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)

 

[GMforPowergamers]

The Candyland/D&D crossover so many of us have been waiting for 20 years for

I know Hasbro would never allow it, but a Feywild campaign based on a darker version of Candyland might actually work....

I fear the Molasses swamp

 

[Parmandur]

I know Hasbro would never allow it, but a Feywild campaign based on a darker version of Candyland might actually work....

I honestly think they would allow it.

 

[Parmandur]

Absolutely nothing at all… that’s the problem.

• 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)

Yeah this is really unique stuff here…

I mean, have to cover the basics. I just fail to see where you don't see the qppeal of space fantasy being different from sea fantasy, even if there is overlap.

 

[TheSword]

I mean, have to cover the basics. I just fail to see where you don't see the qppeal of space fantasy being different from sea fantasy, even if there is overlap.

I guess I’ll wait to see the difference. The trailer doesn’t really appear to show any difference. This game screen doesn’t seem to show any difference. Perhaps at some point the actual difference might appear. I’ll wait with baited breath.

 

[Parmandur]

I guess I’ll wait to see the difference. The trailer doesn’t really appear to show any difference. This game screen doesn’t seem to show any difference. Perhaps at some point the actual difference might appear. I’ll wait with baited breath.

You run into a lot of Githyanki and Beholder ships in Ghosts of Saltmarsh, or Astral Dreadnoughts...? As shown in that DM screen, let alone the absurdity on display in the trailer?

I honestly am having trouble understanding how you can't see the distinction? Do you think Sigil and Waterdeep are just the same thing...?

 

[TheSword]

You run into a lot of Githyanki and Beholder ships in Ghosts of Saltmarsh, or Astral Dreadnoughts...? As shown in that DM screen, let alone the absurdity on display in the trailer?

I honestly am having trouble understanding how you can't see the distinction? Do you think Sigil and Waterdeep are just the same thing...?

Well I did, say except for the random encounter table.

A Githyanki ship was in Baldurs Gate 2 I believe. Sword coast all the way. In fact Githyanki have been on the Sword Coast in many products.

A beholder ship… well it couldn’t be any weirder than the actual beholder itself.

Astral Dreadnought, basically a big kraken of the remake Clash of the Titans variety. Makes as much sense in the sea as in space.

Sigil? Now that is something original and new, with some original ideas in its make up. Hopefully Spelljammer with come up with something as original as Sigil.

 

[Parmandur]

Well I did, say except for the random encounter table.

A Githyanki ship was in Baldurs Gate 2 I believe. Sword coast all the way. In fact Githyanki have been on the Sword Coast in many products.

A beholder ship… well it couldn’t be any weirder than the actual beholder itself.

Astral Dreadnought, basically a big kraken of the remake Clash of the Titans variety. Makes as much sense in the sea as in space.

Sigil? Now that is something original and new, with some original ideas in its make up. Hopefully Spelljammer with come up with something as original as Sigil.

I mean, it's just a big port city with some corful characters. May as well just run Dragon Heist in Waterdeep, what's the appeal of Sigil that makes it any different from that?

 

[Veltharis ap Rylix]

Holds up one picture of the Black Pearl and one picture of the Millennium Falcon

"They're the same picture."

 

[overgeeked]

Sigil? Now that is something original and new, with some original ideas in its make up. Hopefully Spelljammer with come up with something as original as Sigil.

Nah. Sigil’s a boring rip-off of Doctor Who where the doors lead to random places and the police box doesn’t move. They’re exactly the same. Why anyone would play Planescape instead of Doctor Who makes no sense.

 

[Quickleaf]

Pretty sure it says "Shrike ship... captained by Yaj (githyanki xenomancer*) and crewed by 11 githyanki buccaneers*."

Which corresponds to mention in the new Monstrous Compendium under "starlancer" about githyanki xenomancers.

Where's the "area of your spelljammer that has been damaged" table? I remember that played a big part in the few Spelljammer games I got to play in, and was lots of fun.