History YMMV / Spelljammer

* OverShadowedByControversy: Hadozee in the 5th edition bookset was struck with enormous criticism since they were an ape-like species who were only intelligent due to being [[WhiteMansBurden uplifted by an Elven wizard]], and were then used as a SlaveRace before the wizard's apprenticed freed them and assisted them in rebelling. Wizards of the Coast quickly removed that part of the lore and apologized for the error.

* OverShadowedByControversy: The 5th edition bookset was struck with enormous criticism when the Hadozee race was teased on [=DNDBeyond=], as fans were understandably uncomfortable with an ape-like race who are only intelligent due to being [[WhiteMansBurden uplifted by an Elven wizard]], and were then used as a SlaveRace. Wizards of the Coast quickly scrambled to rewrite the lore and apologize for the screwup.

* OverShadowedByControversy: The 5th edition bookset was struck with enormous criticism when the Hadozee race was teased on [=DNDBeyond=], as fans were understandably uncomfortable with an ape-like race who are only intelligent due to being [[WhiteMansBurden uplifted by an Elven wizard]], and were then used as a SlaveRace. Wizards of the Coast quickly scrambled to rewrite the lore and apologize for the screwup, but the setting was still tarnished, and many fans refused to buy it on principle.

* OverShadowedByControversy: The 5th edition bookset was struck with enormous criticism when the Hadozee race was teased on [=DNDBeyond=], as fans were understandably uncomfortable with an ape-like race who are only intelligent due to being [[WhiteSavior uplifted by an Elven wizard]], and were then used as a SlaveRace. Wizards of the Coast quickly scrambled to rewrite the lore and apologize for the screwup, but the setting was still tarnished, and many fans refused to buy it on principle.

-->'''Jeff Grubb''': In the game we used it to describe the act of moving through space magically. And it was the class of ship that moved through space. And it was the proper name of the legendary Spelljammer, a supposed Flying Dutchman/White Whale. It was a noun, a proper noun, and a verb. If I could have made it an adverb[[labelnote:*]]Spelljammed? Spelljammingly[[/labelnote]] I would have done that as well.

** ''The Astromundi Cluster'': [[MindRape Lugribossk]] is the proxy of the Illithid deity Ilsensine and the god of the mind flayers of Clusterspace. In ancient days, Lugribossk appeared before a society of mutant humans and answered their prayers of vengeance by using his divine power to destroy the entire world of Astromundi in a great cataclysm that claimed the lives of most of the world's inhabitants and shattered the planet. Turning these mutants into the first mind flayes, Lugribossk teaches them a culture of brutal oppression where slaves are treated as objects and any Illithid dissenters are put to death as heretics. Seeking to ensure mind flayer dominance in the cluster, he masterminds an act of ultimate evil, the [[ApocalypseHow Sundeath Apocalypse]]. Gifting his people an AncientArtifact called the Sunslayer, he orders them to put out the twin suns and plunge the entire system into an [[TheNightThatNeverEnds eternal night]] that would kill billions. The remaining survivors would then be hunted down to used as slaves, food, and [[BreedingSlave breeding fodder]] for the mind flayer war machine as they intend to spread Lugribossk's dark empire [[GalacticConqueror throughout the cosmos]].

** ''The Astromundi Cluster'': [[MindRape Lugribossk]] is the proxy of the Illithid deity Ilsensine and the god of the mind flayers of Clusterspace. In ancient days, Lugribossk appeared before a society of mutant humans and answered their prayers of vengeance by using his divine power to destroy the entire world of Astromundi in a great cataclysm that claimed the lives of most of the world's inhabitants and shattered the planet. Turning these mutants into the first mind flayes, Lugribossk teaches them a culture of brutal oppression where slaves are treated as objects and any Illithid dissenters are put to death as heretics. Seeking to ensure mind flayer dominance in the cluster, he masterminds an act of ultimate evil, the [[ApocalypseHow Sundeath Apocalypse]]. Gifting his people an ancient artifact called the Sunslayer, he orders them to put out the twin suns and plunge the entire system into an [[TheNightThatNeverEnds eternal night]] that would kill billions. The remaining survivors would then be hunted down to used as slaves, food, and [[BreedingSlave breeding fodder]] for the mind flayer war machine as they intend to spread Lugribossk's dark empire [[GalacticConqueror throughout the cosmos]].

