Spelljammer Autognomes! Spelljammers constructs.

[CleverNickName]

I'm struggling to figure out how to incorporate any of this into my upcoming campaign.

...which is probably a sign that I shouldn't try to incorporate SJ stuff into my upcoming campaign.

 

[darjr]

Crashed Spaceship

I'm struggling to figure out how to incorporate any of this into my upcoming campaign.

...which is probably a sign that I shouldn't try to incorporate SJ stuff into my upcoming campaign.

 

[CleverNickName]

Crashed Spaceship

Yeah, I can see that. "Portal to another world" is also a way I could pull it off, too. The plasmoids could make an interesting monster in a standard D&D setting...perhaps they're at war with a colony of myconids for control of a cave system? I'm curious to see what people do with all of this new material, and the new/different direction it is taking the hobby. I'm digging the explosion of creativity in the hobby lately.

But I think I'll pass on Spelljammer. I've already got all the factions I need, and I've already got workable rules for ships and firearms. Spaceships and robots aren't really the vibe I'm looking for in my "Atlantis-meets-Renaissance Italy" campaign setting I'm working on.

 

[Veltharis ap Rylix]

But I think I'll pass on Spelljammer. I've already got all the factions I need, and I've already got workable rules for ships and firearms. Spaceships and robots aren't really the vibe I'm looking for in my "Atlantis-meets-Renaissance Italy" campaign setting I'm working on.

Honestly, if you take a step back from "robots" and think of them more as Da Vinci-style clockwork devices imbued with sentience, I think Autognomes would work just fine for that type of setting...

 

[Ancalagon]

I've been playing an autognome since level 1 (now at level 7) named ROBO the friendly space probe! (a reflavored warlock (fathomless)). I normally don't like using UA material in a game, but it was too perfect to pass up. I look forward to seeing how different it is from the UA material

 

[CleverNickName]

Honestly, if you take a step back from "robots" and think of them more as Da Vinci-style clockwork devices imbued with sentience, I think Autognomes would work just fine for that type of setting...

Yeah, I'm not saying I can't use the material in Spelljammer, I'm just saying I don't really feel like I need to. Time will tell, but nothing I've seen so far has struck me as "OMG I NEED THIS RIGHT NOW" material.

 

[Veltharis ap Rylix]

Yeah, I'm not saying I can't use the material in Spelljammer, I'm just saying I don't really feel like I need to. Time will tell, but nothing I've seen so far has struck me as "OMG I NEED THIS RIGHT NOW" material.

To be sure - it's your game and your setting.

I'm just a big Eberron fan who internalized the "if it's in D&D, it has a place in Eberron" mindset, so I tend to default toward looking for ways to make things fit.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

¡AUTOGNOMES, ROLL OUT! Oh, sorry, wrong franchise!

Have you noticed? For the 3rd Ed they published a lot of new PC races, and I loved it, but now they worry every time when they are going to launch a new one. We know there are literally hundreds of homebred PC races, and I don't say this to be wrong, but to sell their product they have to show something better or more iteresting than the homebred version, or by rival 3PPs.

Each new PC races is being designed not only about the right power balance of the racial traits, but a personal style without rejecting the flexibility to play different paths to avoid the typecasting. Each new PC should can be the main character of his own story.

The autognomes have be designed, and showed, they aren't only a shorter version of warforged....and to can sell D&D toys for children in a comingsoon future.

 

[Azzy]

I'm struggling to figure out how to incorporate any of this into my upcoming campaign.

...which is probably a sign that I shouldn't try to incorporate SJ stuff into my upcoming campaign.

This is how I felt about the original Spelljammer.

 

[Stormonu]

Ah, makes me think of Tik-Tok from Oz.

Now, if we could get a PC scarecrow, we'd have Dorothy and her gang for an adventure in the Feywild.