The crystal spheres are absolutely true 3D spheres, but appear like flat walls from the inside and outside, just due to the sheer size of them; keep in mind these things have a radius of double the length from the sun to the farthest planet in the system!
Thank you, beat me to it. What gets me is he was running a graphic that was almost certainly from a ringworld (maybe THE Ringworld from Niven) when he said it, so presumably he'd read the descriptions there. Ringworlds are another (much, much smaller) megastructure where scale makes the local curvature imperceptible.
Spelljammer really really really needs to be adapted for the 5th edition. It's such an amazing setting to play it. You can literally go anywhere in the universe, including other settings like Greyhawk , Krynn or Ebberon or custom ones. Not to mention the awesome 80s style Heavy Metal/Thor Ragnarok/Star Treky vibes it gives...
@Babes & Board Games I was curious about spelljamming travel to the Crimson Sphere also...a google search gave me the below thoughts/comments: The old Dragon comic Yamara had Yamara and company visit Athas (the world of "Hard Fun") via spelljammer back in the 90's so I'd say there's at least some precedent. In that comic the cleric is still able to reach his deity despite the Dark Sun rules saying otherwise. I think opening the sphere just massively upsets the status quo in Athas, with impacts on economy, religion, ecology, etc. The easy answer is that you could get to Athas via spelljamming, but it's so far outside the flow that the journey would take years, or maybe even decades. Then once you got inside the sphere, your helm would shut down, because the normal magic doesn't exist. So you'd just drift along through wildspace until you ran out of air, unless you have a psionic or lifejamming helm. In short, it's possible, but improbable that anybody would stumble upon it by chance, and even more unlikely that they'd get back out again. Thus only the most learned of sages would even know of its existence, much less how to to get there.
So through the last week I've been immersing myself with D&D lore via your videos while doing other things, and I really enjoy this. Okay, the themesong playing at the end of each episode annoys me a lot by now, but this is the best web resource especially for Forgotten Realms lore I found so far! I'm a veteran AD&D player from back then, travelling Faerun and also Planescape for some time now and was a bit lazy catching up with all the stuff that happened since the Time of Troubles. Your videos helped me a great deal to finally catch up and transport my D&D5 campaign to where Faerun is now. The videos about gods and races are especially great for educating players during character creation. Stellar work. :)
Worlds in the phlogiston share the same cosmology, Greyhawk, Forgotten Realms and Dragonlance share the same outerplanes, though each has their own Feywild and Shadowfell echoes
0:01 If you're still looking for topics, maybe try the Spelljammer Adventures 'Under the Dark fist' and the 'Goblins Return' duology. They are the tow big campaign adventures for Spelljammer and both are noteworthy. I actually think Under the Dark Fist is much better, almost Star Wars like in it's scope, but Goblins Return has a lot of flavour because of the blood feud between the Elves and the Scro.
Undermountain has a spelljammer ship. The most active Spelljammer port is at the center of the great mountains which exist at the intersection of Faerun, Kara-Tur, and Zakhara.
@@TheChillLefty that's probably the most overt one. the most active one is actually probably waterdeep, it's just that the ships land out in the ocean and sail in to look normal (at the specific "request" of the lords of waterdeep... as in, "we request that you land out of sight, and in exchange you can request that we don't seize your ship and everything on it and throw the lot of you in jail for violating our rules". apparently they're concerned that people will think space-stuff is better than non-space equivalents (ie bread from space is more exotic) and that's why the requirement is there). in fact, disappointingly most of the ports on toril are not particularly friendly. there are a few dedicated spelljammer ports (as opposed to being a regular port that spelljamming ships can trade at), but they're mostly run by not particularly friendly people...
So, on multiple occasions, Chris Perkins mentions that Toril is, in fact, our earth anciently. Gary Gygax himself imagined himself being visited by Elminster and the two had conversations. You can listen to about specifically on the Dragon Talk Podcast "Matthew Mercer & Chris Perkins on Waterdeep" posted Oct. 9th, 2018. So wouldn't the solar system basically be the same as today only billions of years ago? I mean it doesn't matter which is why D&D is so cool but I thought I would share. Personally, in my games, I image Faerun as its own sphere and the majority of the Mulhorandi coming from our Egypt and thus our dimension/sphere.
Spelljammers is coming out soon for 5e. I can't wait. I am new to D&D, but I prefer SCI FI vs Fantasy. Now I see there will be a marry of the two. This should be exciting. Again, tho' this video is 3 years old. Thank you for your info. well put together and not boring at all. Very informative leaving you with just enough info to understand without feeling too geeky about it.
