Assuming all goes well we've only got what? Less than a month more to go? Can't wait for the EA. Seeing and experiencing the development of this game in real time will be super interesting.
No fire right, so how do dwarven forges function if they are not using heat & flame? "Well now young 'un. No dwarven crew has returned from their maiden voyage - yet- so they are obviously keeping all that gold and all those gems for themselves."
Stoked for Baldur's Gate 3, the cinematic trailer re-enthused my love for githyanki and mindflayers. And played a role in how my current table ended up in a mindflayer den and now onto a nautiloid. I was reading through some old spell jammer stuff and trying to do some research when I found this. You do a good job on your videos and do a real service to DMs and d&d fans in general!
For the sake of brevity, most folks refer to the area between spheres as The Phlo. The politics in Spelljammer tend towards the more fluid, so working with Illithids, a lawful race, can actually be profitable. For a fun and tough adventure that shows this off, I suggest SJA4 Under the Dark Fist. No spoilers, but it shows off the potential Spelljammer had. If you are a fan of Farscape, Under the Dark Fist has a bit of a Farscape feel to it.
There are some "rules" for spelljammer helms at the near-end of Dungeon of the Mad Mage. If I remember correctly, it is stated that you can maintain a speed of 10ft. x your highest unspent spell slot while attuned to the helm (as a magic item), without having to actually spend the slot.
@@JazzyBassy thats not if you're spending spells to move. That 10ft. x unspent highest spell is the fastest possible speed you can go WITHOUT spending spells.
It should be mentioned that in Tome of Foes, that the "helm" from Spelljammer has been mentioned when discussing the Githyanki lore, and navy. I am glad you broke down the Nautaloid for us, I'm definitely planning on getting B.G. III.
Man oh man, I just found your series on Spelljammer and WOW! Instant sub. Fantastic content and delivery. On to Ravenloft. I hope and pray you'll do a series on Planescape, Dragonlance, and Wildmount. THANK you for your work!
I am watching this from the future! New spelljammer came out. WOTC did something pretty low down. The people united, thwarted evil and a new D&D movie came out.
Pretty dope video! Being a greek the word you mentioned is "Φλογιστρον" or in latin characters Flogistron! And in the modern days it means something like a blowtorch!
Apparently it wasn't Baldurs Gate that was being attacked, but a different city entirely, or one of it's neighbour's at least. According to one of the producers anyway, I believe.
5e spelljammer is everything I want right now. I really hope that's their big reveal for the anniversary. In the meantime, I'm obsessing over spaceship designs for it.
Do a vid on the “Spelljammer” I like the work done to make “Spelljammer” it’s own pocket universe I think it was done by nightdruid I also like his redesign of the elvish man-o-war That made the vanilla man-o-war into a cutter while leaving a redesign into the new 60 ton man-o-war
There are somewhat made rules for a spelljamming helm in 5e with the Helm of the Traveler within Dungeon of the Mad Mage, which is like a weaker minor helm given how slow it moves (still relatively fast compared to a lot of dnd travel), but it doesn't actively burn spell slots to use.
Jorphdan, if you google it and look at the pronunciation Phlogiston has a soft "g" like "j". The pronunciation is "flo jisten". That is with a hard "o" and sharp "e".
@@NecromancyForKids That is false. The gith collapsed the portal they used to get to Athas and left everyone already there stranded because Athasians were too hardcore for them to conquer. There are also Athasians in Sigil in a colony called New Tyr. The sorcerer King Dregoth also travels to other planes via a planer gate artifact and that is how he learned of the gods and started his quest to become one
Have you done a video about the Selunian/leiran lore, with them living on the forgotten realms moon Selune? I could barely find anything about them online and it's a shame because they are the perfect race to interpret as the Lunarian race from Japanese mythology.
R.I.P. Krynnspace... obliterated by a well-deserved, albeit destructive lawsuit. No more topknotted Kenders with hoopaks in space! (::wonders whether to cheer or cry::)
This reminds me of a character I played for a one shot. He was a male Drow Noble (a third son) of House Ablodra (known for Psions) that secretly give male Drow to the Mind Klayers to go threw the transformation in trade for weakened larva that the females could host and control. He is using a ring of mind shielding to slow or stop the transformation he is not sure. But in order to use any of the Illithid abilities he has to remove the ring and being mentally attacked by the larval Mind Flayer.
