The Origins of Flash Gordon

"Spell jammer" allows you to travel in between every single campaign setting, which from a business perspective for TSR is very good. So at this point in time, mind flayers come from the estrimundi cluster in spell jammer. And their ships are awesome because they're all vaguely squid shaped. They have a nautilus with the spiral shell and it's all made out of wood and they sail. "It's like an age of sail game except they were just borders boring. Let's do it in space," he says.