Question: I've seen it on a couple maps and have been curious about it, but haven't found anything about it from Google searches. I see on some maps of Realmspace a crystal looking structure that's bigger than a crystal sphere (downward pointing multifaceted pyramid with other crystals on top). In the map I'm looking at right now, it's in the Vodoni Empire, between the spheres of Zalani, Vodonika, and Vodoni. I was wondering what that is and if it's the "Eye of the Gods" that was created by the Vodoni? Thanks
I am really enjoying your videos. My brother and I have started playing a spelljammer adventure. Do you award experience points if PCs capture a ship or helm? If yes, how do you determine the value?
Neat. It would be cool to play in a game where the planet your on has a portal to the moon or another planet and it’s involved in each other’s history.
I understand everything here, but I have 2 questions: What is the "prime material plane"? Is it the entire "physical" part of the realm space crystal sphere, excluding the elemental planes and the planes of the Gods? Or does it include those areas? and are the elemental planes, like Fire, a part of the specific crystal sphere?
It really pisses me off when they say things like "no one knows why the glifs are there, what they say, or what they do." Like, you better add lore to this later!
Yep! Krynnspace is connected via the Phlogiston to Realmspace via Greyspace. Here's a picture that kinda explains it. digitalmarble.com/realmspace/spelljammer/junction.gif
@@Jorphdan so Greyspace is the tube/tunnels that connects each realm/planet together in the pics. Am i getting that right cause i get confused on everything outside or is it off of Toril. Could you tell me if there are any Forgotten Realms books dealing with the inhabitants on Toril's moon & if so what's the names of them? I mostly read Forgotten Realms novels, but I have read a few Dragon Lance novels, so i was confused on if they were connected or not. Thanks so much on all your help
@@eeeisme7946 No Greyspace is another crystalsphere like Realmspace. It's home to the greyhawk setting. The tubes are the Phlogiston ... highways (?) that connect the two spheres. Not sure on novels I'd have to dig around for that information. I mostly get my info from source books.
@@Jorphdan Okay, now I'm getting it, sorry for being so confused on it. Now on those books, I can't even figure out what to put in to look up & find any books with a story envolving the adventures on Toril"s moon. I'm finding it very difficult so any help would be deeply appreciated, even if you're just able to point me in the right direction of any, would be very helpful. Thank you once again
I'm pretty sure Eberron lore expressly says that Eberron is uniquely and intentionally cut off from the rest of the D&D multiverse, hence why Gods are far less influential in the setting.
'...well, I PLANET!!!' BOO!!!! You've shamed your self beyond repair...theres only one way out now...**slides a sword across the table** You know what to do...
So the sun is the plane of fire, Mucury is the plane of earth, Venus is the plane of air, Earth is the prime meterial plane, and Mars is the Plane of water. Glyph is the plane of Ooze.
Looking forward to if/ when they release spell jammer. I play neverwinter. In the next expansion mod16 which is set in undermountain they have found a spell jammer ship in one of the locations... Does this mean spell jammer is on the way??? As all things in neverwinter comes from wotc
This isn't released for 5e yet, a lot of info I pulled from was from Advanced Dungeons and Dragons (2nd edition). But the lore often holds throughout editions unless an edition decides to change something. Since we have no information on Realmspace for 5e yet, the Spelljammer Book Realmspace is the best source.
You are... correct! Page 7 of the Realmspace spelljammer book says "They do not have the ability to see into the infrared like other halfling races." Perhaps earlier editions Halflings had darkvision.
The crystal spheres are absolutely true 3D spheres, but appear like flat walls from the inside and outside, just due to the sheer size of them; keep in mind these things have a radius of double the length from the sun to the farthest planet in the system!
Thank you, beat me to it. What gets me is he was running a graphic that was almost certainly from a ringworld (maybe THE Ringworld from Niven) when he said it, so presumably he'd read the descriptions there. Ringworlds are another (much, much smaller) megastructure where scale makes the local curvature imperceptible.
Spelljammer really really really needs to be adapted for the 5th edition. It's such an amazing setting to play it. You can literally go anywhere in the universe, including other settings like Greyhawk , Krynn or Ebberon or custom ones.
Not to mention the awesome 80s style Heavy Metal/Thor Ragnarok/Star Treky vibes it gives...
@Babes & Board Games I was curious about spelljamming travel to the Crimson Sphere also...a google search gave me the below thoughts/comments:
The old Dragon comic Yamara had Yamara and company visit Athas (the world of "Hard Fun") via spelljammer back in the 90's so I'd say there's at least some precedent. In that comic the cleric is still able to reach his deity despite the Dark Sun rules saying otherwise.
