I always like the idea that the Thri-kreen can speak common just as easily as anyone else. They simply choose not to since they believe it's beneath them.
Thri-kreen were an interesting choice for being a playable race. I've yet to have one of my players want to play as one, and I'll be perfectly honest.. I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around the logistics of the concept.
Speaking common. In my space.campaigns common is not really the common language. It is a space language. One adapted through the many peoples in space. Makes it hard for my players to comminicate. So i try to avoid telepathy as it removes a challenge.
@@gamemasters My favorite pop culture reference for the Thri-kreen language barrier, why rangers should pick the bonus languages from favored enemy instead of favored foe, and just ranger's entire contribution to the social pillar of play is pretty simple. Watch all the episodes of The Mandalorian where Mando interacts with Tuskans. The ranger and the Thri-kreen come back to the party after ten minutes of negotiating with people dressed in rags who didn't speak common: Paladin: How did it go? Ranger: Pretty good. We got safe passage and water rights to travel through the lands their people control for the next month. Thri-kreen: Click Clack Screeeee! Ranger: Click Clack is right. We got a huge bargain. Wizard: What did it cost us? Ranger: The plus one longsword the paladin hasn't used since he got the plus two greatsword and that holy avenger. Paladin: What? Thri-kreen: Click Clack Screeeeeeeeee! Ranger: Click Clack is right. They asked for very little. We got everything we wanted before we got all the way up to them. Paladin: Then what was all that laughing and arm waving in our direction for the last ten minutes about? Ranger: Oh, yeah that was funny. Click Clack told them about the time you and the Wizard got locked in those outhouses that those goblins rolled down that hill. Thri-kreen: Screeee. Click Click Clack Screeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! Ranger: That's right Click Clack. The real treasure is the friends we made along the way.
Our table officially voted on whether or not to run Spelljammer earlier today. Most of us had seen some reviews or looked over the first couple academy modules and the result was a universal yes. Apparently the DM has offered to do two session a week so that we can finish defiling what remains of the corpse of 'Tyranny of Dragons' 's plot. We rolled for stats earlier and the good luck of my last character was not repeated... I officially have a ranger with 4 Int lol!
okay.. so I GOTTA point this out... your group sounds like it will be kick ass, not in terms of power but in terms of just flat out fun! Why? Because if you have a ranger with 4 Intelligence, that means that you all are focusing on the FUN element of D&D and not the "optimize my character for total damage output" (not that that can't be fun), but having a wild array of stats just, in my opinion, makes it totally fun.
I made a character in d&d I called him Mr Manley he was a human wizard that dealt with problems using violence or violent means as well he had prejudice towards other races not exactly a total racist where he wouldn't travel with other races but as far as purchasing items he would only purchase items from humans and human Crafters his story is he got lost in the Astro plane so he forgot his own name and his age he forgot where he came from and among other stuff he has amnesia which is why he's called Mr Manley because he doesn't know his name
Isn't it a mop? Do NOT clean up space sickness with your map. Use your towel only if you have nothing else. If you forgot your towel, try not to panic, it might lead to space sickness.
I love the idea of including a Beholder as a character rather than just a monster to fight. Large Luigi is pretty cool, but I could also see a whole Beholder crime family running underground operations like the Hutts from Star Wars! Maybe too expected for Spelljammer to, don't think I'd ever expect to meet a friendly Beholder.
Honestly, I’m really interested to see what changes if any the autognome got, I’m currently playing an autognome in a game using the UA version of them
if you still haven't seen the changes, True Life was renamed to Healing Machine and had Mass Cure Wounds and Mass Healing Word added to the list of working healing spells, and for some reason Specialized Design specified that the two tool proficiencies must be from the player's handbook. sentry's rest was reworded to get rid of the double negative, and thats it. hope this helps or at least wasnt too annoying
@@anakaisnight4849 Ok, I am now really confused as to why specialized design says the tool has to be in the PHB, are there even any other books with tools?
Subscribed recently and i am really enjoying your videos! Keep up the good work 🙌. I would love to see a video about how the Thri-Kreen can use their little hands in combat. Is there any particular rule that states the action economy for them? Also are Thri-Kreens' chatkchas in this book?
there is a photo of one holding one, but the actual stats for it are not found in here (for players). I just did another video looking over some of the monsters ( ua-cam.com/video/UzkkOhOk4c0/v-deo.html ) and while I didn't feature the Thri-Kreen specifically, I will look at them in depth in a future video as well.
