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==''The Complete Spacefarer's Handbook''==
It contains details on using several non-human races as player-character races, spacefaring proficiencies and many other rules that give a player or DM additional options.

===Contents===
* '''Chapter 1: [[Groundlings]] in Space''' - This chapter covers: basic knowledge that groundlings have about space, explains what weapon proficiencies, secondary skills and non weapon proficiencies are most useful in a ''Spelljammer'' campaign, how specific groundling worlds interact with spacefarers (including [[Oerth]] and [[Canon:Greyspace|Greyspace]], [[Krynn]] and [[Canon:Krynnspace|Krynnspace]] and [[Toril]] and [[Canon:Realspace|Realmspace]]). It also suggests that [[Athas]] (the [[Dark Sun]] world) and [[Ravenloft]] (the 'Demiplane of Dread') are less appropriate for ''Spelljammer'' campaigns, but offers advice on how they might be connected.
* '''Chapter 2: New Spacefaring Races''' - This chapter covers rules for using the following races as player character races: [[Dracon]]s, [[giff]], [[grommam]]s, [[hadozee]] (aka 'deck apes'), [[Hurwaet|hurwaeti]] (aka wiggles), [[Lizardfolk|lizard men]], [[rastipede]]s, [[scro]], [[xixchil]].
* '''Chapter 3: Spacefarer Kits''' - This chapter has five warrior kits ([[Corsair]], [[Crusader]], [[Frontiersman]], [[Marine]] and [[Merchant]]), five wizard kits ([[Arcanist]], [[Astronomer]], [[Geomancer]], [[Imposter]] and [[War Mage]]), five priest kits ([[Astrologer]], [[Diplomat]], [[Evangelist]], [[Medicus]] and [[Missionary]]) and five rogue kits ([[Aperusa]], [[Courier]], [[Harlequin]], [[Privateer]], [[Salvager]]).
* '''Chapter 4: Role-Playing''' - This chapter includes four spacefarer personalities (The Carefree Wanderer, The Compromiser, The Vigilante and The Xenophobe).
* '''Chapter 5: Spacefaring Proficiencies''' - This chapter includes new weapon proficiencies (Ambidexterity, and Large Weapon Proficiencies in [[ballista]], [[bombard]]s, [[catapult]]s, [[Greek fire projector]]s and [[jettison]]s) and new non-weapon proficiencies in [[cartography]], [[fast-talking]], [[fortune telling]], [[Heraldry (space)]], [[looting]], [[navigation (wildspace)]], [[navigation (phlogiston)]], [[observation]], [[planetology]], [[shipwright]], [[signalling]], [[slow respiration]], [[spacemanship]], [[spelljamming]] and [[zero-gravity combat]].
* '''Chapter 6: Spacefaring Logistics''' - This chapter provides information about providing food, water and air for the crew of a spelljamming ship, reparing the ship and its weapons and new ship equipment (including [[anchor]]s, [[cargo hoist]]s, [[anchor hoist]]s, [[sleeping compartment]]s, [[stow-net]]s, [[stow-pod]]s), personal equipment (including [[equipment tether]]s, [[cold light]], [[signalling kit]], [[priest icon]]s and information about docking procedures.
* '''Chapter 7: Spacefaring Organisations''' - This chapter includes information about faiths of space (including [[Temple of Ptah, The|The Temple of Ptah]], [[Path and the Way, The|The Path and the Way]] and [[Celestians, The|The Celestians]]), military brotherhoods (including the [[Elven Imperial Fleet]], [[Company of Challice, The|The Company of the Challice]], [[Pragmatic Order of Thought, The|The Pragmatic Order of Thought]], [[Tenth Pit, The|The Tenth Pit]] and [[Trading Company, The|The Trading Company]]) trading companies (including [[Smith's Coaster, The|The Smith's Coaster]], [[Gaspar Reclamations]], [[Sindiath Line, The|The Sindiath Line]] and [[Chainmen]]) and other groups (including [[Seekers, The|The Seekers]], [[Xenos, The|The Xenos]] and [[Shapers, The|The Shapers]]).
* '''Chapter 8: ''Spelljammer'' Campaign Design''' - This chapter offers lots of useful advice for the DM of a ''Spelljammer'' campaign, explain how various character classes work differently in [[wildspace]] and [[phlogiston, the|the phlogiston]] and explains how various spells, from other D&D products, work in a Spelljammer campaign. (The part of the character class section that deals with priests actually contains rules for importing a deity into a new crystal sphere.)
* '''Chapter 9: Strongholds in Space''' - This chapter builds on the rules from AD&D's Castle Guide, to explain how a DM can modify the time and cost of constructing a fortified base in space.
* '''Index''' - This is an alphabetical index of many of the important new topics introduced in '''''CGR1 The Complete Spacefarer's Handbook'''''.
Abbreviation	CGR1 +
Author	Barbara G. Young +
Help Wanted Reason	Image Needed +
ISBN	1-56076-347-7 +
Item Code	2130 +
Media Type	Paperback +
Page Count	128 +
Publication Date	1992 +
Publisher	TSR +
System	Dungeons and Dragons 2e +
Title	The Complete Spacefarer's Handbook +