I think opening the sphere just massively upsets the status quo in Athas, with impacts on economy, religion, ecology, etc.
The easy answer is that you could get to Athas via spelljamming, but it's so far outside the flow that the journey would take years, or maybe even decades. Then once you got inside the sphere, your helm would shut down, because the normal magic doesn't exist. So you'd just drift along through wildspace until you ran out of air, unless you have a psionic or lifejamming helm. In short, it's possible, but improbable that anybody would stumble upon it by chance, and even more unlikely that they'd get back out again. Thus only the most learned of sages would even know of its existence, much less how to to get there.
I hope wherever you are, you’re enjoying the new content that’s coming out for 5e
Spelljammer is such a wonderful, wacky mix of Ptolemaic and Copurnican models. I love it.
Classic TSR Golden Age - what s not to love from that era?
nerd ;)
This video has given me a thousand ideas for my own setting.
Great! :D
It's been two years.
Setting status update?
I really wish this was multiple videos. This would make an excellent series!
Love it! More info on an otherwise little explained topic.
This was such a cool video!! Every time I watch I just fall in love with D&D all over again. Thank you!
Love your videos, Jorfffffdan!
been playing FR for 2 decades and never heard any of this! nice!
Would love to see more Spelljammer videos!
Great video.i miss playing the spelljammer system. I learned something new too
I was going to suggest a series on the different factions of the planescape setting. Then you went to spelljammer and I couldn't be happier.
Please make more videos like this!
So through the last week I've been immersing myself with D&D lore via your videos while doing other things, and I really enjoy this. Okay, the themesong playing at the end of each episode annoys me a lot by now, but this is the best web resource especially for Forgotten Realms lore I found so far! I'm a veteran AD&D player from back then, travelling Faerun and also Planescape for some time now and was a bit lazy catching up with all the stuff that happened since the Time of Troubles. Your videos helped me a great deal to finally catch up and transport my D&D5 campaign to where Faerun is now.
The videos about gods and races are especially great for educating players during character creation. Stellar work. :)
Thanks so much, glad I was able to help you out with some lore! :D
To travel the sun why not just polymorph into a fire elemental?
@Mr420Spy why
I can’t see why this wouldn’t work. An excellent idea and a cool way of visiting the sun in a high level adventure
Whoever made that realistic picture of Toril deserves an award.
Love your videos Jordan.
Thanks :D
Jorphdan
thank you for all your videos!!!
Thank you!! :)
You make me wanna play a spelljammer campaign
The Mindflayers around Glyth are now dead as Atropus thought they looked tasty.
...so how does realm space coincide with the geometry of the far planes like Mt Celestia, Bytopia, The Nine Hells and the rest?
Worlds in the phlogiston share the same cosmology, Greyhawk, Forgotten Realms and Dragonlance share the same outerplanes, though each has their own Feywild and Shadowfell echoes
Space adventures, am I right. But seriously. This sounds fun!!
VERY interesting. and maybe one day you can make a video of the Star System where Abeir ended up to be!
Excellent Now we have a place to put all of our halflings !
toh-RILL. You're right. Never knew. Been saying TOR-ill for 30 years.
Hearing about entire planet of the beholders is interesting.
That planet pun...that is amazing.
You could say it was... A Stellar pun
I'm Jorphdan and I approve this pun.
Funny how this came up after the Spelljammer announcement. Excellent timing once again YT.
Currently designing my own Crystal Sphere setting for 5e. :)
More Spelljammer videos would hit the sweet spot!
I'll see what I can come up with :)
This lore is how I introduce new players to my campaign.
Fun!
0:01 If you're still looking for topics, maybe try the Spelljammer Adventures 'Under the Dark fist' and the 'Goblins Return' duology.
They are the tow big campaign adventures for Spelljammer and both are noteworthy.
I actually think Under the Dark Fist is much better, almost Star Wars like in it's scope, but Goblins Return has a lot of flavour because of the blood feud between the Elves and the Scro.
Are the outer planes inside or outside of the crystal spheres? What about the far realm?
As I still play 2nd Ed. I use Spelljammer a lot. Had great stories running on realmspace and always got my players imagination afire. Nice video.
Yay spell jammer!
dude, I never knew abouth any of this. This is the wierdest thing I have ever seen abouth FR. I some what love it haha,
If this interested you, The Mighty Glue Stick (AJ Pickett)has many videos on spelljammer and this topic
Seconded. Seems batshit crazy at times, but still interesting.
I still have all my Spelljammer boxed sets!!
Now, all we need to do is find the Faerun equivalent to the Barrier Peaks. Send an Expedition there. Repair the spaceship, then take off to...
There are a couple spelljammer ships scattered about Faerûn.
