Why D&D Took 30 Years To Rerelease The Spelljammer Campaign Setting
Wizards of the Coast recently announced that the Spelljammer campaign setting is returning to Dungeons & Dragons after nearly thirty years away. Spelljammer has been highly requested by D&D fans for a long time, as the last official sourcebooks for the setting were released in 1993, yet it's only now returning in 2022. Screen Rant recently found out why Spelljammer is returning after all of this time.
Spelljammer debuted during the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons era of the game. It's a setting that merged sci-fi elements with D&D, as players technically owned spaceships. The spaceships in this setting are called spelljammers and they're regular sailing ships that have been enchanted to allow them to sail through the vacuum in space, and provide a hospitable atmosphere for the crew. A crew of a spelljammer could travel between the different D&D campaign worlds, or explore the dark reaches of space that are normally unreachable by magic. This means that there can be D&D campaigns where the party are intergalactic explorers, treasure hunters, or bloodthirsty pirates.
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The return of Spelljammer was announced during the first D&D Direct online showcase. Spelljammer is returning in a new campaign set, called Spelljammer: Adventures in Space, which comes with three books for the setting. The set also comes with a double-sided poster map and a DM screen. There's also a version of the set with alternate artwork. Following the D&D Direct, Screen Rant asked what the catalyst was for bringing Spelljammer back after all of this time.
Wizards of the Coast has gradually been re-introducing classic campaign settings to the D&D 5e ruleset, and it was announced that
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