As well as confirming that Baldur's Gate 3 has a 2023 release date, this year's D&D Direct rolled together several other big Dungeons & Dragons announcements. The most interesting was the return of Spelljammer, a niche but beloved campaign setting from the days of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd edition that combined the aesthetics of the Age of Sail with interplanetary travel, and introduced such gonzo concepts as the miniature giant space hamster.
The Spelljammer: Adventures in Space set will contain three hardcover books, a DM's screen, and a map of the Rock of Bral, an asteroid with a city built on it that will serve as the setting's hub (kind of like Sigil was to Planescape). The three books are: the Astral Adventurer's Guide, a rulebook covering everything from flying ships and to new races including mechanical gnomes, humanoid insects, plasmoids (some kind of ooze, apparently), and the kickass gunwielding hippo-folk known as giff; a monster manual called Boo's Astral Menagerie with stats for assorted cosmic horrors, murder comets, and space clowns; and Light of Xaryxis, an adventure for characters of levels 5–8 that will take them across the Astral Sea.
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space will be out on August 16, and has a preorder page. A free downloadable prequel called Spelljammer Academy will be out in July. It sounds like this new version is embracing enough of the pulp silliness of Spelljammer to be a good time, while dialing back the scope—letting it be about D&D in space rather than trying to use it as a bridge between existing settings.
The somewhat more down-to-earth Dragonlance setting is also marked for a comeback, with an adventure called Shadow of the Dragon Queen, set at the start of the War of the
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