Undermountain has a spelljammer ship. The most active Spelljammer port is at the center of the great mountains which exist at the intersection of Faerun, Kara-Tur, and Zakhara.
@@TheChillLefty that's probably the most overt one. the most active one is actually probably waterdeep, it's just that the ships land out in the ocean and sail in to look normal (at the specific "request" of the lords of waterdeep... as in, "we request that you land out of sight, and in exchange you can request that we don't seize your ship and everything on it and throw the lot of you in jail for violating our rules". apparently they're concerned that people will think space-stuff is better than non-space equivalents (ie bread from space is more exotic) and that's why the requirement is there).
in fact, disappointingly most of the ports on toril are not particularly friendly. there are a few dedicated spelljammer ports (as opposed to being a regular port that spelljamming ships can trade at), but they're mostly run by not particularly friendly people...
Love Spelljammer.
So, on multiple occasions, Chris Perkins mentions that Toril is, in fact, our earth anciently. Gary Gygax himself imagined himself being visited by Elminster and the two had conversations. You can listen to about specifically on the Dragon Talk Podcast "Matthew Mercer & Chris Perkins on Waterdeep" posted Oct. 9th, 2018. So wouldn't the solar system basically be the same as today only billions of years ago?
I mean it doesn't matter which is why D&D is so cool but I thought I would share. Personally, in my games, I image Faerun as its own sphere and the majority of the
Mulhorandi coming from our Egypt and thus our dimension/sphere.
Great lore! Seems Crystal spheres are gone, but a lot else remains in 5th.
Spelljammers is coming out soon for 5e. I can't wait. I am new to D&D, but I prefer SCI FI vs Fantasy. Now I see there will be a marry of the two. This should be exciting.
Again, tho' this video is 3 years old. Thank you for your info. well put together and not boring at all. Very informative leaving you with just enough info to understand without feeling too geeky about it.
Awesome! I'm excited for 5e Spelljammer too!
The other planets are inhabited! Whaaaaa! (head explodes)
I wanted spaceships in my campaign, now I know why.
Question: I've seen it on a couple maps and have been curious about it, but haven't found anything about it from Google searches. I see on some maps of Realmspace a crystal looking structure that's bigger than a crystal sphere (downward pointing multifaceted pyramid with other crystals on top). In the map I'm looking at right now, it's in the Vodoni Empire, between the spheres of Zalani, Vodonika, and Vodoni. I was wondering what that is and if it's the "Eye of the Gods" that was created by the Vodoni? Thanks
Toril's sun has a city inside, portals to the Fire Elemental Plane and to the heavens.
I waited so long for the hay to make a comeback
I am really enjoying your videos. My brother and I have started playing a spelljammer adventure. Do you award experience points if PCs capture a ship or helm? If yes, how do you determine the value?
This is great
Forgot about the tower around the last planet that is as big as a small moon. You showed a picture of it.
Wow!!! My first reaction to a Jorphdan video unbeknownst to me until now! Celestial #ForgottenRealms #Realmspace
Genghis Galahad new
Nice video! Anyone have an idea about the length between full moons of Selune?
30 days
Neat. It would be cool to play in a game where the planet your on has a portal to the moon or another planet and it’s involved in each other’s history.
Sooooo not the final frontier?
I rolled 1 on my Will save against that horrible pun, and laughed at it Dx
You should cover some of these planets in more detail. And also the moon.
SPELLJAMMER!!!!! MOAR!!!
I understand everything here, but I have 2 questions:
What is the "prime material plane"? Is it the entire "physical" part of the realm space crystal sphere, excluding the elemental planes and the planes of the Gods? Or does it include those areas?
and are the elemental planes, like Fire, a part of the specific crystal sphere?
As someone who always has to tell people how to pronounce my name, I feel you
How thick is a crystal sphere? Could there be a settlement on the inside surface?
Now there’s a character called H’Catha Slim in Legends Of The Multiverse
Have they expanded the solar system of Abeir?
It really pisses me off when they say things like "no one knows why the glifs are there, what they say, or what they do." Like, you better add lore to this later!
Ian so sad I have almost finished this series…. Great channel buddy
Thanks! Should have a greyspace video out this week!
Wizards need to update realm space and make Pluto a planet.
LOL! Fantasy astronomy, I love it.
It's a dwarf planet. Guess it has a lot of dwarves.
@@TheChillLefty ice dwarves
Is the "Dragon Lance" realm, or if so how is it, connected to Faerun Solar System?
