List of Spelljammer crystal spheres
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This article provides a list of Spelljammer crystal spheres, or fictional planetary system
s, created for the Dungeons & Dragons
campaign setting
Spelljammer
(1989). Notably, Spelljammer ties in with three other campaign settings, Dragonlance
, Forgotten Realms
and Greyhawk
, by placing these settings on celestial bodies in these systems.
Each system is listed from innermost body to outermost. Unless otherwise noted, all planets are spherical, with breathable air.
Collectively Greyspace, Krynnspace, and Realmspace are known as the 'Radiant Triangle'
setting was described in detail in SJR6 Greyspace a 96-page supplement.
Planetary system
A planetary system consists of the various non-stellar objects orbiting a star such as planets, dwarf planets , asteroids, meteoroids, comets, and cosmic dust...
s, created for the Dungeons & Dragons
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campaign setting
Campaign setting
A campaign setting is usually a fictional world which serves as a setting for a role-playing game or wargame campaign. A campaign is a series of individual adventures, and a campaign setting is the world in which such adventures and campaigns take place...
Spelljammer
Spelljammer
Spelljammer is a campaign setting for the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, which features a fantastical outer space environment....
(1989). Notably, Spelljammer ties in with three other campaign settings, Dragonlance
Dragonlance
Dragonlance is a shared universe created by Laura and Tracy Hickman, and expanded by Tracy Hickman and Margaret Weis under the direction of TSR, Inc. into a series of popular fantasy novels. The Hickmans conceived Dragonlance while driving in their car on the way to TSR for a job application...
, Forgotten Realms
Forgotten Realms
The Forgotten Realms is a campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. Commonly referred to by players and game designers alike as "The Realms", it was created by game designer Ed Greenwood around 1967 as a setting for his childhood stories...
and Greyhawk
Greyhawk
Greyhawk, also known as the World of Greyhawk, is a fictional world designed as a campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game...
, by placing these settings on celestial bodies in these systems.
Each system is listed from innermost body to outermost. Unless otherwise noted, all planets are spherical, with breathable air.
Collectively Greyspace, Krynnspace, and Realmspace are known as the 'Radiant Triangle'
Greyspace
The crystal sphere of the GreyhawkGreyhawk
Greyhawk, also known as the World of Greyhawk, is a fictional world designed as a campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game...
setting was described in detail in SJR6 Greyspace a 96-page supplement.
- OerthOerthIn the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game, Oerth, pronounced as "Orth" or "oyth", is the name of the fictional planet on which one of the earliest campaign settings, the World of Greyhawk, is located...
: Terrestrial planet and home to the GreyhawkGreyhawkGreyhawk, also known as the World of Greyhawk, is a fictional world designed as a campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game...
campaign setting. (This planetary system is geocentric, not heliocentric.) - Kule: Tidally-locked terrestrial body. Covered with the ruins of a humanoid civilization, but lacking any air whatsoever. A magical cataclysm is suspected to have caused the depopulation. Also known as Celene.
- Raenei: Terrestrial planet, covered with earthlike features, including animals and monsters, but no sentient life. Also known as Luna.
- Liga, the Sun: Star. Has many small lakes of elemental water to keep it from burning too hot. Larger than Oerth, but orbits it anyway.
- The Grinder: Asteroid belt.
- Edill: Gas giant, populated primarily by dragonsDragon (Dungeons & Dragons)In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game , dragons are an iconic type of monstrous creature used as adversaries or, less commonly, allies of player characters...
. - Gnibile: Dark-red gas giant, with blobs of lava and shards of ice in the interior. Contains a gate to the Negative Material Plane. Populated primarily by undeadUndead (Dungeons & Dragons)In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, undead is a classification of monsters that can be encountered by player characters. Undead creatures are most often once-living creatures, which have been animated by spiritual or supernatural forces....
. - Conatha: Elliptical water world with two solid cores that orbit around each other. Populated by many piscine creatures, including merfolk and sahuaginSahuaginIn the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the sahuagin are a fish-like monstrous humanoid species that live in oceans, seas, underground lakes, and underwater caves. Sahuagin speak their native tongue . With higher intelligence scores, they can also speak two bonus languages, usually...
. - Ginsel: Crescent-shaped world that resembles an apple with a giant bite taken out of it. Has an atmosphere on the inside of the crescent. Basic civilized fantasy world.
- Borka: Spherical asteroid cluster with a common atmosphere. Formerly a planet inhabited by orcs, goblins and other humanoids, it was devastated by the magic of the elves.
- Greela: Another spherical asteroid cluster with a common atmosphere, although many of the asteroids bear huge forests. Home to the elves.
- The Spectre: A flat, circular disc of rock that appears to vanish and re-appear as it is seen edgewise, then rotates to show its full face. Also called The Wink. Has an atmosphere and water, but no life.
Source material for Greyspace
- Spelljammer: AD&D Adventures in SpaceSpelljammer: AD&D Adventures in SpaceSpelljammer: AD&D Adventures in Space is a boxed set accessory published in 1989 for the Spelljammer campaign setting for the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game.-Contents:...
(1989) - SJR6 GreyspaceGreyspaceGreyspace is an accessory for the Spelljammer campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. The book was written by Nigel Findley, and was published in 1992. Cover art is by Tom Baxa, with interior illustrations by David O...
by Nigel Findley (1992)
Krynnspace
- Sun: Star and central body.
- Sirrion: Molten lava planet with a few solid rock plates. Home to various fire elementals.
- Reorx: Mountainous terrestrial planet, inhabited primarily by dwarves. Has one moon, Ora.
- KrynnKrynnKrynn is the fictional world of the Dragonlance novels, co-written by Tracy Hickman and Margaret Weis. It has also been used in many other books, set in the Dragonlance universe. It is also used as the main setting in the Dragonlance campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing...
