What awesome (and gameable) things can happen when a fantasy land starts an space career?

What awesome (and gameable) things can happen when a fantasy land starts an space career?

Spelljammer?

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Good place to start, but don't be constrained by it. Spelljammer on it's own is fairly sparse.

There's Starjammer and Alternity now, so look up those things.

Oh wait, those are sparse too.

Face it, unless you do it yourself, you're out of luck, because Veeky Forums is no longer the home of creative and interesting people. nu/tg/ forbids fun, interesting, and wild topics in favor of /pol/, memes, and mechanical discussion that is boring as all hell.

Well, there was Space Princess Quest, but that was a quest, and those are evil, right?

Well once a fantasy land begins a space career that sort of opens them up to the greater space market and civilization.

They may come under notice of galactic empires, or freetraders looking to sell or purchase exotic goods from other worlds.

It helps to define what your space is going to be like. Is it like conventional space or is it a strange cosmological model, like the crystal shells of Spelljammer?

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>when a fantasy land starts an space career
wut

Are you familiar with the video game Final Fantasy 7, of which the person in OP's image is a playable character

Regardless of Cid, how does "when a fantasy land starts an space career" make any sense as a sentence?

Are you familiar with the English language

Well, I'm not an autist, but it seems as though OP is using the term "a fantasy land" to include the people and cultures that reside within said fantasy land, and "space career" to mean that said cultures of said fantasy land are beginning to reach a period of technological development sufficient to begin said exploration of the area immediately beyond the atmosphere.

Are we going into "I strapped some fireworks to a chair and took off to the stars"? Or are we building up to fantasy Wright Brothers then 80 years later to the moon in a rocket?

Man inagine how fucked an Elf would feel in our reality.

>humans are Romans, ok that's cool
>couple hundred years, humans are making colonies all over the place, guns coming around, mild concern
>WWI happens, jesus christ how horrifying
>WWII happens, WHAT THE FUCK HUMANS
>what feels like only a few days later to an elf Humans start going into fucking space
>next thing they know Humans are all half cybernetic constructs leaving this planet behind to explore the stars
I think people who make their arbitrarily old as fuck elves don't really have a proper appreciation for how fast tech has been advancing in the world.

Space gnolls. Eating your internets. Mocking your cyber-haircuts.

Yes because elves would never advance this is a spicy meme :^)

If you have multiple races it makes sense, to me at least, that they all contribute towards technological advances.

The Elves, who have had plenty of time to observe nature and animals make a point of emulating them in many ways. Their soldiers were feared for innovating the use of hang gliders to insert rangers behind enemy lines to assasinate enemy commanders.

The Dwarves innovated the refinement of various metals and created the first steam engines.

Humans created hot air ballons and orcs made use of them in their unification wars

>YFW elven 'magic' is literally 21st century technology in fantasy land

Honestly, I kinda do this but don't wanna get to into it. Just remember Lolth had a giant robot spider in Demonweb Pits and extrapolate from there.

Thats why I specifically said AN (one, uno, 1) elf specifically in this reality you stupid bitch.

And the point still stands that people make fantasy settings where tech hasn't advanced an inch in a thousand years despite there being wizards and shit studying and inventing all the time.

>Drow being the Solaris and the Gazel Ministry except underground
>Regular Elves being Shevat

This idea entices my boner to a considerable degree....

In the setting I'm talking about most elves come from/live on the moon. Drow are like the renegade crash survivors but they retain some technology. If a Drow Cleric summons a weapon from Lolth, it's like to be a laser gun or a machine pistol or something.

So yeah I guess it really is kind of similar to Xenosaga. Moon elves have technology of a particular bent (think raygun gothic and pulp sci-fi and nebulous crystal science) and there are some primitive tribal elves on the moon, but similar set-up.

Starships and spacemen is a cheap rules set that can be tacked on to Basic D&D, AD&D, or labyrinth lord, if you're looking for an osr rules set.

bump for interest.

Well, I was thinking more in short term. Somewhere between getting out of the atmosphere and getting into the deep space.

Maybe like how would people, dwarves, elves etc react to other factions getting satellites out there? or getting to the moon?
What about finding valuables, other life?

Maybe finding that "earth" and "mars" were twin planets long ago, and there civilization has branched differently?

Maybe finding the primordial creators? The Gods? Eldritch horrors? finding out that the earth is actually flat?

I mean, what are cool twists to "ok, humans have gone into space, now what?"

>I think people who make their arbitrarily old as fuck elves don't really have a proper appreciation for how fast tech has been advancing in the world.
My socks are older than your entire civilization? Why should I care? You won't be around in a couple millennia anyway.

I would think it should galvanize them into catching up or coming up with their own variant on the technology. I refuse to believe that they wouldn't find value in technology in some form or fashion.

As far as the second part goes who knows. Maybe the gods arn't actually captial G gods but certainly outsiders waiting for the beings of the planet to get to that point before allowing something to happen.

Maybe it sparks a surge of industry . Dwarves refine new materials from now readily accessible Star Metal. Elves attempt to seed life on a nearby barren planet. Skies literally the limit.

You can get very creative, like a brass globe filled with morning dew, or a really tall magical ladder. The weird and absurd methods can get you into the outer atmosphere/space, but surviving there is a whole other problem.

GTFO

This isn't Porn for nerds.

The shockingly faithful Porn parody of Adventure Time, the D&D Lesbian video, the cheesy Alien Lesbian Space Bar scene, and Slutty Velma is Porn for nerds.

Senpai how can you say that and not sauce.

Agreed there is a need for sauce over here.