Yep! Krynnspace is connected via the Phlogiston to Realmspace via Greyspace. Here's a picture that kinda explains it.
digitalmarble.com/realmspace/spelljammer/junction.gif
@@Jorphdan so Greyspace is the tube/tunnels that connects each realm/planet together in the pics. Am i getting that right cause i get confused on everything outside or is it off of Toril. Could you tell me if there are any Forgotten Realms books dealing with the inhabitants on Toril's moon & if so what's the names of them? I mostly read Forgotten Realms novels, but I have read a few Dragon Lance novels, so i was confused on if they were connected or not. Thanks so much on all your help
@@eeeisme7946 No Greyspace is another crystalsphere like Realmspace. It's home to the greyhawk setting. The tubes are the Phlogiston ... highways (?) that connect the two spheres.
Not sure on novels I'd have to dig around for that information. I mostly get my info from source books.
@@Jorphdan Okay, now I'm getting it, sorry for being so confused on it.
Now on those books, I can't even figure out what to put in to look up & find any books with a story envolving the adventures on Toril"s moon. I'm finding it very difficult so any help would be deeply appreciated, even if you're just able to point me in the right direction of any, would be very helpful. Thank you once again
Do Ravnica and Ebberon have their own spheres? Can you Spelljam to them?
William Oswin that was the original intent of AD&D Spelljammer, to connect all campaign settings.
@@Hakaanu you can jam to most spheres. there are some that are closed to protect the individual sphere. like the DARK SUN Sphere.
And that is why we're going to Dark Sun with spelljammer :-)
I'm pretty sure Eberron lore expressly says that Eberron is uniquely and intentionally cut off from the rest of the D&D multiverse, hence why Gods are far less influential in the setting.
No love for the tears of Selune or the Rock of Braal?
Yeah I felt the video was getting long enough as it was. Maybe I'll cover those separately along with a further in-depth on the moon.
'...well, I PLANET!!!'
BOO!!!! You've shamed your self beyond repair...theres only one way out now...**slides a sword across the table** You know what to do...
keep having pun, please!
So the sun is the plane of fire, Mucury is the plane of earth, Venus is the plane of air, Earth is the prime meterial plane, and Mars is the Plane of water.
Glyph is the plane of Ooze.
Doesn't Atropus also typically orbit around Glyph?
What happened to Abeir?
Could an azer or an efreet live on the sun?
I want to know more about salune
Heavenly bodies? You mean like aasimar & solar bodies?
75 degrees and 40 degrees of what measurement? Celsius? Kelvin? Fahrenheit?
Good question! Fahrenheit
Does Ctulhu exist in Forgotten Realms?
There are elder gods but not Ctulhu specifically. Could be in your game though 😉
If your party wants to go to the sun without dying, just have them go at night. Duh...
not going to lie some of those worlds just sound like repeats of outer and inner planes
Looking forward to if/ when they release spell jammer.
I play neverwinter. In the next expansion mod16 which is set in undermountain they have found a spell jammer ship in one of the locations... Does this mean spell jammer is on the way??? As all things in neverwinter comes from wotc
I don't think spelljammer is on the way soon, but I do think WotC likes to sprinkler past items and lore into their adventures.
I want to put my werewolf on the moon
Wheres my elder evil moon Atropus?
does anyone know if and/or when wizards is release this for 5e
marc gregory This is 5e lore I believe. Just hard to come buy maybe
This isn't released for 5e yet, a lot of info I pulled from was from Advanced Dungeons and Dragons (2nd edition).
But the lore often holds throughout editions unless an edition decides to change something. Since we have no information on Realmspace for 5e yet, the Spelljammer Book Realmspace is the best source.
@@Jorphdan I think there is a spelljammer helm that can be found in the 5e Undermountain adventure.
I’m too high for this video. But good job!
Wait where did Abeir go then?
No one really knows
@@Jorphdan I'd like to think it's in the solar system with Toril. Maybe replace one planet or add it in somewhere.
Is abeir also a planet or is it different
It is a planet but shifted away somewhere so not part of realmspace
Thia was somewhat different, a welcome change i suppose
Halflings don't have darkvision to lose...
You are... correct! Page 7 of the Realmspace spelljammer book says "They do not have the ability to see into the infrared like other halfling races." Perhaps earlier editions Halflings had darkvision.
so where is Krynn tho?
Hey wait a minute you forgot about Atropus.
Hell, I'm not to proud to admit that I laughed a bit at "Planet"
I love puns.
Do not give me any ideas.. right now the only thing I have is a campfire story of a handful of friends killing a dragon..
Lol.
I plan- ER 😅
:-)
so... basically what happens when you mix Fantasy with Science Fiction
Sorry .. ( random thought) i just realized im stuck in my body. ( maybe im influenced by the video.)?
And like!
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