Add 10 Cultures to Your D&D Spelljammer Game Including Psionic Penguins with VOYAGERS & VENTURERS

The recent launch of Spelljammer for Dungeons & Dragons has really created another amazing creative boon for players and DMs via unofficial supplements. A recent one that I’m really enjoying the preview for is the recent Voyagers & Venturers: 10 Cultures for Your Spelljammer Game.

This was created by a large team and includes all the information you need for these cultures. If you’re a player, you can use any of these cultures for your new character or if you’re a DM, you can use these cultures to flesh out a new world or NPCs that your players meet. Oh, and did I mention that one of them is a psionic penguin!? I was sold when I saw that!

What makes Spelljammer so special are the myriad fantastical people populating Wildspace, and their otherworldly cultures. Strange alien life is what inspires us to look to the stars, after all. And many of us don't just want to encounter these people — we want to play out their stories! If you feel the same: this book is for you. We developed ten cultures that let you get real weird in Wildspace, from old favorites like the xixchil body-mod surgeons to completely new additions like the plantoid sylvark who worship their ancestor trees.

Here's a brief breakdown of the 10 cultures you’ll find inside Voyagers & Venturers:

• Dohwar. Psionic space penguins who are both annoying and rampant capitalists — those two things may be connected.

• Grommams. Highly competitive simians who strive for godhood.

• Hurwaet. Heirs to an ancient fallen empire who follow the song carved into their hearts to recover lost glory.

• Xixchil. Mantis-like surgeons and crafters for whom the acts of creation and body modification are sacred.

• Giff Anarchists. Rebels against the militarist hierarchy of mainstream giff culture, and lovers of artistic explosions.

• Githwyn. A new gith faction that strives for gith re-unification through peace with the mind flayers.

• Lizardfolk. The Szelle-Dracaena worship suns and can procreate by parthenogenetic self-cloning.

• Sepiidae Illithids. Empathic mind flayers who are free of the influence of elder brains.

• Sylvark. A race of mobile plants who go through three life stages and grow spelljammers from their ancestor trees.

• Vindexi. Ant-folk who destroyed their home world through over-exploitation and now fight to prevent the same from happening on other worlds.

You can purchase Voyagers & Venturers now from DMs Guild (affiliate link) for $14.95. Here’s the list of creators:

• Authors:

  • Stuart Broz

  • John Bryant

  • Matthew Charles

  • Joe Gaylord

  • Morten Greis

  • Kai Linder

  • Ryan Sargent

  • Erin Tierney

  • Stuart Watkinson

  • Duncan Watson

  • Sven Truckenbrodt

• Artists:

  • John Carl Flores

  • MoVille