Dungeons & Dragons Announces Spelljammer: Adventures in Space Box Set

By Christian Hoffer

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Dungeons & Dragons is returning to its Spelljammer campaign setting at long last, with a full box set containing three full-length books due out this fall. Spelljammer: Adventures in Space will contain three 64-page books, plus a poster. The books the Astral Adventurer's Guide, which contains a whopping six new playable races, Boo's Astral Menagerie, which is a bestiary of monsters for the Spelljammer campaign setting, and the Light of Xaryxis adventure book. Light of Xaryxis is divided into 12 "episodes," each of which ends on a cliffhanger. 

The Spelljammer campaign setting is a space opera-esque setting, in which players travel through wildspace and the gas-like phlogiston in between worlds on magical ships powered by spelljamming helms. The campaign setting was filled with fantastical planets that pushed the boundaries of fantasy, even for D&D. While the campaign setting struggled to take root due to Dungeons & Dragons' publisher TSR flooding the market with a variety of new settings, the campaign has a dedicated following of fans. In recent years, D&D designers seeded several mentions of Spelljammer in various adventures and rulebooks, leading to the meme "Spelljammer Confirmed" appearing after nearly every D&D social media post. Dungeons & Dragons teased the return of Spelljammer on April 1st, and has made several Spelljammer jokes in recent weeks, all but confirming that the setting would return. 

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The new races in Astral Adventurer's Guide includes Astral Elves, Auto-gnomes, Hadozee (a race of flying ape-like creatures), the Giff, the Plasmoid (a slime creature), and the Thri-Kreen, an insectoid race with telepathic powers. All of these races were previewed in a public playtest late last year. 

Boo's Astral Menagerie (named after the famed miniature Giant Space Hamster seen in the Baldur's Gate games) will include a variety of new monsters, including space clowns, vampirates, killer comets, and astral and lunar dragons. 

You can check out the full reveal trailer for Spelljammer: Adventures in Space below.

WizKids also announced that they will be making miniatures for the Spelljammer setting, including "ship-scale" miniatures to simulate space battles. 

Spelljammer: Adventures in Space will be release on August 16th, 2022. A prequel adventure will be released in July on the Wizards of the Coast website. 

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