* IAmNotShazam: Sort of--''the Spelljammer'' is a legendary LivingShip, ''spelljamming'' helms are the [[AppliedPhlebotinum phlebotinum]] that powers space travel, and ''spelljammers'' can refer to ships (usually just "'jamming vessels") or sailors (as opposed to [[TalkLikeAPirate landlubbers]], er, ''groundlings''). Or only helmsmen.

** ''The Legend of Spelljammer'': [[OurLichesAreDifferent The Fool]] is a powerful lich that dwells in the bowels of the titular Spelljammer and is the greatest threat to those that live upon it. As a mortal captain named Romar, the Fool used the Spelljammer to go on a revenge-fueled rampage, and called on demonic pacts to turn him undead when the ship turned against him. Seeking to slaughter everyone onboard and convert them into his thralls, The Fool manipulates a group of [[FantasticRacism human supremacists]] to bomb the elven academy and frame the goblinoid; gifts the treacherous neogi a [[SyntheticPlague specialized plague]] to wipe out the beholders; and sends assassins to murder the various factional leaders to ignite a massive CivilWar. When a new captain was chosen, the Fool intended to lead a genocide of the whole ship as they were weak and starving, and use the Spelljammer's might to [[OmnicidalManiac launch an extermination of all life]].

** ''Crystal Spheres'': [[OurVampiresAreDifferent T'laan]] is an ancient vampire that felt so much hatred and rage during his final moments that Death itself made a pact to turn him into an undead monstrosity to spread terror across the cosmos. Unique among vampires, T'laan kept his sanity by indulging his fascination with mortal life. He would [[PlayingWithSyringes experiment]] on and [[TheyWouldCutYouUp vivisect]] his victims while [[AndIMustScream they were still alive]], and would abduct women to rape them only to murder them when his undead state kept him from feeling lust. In his early days in undeath, T'laan came upon a backwater planet and turned countless people into his vampiric slaves and set them on a [[OmnicidalManiac genocide of all life on the world]]. His actions were so depraved that all native life was extinguished and the native star blackened out, forever turning the crystal sphere into an undead haven called Darkspace. T'laan [[OffingTheOffspring devoured all his children]] and moved on to a new solar system called Greatspace where he learned from his mistakes. He [[ManipulativeBastard charmed his way]] into the ruling family, murdered the beloved king, and blamed his death on the king's son and sent assassins after him to ensure his death as well. T'laan created a powerful artifact that blackened out Greatspace's sun to end all life there as well, but ensured his survival by kidnapping countless innocents to use as cattle back in his lair in Darkspace.
** ''The Legend of Spelljammer'': [[OurLichesAreDifferent The Fool]] is a powerful lich that dwells in the bowels of the eponymous Spelljammer and is by far the greatest threat to those that live upon the ship. The Fool [[WasOnceAMan was once a human captain]] named Romar who used the nearly godlike power of the Spelljammer to rampage across the sphere and take revenge on anyone who he ever deemed to have crossed him. When the ship itself tried to cast him down from captaincy, this evil captain called on pacts with demonic powers to turn him into an undead abomination. The Fool kills anyone who explores the warrens inside the ship and [[{{Necromancer}} raises them]] into his army. Seeking to destroy all life on the Spelljammer, the Fool secretly [[ManipulativeBastard manipulates]] a group of [[FantasticRacism human supremacists]] into spreading chaos and mayhem upon the nonhuman population. In particular, he used them to murder dozens by bombing the elven academy and placing blame on the goblinoids, igniting fierce war between both factions. He allied with the vicious Neogi and gave them a magical plague they used to wipe out the Beholders, and hired an assassin to murder the heads of many of the factions and spread turmoil. When the next captain arrived and the gardens on the ship closed, the Fool intended to lead his undead horde to slaughter the starving population before murdering the Spelljammer itself an raising it as his own undead creation. With the Spelljammer under his control, the Fool intended to ravage the cosmos and [[OmnicidalManiac wipe away all sapient life]], one crystal sphere at a time.