My Wizard has a Nautaloid as a mobile base. She telepathically communicated with the Nautaloid and she told my wizard that Nautaloid’s were converted from giant sea creatures from a lost world, and the Wizard convinced her to help them and the party escape from a Mindflayer Dreadnaught. Her name is Cthylla and she’s a sweetheart
I get their idea was to combine different settings this way, but personally I don’t like settings being planets, I think of them as dimensions, so a space campaign wouldn’t go through settings, a setting would be big enough to contain space in my mind
Here’s my question which I want a second opinion on they did say that the evil campaign you lean more on using the powers of the tadpoles you don’t think that means that your character hast to become a mind flayer full-fledged to do the evil play through do you just because I kind of find that limiting in my opinion no offense to the designers but I kind of would like to stay as the character instead of have to be tentacally when I finish the evil play through I plan on doing with friends.
Athus the planet in Darksun is unable to be accessed by a spelljammer. Or more specifically IIRC no one knows how to get there and no one knows how to create a spelljammer on the planet. Ravenloft is also inaccessible by spelljammers because it does not exist in a crystal sphere.
Wait, I don't think the city it attacked was Baldur's Gate, was it? It's symbol was two towers with a sword between them, and the town guard wore the same instead of being Flaming Fist.
When Spelljammers came out, I dismissed the whole idea as ridiculous. It just didn’t fit in to my “traditional” D&D setting. Now I’m trying to find out all I can about this aspect of the universe because it is very interesting and creative.
@@jtjames79 Yeah! From what I can remember, they wish to know the truth about something, resulting in them needing to work with other races. They still enslave for food, but finding an odd one in the market isn't a cause for concern.
I swear to god the friggen mind flayers either cannot drive like at all…or this technology is just not there yet for what they’re trying to do with this ship because it came in too low and too hot in the opening cinematic of the game. It crashed into a bell tower ffs 🤦♀️ then when it warped, I don’t think they knew where we would end up because they were immediately surrounded by githyanki dragon riders, then we had to warp again after falling into hell on the next jump. It seems totally random where we would end up next and I don’t think they have a clue what they’re doing yet with that technology
Big Spelljammer fan here, can't help but explain since the game certainly never did. A spelljammer, especially a Nautiloid with a Pool Helm, cannot be operated by a singular illithid effectively. They made the game long before the 5e Spelljammer supplements came out, and the AD&D rules state that Nautiloids require 10 crew minimum, illithids and the Elder Brain working together to control the ship. In the cutscene we can see the rest of the crew dead. For that mind flayer, it's the equivalent of trying to row a boat with only one oar. Not so much not knowing what they're doing, because Realmspace (the rest of the solar system in the Forgotten Realms) has a pretty big illithid presence throughout the Crystal Sphere, but more not being able to maneuver effectively. Also the planet Glyth, the sixth planet in the system, is dominated by a mind flayer empire that have enslaved all the humanoid races there and is probably where the nautiloid from the opening came. The elder brain on the ship was probably in panic mode and descended on the most populated area it could find for a literal smash and grab. Trying to get at least nine more illithids ready to go. As for the warping, that is actually not a thing present in Spelljammer rules so it must be something Larion came up with themselves. Personally, I think it is a neat concept. I am chalking it up to mind flayer psionics, the Elder Brain being able to plane-shift the entire ship. But as for how they were being followed, I think that the ship was being tracked somehow, or the gith'yanki were tracking their own already present in the ship like Lae'zel. They specialize in hunting illithids and are extraplanar beings themselves. And the random jumps may have been just trying to buy time for the tadpoles to get deeper. But when the dragon's breath hit the Pool Helm while the ship shifted again, I think something like a critical failure happened and the ship ended up teleporting into a random location. Just happened to be Avernus.
"How excited are you about Baldurs Gate 3?"
>Me: *visibly vibrates*
I feel you.
Dude, I'm so fucking ready
Assuming all goes well we've only got what? Less than a month more to go? Can't wait for the EA. Seeing and experiencing the development of this game in real time will be super interesting.
It’s 2023 and we’re currently LOVING BG3 😍
The original 2nd edition boxed set explains how this works the best. "It is magic, and even worse. It knows it is magic."
I swear your reading my DM notes. I was looking for a short easy to digest way to explain spelljammer to my group and here you are. Thanks Jorphdan
Awesome!
Geezer here.....
Druids in space. Just happens to be a base line in my campaign world.
Game on.
Their ships would be colony ships, complete with internal ecosystems or the combination of a water sphere and a gaint tree.
You got me with the flying nun😂
Spelljammer! Sweet! Such a weird and wonderful setting. I'm a huge fan of the Clockwork Horrors from that setting. Scary little buggers.
No fire right, so how do dwarven forges function if they are not using heat & flame?
"Well now young 'un. No dwarven crew has returned from their maiden voyage - yet- so they are obviously keeping all that gold and all those gems for themselves."
Spelljammers are perhaps one of the coolest Fantasy concepts in my opinion, and it's what makes Forgotten Realms one of my favorite Fantasy settings
Stoked for Baldur's Gate 3, the cinematic trailer re-enthused my love for githyanki and mindflayers. And played a role in how my current table ended up in a mindflayer den and now onto a nautiloid.
I was reading through some old spell jammer stuff and trying to do some research when I found this. You do a good job on your videos and do a real service to DMs and d&d fans in general!
*a wild Matt appears*
He is transforming into a meta-meme
A warlock can get spell slots back very fast, also there is the great old one pact. Together you get a very nice h.p.lovcaft kind of game in space.
Impossible to like this vid enough.
MORE SPELLJAMMER!!!!!!!
For the sake of brevity, most folks refer to the area between spheres as The Phlo.
The politics in Spelljammer tend towards the more fluid, so working with Illithids, a lawful race, can actually be profitable. For a fun and tough adventure that shows this off, I suggest SJA4 Under the Dark Fist. No spoilers, but it shows off the potential Spelljammer had. If you are a fan of Farscape, Under the Dark Fist has a bit of a Farscape feel to it.
There are some "rules" for spelljammer helms at the near-end of Dungeon of the Mad Mage.
If I remember correctly, it is stated that you can maintain a speed of 10ft. x your highest unspent spell slot while attuned to the helm (as a magic item), without having to actually spend the slot.
That’s incredibly slow. I’d bump those numbers up a lot if I were to run it:
@@JazzyBassy thats not if you're spending spells to move. That 10ft. x unspent highest spell is the fastest possible speed you can go WITHOUT spending spells.
@@noahwesterberg8566 Ahhhh that makes more sense! I misread it! :0 What speed is it when you do spend spell slots?
I love Spelljammer so much cool shit in it like the scro and the Arcana
I am enjoying baldurs gate 3 right now.
It should be mentioned that in Tome of Foes, that the "helm" from Spelljammer has been mentioned when discussing the Githyanki lore, and navy.
I am glad you broke down the Nautaloid for us, I'm definitely planning on getting B.G. III.
I'd love to have spelljammers in 5th edition
it would be pretty fun right?
@@Jorphdan especially when you have them traveling through multiple worlds for a campaign, to stop an omniversal threat.
So....
How happy are you that your wish has been granted?
You got it lol
Be careful what you wish for.
Man oh man, I just found your series on Spelljammer and WOW! Instant sub. Fantastic content and delivery.
On to Ravenloft. I hope and pray you'll do a series on Planescape, Dragonlance, and Wildmount.
THANK you for your work!
Glad you enjoy it!
Enjoying it in the future!
I am watching this from the future!
New spelljammer came out. WOTC did something pretty low down. The people united, thwarted evil and a new D&D movie came out.
There's a spelljamming helm with rules tor how it works in Waterdeep Mad Mage
When he said "Jam Through Space" I can only imagine a bunch of Bards smoking Ginyak in their parents basement.
my god, has it really been 2+ years since that trailer dropped? i hope it actually releases in 2023
All began with bg 1 for me 8yr a blue half elf fighter with red hair.
Lol the start of the video really got me
Wait, so dwarves literally just work at a forge, and that somehow powers their space ship?
Dwarven crafting is inherently embedded with trace amounts of magic due to their religion I believe.
Really it is just kinetic conversation, clever but not really effective in the long run.
Stoked for this video!
As someone in the future yes enjoying BG3 and update still good
Pretty dope video! Being a greek the word you mentioned is "Φλογιστρον" or in latin characters Flogistron! And in the modern days it means something like a blowtorch!
One does not simply travel to Dragonlance.
Apparently it wasn't Baldurs Gate that was being attacked, but a different city entirely, or one of it's neighbour's at least. According to one of the producers anyway, I believe.
I saw that too after I made the video! I wonder which city it is :o
5e spelljammer is everything I want right now. I really hope that's their big reveal for the anniversary.
In the meantime, I'm obsessing over spaceship designs for it.
