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Azure Abyss and Indigo Ice are now available in Print (POD) at RPGnow.com. Get your copy today!

Good news! Azure Abyss and the Indigo Ice revision were both accepted by the printers (for the POD program at RPGnow). My preview copies are on their way, and as soon as they get here, as long there are no glaring issues, they will be available on POD. This puts the projected POD at or around June 10th.

Wow that is awesome

Anyone getting a "Squidbillies" vibe?

They are just squid imps. You can find them in Azure Abyss. The dragon-thing is a Rhythm Dragon (corebook), and the last critter is one of the new guys: The Grotto Hulk.

Emily

Thank you so much for the unexpected call out! We appreciate all the help we can get. Love to all!

Are any of these available in print format, or will they be (POD, maybe?)?

The corebook, Indigo Ice, and Waves of Thought can be purchased POD from RPGnow.com. Azure Abyss will be available POD some time in June. Later this month, Indigo Ice will come off POD for a couple of weeks to incorporate the recent update. They take the old one down during the approval process for the new one (which makes little sense, but that's the procedure). We don't have the revenue to offer print copies anywhere else, unless Paizo sponsors a POD program as well.

Emily

Now available on paizo!

Azure Abyss

hello,

when Azure Abyss will be in PoD ?

Near the beginning of June, if all goes well. The review process at the printer is slow and fickle. They've rejected entire documents because a single page has "too many colors" and don't even mention which page. They are not fun to deal with, but I think we got the process down to the point where we only get one or two rejects before it goes through. Each bounce costs us two weeks.

Well, I received a speedy reply:

"Thank you for your email. Our Webstore Specialist, Liz Courts, is currently out of the office, which has caused a slight delay on our end. Normal webstore operations will be back-up when she returns. We appreciate your patience in this matter." (Justin Riddler, Paizo Customer Service)

While there is no ETA in the email, we are confident that the delay is simply bad timing and that the file will be up when she returns...hopefully soon. My appologies, we had no warning that this would happen.

Not sure why Azure Abyss isn't up yet, they are usually very quick. They haven't emailed, so I don't think there are any issues with the file. Its very odd. I will email their support and see what the hold up is.

OmNomNid wrote:

So got through Azure Abyss- Love it. My only real nitpick is how the Angler just gets a bonus feat as a Capstone but it is a very, very minor complaint.

Hmm. I wrote a capstone. I suppose it got cut for space, or rules reasons, etc. When I get to it, I'll check Azure Abyss, and if there isn't a capstone, I'll post what I had here.

I agree a bonus feat isn't quite enough to encourage someone to play to level 20.

Hey guys! Head up on this. The capstone power is simply missing from the table (an oversight, sorry), but it is there. (In a future update, it will be added to the table). The capstone power is called "Master of the Field" and is detailed on page 32. Sorry for the mix up!!!

Are there new releases up at Paizo from Alluria? I'm a little confused!?!? :)

It should be, but its not. I guess Paizo took Cinco De Mayo off, or maybe just Sunday...not sure. In any case, they should have it up tomorrow.

The file was uploaded to Paizo yesterday. We are just waiting for them to approve it. Usually only takes 12 hours or so, so it will be up any moment.

My copy of Indigo Ice is still screwed up.

RPGnow is not updating for some reason. I have contacted their support and hope to hear a reply very soon.

Hey folks, those of you that purchased Azure Abyss and/or Indigo Ice over at RPGNow may have noticed that recent updated versions of those documents are not working properly. I can assure you that both Emily and I are working on rectifying that. We thank you for your patience.

I think that the issues is resolved. RPGnow's watermark process goes all Jupervas on adobe files of specific versions, reducing them to a fine murk. I was hoping to reduce the version number without increasing the file size and I think I succeeded. Tell me if you still have issues.

(and thanks to Steven for helping me out with this. RPGnow can be a nightmare sometimes).

any update on when we might see Azure Abyss on Paizo? I am looking forward to getting it, but would prefer to buy it here rather than Drivethru

Yep, still on for this weekend. Probably early Sunday or Saturday night.

Emily

I am too. I'm really looking forward to Cobalt Coast, but a bestiary is a nice consolation.

The main reason for the change is that these setting books take a lot of R&D and this takes a lot of money and time. We keep going into the red before the book is released. So we are going to take a much slower approach to them. The next couple products will focus on one aspect rather than the entire gambit at once. These should help fund the books that take longer to playtest and develop. So when cobalt coast does come out, it will be even more awesome than those before it.

I love the Estrels and I think they should have their own book one day, "Practical Starfish Summoning for Beginners"

Estrels will be futher featured in the book on trueforms, which will bring all the truforms into playable status. Believe it or not, in the original incarnation of Cerulean Seas (made over 10 years ago for D&D 3.0 and never published), trueforms were part of the standard PC race lineup.

Not fast enough!

We should see it here before the end of the weekend. There is some sort of format issue with the pdf that even I don't entirely understand, but I was assured it will be uploaded here before Monday. This is also when the free copies will go out, and there will likely be an update to those purchased on RPGnow as well (not that they don't work, but the file is larger than it needs to be).

