YMMV / Spelljammer

• Complete Monster:
  • Wildspace: Shazogroth is a beholder who was exiled from his people for his political views. Blinded and banished, the evil beholder ended up becoming a mage thanks to the group called the Arcane and learned of a superweapon called the Ravager. Becoming the captain Jon Tobart in disguise to convince the heroes to lead him to the items he needs to power the Ravager, Shazogroth intends on exterminating all the other Beholders he can. Not content to stop there, he intends to wipe out the heroes' homeworld and feeding on all the lives there to empower the Ravager before moving in, sacrificing billions to fuel his ship and plans of conquest.
  • Crystal Spheres: T'laan is an ancient vampire that made a pact with Death itself to spread terror throughout the cosmos. Fascinated with mortal life, T'laan would experiment on and vivisect his victims, and indulges his baser instincts by raping and murdering women he captured. At the first world he came upon, T'laan led the genocide of the native population and fed upon the newly spawned vampires he created, all to blacken out the native star and create an undead haven called Darkspace. Setting his sights next on the heroic Greatspace, T'laan charmed the system's king before murdering him, framing his son, and sending assassins to silence him. T'laan then sought to blacken the local star as well to wipe all life from the system, and then take the remaining survivors to Darkspace to use as a self-replenishing food source.
  • The Legend of Spelljammer: The Fool is a powerful lich that dwells in the bowels of the eponymous Spelljammer and is the greatest threat to those that live upon it. As a mortal captain named Romar, the Fool used the Spelljammer to go on a revenge-fueled rampage, and called on demonic pacts to turn him undead when the ship turned against him. Seeking to slaughter everyone onboard and convert them into his thralls, The Fool manipulates a group of human supremacists to bomb the elven academy and frame the goblinoid; gifts the treacherous neogi a specialized plague to wipe out the beholders; and sends assassins to murder the various factional leaders to ignite a massive Civil War. When a new captain was chosen, the Fool intended to lead a genocide of the whole ship as they were weak and starving, and use the Spelljammer's might to launch an extermination of all life.
  • The Astromundi Cluster: Lugribossk is the proxy of the Illithid deity Ilsensine and the god of the mind flayers of Clusterspace. In ancient days, Lugribossk appeared before a society of mutant humans and answered their prayers of vengeance by using his divine power to destroy the entire world of Astromundi in a great cataclysm that claimed the lives of most of the world's inhabitants and shattered the planet. Turning these mutants into the first mind flayers, Lugribossk teaches them a culture of brutal oppression where slaves are treated as objects and any Illithid dissenters are put to death as heretics. Seeking to ensure mind flayer dominance in the cluster, he masterminds an act of ultimate evil, the Sundeath Apocalypse. Gifting his people an Ancient Artifact called the Sunslayer, he orders them to put out the twin suns and plunge the entire system into an eternal night that would kill billions. The remaining survivors would then be hunted down to used as slaves, food, and breeding fodder for the mind flayer war machine as they intend to spread Lugribossk's dark empire throughout the cosmos.
• I Am Not Shazam: Sort of—the Spelljammer is a legendary Living Ship, spelljamming helms are the phlebotinum that powers space travel, and spelljammers can refer to ships (usually just "'jamming vessels") or sailors (as opposed to groundlings). Or only helmsmen.
  Jeff Grubb: In the game we used it to describe the act of moving through space magically. And it was the class of ship that moved through space. And it was the proper name of the legendary Spelljammer, a supposed Flying Dutchman/White Whale. It was a noun, a proper noun, and a verb. If I could have made it an adverb^* To spelljam spelljammingly, presumably I would have done that as well.
• Moral Event Horizon: Using Witchlight Marauders. Or just living a normal life of a Neogi (surprisingly, it's not so simple even with mindflayers).
• Over Shadowed By Controversy: Hadozee in the 5th edition bookset was struck with enormous criticism since they were an ape-like species who were only intelligent due to being uplifted by an Elven wizard, and were then used as a Slave Race before the wizard's apprenticed freed them and assisted them in rebelling. Wizards of the Coast quickly rewrote that part of the lore, now implying that evolution was responsible for the hadozee's abilities, and apologized for the error.

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