Noticed the Star Frontiers races were added here. Were they always in Spelljammer? We never had the opportunity to actually play the original version. I have been looking forward this for a while. Thank you for the awesome video.
that's something I still need to go back and look at. The original SJ monsters were spread out across a few different books, but then too they have two compendiums and my memory fails me. I'll research it and try to return to this in a future video doing a comparison.
Question. How much are pistols, muskets, and smokepowder in the new books? Smokepowder in WaterdeepHeist was 50 Gp for 5 shots and a wonderous magic item.
there are no price lists in this so things like pistols, muskets, etc would be whatever the price is in other books (I generally create my own pricing though, just depends on the situation)
they grew up and adapted life in space, obviously that a basic basic version but their story is pretty neat. I've got a player wanting to roll one up, I just really want to absorb more of this material before I jump into running it.
mindflayers don't appear in this as a stat block, they are, however, briefly mentioned in the Nautiloid section for their spelljammer ship (VERY briefly mentioned).
@@gamemasters The overall vibe of the video itself. Mellow, Clear and to the point. Informative without pre-edition bias. Dad jokes on the reel also sold me 🤘
@@CaptnCrowley lol awesome! Aye, it's a rare video that I take myself too seriously, I love to do new things to keep it fresh and new. Glad to have you here and look forward to chatting with you on future (and past) vids!
aye, there is! In this first look, I wanted to be sure to cover the basics but in a future video, I'll go over ship to ship combat. One thing to note, I don't recall seeing anything specific about ship to ship spells. (an example i'd love to see is if I cast fireball from my ship and it moves through my ship's air envelope and through space and into another ship's air envelope, does it fizzle in that in-between-no-air area? As a DM I'm almost wanting to rule that it fizzles)
@@gamemasters I somehow doubt it. In an interview recently someone from WOTC said they didn't want to make specific rules for ship to ship combat and wanted to focus on just shooting arrows or spells from ship to ship against the people on the other ship. They wanted to discourage attacking the ship itself and just run it as if it was a normal D&D battle. So, I'd be very interested in the ship combat rules given that statement. But it is fairly clear they expect spells to work normally through space.
well I doubt spells will be a part of actual ship to ship combat due to range. MOST combats will be at hundreds of feet apart using seige weapons. spells such as fire ball have range of 150 feet and lightning bolt at 100 feet. now boarding actions yes 100%
@@sylvnfox the quote from the article is "It's kind of like two groups on two small islands, separated by shooting arrows at one another. A ship becomes a platform on which the encounter takes place, like a dungeon room a room in a castle. You can attack the ship, of course, and the ship can take damage, but for the most part, ship-to-ship engagements really have to do with the crews on board. And, despite the fact that your ship may have a catapult and ballistae and whatnot on board, it's still pretty hard to trump a Fireball spell or a Lightning Bolt spell. The characters have so many other options at their disposal for disposing of shipboard enemies. We stay very much in the theatre of the mind with this product for the sake of keeping encounters fluid and fast." The implication is that they expect most combats to just be just putting two ships on a battle map very close to each other and to cast spells back and forth.
it's the one I'll use. I like the collector's edition, but it's too pretty for me to use! I'm rough with my books, contantly flipping through them and all..
For me, there is no question. Spelljammer (original) was always among my favorite settings so yeah, I think it's worth it. That said, I think it could have been better. I have a new video that I'm working on that I'll put out just after the box set's release date where I go over all my concerns, but a couple that I will address: The map and lack of certain specific bits of information.
Aye, there is more information provided, I wanted this video to be a quick look over things, but in a future vid, I'll cover some mechanics of space to space
I don't think they are mentioned anywhere... I'll be honest, I'm still moving through the books and have not yet read every word... but.. so far, I've not seen them.
Bit miffed there are only 2 spells in spelljammer. I don’t like how it’s marketed as a source book on D&Dbeyond but only provides 6 races and 2 niche spells outside of the campaign setting and 2 campaign setting specific backgrounds.
yeah.. I think they kinda missed an opportunity here and it makes me wonder if there will be a follow up book (which would be rare for 5th edition to do)
So did they do away with the Phlogiston? I always thought that was an unnecessary obstacle in the original and the few times we played Spelljammer we pretty much home ruled that out of existence.
in my readings of these 3 books, I've not seen any mention of them, however, I've not fully read the adventure itself BUT if the Phlogiston are mentioned in it, it's going to be a small small portion.
