Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
This document contains official updates to Spelljammer: Adventures in Space. These changes appear in recent printings of the book and have been applied across D&D Beyond.
Astral Adventurer’s Guide
Backgrounds (p. 7)
The following text was added to the end of the paragraph: “These backgrounds each give a feat. If a character takes a background from elsewhere and doesn’t get a feat from that background, the character gains one of the following feats of the player’s choice: Magic Initiate, Skilled, or Tough.”
Astral Elf Traits (p. 10)
In the Creature Type subsection, the following text was added: “You are also considered an elf for any prerequisite or effect that requires you to be an elf.”
Hadozee Bard Illustration (p. 13)
The illustration of the hadozee bard has been removed.
Hadozee Story Text (p. 13)
The story text for the hadozee has been updated as follows:
Glide (p. 13)
The Glide trait’s text has been updated as follows: “When you fall at least 10 feet above the ground, you can use your reaction to extend your skin membranes to glide horizontally a number of feet equal to your walking speed, and you take 0 damage from the fall. You determine the direction of the glide.”
Hadozee Resilience (p. 13)
The name of this trait has changed to “Hadozee Dodge” to better reflect that hadozee player characters are great at avoiding damage rather than great at absorbing it.
Thri-kreen Telepathy (p. 15)
The words “you can see” have been cut from this trait, allowing a thri-kreen player character to establish telepathic contact with a creature without having to see that creature.
Speed (p. 17)
The 2nd paragraph of this section has been updated as follows:
Boo’s Astral Menagerie
Stat Blocks by Challenge Rating Table (p. 5)
The following creatures had changes to their CR: astral elf star priest (CR 5), young solar dragon (CR 9), and ancient solar dragon (CR 21).
Aartuks (pp. 8–9)
The fifth and seventh paragraphs of the aartuk description (referring to aartuk growth and gods) have been cut.
The aartuk priest’s name has been changed to “aartuk starhorror.” The aartuk warrior’s name has been changed to “aartuk weedling.” (These name changes have been updated throughout the product.)
The following changes have been made to the stat block of the aartuk starhorror (formerly the aartuk priest):
Skills. “Religion +3” has been replaced with “Stealth +4.”
Spellcasting (Psionics). In the creature’s spell list, “tongues” has been replaced with “speak with plants.”
Astral Elf Star Priest (p. 13)
The astral elf star priest’s CR has changed to “5 (1,800 XP).” Its proficiency bonus has changed to “+3.” Its hit points have changed to “90 (20d8).”
Autognome (p. 14)
In the Malfunction table in the stat block, “Shocking Bolt” has been changed to “Shock.”
Braxat (p. 15)
The braxat’s alignment has been changed to “Typically Neutral.”
Dohwar (p. 19)
The description of the dohwar has been updated as follows:
Eye Monger (p. 21)
On the Senses line in the creature’s stat block, “tremorsense” has been changed to “blindsight.”
Kindori (p. 31)
The “Blinding Eyes” bonus action has been changed to “Flashing Eyes.”
Adult Lunar Dragon (p. 34)
The attack bonus for the dragon’s Tail attack has been changed to “+11.”
Mercane (p. 37)
The mercane’s creature type has been changed to “Celestial.” The first paragraph of the mercane description has been replaced with the following:
Psurlon Ringer (p. 45)
In the creature’s stat block, the Saving Throws line and Skills line have been deleted.
Reigar (p. 47)
In the description of the talarith and in the reigar’s Summon Golem trait (changed to Summon Duplicate), all instances of the word “golem” have been changed to “duplicate.”
The first two paragraphs of the reigar description have been updated as follows:
Ancient Solar Dragon (p. 50)
The dragon’s CR has changed to “21 (33,000 XP).” Its hit points have changed to “425 (23d20 + 184).” The name of the “Blinding Brilliance” legendary action has been changed to “Burst of Light.”
Adult Solar Dragon (p. 52)
The name of the “Blinding Brilliance” legendary action has been changed to “Burst of Light.”
Young Solar Dragon (p. 53)
The dragon’s CR has changed to “9 (5,000 XP).” Its hit points have changed to “178 (17d10 + 85).”
Light of Xaryxis
When Elves Attack (pp. 13–15)
The hadozee shipmates have been replaced with plasmoid explorers.
The Lucent Edict (p. 16)
In the paragraph that follows the boxed text, in the third sentence, “Alien Mind trait” has been changed to “Aberrant Mind trait.”
Ruthless Reigar (p. 25)
In the paragraph that follows the large block of boxed text, the word “golem” has been replaced with “duplicate” in two places.
Second Floor (p. 28)
The repair object spell has been deleted from the list of spells in Topolah’s spellbook.
Chapters 8–9 (pp. 42–51)
The human faction has been updated to a hadozee faction. The leader of that faction, Dakaer, is now a hadozee explorer. The space galleon Tarrasque now has a crew consisting of four hadozee explorers, fifteen hadozee warriors, and a hadozee druid.
The name of the thri-kreen faction leader has been changed to “T’kitka.”
What Coalition? (p. 50)
In the boxed text, the last sentence of the first paragraph has been changed to “My peaceful entreaty seems to have offended them.”
Sidebar (p. 50)
The second paragraph’s first sentence has been updated to the following: “A character approaches Vortshu, the aartuk elder (who is indifferent toward them), and tries to convince Vortshu that war against the Xaryxian Empire would give the aartuks new worlds to conquer.”
Xaryxispace Table (p. 55)
In the Distance to Outer Edge of System column, the numbers have been updated as follows:
Astral Font (p. 60)
The Star Beam effect now targets a creature that ends its turn in the beam, rather than one that starts its turn there.
Dying Wish (p. 62)
In the second-to-last paragraph of this section, the phrase “and everything else in Xaryxispace” has been cut.
Obtaining the Ring (p. 62)
The boxed text has been updated as follows: “Hurling a royal ring into the heart of Xaryxis will destroy the star and everything within one hundred million miles of it! That which survives will be plunged into darkness!”
Fate of the Imperial Citadel (p. 63)
This section has been deleted.
Death of a Star (p. 64)
In the boxed text, the second sentence has been cut, and the paragraph below the boxed text has been changed as follows: