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Imagine a universe where square worlds spin around gemstone suns. Where planets lie cradled in the roots of an oak tree so vast its leaves twirl around brightly burning suns. Where ships of wood sail the void between worlds, and battle each other with catapult and ballista, spell and sword. Where an asteroid may be a safe harbor, a slaver's den, or a hungry creature eager to devour any that pass by. Where daring swashbucklers and scoundrels race for fantastic treasures and literally touch the stars. Where terrifying beasts with the power to destroy whole worlds roam.

Spelljammer was originally conceived as another setting for Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, but instead of making yet another stand-alone setting, Spelljammer was designed to link together all of the settings of the time into a single universe. Or perhaps multiple unified universes, because each setting has its own Ptolemaic universe, called a Sphere. All of the various Spheres float within a space called The Flow, filled entirely with a substance known as Philostigon. Philostigon is gaseous, highly flammable, rainbow-colored, cannot exist within a Sphere, and non-soluble in water. This means you can play as a character from just about any established D&D setting- though Ravenloft is set in the demiplane of dread (and is thus off-limits), and Athas (the setting of Dark Sun) has been blockaded by Gith pirates for centuries.

This is a 3.5e D&D campaign, starting at fifth level. Given the eclectic, cosmic clusterfuck that is Spelljammer, I'm allowing pretty much any WOTC-published source if you run it by me first. Just remember that something led you to accept a contract to work for an eccentric dwarven mercenary company that hops around the cosmos.
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Dispensing interest into this.
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...Oh right, need to figure out what I'm doing for this but yeah. ^^;
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Oh, speaking of, what sort of stats are we running with? Rolling? Point buy? Standard Array?
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28 point buy.
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28 point buy.


Alright.
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I'm interested. I'd like to play as a Warforged Factotum, who calls itself as "The Adventurer's Companion".
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In the hope that there'll be more interest with a bump, can I register my interest?
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Definitely interested!

I'd love to play a dragonlance minotaur who gets to sail beyond the three moons.
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Hey @clanjos, how many folks were you looking for to get this idea running? Please, please save me from another day of reading D&D 3.5 material!
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I was thinking around 5 or 6. This looks good enough to start off with.

What's everyone looking to do, character-wise?
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What's everyone looking to do, character-wise?


There's so many options! So many. Anyway, ideally I'd like to play something that's not crazy-optimised, as most my regular gaming group is all about trying the most overpowered and ridiculous stuff possible, quite possibly in order to test the effects of stress upon lifespan with our DM.

In terms of "weirdest option I'd like to do", the ECL of a White dragon wyrmling in Draconomicon is five. I'd throw in some backstory regarding how it came to pass that it ended up working in a mercenary company; the egg was taken as part of the payment for some prior job? Smuggled aboard the ship and pressed into service? The closest thing they've got to a ship's parrot? Obviously, this is kind of a way-out-there sort of suggestion, so if it's not the sort of thing you'd like in the game at all, I'll gladly come up with a more down to earth suggestion!
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I was thinking around 5 or 6. This looks good enough to start off with.

What's everyone looking to do, character-wise?


I'm gonna play it safe with the 3.5 splatting and just play a goblin rogue.
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In terms of "weirdest option I'd like to do", the ECL of a White dragon wyrmling in Draconomicon is five.


Works for me. Press-ganging works, or maybe his parents put him in the mercenary company for babysitting.

I'm gonna play it safe with the 3.5 splatting and just play a goblin rogue.


Alright, but it's worth noting goblins are going to be mistrusted. There's the whole "Inhuman Wars" thing.
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Alright, but it's worth noting goblins are going to be mistrusted. There's the whole "Inhuman Wars" thing.


Alright
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So I know 3.5 mechanics because of some forays into the system @ my college but I'm waaaay more familiar with Pathfinder. Would you allow someone to use Golarion for their backstory since this is Spelljammer and it's downright vast in its variety? Because I have an idea for an archaeologist half-elven arcane caster who sees a chance to find out things he never thought possible travelling the multiverse w/ the mercenaries, but the only archaeological group I can think of in a D&D-esque campaign setting is the Pathfinder Society.

Alternatively, can someone give me a campaign setting with a well-known archaeological guild that would be able to provide arcane casters with training?
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Every setting has a few academic societies, actually. Forgotten Realms has the Harpers. Eberron has Morgrave University, The Library of Korranberg, and the Dragonmarked Houses. Dragonlance I'm not too familiar with, but it does have at least two or three orders of wizards. Mystara has any number of universities willing to fund expeditions on the most tenuous chance they'll find something cool.
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Works for me. Press-ganging works, or maybe his parents put him in the mercenary company for babysitting.


That's a particularly brutal sort of babysitting. I shouldn't like it, but I do.
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I was thinking around 5 or 6. This looks good enough to start off with.

What's everyone looking to do, character-wise?


A 'Sea-wolf' Ranger/Barbarian.
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