Wildspace Orrery now gives me a valid reason to say "Look at this magic item. This is a device that allows me to track the almighty cosmos. Judging from the position of the sun and moon, I have determined that you are spouting mad shit" Just use the magic item to spout mad shit at people speaking mad shit
@@gamemasters Two spells is the literal minimum they could use to add "New Spells and Magic Items" and it feels very disingenuous to use that as a selling point of the book. I wasn't expecting a whole handbook worth of spells but at least 1 per casting class to emphasize that classes place in the SPELLjammer universe. I might have to homebrew some spells to flesh this out.
I am also hesitating whetever buy the three books or not because they seme a bit too expensive when you see that books like the Superboy Xanathar guide's to everything sotto aproximately 30€ that this costa 20€ more. I uno there is the adventure in it but it's still too expensive in my Head(10€more than the player's handbook)
Oh yeah I forgot to say I ma not yet DM but I am considerato to become a DM by starting an adventure with friends that never played D&D and don't really know what to start with. Have you any advice for me? Thanks
I totally understand holding off on this due to the price point. That said, however, you do get a DM screen (with great information in it specific to Spelljammer), a "monster manual", a multi part adventure, and the guide itself to new races, ships, etc. THAT said, if you want to get a taste of what spelljammer has to offer before you buy any of it, check out the Spelljammer Academy adventure on D&D Beyond, and also check out the Spelljammer Monster Compendium (also on D&D Beyond) both are free. Aside from that, best advice I can give is just have fun and use your imagination!
There are a couple of things mentioned in the Light of Xaruxis book, I'll be looking at that in a future video called: Spelljammer III : The Search for Minsc (I'm looking to drop that on Thursday)
sadly, those are the ONLY two spells added. I've got some other issues as well, but that's for another video. Overall, I'm pleased with these books but...
A player/GM should not have to go back to an out of print book from a decades old and out of print edition made by a previous company that does not exist anymore for needed content to utilize a new book. The Spelljammer book(s) for 5e is indicative of the problem with WotC’s 5e DnD. It lack all necessary content for a group of people to properly use without having to homebrew rules that should have been included in the first place. It is nothing more that a useless product made only to steal money from they consumers. It is an incomplete product like all WotC 5e books released in the last 5-8 years.
This is a well presented, succinct summary of Spelljammer, and I appreciate the quality of this video. Sadly, it shows the new Spelljammer to be the same nonsensical, shark jumping, stupidity that it was in the 90s.
I think that's part of what I liked about it in the 90's. It CAN be goofy or it CAN be a hardcore serious mission of space exploration, this new version seems to really provide the DM with plenty of tools to make the setting whatever they need it to be.
I always like the idea that the Thri-kreen can speak common just as easily as anyone else. They simply choose not to since they believe it's beneath them.
Nah, it's just that they just don't have skin flesh to speak properly. Of course, telepathy more than makes up for it.
Thri-kreen were an interesting choice for being a playable race. I've yet to have one of my players want to play as one, and I'll be perfectly honest.. I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around the logistics of the concept.
Speaking common.
In my space.campaigns common is not really the common language. It is a space language. One adapted through the many peoples in space.
Makes it hard for my players to comminicate.
So i try to avoid telepathy as it removes a challenge.
@@gamemasters My favorite pop culture reference for the Thri-kreen language barrier, why rangers should pick the bonus languages from favored enemy instead of favored foe, and just ranger's entire contribution to the social pillar of play is pretty simple. Watch all the episodes of The Mandalorian where Mando interacts with Tuskans.
The ranger and the Thri-kreen come back to the party after ten minutes of negotiating with people dressed in rags who didn't speak common:
Paladin: How did it go?
Ranger: Pretty good. We got safe passage and water rights to travel through the lands their people control for the next month.
Thri-kreen: Click Clack Screeeee!
Ranger: Click Clack is right. We got a huge bargain.
Wizard: What did it cost us?
Ranger: The plus one longsword the paladin hasn't used since he got the plus two greatsword and that holy avenger.
Paladin: What?
Thri-kreen: Click Clack Screeeeeeeeee!
Ranger: Click Clack is right. They asked for very little. We got everything we wanted before we got all the way up to them.
Paladin: Then what was all that laughing and arm waving in our direction for the last ten minutes about?
Ranger: Oh, yeah that was funny. Click Clack told them about the time you and the Wizard got locked in those outhouses that those goblins rolled down that hill.
Thri-kreen: Screeee. Click Click Clack Screeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Ranger: That's right Click Clack. The real treasure is the friends we made along the way.
glad i have my old copy AD&D 2E SJ rock of bral....has a ton of info to help flesh out some adventure hooks
exactly!
