How SPACE Works in D&D | Traveler's Guide to the Astral Plane

D&D Breakdown on Spelljammers, Planes of Existence, the Astral Plane, Wildspace and more! DnD Spelljammer takes you into the Astral Sea and beyond, this is a dungeons and dragons guide for space travel! ⏬ More Below ⏬

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🖱️ Video Editor: Zack Newman

0:00 Intro
1:59 Astral Sphere & Astral Sea
5:56 OLD Astral Plane Diagram
6:33 NEW Astral Plane Diagram
13:14 Astral Movement Mechanics
15:48 Timeout Giveaway

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[starlight]

Funny thing, before the Spelljammer 5e thing. I always assumed that everything from the Astral Sea, outer planes, and material plane existed within their own crystal sphere. Considering how worlds like Eberron, Exandria, and Toril have vastly different outer planes and histories concerning the gods.

[LordOz]

I like the spelljammer idea, but I'm tinkering with it for the campaign I'm about to start. IIRC, RAW indicates people don't need to eat or sleep in astral space. I'm tossing that. I'm going to have off ship movement at 30', plus 5' per INT modifier. Ships go faster, and use aether-sails in addition to helms. Some worlds will have astral moons - orbiting bodies that only exist in the Astral Plane and often serve as a port of call to visit a given world.

[tsuchinokofamiliar]

I love space jammer as a concept and I was so excited when the books came out but was super bummed out by what was there so lacking then your pdf graced my eyes and now everything’s just perfect

[spikebeargrin]

This is probably one of my favorite setting videos. the new art was definitely useful for understanding

[SilverScribe]

So...lemme see if I understand correctly.

The Astral Sphere you speak of is what surrounds the known galaxies of the D&D universe, kind of like our Milky Way and if someone were to somehow, move BEYOND that sphere; they'd end up in Wildspace or the Astral Sea?

[christopherregan]

I think I’m more confused than when I started the video… so you created a spell for a problem no one ever had which is for opening a door in what is essentially an “ozone” layer?

[wheredoigo]

A cool concept to introduce into the idea of ‘astral spheres’ is the dimension theory. For example, you have a flat surface(2 dimensional) which could be infinite. You may be able to travel to another infinite 2 dimensional plane by travelling in 3 dimensions( upwards for the sake of visualisation). Now you character is in a completely separate 2 dimensional realm. This concept applies for the 3rd dimension, where you would travel in a 4th dimensional axis to reach another 3 dimensional universe. Personally I find the idea of infinite separate infinities fantastic.

[starlight]

The way I've kinda written my setting is that there are a new kind of God called cosmic gods. These gods exist beyond the boundaries of normal gods and their will can stretch to multiple material planes and even Astral Spheres.
Also the idea of planets being their own material plane is an interesting way to put it as my aptly named Terrestrial Gods only have influence and presence on one world. Though me personally, I prefer to think of everything inside of an Astral Sphere to be it's own material plane.

[TheBH]

Correcting 4:27, our space is not infinite either

[airdragonstudios]

AHHHH!! Awesome! Can't wait to add propper space travel to spelljammer 🤣. Thanks coach!!

[KaleDavid]

This needs more views! The community needs Spelljammer Resources!

[thebigdog]

So I just wanted to come on here a say that I totally remembered that I was getting Alkanders Almanac of all things. I’m definitely taking this to my game this coming week. Thanks and keep up the great work.

[ReallyRobEgan]

This is awesome! I just joined a space jammers West march and it's always great to hear different ways to conceptualize wild space.

Thanks for the video!

[unB]

Love the video. I may have to give Spelljammer a try now. :D

[dragonxswords]

I actually run mine way different.

I have the material plane being infinite like our own universe.

BUT, spelljammers have special properties that allow them to use magic and bust through our material plane to the etherial plane.

At which point it works as you describe.

[starlight]

By the way, is there a place where we can download the 'New Astral Plane' Diagram featured in the video? I noticed it wasn't in either of your astral themed docs.

[benjaminlakes]

I've always had this question with the spell jamming concept... When standing on the ground at night, say on Toril, why is the night sky black and there are stars like in real life. Shouldn't it be starless and maybe even hues of purple from the astral sea?

[mattalford]

Very cool. Thank you DC. Sounds like a crystal sphere is essentially a galaxy. Or you could expand and say our whole known universe was within the sphere, and there are other entire universes out there with the Astral Sea in between.

[SkyLordPanglot]

Starts by calling it astral sphere, reverts back to crystal sphere. Points at what is labeled as Ethereal plane, calls it the wildspace. Totally ingores the fact that the astral previously had nothing to do with real space. This answered none of the questions I was looking for.

[ropedgoat]

missed opportunity: at the end, "think outside the sphere"