My apologies for the delay.

Emily

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Disturbing things lurk in the deep sea! Azure Abyss is coming the end of this month (for real this time). We hit a few snags that had delayed the project and playtesting took much longer than expected as well. All the bumps have been ironed out, and we are in the final editing phase for most of it.
This has been a hard project, and has forced us to reconfigure our lineup. The Cobalt Coast and the Viridian Veil will be postponed, and the Bestiary Compendium will be next, followed by a few surprise products. Onward!

Emily

As a point of order, black powder firearms will not function underwater. Yes, modern firearms can function underwater, but the bullets do not travel anywhere close to their range when fired out of water: about two and a half feet in the case of this handgun and about four feet for an AR-15.

Alluria's Cerulean Seas Indigo Ice supplement have rules for aquatic firearms. Instead of black powder, they use a special methane clathrate combustion system, and have bullets designed to enact supercavatation, which is necessary to enact any range with underwater. The design is loosely based on modern firearms that have been designed to work underwater (in the real world).

Also, does anyone know if the master benefits for the aquatic familiars from the Cerulean Seas book were ever given?

Are you referring to page 55 of the main source book?

What did you pay for your Colossal red?

I want to get a permanent record, here. ;)

I payed 89.99. I'd easily pay 180$ for a gargantuan green if there was no other way to get one. Heck, I thought of commissioning an artist to craft one for me, and that's an order of magnitude more than 200$. I love my collection, but that Large-size green dragon mini among the Gargantuan-sized minis, just sitting there and starting at me for 7-8 years is driving me a little batty. I took a picture of him once, enlarged it, and made a cardboard cutout, but it just wasn't the same. This will eventually lead to some sort of insanity where I do commission one myself and sell copies of it online for a mint to other people driven to near as great a madness as myself by cruel miniature game designers. (Most of this is tongue and cheek, btw! I would love to see one though! Keep up the excellent work.)

Woo Woo! And with Waves of Thought in the top ten! Grats to all that made it! It is an honor to be among such amazing talent.

A spectacular honor! Cerulean Seas Waves of Thought was in Pathways/Endzeitgiest's top 10 list of 2012, You can pick up your free copy of Pathways at the link provided here:
Pathways #23

As for the print issues, we are waiting until we have the funds to print enough copies for consignment. As soon as we do, they will be here :)

Emily

A spectacular honor! Cerulean Seas Waves of Thought was in Pathways/Endzeitgiest's top 10 list of 2012, You can pick up your free copy of Pathways at the link provided here:
Pathways #23

As for the print issues, we are waiting until we have the funds to print enough copies for consignment. As soon as we do, they will be here :)

Emily

I think we have our final race for Azure Abyss. I have no idea what IT is, but it's definitely unique

Mums the word on these until the release ;)

I can say that along with the aquatic obitu and deep drow, they are among the three most powerful races of the underdeep. Also, like the obitu, they don't fall into the feykith, anthromorph, or merfolk categories.

I notice lots of people complaining that there hasn't been a "gargantuan green dragon" yet...

I think what people are reflecting on here is that its never been done. If you want one, you have to make it yourself. There are actually quite a few monsters that NEVER had existing miniatures made of them, except perhaps in the days of Ral Partha and Granadier. To me, this seems like a horrific oversight. Sure, you want to appeal to new collectors...but throw us old ones a bone and get us on board too. We already have satisfactory minis of most of these, and more is nice but not really a motivating factor. I guarantee the release of a gargantuan green will cause a big spike in mini sales across the board, not just for the green dragon, but it may reawaken us slumbering old collectors that have given up on seeing any classics that we don't already have.

And as far as "We are planning it." For us Gargantuan Green hunters, we heard that before. At yet, the pinnacle of my miniatures collection is still one color short...as no incarnation of this creature has ever been minted.

To answer a few questions:

1. The race themed books will be giving each race "Advanced Race Guide" treatment, as well as expanding on races that either appeared in a bestiary or were given minor treatment. The book of trueforms, for example, will present many of these races (such as the Carchardians and Squibbons) and give them player character-style write-ups, as well as rules for playing trueforms.

2. The Cobalt Coast, our oriental adventures-type supplement, will be similar to Indigo Ice in that it will detail a far-way realm. We will incorporate existing Asian (and even a bit of Australian and Polynesian) myths, as well as crafting some new things. Yes, sea samurai and ninja will be possible.

3. The Remarkable Races Submerged will continue the "Advanced Race Guide" style, not only presenting a few aquatic versions of existing Remarkable Races, but also detailing races such as the aquatic obitu and austorian dwarf that do not fit well into the other categories. There will be a couple of brand new species as well. There will be an aquatic relluk, and those will actually appear in Viridian Veil first.

4. The products in this list only apply to the Cerulean Seas setting. We do have other products planned for the core that are still in the developmental stage.

5. Indian Ocean/Sinbad myths and Manual of the Aquatic Planes are definitely on the drawing board, and might be something we see in 2014.