For sale on drivethru also
Our table officially voted on whether or not to run Spelljammer earlier today. Most of us had seen some reviews or looked over the first couple academy modules and the result was a universal yes. Apparently the DM has offered to do two session a week so that we can finish defiling what remains of the corpse of 'Tyranny of Dragons' 's plot. We rolled for stats earlier and the good luck of my last character was not repeated... I officially have a ranger with 4 Int lol!
okay.. so I GOTTA point this out... your group sounds like it will be kick ass, not in terms of power but in terms of just flat out fun! Why? Because if you have a ranger with 4 Intelligence, that means that you all are focusing on the FUN element of D&D and not the "optimize my character for total damage output" (not that that can't be fun), but having a wild array of stats just, in my opinion, makes it totally fun.
I made a character in d&d I called him Mr Manley he was a human wizard that dealt with problems using violence or violent means as well he had prejudice towards other races not exactly a total racist where he wouldn't travel with other races but as far as purchasing items he would only purchase items from humans and human Crafters his story is he got lost in the Astro plane so he forgot his own name and his age he forgot where he came from and among other stuff he has amnesia which is why he's called Mr Manley because he doesn't know his name
Thanks for the great review! One completely unimportant question: is the last word of the disclaimer map or mop?
it is mop. did I said map lol? I can't see up close without taking off my glasses.. I need bifocals but I refuse... perhaps I shouldn't refuse...
I'm kind of disappointed at the lack of backgrounds. I'm planning on making ten more to compensate.
let me know once you do, I'd love to see them!
Isn't it a mop? Do NOT clean up space sickness with your map. Use your towel only if you have nothing else. If you forgot your towel, try not to panic, it might lead to space sickness.
this is perhaps one the funniest blunders I've made on screen. Oh! and I'll have to include a towel in my next video for sure!
@@gamemasters You could use a map to lay down, much like papers for your hamster.
Great video. I really wish they put the same energy in to spelljamming that they put in to ravenloft. Seems super thin and hollow.
I'm almost in the same boat here. Ravenloft was a "knocked the ball out of the park" product for sure.
I love the idea of including a Beholder as a character rather than just a monster to fight. Large Luigi is pretty cool, but I could also see a whole Beholder crime family running underground operations like the Hutts from Star Wars! Maybe too expected for Spelljammer to, don't think I'd ever expect to meet a friendly Beholder.
bruh great minds think alike
exactly where my mind went, a friendly beholder = whhhaaaaaattt???
I'm very excited to run a few one shots with some spelljammer content
I'll certainly be making use of A LOT of classic Star Trek episodes for inspiration and those will perform VERY well as one shots!
Honestly, I’m really interested to see what changes if any the autognome got, I’m currently playing an autognome in a game using the UA version of them
I don't have my book in front of me, but I'll research it tonight and see
if you still haven't seen the changes, True Life was renamed to Healing Machine and had Mass Cure Wounds and Mass Healing Word added to the list of working healing spells, and for some reason Specialized Design specified that the two tool proficiencies must be from the player's handbook. sentry's rest was reworded to get rid of the double negative, and thats it. hope this helps or at least wasnt too annoying
@@anakaisnight4849 Ok, I am now really confused as to why specialized design says the tool has to be in the PHB, are there even any other books with tools?
I'm ready to get my hands on Boo's monster book
here is a look inside! ua-cam.com/video/UzkkOhOk4c0/v-deo.html
Thanks, I was able to update my 5E Spell Cost list early.
kinda stinks that they only give us two new spells tho
thanks for the review!
this setting is going to be beyond fun!
Subscribed recently and i am really enjoying your videos! Keep up the good work 🙌.
I would love to see a video about how the Thri-Kreen can use their little hands in combat. Is there any particular rule that states the action economy for them? Also are Thri-Kreens' chatkchas in this book?
there is a photo of one holding one, but the actual stats for it are not found in here (for players). I just did another video looking over some of the monsters ( ua-cam.com/video/UzkkOhOk4c0/v-deo.html ) and while I didn't feature the Thri-Kreen specifically, I will look at them in depth in a future video as well.
Great video! Appreciate the details! Also, just discovered you. You seem like a great DnD streamer! Subscribed!
haha! I appreciate the kind words! Thank you for stopping in!
Noticed the Star Frontiers races were added here. Were they always in Spelljammer? We never had the opportunity to actually play the original version. I have been looking forward this for a while.