Do a vid on the “Spelljammer”
I like the work done to make “Spelljammer” it’s own pocket universe
I think it was done by nightdruid
I also like his redesign of the elvish man-o-war
That made the vanilla man-o-war into a cutter while leaving a redesign into the new 60 ton man-o-war
I am here from the future, currently playing BG3 😆
it worked!!
All of the phlogiston is the prime material plane. Planescape was magical world travelling, Spelljammer was a scifantasy way
I can't wait for baldurs gate 3! I've been waiting 20 years I can wait a little longer ha!
There are somewhat made rules for a spelljamming helm in 5e with the Helm of the Traveler within Dungeon of the Mad Mage, which is like a weaker minor helm given how slow it moves (still relatively fast compared to a lot of dnd travel), but it doesn't actively burn spell slots to use.
Jorphdan, if you google it and look at the pronunciation Phlogiston has a soft "g" like "j". The pronunciation is "flo jisten". That is with a hard "o" and sharp "e".
oh thanks for the heads up! :D
I'll try and get it right in the future!
@@Jorphdan with a silent PH at the beginning...
flow-JIST-un
Im from the future and i enjoy it!
Wasn't Athas (Dark Sun) Cut off from the rest of the settings? As far as I remember, you could not get to Athas via the use of a Spelljammer.
You very much can get to Athas. However, you cannot leave. That is how the Gith got stuck there.
@@NecromancyForKids Interesting.
You can not get there via a spell jammer but portals can open there (but most attempts fail) and the grey mists do appear there too
@@NecromancyForKids That is false. The gith collapsed the portal they used to get to Athas and left everyone already there stranded because Athasians were too hardcore for them to conquer. There are also Athasians in Sigil in a colony called New Tyr.
The sorcerer King Dregoth also travels to other planes via a planer gate artifact and that is how he learned of the gods and started his quest to become one
@@Vermbraunt I was just refering to Spelljammer. Would be interesting to grab some characters from Athas and pull them through the mists...
I wonder where the Nautiloid came from that's in BG3?
Have you done a video about the Selunian/leiran lore, with them living on the forgotten realms moon Selune? I could barely find anything about them online and it's a shame because they are the perfect race to interpret as the Lunarian race from Japanese mythology.
0:07 Yep. Be jealous.
R.I.P. Krynnspace... obliterated by a well-deserved, albeit destructive lawsuit. No more topknotted Kenders with hoopaks in space! (::wonders whether to cheer or cry::)
Welp I'm hyped for Baldurs gate now
*cough baldurs gate cough*
Just as a quick note, as of Rising from the last war, Eberron is (somehow) part of the dnd multiverse now.
This reminds me of a character I played for a one shot. He was a male Drow Noble (a third son) of House Ablodra (known for Psions) that secretly give male Drow to the Mind Klayers to go threw the transformation in trade for weakened larva that the females could host and control. He is using a ring of mind shielding to slow or stop the transformation he is not sure. But in order to use any of the Illithid abilities he has to remove the ring and being mentally attacked by the larval Mind Flayer.
BTW his name was Kal'Lamarin hope some one gets the joke in there
im playing baldurs gate 3 right now be jelly
I an currently working on a 5th edition revamp of Spelljammer including a campaign setting and new Spelltech
My Wizard has a Nautaloid as a mobile base. She telepathically communicated with the Nautaloid and she told my wizard that Nautaloid’s were converted from giant sea creatures from a lost world, and the Wizard convinced her to help them and the party escape from a Mindflayer Dreadnaught. Her name is Cthylla and she’s a sweetheart
Living for bg3 bruh
I want more Spelljammer! Will we ever get more of it for 5e or video games?
I get their idea was to combine different settings this way, but personally I don’t like settings being planets, I think of them as dimensions, so a space campaign wouldn’t go through settings, a setting would be big enough to contain space in my mind
Hey, new little logo. Pretty cool
Nope, still haven't played it yet 😭 (waiting for full release)
Here’s my question which I want a second opinion on they did say that the evil campaign you lean more on using the powers of the tadpoles you don’t think that means that your character hast to become a mind flayer full-fledged to do the evil play through do you just because I kind of find that limiting in my opinion no offense to the designers but I kind of would like to stay as the character instead of have to be tentacally when I finish the evil play through I plan on doing with friends.
They are all about player choice and freedom, I guess either way is possible?!? Maybe???
