. One of those books is an adventure. Thats about as long as the one in the starter kit which is just a short 1-5 lvl adventure. I feel like everyone is going to be majorly disappointed

  • @theofficerfactory2625
    @theofficerfactory2625 2 роки тому

    So it's sort of like treasure planet but not. I'm game but only if I can make my own ship and call it... the Arcadia! Or the Queen Emeraldas.

    • @Millstone1985
      @Millstone1985 2 роки тому

      Only issue I see is that Arcadia is already the name of an outer plane.

  • @beasleydad
    @beasleydad 2 роки тому

    So, the treant merged with a spelljammer isn't a new idea, I've had one in my weekly dnd game for more than a year, but I actually came up with it for a one-shot some players of mine did more than 10 years ago.
    This is not a case of a stolen idea, I'm sure we independently came up with it.

  • @iongriffis2435
    @iongriffis2435 5 місяців тому

    So yeah I expected a video showcasing ALL the ships of Spelljammer here not a "presentation" sneak peek trying to sell me something.... Do better

  • @barbiedea4367
    @barbiedea4367 Рік тому

    Moth Ship !! Please release more Elf Subraces lol you don’t hear this enough hahahahaha but we love more elf subraces lol