Thank you for the awesome video.
that's something I still need to go back and look at. The original SJ monsters were spread out across a few different books, but then too they have two compendiums and my memory fails me. I'll research it and try to return to this in a future video doing a comparison.
Keep up the Great videos.
Thanks, will do!
Question. How much are pistols, muskets, and smokepowder in the new books? Smokepowder in WaterdeepHeist was 50 Gp for 5 shots and a wonderous magic item.
there are no price lists in this so things like pistols, muskets, etc would be whatever the price is in other books (I generally create my own pricing though, just depends on the situation)
@@gamemasters That sucks. I am an Adventure League DM. So I have to use book prices unless additional guidance happens.
I can't wait to see what the Astral Elf race is all about.
they grew up and adapted life in space, obviously that a basic basic version but their story is pretty neat. I've got a player wanting to roll one up, I just really want to absorb more of this material before I jump into running it.
I can't wait to find out about mindflayers in the current spelljammer world
mindflayers don't appear in this as a stat block, they are, however, briefly mentioned in the Nautiloid section for their spelljammer ship (VERY briefly mentioned).
@@gamemasters tears
I want to check out ship-vs-ship combat and now Large Luigi.
Ship to ship vid will release on Friday :) sadly what I said about large Luigi is all the info that the book provides :(
Where did you get that shirt!? It's incredible
Thanks! I got it from Amazon : amzn.to/3SPhNJW
This video led me to your channel :) and I'm staying lol Subscribed
Thank you! What was it specifically that you liked that got you to subscribe?
@@gamemasters The overall vibe of the video itself. Mellow, Clear and to the point. Informative without pre-edition bias. Dad jokes on the reel also sold me 🤘
@@CaptnCrowley lol awesome! Aye, it's a rare video that I take myself too seriously, I love to do new things to keep it fresh and new. Glad to have you here and look forward to chatting with you on future (and past) vids!
Are there rules for flying the ships and for ship to ship combat?
aye, there is! In this first look, I wanted to be sure to cover the basics but in a future video, I'll go over ship to ship combat. One thing to note, I don't recall seeing anything specific about ship to ship spells. (an example i'd love to see is if I cast fireball from my ship and it moves through my ship's air envelope and through space and into another ship's air envelope, does it fizzle in that in-between-no-air area? As a DM I'm almost wanting to rule that it fizzles)
@@gamemasters I somehow doubt it. In an interview recently someone from WOTC said they didn't want to make specific rules for ship to ship combat and wanted to focus on just shooting arrows or spells from ship to ship against the people on the other ship. They wanted to discourage attacking the ship itself and just run it as if it was a normal D&D battle.
So, I'd be very interested in the ship combat rules given that statement. But it is fairly clear they expect spells to work normally through space.
well I doubt spells will be a part of actual ship to ship combat due to range. MOST combats will be at hundreds of feet apart using seige weapons. spells such as fire ball have range of 150 feet and lightning bolt at 100 feet. now boarding actions yes 100%
@@sylvnfox the quote from the article is "It's kind of like two groups on two small islands, separated by shooting arrows at one another. A ship becomes a platform on which the encounter takes place, like a dungeon room a room in a castle. You can attack the ship, of course, and the ship can take damage, but for the most part, ship-to-ship engagements really have to do with the crews on board. And, despite the fact that your ship may have a catapult and ballistae and whatnot on board, it's still pretty hard to trump a Fireball spell or a Lightning Bolt spell. The characters have so many other options at their disposal for disposing of shipboard enemies. We stay very much in the theatre of the mind with this product for the sake of keeping encounters fluid and fast."
The implication is that they expect most combats to just be just putting two ships on a battle map very close to each other and to cast spells back and forth.
I think I prefer the regular cover and dm screen.
it's the one I'll use. I like the collector's edition, but it's too pretty for me to use! I'm rough with my books, contantly flipping through them and all..
And hello from France
Greetings and well met!
I want to know about the ship combat
that one releases on Friday of this week
:)
Do you think the box set is worth the money?
For me, there is no question. Spelljammer (original) was always among my favorite settings so yeah, I think it's worth it. That said, I think it could have been better. I have a new video that I'm working on that I'll put out just after the box set's release date where I go over all my concerns, but a couple that I will address: The map and lack of certain specific bits of information.
Are there more ship movement mechanics beyond the dndbeyond pre-adventures?
Aye, there is more information provided, I wanted this video to be a quick look over things, but in a future vid, I'll cover some mechanics of space to space
I didn't hear anything about Philogston. Yea!
