Spelljammer Spelljammer Ship Rules Can Be Seen On The DM Screen Previews Images

According to Reddit user MegamanJB, some of the Spelljammer ship rules can be made out on the DM Screen preview image. They transcribe what they could make out, which includes Ship Encounters, Ship-Ship Starting Distance, Crashing, Shipboard Tasks, Ship Quirks, and Ship Cargo.

Ship Encounters
d100 - Ship Encounter - Attitude Roll

• Bombard Leviathan? captained by... (giff warlord) and ... giff shipmates and 3...
• ... captained ... explorer
• Scorpion ship Claws of... captained by H... (hobgoblin captain) and crewed by 1 bugbear (first mate) 8 hobgoblins and 2 hobgoblin priests
• Shrike ship... captained by Yaj (githyanki...) and crewed by 11 githyanki buccaneers.
• Space Galleon ... captained by K... (beholder) and crewed by 1 spectator (first mate), 3 cult fanatics and 16 cultists
• Space Galleon ... captained M... and crewed by 1 invisible stalker (first mate)... aarakocra and 7...)

Ship-to-Ship Starting Distance​

At the start of an engagement...

Distance - Notes

• 250 ft: Long range for... light ... and heavy crossbows.
• 500 ft: Long range for... and for... crossbows
• 1000 ft: Beyond the range of most ranged weapons

Crashing​

When a malfunctioning ship crashes into a creature or an object that would presumably damage it....

Size of Creature or Object - Bludgeoning Damage

• Large: 4d10
• Huge: 8d10
• Gargantuan:

Shipboard Tasks​

During the uneventful part of a voyage...

d12 - Task

• 1 - Scrape ... off the hull
• 2 - Scrub ... and dishes in the galley
• 3 - Chop vegetables in the galley
• 4 - Swab the deck...
• 5 - Update the ship's navigational charts which require cartographer's tools.
• 6 - ... the captain's ...which requires ... tools.

Ship Quirks​

Roll on the Ship Quirks table if you want to add a bit of "personality" to a ship.

d10 - Quirk

• 1 - A chatty ... haunts the cargo hold.
• 2 - The ... of the hull echoes throughout the ship.
• 3 - Any creature that ... itself from the ship's ...

Ship Cargo​

To randomly determine what's on the cargo... of a spelljamming ship... If a cargo container is... a character can try to unlock a container using thievery tools doing so with a successful DC 20 dexterity check.

Cheap Cargo​

d12 - Cargo

Expensive Cargo​

d12 - Cargo

• 1 - Crate containing fifty blank ... books (50 gp each)
• 2 - Crate containing one hundred ... bottles of ink (10 gp each) and one thousands ... (1 gp each)
• 3 - Crate containing hearty portions of ... flasks of... (50 gp each)
• ...
• 12 - kegs of gunpoweder ... (see "Explosives" in the Dungeon Master's Guide)

 

[Maxperson]

I guess I’m still waiting to find out what those USPs are. So far it’s galactic empires, weirdness and outer space (which may not be in the new edition anyway) with a slight increase in sci-fi elements.

We’ll see what happens when they release the setting.

To be very clear, the purpose of the thread was to try and work out what made Spelljammer different… and whether those things would appeal to me?

Dragons that fly through space that are a few million feet long. Can't do that on a planet and have nothing to do with piracy. Living constellations that are millions of square miles in size. Giant rock creatures that eat stone and then poop out smaller stone meteors that shoot through space at high speeds. There are more unique creatures out there as well.

 

[TheSword]

Dragons that fly through space that are a few million feet long. Can't do that on a planet and have nothing to do with piracy. Living constellations that are millions of square miles in size. Giant rock creatures that eat stone and then poop out smaller stone meteors that shoot through space at high speeds. There are more unique creatures out there as well.

Yep, that definitely falls into the weird and silly category. I totally agree that Spelljammer has that in spades. I don’t think there’s a setting out there that can compete with the silliness and weirdness that seems to be a USP of Spelljammer.

 

[the Jester]

yes ice cream golems and chocolates cake elementals

There's a gingerbread golem in the god-awful Castle Greyhawk joke product. And the mithral breadknife of Greyhawk.

 

[Maxperson]

Yep, that definitely falls into the weird and silly category. I totally agree that Spelljammer has that in spades. I don’t think there’s a setting out there that can compete with the silliness and weirdness that seems to be a USP of Spelljammer.

Maybe not a setting, but Castle Greyhawk had more in a smaller amount of content.

 

[Parmandur]

Yep, that definitely falls into the weird and silly category. I totally agree that Spelljammer has that in spades. I don’t think there’s a setting out there that can compete with the silliness and weirdness that seems to be a USP of Spelljammer.

So, you do get the appeal. It's D&D pushed to the logical extreme.

 

[bedir than]

So, you do get the appeal. It's D&D pushed to the illogical extreme.

I fixed that

 

[darjr]

but... but... what about Large Luigi?

 

[Parmandur]

but... but... what about Large Luigi?

I bet he's in the Adventure.

 

[darjr]

I bet he's in the Adventure.

Oh he better be or I RIOT! Gunna break the Rock I am.