Creating a Wildspace System

Following the Steps

To create a custom Wildspace system, follow the steps below in Steps to Creation. Following these steps will allow you to create a custom space for your party to fly through and to experience. This system is designed to work on a macro level, not a micro level. What this means is that you will create planets, but you won't have specific landmasses or the cities that might be on its surface. That will, ultimately, be up to you and your ideas.

Terminology

There are a few terms here that are defined below. Many of them are just generic descriptors that get more defined as you go through the steps provided.

• Planet Any object, be it solid or not, that is large enough for a spelljammer to travel to and land on. This is a blank slate that is adjusted as you complete the steps below.
• Planet Type, Air This world is largely made up of the elements of air, though it can have other elements on it. This world is typically called a gas giant.
• Planet Type, Earth This world is largely made up of the elements of earth, though it can have other elements on it, like Earth itself. This is highly habitable by most creatures an adventurer would be used to.
• Planet Type, Fire This world is largely made up of the elements of fire, though it can have other elements on it. This is a very dangerous world that only creatures immune to fire can safely live on.
• Planet Type, Special This world is unique. It could be a living planet, one made of the elements of wood and metal, a sleeping giant, or anything else that would make it special.
• Planet Type, Water This world is largely made up of the elements of water, though it can have other elements on it. This typically has a massive ocean that covers the entire world with underwater cities, if it is inhabited.
• Planetary Path This is an imaginary band that circles the Primary Center. Often there is a planet along this circle, but it could be an asteroid belt, a portal to another plane, or perhaps some other strange phenomenom.
• Primary Center This is the central object that all others in the system spin around. It is typically the largest object in the system, though not always.

Sizes in Space

There are massive objects in Wildspace and it can be overwhelming when dealing with how many thousand miles or kilometers. As a short hand, planetary objects use the following identifiers.

Designing a System

There are two ways of designing a system based on how quickly you need to create one and how much information you want.

Fast Track. To fast track creating a Wildspace system, only follow Step 1, Step 2, and Step 3. As you need it, you can roll for other Steps as you have time during the session and you can quickly determine Step 4 by rolling all of the dice at once and recording them for later when you can chart the system completely.

Full System. To create a more fleshed out Wildspace system, follow all of the steps, or as many as you'd like. If you have time while prepping, you can come up with your own ideas for a central theme of a system and forgo rolling for many of the other elements, instead picking what most appeals to you and your theme.

Drawing a System

The easiest way of creating and visualizing a Wildspace system is by taking a normal piece of paper, marking the center of the paper with a dot (this is your Primary Center), and then drawing a number of circles around the dot based on Step 2. As you continue through the steps in Creation, you will be adding additional detail to each circle, so make sure to leave plenty of room between each one and to use a pencil in case you decide to change things.

In addition, don't worry about drawing everything to scale, you can recreate the Wildspace system on a fresh sheet of paper once you have completed your first draft.

Step 1 - Determine the Center

To first create your system, you must determine what is at the center of your system. Roll on the chart below.

Drawing. Draw a circle, about half an inch (~12 mm) in the center of your sheet and then fill it in. This is your Primary Center. Label the circle based on what you rolled above.

Step 2 - Planetary Paths

To determine the number of planetary paths in your system, roll a d10. If you like the idea of a larger Wildspace system you can add 10 to the result of your d10 roll.

Drawing. Draw a number of circles around the central dot on your paper for each planetary path. Not every path will be a planet and you don't have to worry about how far or close they are to each other. It is best for you to spread out the paths enough that they fill the entire page as we will not need anymore space.

Step 3 - Determine Planets

Now that we have the number of Planetary Paths around our Primary Center, we need to determine what is on each path. Roll on the chart below for each of your Planetary Paths.

If you rolled and got a Planet, roll on the chart below to determine what type.

Label each circle that you drew with the result from the charts above.

Step 4 - Planetary Distance

To determine how far away each Planetary Path is from the Primary Center, roll a d20 and multiply the result by 10. That is the number of million miles between Primary Center and the first Planetary Path closest to it. Repeat that step, but adding the previous results to your total so that each Planetary Path after that is further and further away.

For especially large systems (that have more than 10 Planetary Paths), you can instead roll a d10 for half of the paths and a d20 for the other half.

Once you have the furthest distance between your last Planetary Path and your Primary Center, roll another d20, multiplying the result by 10, and add it to your total. That is how far one must travel to reach the Astral Sea from your Primary Center.