I don't think they are mentioned anywhere... I'll be honest, I'm still moving through the books and have not yet read every word... but.. so far, I've not seen them.
Do they explain ship combat?
indeed! I'm releasing a video covering that topic this week (either Wed or Fri)
Bit miffed there are only 2 spells in spelljammer.
I don’t like how it’s marketed as a source book on D&Dbeyond but only provides 6 races and 2 niche spells outside of the campaign setting and 2 campaign setting specific backgrounds.
yeah.. I think they kinda missed an opportunity here and it makes me wonder if there will be a follow up book (which would be rare for 5th edition to do)
So did they do away with the Phlogiston? I always thought that was an unnecessary obstacle in the original and the few times we played Spelljammer we pretty much home ruled that out of existence.
in my readings of these 3 books, I've not seen any mention of them, however, I've not fully read the adventure itself BUT if the Phlogiston are mentioned in it, it's going to be a small small portion.
Hey thanks for the reply, I think that was a smart move on their part. I always thought that was the fly in the original Spelljammer ointment.
Wildspace Orrery now gives me a valid reason to say
"Look at this magic item. This is a device that allows me to track the almighty cosmos. Judging from the position of the sun and moon, I have determined that you are spouting mad shit"
Just use the magic item to spout mad shit at people speaking mad shit
I'm working on building a TARDIS for spelljammer.. just wait till you see the size of the orrery inside...
im gonna be a fucking hippo in DnD FINALLY
LOL
I’m little sad of the lack of spells
I know! Two spells??? meh.
@@gamemasters Two spells is the literal minimum they could use to add "New Spells and Magic Items" and it feels very disingenuous to use that as a selling point of the book. I wasn't expecting a whole handbook worth of spells but at least 1 per casting class to emphasize that classes place in the SPELLjammer universe.
I might have to homebrew some spells to flesh this out.
Cool
What’s the price for the box set?
I pre ordered mine from amazon for like $40ish?
looks like it's currently right at $42.00 : amzn.to/3QIh9Ml
I am also hesitating whetever buy the three books or not because they seme a bit too expensive when you see that books like the Superboy Xanathar guide's to everything sotto aproximately 30€ that this costa 20€ more.
I uno there is the adventure in it but it's still too expensive in my Head(10€more than the player's handbook)
Oh yeah I forgot to say I ma not yet DM but I am considerato to become a DM by starting an adventure with friends that never played D&D and don't really know what to start with.
Have you any advice for me?
Thanks
I totally understand holding off on this due to the price point. That said, however, you do get a DM screen (with great information in it specific to Spelljammer), a "monster manual", a multi part adventure, and the guide itself to new races, ships, etc. THAT said, if you want to get a taste of what spelljammer has to offer before you buy any of it, check out the Spelljammer Academy adventure on D&D Beyond, and also check out the Spelljammer Monster Compendium (also on D&D Beyond) both are free.
Aside from that, best advice I can give is just have fun and use your imagination!
Are there any rules or mechanics for the Astral Sea? Anything equivalent to the optional rules for planes in the DMG?
There are a couple of things mentioned in the Light of Xaruxis book, I'll be looking at that in a future video called: Spelljammer III : The Search for Minsc (I'm looking to drop that on Thursday)
If those are the only spells included ill be very disappointed. I was hoping for some interesting spells in a spelljamming theme.
sadly, those are the ONLY two spells added. I've got some other issues as well, but that's for another video. Overall, I'm pleased with these books but...
A bit sad of the fact there are no class variants or new classes
no kidding!
A player/GM should not have to go back to an out of print book from a decades old and out of print edition made by a previous company that does not exist anymore for needed content to utilize a new book. The Spelljammer book(s) for 5e is indicative of the problem with WotC’s 5e DnD. It lack all necessary content for a group of people to properly use without having to homebrew rules that should have been included in the first place. It is nothing more that a useless product made only to steal money from they consumers. It is an incomplete product like all WotC 5e books released in the last 5-8 years.
100% agree
This is a well presented, succinct summary of Spelljammer, and I appreciate the quality of this video.
Sadly, it shows the new Spelljammer to be the same nonsensical, shark jumping, stupidity that it was in the 90s.
I think that's part of what I liked about it in the 90's. It CAN be goofy or it CAN be a hardcore serious mission of space exploration, this new version seems to really provide the DM with plenty of tools to make the setting whatever they need it to be.
Create magic helm is such a lazy spell.
no kidding! Especially when the selling point is: "New spells!" I've got some other... eh... "complaints" but that's for a video all unto itself.