-->'''Jeff Grubb''': In the game we used it to describe the act of moving through space magically. And it was the class of ship that moved through space. And it was the proper name of the legendary Spelljammer, a supposed Flying Dutchman/White Whale. It was a noun, a proper noun, and a verb. If I could have made it an adverb[[labelnote:*]]Spelljammed?[[/labelnote]] I would have done that as well.

** ''The Astromundi Cluster'': [[MindRape Lugribossk]] is the proxy of the Illithid deity Ilsensine and the god of the mind flayers of Clusterspace. In ancient days, Lugribossk appeared before a society of mutant humans and answered their prayers of vengeance by using his divine power to destroy the entire world of Astromundi in a great cataclysm that claimed the lives of most of the world's inhabitants and shattered the planet. Turning these mutants into the first mind flayes, Lugribossk teaches them a culture of brutal oppression where slaves are treated as objects and any Illithid dissenters are put to death as heretics. Seeking to ensure mind flayer dominance in the cluster, he masterminds an act of ultimate evil, the Sundeath Apocalypse. Gifting his people an ancient artifact called the Sunslayer, he orders them to put out the twin suns and plunge the entire system into an [[TheNightThatNeverEnds eternal night]] that would kill billions. The remaining survivors would then be hunted down to used as slaves, [[ToServeMan food]], and [[BreedingSlave breeding fodder]] for the mind flayer war machine as they intend to spread Lugribossk's dark empire [[GalacticConqueror throughout the cosmos]].

** ''The Legend of Spelljammer'': [[OurLichesAreDifferent The Fool]] is a powerful lich that dwells in the bowels of the eponymous Spelljammer and is by far the greatest threat to those that live upon the ship. The Fool [[WasOnceAMan was once a human captain]] named Romar who used the nearly godlike power of the Spelljammer to rampage across the sphere and take revenge on anyone who he ever deemed to have crossed him. When the ship itself tried to cast him down from captaincy, this evil captain called on pacts with demonic powers to turn him into an undead abomination. The Fool kills anyone who explores the warrens inside the ship and [[{{Necromancer}} raises them]] into [[NightOfTheLivingMooks his army]]. Seeking to destroy all life on the Spelljammer, the Fool secretly [[ManipulativeBastard manipulates]] a group of [[FantasticRacism human supremacists]] into spreading chaos and mayhem upon the nonhuman population. In particular, he used them to murder dozens by bombing the elven academy and placing blame on the goblinoids, igniting fierce war between both factions. He allied with the vicious Neogi and gave them a magical plague they used to wipe out the Beholders, and hired an assassin to murder the heads of many of the factions and spread turmoil. When the next captain arrived and the gardens on the ship closed, the Fool intended to lead his undead horde to slaughter the starving population before murdering the Spelljammer itself an raising it as his own undead creation. With the Spelljammer under his control, the Fool intended to ravage the cosmos and [[OmnicidalManiac wipe away all sapient life]], one crystal sphere at a time.

** ''Wildspace'': [[FantasticRacism Shazogroth]] is a [[{{Oculothorax}} beholder]] who was [[EvenEvilHasStandards exiled from his people]] for his political views. Blinded and banished, the evil beholder ended up becoming a mage thanks to the group called the Arcane and learned of a superweapon called the Ravager. Becoming the captain Jon Tobart in disguise to convince the heroes to lead him to the items he needs to power the Ravager, Shazogroth intends on [[GenocideFromTheInside exterminating all the other Beholders he can]]. Not content to stop there, he intends to wipe out the heroes' homeworld and feeding on all the lives there to empower the Ravager before moving in, sacrificing billions to fuel his ship and plans of conquest.

