D&D: Spelljammer Confirmed – No Really It’s Coming in August
Grab your magical space helmets, because D&D is headed for the stars. It’s no April Fool’s joke, Spelljammer is, in fact, confirmed.
Those magnificent bastards at Wizards of the Coast pulled the ol’ double-reverso April Fool’s whammy. Which is they announced their next big book but they made it seem like it was maybe a joke.
But it isn’t. Spelljammer is in fact coming in August. Newly revealed at D&D Direct, Spelljammer isn’t just a single book. It’s a campaign setting. Three books, a DM screen, and a poster map all bundled into one thick slipcase holding the vast eternity of the multiverse.
Guess that Amazon page was true. Here’s what we know so far.
Spelljammer Confirmed – And It’s a Campaign Setting Boxed Set Almost
Last year, D&D’s lead Ray Winninger promised that two classic settings we hadn’t seen were coming back in 2022. And that they would be in ways we hadn’t seen before. Spelljammer is something new for 5th Edition – and like most new things for 5th Edition it’s almost but not quite a throwback to the glory days of D&D. Spelljammer is a complete three-book campaign setting.
Each of the three 64-page hardcover books in the set has something different. The first is a handbook specifically tailored for use in Spelljammer.
The Astral Adventurer’s Guide contains everything players and DMs need to run adventures in Wild Space. But it also has plenty of options for players, including 6 new playable race options, all of which we saw in the Travellers of the Multiverse Unearthed Arcana. In case you missed that one, though, they are:
- Hadozee
- Plasmoid
- Giff
- Thri-Kreen
- Astral Elf
- Autognome
The second book, Boo’s Astral Menagerie, is the bestiary of all the monsters you’d find in the setting. Including space clowns, vampirates, murder comets, giant space hamsters, solar dragons, lunar dragons, and more.
Finally, Light of Xaryxis is a 64-page adventure with 12 episodes spread throughout. It’s a cliffhanger-filled episodic campaign. All of this is due for release in August.
Now, is this the same amount of stuff we’d get to see in a single big book? It feels similar. Looking at Mythic Odysseys of Theros we have about the same rough breakdown. Fewer overall pages of monsters, slightly more campaign rules, and no big adventure. Will there be magic items? How much does it take, really, to get started?
I’m curious to see what exactly pans out in each of these three volumes and what this format brings that a single big book doesn’t. However, Spelljammer is pretty exciting, and it’s something players have been clamoring for for a while now.
But I Can’t Wait Until August!
Well then in July you’ll want to download the free prequel adventure and get your first taste of Wildspace.
Happy Adventuring!
