Spelljammer, Spider Moon and 5e adventure?

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#1

solomani

Aug 13, 2014 16:52:47

Hi all,

 

I am currently running my players through Lost Mines of Phandelver and I have decided to take them somewhere totally unexpected at the end of the mini-campaign - Wildspace.  I have never played a Spelljammer campaign and I have not read all the Spelljammer stuff yet (WIP) though I am very familiar with Planescape (and thats my backup plan).

 

In my opnion 5e makes it very easy to convert old material.  In fact, you can play old modules on the fly replacing monsters as you go or just playing them as is with a bit of "creative interpatation" of 1e/2e mechanics.

 

Now, my issue is I am not sure how to do this - geting my guys into space and linking it with the current adventure.  I have read the intro module with the Beholder death star and this looks like a good option.  But I prefer to setup a long term enemy and since there is a Drow bad guy in the Lost Mines I was looking at using the Spider Moon setting as at least the seed of an idea (maybe have his ship somewhere nearby for the players to discover and take into space).  So my questions:

 

  1. Are there any existing modules/campaign products for Spelljammer I could use as a format for a spelljammer campaign?
  2. Has anyone run a Spelljammer "Spider Moon" campaign and if so how did you go and what was the overall storyline?  I am thinking of basically running Demonweb pits but in space at this stage.
  3. Any ideas how to get my players from Faerun into Fantasyspace without using the Wildspace adventure (or modifying it extensively which is difficult if I want to replace Beholder with Drow).

Thanks in advance.

#2

Bathnor

Aug 15, 2014 14:20:11

Check out the Lost ships book for Spelljammer. It has many adventure ideas for getting a groundling party into Wildspace. i have never run the Spider Moon adventure, but have run many spelljammer games. If you don't want to the the Lost Ships, there is an Undermountain module that has a spelljamming ship in it. it would be another way to get them into Wildspace. Hope this helps!!!

#3

solomani

Aug 16, 2014 2:16:01

Thanks Bathnor!

#4

solomani

Aug 17, 2014 1:58:03

Bathnor wrote:
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Bathnor

solomani wrote:
#6

bigmac

Dec 21, 2014 11:18:53

solomani wrote:
#7

solomani

Mar 23, 2015 3:04:40

Excellent and thanks Bigmac.