Neverwinter's Spelljammer Module Takes Adventurers To The Stars On November 7th | MMORPG.com

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Neverwinter's Spelljammer Module Takes Adventurers To The Stars On November 7th | MMORPG.com

Neverwinter's next module, Spelljammer, is releasing on November 7th across all platforms. The next major update for the long-running Dungeons & Dragons-themed MMO sees the city of Neverwinter assailed by the Xaryxian Empire.

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Slapshot1188

I always thought Spelljammer was kind of trying to fit a square into a circle as far as D&D

Neoyoshi

I see the layoffs are going well.

Gorwe

Paladin and Sentinel updates? I am curious to hear more about that.

Scot

Slapshot1188 said:

I always thought Spelljammer was kind of trying to fit a square into a circle as far as D&D

There is nothing wrong with taking the DnD system to new genres of fantasy, science fiction and indeed any fiction. But when DnD does this it takes all the baggage of a game made for medieval fantasy and tries to make the genre fit the shoe. That is always going to be a poor fit.

Slapshot1188

Scot said:

Slapshot1188 said:

I always thought Spelljammer was kind of trying to fit a square into a circle as far as D&D

There is nothing wrong with taking the DnD system to new genres of fantasy, science fiction and indeed any fiction. But when DnD does this it takes all the baggage of a game made for medieval fantasy and tries to make the genre fit the shoe. That is always going to be a poor fit.

Well it was more than applying it to new genres. It was literally a system to take your medieval fantasy character into space.  On flying open top ships…


Jump the shark

Nebless

Everyone always gets excited whenever Spelljammer would get mentioned.  

I guess I'm the only one that never played it so really have no oomph to check it out.

lotrlore

Neoyoshi said:

I see the layoffs are going well.

Never confirmed, fyi - just speculated. We've been asking.

Scot

Slapshot1188 said:

Scot said:

Slapshot1188 said:

I always thought Spelljammer was kind of trying to fit a square into a circle as far as D&D

There is nothing wrong with taking the DnD system to new genres of fantasy, science fiction and indeed any fiction. But when DnD does this it takes all the baggage of a game made for medieval fantasy and tries to make the genre fit the shoe. That is always going to be a poor fit.

Well it was more than applying it to new genres. It was literally a system to take your medieval fantasy character into space.  On flying open top ships…

One of the issues these DnD expansions have always had is they insist on being designed both in lore and rules so your existing characters can play in them. Sometimes they need a degree of conversion but you can nearly always just drop them into a new world. That's plain daft and belittles the new world.