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    Greyspace
    Like many other D&D campaign settings, Greyhawk introduces the concept that their is something else out there.

    Back in the TSR days, this started to turn into a sort of mega-setting where a GM could take PCs from one campaign setting and send them to another.

    Spelljammer (and later Planescape) formalised this, by providing a method to connect Oerth to Krynn, Toril or anywhere else a GM wanted to use.

    I'm a big fan of this sort of stuff. Although I'm slightly more into using Spelljammer than Planescape, I think both settings work really well with the church of Celestian. Both provide the locations that his clerics would visit if they could.

    Spelljammer created a crystal sphere around Oerth called Greyspace. Greyspace is a crossover setting where Greyhawk and Spelljammer meet and mix.

    Sadly Living Greyhawk doesn't really provide the sort of support that I need for a crossover campaign involving Greyhawk, Spelljammer (or Planescape and other campaign settings for that matter).

    I've got a copy of the Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting and the Dragonlance Campaign Setting and would have bought the Greyhawk Campaign Setting if Wizards of the Coast were selling it. I'd also be buying a Spelljammer Campaign Setting and a Greyspace supplement if they were on sale. But these things I want just don't exist.

    I am disappointed that Wizards of the Coast have cancelled the licences for Dungeon and Dragon magazines and the Dragonlance and Ravenloft campaign settings, but I won't actually be boycotting WotC over their decision. However, while I might not be boycotting them, I'm unlikely to buy things from them - because they are not selling what I want to buy. I want Greyhawk and Spelljammer - I want Greyspace. I don't want Ebberon and I don't need 2 dozen Forgotten Realms books.

    Luckily for me there are fan communities based around Greyhawk and Spelljammer (and Planescape). I'm going to be lurking around here looking for stuff that I can use in a Greyspace game.

    Thanks for reading this, especially if you are one of the people who have taken the time to do fan conversions of out of print Greyhawk material or add new content to Cannonfire.

    Greyspace has a homepage on Beyond the Moons (the official Spelljammer website). Here is the URL for anyone interested in helping me find (or make) some more content to put up on it:
    http://www.spelljammer.org/worlds/Greyspace/

    Posted: 05-27-2007 07:11 am