My like is silent
Athus the planet in Darksun is unable to be accessed by a spelljammer. Or more specifically IIRC no one knows how to get there and no one knows how to create a spelljammer on the planet. Ravenloft is also inaccessible by spelljammers because it does not exist in a crystal sphere.
Wait, I don't think the city it attacked was Baldur's Gate, was it? It's symbol was two towers with a sword between them, and the town guard wore the same instead of being Flaming Fist.
Nope they said later in that the city being attacked was not Baldur's Gate. I'm curious about the story.
When Spelljammers came out, I dismissed the whole idea as ridiculous. It just didn’t fit in to my “traditional” D&D setting. Now I’m trying to find out all I can about this aspect of the universe because it is very interesting and creative.
What's the source of the image at 4:15 ? I love it! 😍
We need a Spelljammer pc game or a Rimworld mod
*is in the future, game not out yet* @_@
Despite my wishes to the contrary, the game devs have said it is a planar ship and not a spelljammer.
Just for the record, the city being attacked in the trailer was not Baldur's Gate.
Correct!
need more video about the Gith
Here ya go~ ua-cam.com/video/x2hrDrtQFJM/v-deo.html
From the thumbnail I’m getting the feeling Disney plagiarized D&D with Geoffrey Rush’s character Davy Jones in Pirates of the Caribbean.
Gratsi
Mind flayers do come across as unlikable
Spell jamming mind flayers are a lot more chill. Better than traveling with tinker gnomes, or flying on a Boeing.
@@jtjames79 Yeah! From what I can remember, they wish to know the truth about something, resulting in them needing to work with other races. They still enslave for food, but finding an odd one in the market isn't a cause for concern.
@@Aevum13th They would also need slaves to reproduce, considering their life cycle.
You can’t reach “dark sun” via spelljamming
Not connected to the rest of the crystal spheres
After the 0:30 intro, skip to 5:04 for Jorphdan to get back on topic... yep a 1min video, very disappointing.
it's Phlogiston not Phlogiston
Flowghuston?
@@Jorphdan senpei noticed me umu XD
Mind flayers have lost the ability to make new spell jammers. This is why there ships are so rare.
One hour in the future.
Still not enjoying Baldur's Gate 3.
Why not rub it in more.
Haha
Nope still waiting for the gamr
DFTBA
Mind Flayers = cool. Gith = lame.
I swear to god the friggen mind flayers either cannot drive like at all…or this technology is just not there yet for what they’re trying to do with this ship because it came in too low and too hot in the opening cinematic of the game. It crashed into a bell tower ffs 🤦♀️ then when it warped, I don’t think they knew where we would end up because they were immediately surrounded by githyanki dragon riders, then we had to warp again after falling into hell on the next jump. It seems totally random where we would end up next and I don’t think they have a clue what they’re doing yet with that technology
Big Spelljammer fan here, can't help but explain since the game certainly never did. A spelljammer, especially a Nautiloid with a Pool Helm, cannot be operated by a singular illithid effectively. They made the game long before the 5e Spelljammer supplements came out, and the AD&D rules state that Nautiloids require 10 crew minimum, illithids and the Elder Brain working together to control the ship. In the cutscene we can see the rest of the crew dead. For that mind flayer, it's the equivalent of trying to row a boat with only one oar. Not so much not knowing what they're doing, because Realmspace (the rest of the solar system in the Forgotten Realms) has a pretty big illithid presence throughout the Crystal Sphere, but more not being able to maneuver effectively. Also the planet Glyth, the sixth planet in the system, is dominated by a mind flayer empire that have enslaved all the humanoid races there and is probably where the nautiloid from the opening came. The elder brain on the ship was probably in panic mode and descended on the most populated area it could find for a literal smash and grab. Trying to get at least nine more illithids ready to go.
As for the warping, that is actually not a thing present in Spelljammer rules so it must be something Larion came up with themselves. Personally, I think it is a neat concept. I am chalking it up to mind flayer psionics, the Elder Brain being able to plane-shift the entire ship. But as for how they were being followed, I think that the ship was being tracked somehow, or the gith'yanki were tracking their own already present in the ship like Lae'zel. They specialize in hunting illithids and are extraplanar beings themselves. And the random jumps may have been just trying to buy time for the tadpoles to get deeper. But when the dragon's breath hit the Pool Helm while the ship shifted again, I think something like a critical failure happened and the ship ended up teleporting into a random location. Just happened to be Avernus.