* CompleteMonster: [[FantasticRacism Shazogroth]], from the ''Wildspace'' module, is a [[{{Oculothorax}} beholder]] who was [[EvenEvilHasStandards exiled from his people]] for his political views. Blinded and banished, the evil beholder ended up becoming a mage thanks to the group called the Arcane and learned of a superweapon called the Ravager. Becoming the captain Jon Tobart in disguise to convince the heroes to lead him to the items he needs to power the Ravager, Shazogroth intends on [[GenocideFromTheInside exterminating all the other Beholders he can]]. Not content to stop there, he intends to wipe out the heroes' homeworld and feeding on all the lives there to empower the Ravager before moving in, sacrificing billions to fuel his ship and plans of conquest.

* CompleteMonster: [[FantasticRacism Shazogroth]], from "Wildspace", is a [[{{Oculothorax}} beholder]] who was [[EvenEvilHasStandards exiled from his people]] for his political views. Blinded and banished, the evil beholder ended up becoming a mage thanks to the group called the Arcane and learned of a superweapon called the Ravager. Becoming the captain Jon Tobart in disguise to convince the heroes to lead him to the items he needs to power the Ravager, Shazogroth intends on [[GenocideFromTheInside exterminating all the other Beholders he can]]. Not content to stop there, he intends to wipe out the heroes' homeworld and feeding on all the lives there to empower the Ravager before moving in, sacrificing billions to fuel his ship and plans of conquest.

* CompleteMonster: [[FantasticRacism Shazogroth]], from "Wildspace", is a [[Oculothorax beholder]] who was [[EvenEvilHasStandards exiled from his people]] for his political views. Blinded and banished, the evil beholder ended up becoming a mage thanks to the group called the Arcane and learned of a superweapon called the Ravager. Becoming the captain Jon Tobart in disguise to convince the heroes to lead him to the items he needs to power the Ravager, Shazogroth intends on [[GenocideFromTheInside exterminating all the other Beholders he can]]. Not content to stop there, he intends to wipe out the heroes' homeworld and feeding on all the lives there to empower the Ravager before moving in, sacrificing billions to fuel his ship and plans of conquest.

-->'''Jeff Grubb''': In the game we used it to describe the act of moving through space magically. And it was the class of ship that moved through space. And it was the proper name of the legendary Spelljammer, a supposed Flying Dutchman/White Whale. It was a noun, a proper noun, and a verb. If I could have made it an adverb I would have done that as well.

* UnfortunateImplications: The Aperusa are "[[RecycledInSpace Space]] [[UsefulNotes/{{Romani}} Gypsies]]" and, thusly, are a [[NoWomansLand misogynistic]] pack of [[DirtyCoward cowardly]] thieving con artists who are incapable of sincere faith in any deity, instead loudly professing worship for the god whose priest has most recently performed something beneficial for the tribe, only to convert the instant another cleric does so. No, this isn't hyperbole. It's not even exaggerated. It's all taken ''directly'' from their entry in the Spelljammer Monstrous Compendium, which can be seen online [[http://www.lomion.de/cmm/aperusa.php here]].

* UnfortunateImplications: The Aperusa are "[[RecycledInSpace Space]] [[UsefulNotes/{{Romani}} Gypsies]]" and, thusly, are a misogynistic pack of cowardly thieving con artists who are incapable of sincere faith in any deity, instead loudly professing worship for the god whose priest has most recently performed something beneficial for the tribe, only to convert the instant another cleric does so.

* UnfortunateImplications: The Aperusa are "[[RecycledInSpace Space]] [[{{Roma}} Gypsies]]" and, thusly, are a misogynistic pack of cowardly thieving con artists who are incapable of sincere faith in any deity, instead loudly professing worship for the god whose priest has most recently performed something beneficial for the tribe, only to convert the instant another cleric does so.

* UnfortunateImplications: The Aperusa are "[[RecycledInSpace Space Gypsies]]" and, thusly, are a misogynistic pack of cowardly thieving con artists who are incapable of sincere faith in any deity, instead loudly professing worship for the god whose priest has most recently performed something beneficial for the tribe, only to convert the instant another cleric does so.