: Terrestrial planet with three moons: Nuitari, Lunitari, and Solinari. Home to the DragonlanceDragonlanceDragonlance is a shared universe created by Laura and Tracy Hickman, and expanded by Tracy Hickman and Margaret Weis under the direction of TSR, Inc. into a series of popular fantasy novels. The Hickmans conceived Dragonlance while driving in their car on the way to TSR for a job application...
campaign setting. - Chislev: Terrestrial planet. Stormwracked jungle from pole to pole. Home to barbarians of various PC races.
- Zivilyn: Gas giant with twelve moons. Inhabited primarily by avian lifeforms.
Source material for Krynnspace
- AD&D, Adventures in Space Boxed Set (1989)
- SJR7 KrynnspaceKrynnspaceKrynnspace is an accessory for the Spelljammer campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. The book was written by Jean Rabe, and was published in 1993....
by Jean Rabe (1993) - The Cloakmaster Cycle One: Beyond the Moons by David Cook, (July, 1991) ISBN 1-56076-153-9.
- The Cloakmaster Cycle Two: Into the Void by Nigel Findley, (October, 1991) ISBN 1-56076-154-7.
Realmspace
- The Sun: Star.
- Anadia: Terrestrial planet, largely badlands. Run by civilized halflings that keep the barbaric humans on reservations for their own protection.
- Coliar: Gas giant with many earth and water islands on the interior, populated primarily by lizard men, aarakocraAarakocraIn the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the aarakocra are a race of bird-like monstrous humanoids dwelling in high mountains...
and dragons. - Abeir-TorilAbeir-TorilAbeir-Toril is the name of the fictional planet that makes up the Forgotten Realms Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting, as well as the Al-Qadim and Maztica campaign settings and the 1st edition version of the Oriental Adventures campaign setting.The name is archaic, meaning "cradle of life." It...
: Terrestrial body home to the Forgotten RealmsForgotten RealmsThe Forgotten Realms is a campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. Commonly referred to by players and game designers alike as "The Realms", it was created by game designer Ed Greenwood around 1967 as a setting for his childhood stories...
campaign setting. Has one moon, SelûneSéluneThe Sélune is a 91 km long river in the Manche department, Normandy, France, beginning near Saint-Cyr-du-Bailleul. It empties into the bay of Mont Saint-Michel near Avranches, close to the mouth of the Sée river. Other towns along the Sélune are Barenton, Saint-Hilaire-du-Harcouët and...
and a cluster of trojan asteroidTrojan asteroidThe Jupiter Trojans, commonly called Trojans or Trojan asteroids, are a large group of objects that share the orbit of the planet Jupiter around the Sun. Relative to Jupiter, each Trojan librates around one of the planet's two Lagrangian points of stability, and , that respectively lie 60° ahead...
s, Tears of Selûne, which follow Selûne's orbit. - Karpri: Water planetWater planetWater planet may refer to:* Issues concerning planetary habitability* Water is a fictional planet in the television series Lexx* Water is a fictional planet in the 3D CG animated television series Shadow Raiders* Ocean planet-See also:...
with two icecaps and an impenetrable equatorial seaweed jungle. Populated by primitive nomads. - Chandos: Another water planet with thousands of asteroids floating underneath the surface. Also populated by primitive nomads
- Glyth: Terrestrial planet, once-Earthlike with an advanced civilization, now with a foul atmosphere. The remaining humans are hunted by the planet's subterranean rulers, the mind flayers.
- Garden: Spherical cluster of asteroids linked by a common atmosphere and the roots of a single enormous plant.
- H'Catha: Flat, circular disk of water. Populated by beholderBeholderThe beholder is a fictional monster in the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. It resembles a floating orb of flesh with a large mouth, single central eye, and lots of smaller eyestalks on top with deadly magical powers....
s.
Spelljamming places in Realmspace
- Dragon Rock a spearhead shaped asteroid in the Tears of Selûne.
- Kapri Station a ring of, fused together, Elven Man-O-War ships orbiting Kapri.
- Rock of Bral (optionally), in the Tears of Selûne.
- Stardock, an abandoned illithidIllithidIn the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, illithids are monstrous humanoid aberrations with psionic powers. In a typical Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting, they live in the moist caverns and cities of the enormous Underdark...
port - Yeomen's Loft, the capital of Netherese spelljamming activities during the Arcane Age
- Nimbral an island on the world of Abeir-TorilAbeir-TorilAbeir-Toril is the name of the fictional planet that makes up the Forgotten Realms Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting, as well as the Al-Qadim and Maztica campaign settings and the 1st edition version of the Oriental Adventures campaign setting.The name is archaic, meaning "cradle of life." It...
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Organisations operating in Realmspace
- The ShouKara-TurKara-Tur is a fantasy world created by David Cook in the Oriental Adventures rulebook for the First Edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game in 1986. Kara-Tur's cultures and peoples are fantasy analogues of medieval China, Korea, Japan, the Ryukyu Islands, Tibet, and other regions of...
Fleet - The Imperial Elven Fleet
Source material for Realmspace
- AD&D, Adventures in Space Boxed Set (1989)
- SJR2 RealmspaceRealmspaceRealmspace is an accessory for the Spelljammer campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. The book was written by Dale "Slade" Henson, and was published in 1991...
by Dale "Slade" Henson (1991) - Spelljammer: Pirates of RealmspaceSpelljammer: Pirates of RealmspaceSpelljammer: the Pirates of Realmspace is a computer game for MS-DOS and was released by SSI in 1992. It is a Dungeons & Dragons PC computer game using the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, Second Edition, Spelljammer rules. Spelljammer was programmed and designed by Cybertech...
computer game (1992)