Mikaze wrote:

Emberion wrote:

Cerulean Seas: the Viridian Vale (to be announced, but super awesome)

Hehehehe...well that just made my typo more obvious :P

It's supposed to be Viridian Veil, not Vale. I guess I mixed up my vails.

And the veil shall not lift quite yet...

My god, why can't we get a gargantuan green dragon? I am sick of settling for a modded McFarlane or a substandard toy version. Can we start a petition or something? People have been waiting for this one for nearly a decade when WotC first started making the Gargantuans. When Paizo picked up the torch on this, I was overjoyed...and yet they make other colors again and again. I don't care who makes it or how much it costs, just freaken make it already. At this point, I'd easily pay twice what I payed for my colossal red, and I know about 3 dozen other people who feel the same way.

Indigo Ice now available in Print on Demand at:

http://www.rpgnow.com/product/109095/Cerulean-Seas%3A-Indigo-Ice

It turned out very beautiful!

Indigo Ice now available in Print at:

http://www.rpgnow.com/product/109095/Cerulean-Seas%3A-Indigo-Ice

The Relluks are one of the races that really impressed me. I also have the Cerulean Seas book and it is gorgeous. I really should look and see if Indigo Ice is available as a POD. I do trust the folks at Lightning Source to do a quality job. I have yet to get something from this company that I have not thought interesting and worth keeping around even if I never use anything RAW.

Indigo Ice will have a POD version on RPGnow soon. Lightning Source is pretty good, but they are extremely slow at processing color books. I expect another 2-4 weeks before the process is complete.

We have some really great products lined up for 2013 and beyond, in this projected order (with some unannounced surprises along the way):

Titles are subject to change slightly, along with order.

Cerulean Seas: the Azure Abyss (Deep Sea Adventures, Coming soon!)
Cerulean Seas: the Cobalt Coast (Oriental Adventures beneath the waves)
Cerulean Seas: the Viridian Vale (to be announced, but super awesome)

And those 3 will conclude the world building supplements (for a while anyway).

Then the Cerulean Seas Bestiary

Then will start the race builders (much like advanced race guide) including:

Fin and Flipper : Book of Trueforms (rules for playing trueform PCs)
Half-breeds and Hybrids: Book of Mixed-races and Planars
Tooth & Claw: Book of Anthromorphs
Elements and Enchantment: Book of Feykith
Tales of Tails: Book of Merfolk
Remarkable Races: Cerulean Seas Edition

And much more!

Edit: Never mind about my Squawk question. I just learned that Emperor Penguins have been recorded as getting down as far as 1870ft.

I know right? When doing the research that kind of blew my mind as well.

any timeline on when it will be available here?

As soon as whomever is in charge of that sort of thing approves the file. Usually less than 24 hours.

Cerulean Seas: Indigo Ice supplement is now out. Now you can adventure under the ice!

Indigo Ice is available! It is on RPGnow.com and will be on Paizo shortly....

Print version of Waves of Thought, now available at RPGnow.com!

Print version of Waves of Thought, now available at RPGnow.com!

New facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/AlluriaPublishing

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See this is why there should be a Alluria facebook page. I just found out this was out today. I had money on the 27th, but now I have to wait until October to get this. Oh well, I guess I'll just have a lot of awesome next month.

http://www.facebook.com/AlluriaPublishing

Any chance of this going POD like the campaign book on rpgnow.com?

It was sent to the printing department for approval yesterday. We should hear back soon. It could be available as early as mid-September.

Looks fine now. Wierd.

Yeah, I think the zoh were inflicting their mind tricks on us all...using the rare talent "Screw Up the PDF file", level 6 telepath power. Luckily I have good saves...

Ok, check it out and let me know if its fixed. I can't find a computer where it doesn't work, so I can't test it myself. :P

Oddly, those who purchased it new, should not have any issues. This is only affecting those who purchased it before today.

Ok, just got off the line with RPGnow. The Problem is not with the new file, but that the file did not get updated with the new update (in fact, it reverted back to the original file). The new file should be updated by 7PM EST today. I'll send out an email when it is updated. Again, sorry for all the issues. It seems that we are plagued by pdf gremlins lately.

Ok, this time its working in the preview and on most computers. Can you describe the issue in more detail? I am unable to reproduce the problem. Perhaps this is an issue with RPGnow?

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Waves of Thought should be available on the Paizo site sometime today.

Wow. Waves of Thought is published! I wrote material for that a lifetime ago it seems. I am so damn out of loop lately -- to the PDF cave!

Greetings! Yes, Waves of Thought is on RPGnow.com and will be here shortly. We had some release issues that prevented us from releasing it here and are kind of waiting to fix them all first. Basically, our new software is making PDFs that do not work on every computer (?!!!) so we are in the process of fixing those files. They will likely be ready this weekend. My apologies for the delay. Minor hiccups.

We are currently working on "Indigo Ice" Which is aquatic adventuring under the polar ice caps. So far we are having loads of fun with it!

More updates soon.