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Professor Quid the Science Squid has Profession: SCIENCE! but it's Charisma based, since it involves hosting a children's show (*shakes tentacle at Dr. B's Science Jubilee*).

The nice part is that it doesn't cost extra to get diminutive armor... just weapons cost more. The hydrobody is able to use regular medium armor, but I'd rather have adorable little bitty cuttlefish armor, because you never know when a GM might rule that I can't form a hydrobody ("What do you mean, there's no water in space? Literally ALL water is in space!").

Professor Quid the Science Squid here doesn't even use hydrobody; instead she rides a hover drone while collecting information for her children's science show (and trying to keep a niche with kasatha-come-lately Dr. B's Science Jubilee sucking up all the oxygen like a bunsen burner in an airlock).

Argh, Dr. B stole my "science tv show icon" schtick!

Thus the ratings war between Dr. B’s Science Jubilee and Professor Quid the Science Squid began...

Keldin wrote:

But is it rules as intended?

No. They coat your lungs per the description. If you have gills, you don't have lungs. Now, there's a whole discussion of how the augmentations aren't supposed to be limited by alien anatomy (but they are because my khizar has no eyes and can't see... giving him nightvision augment doesn't make him see).

However, 1. the stellifera has the water body feature so should *always* be in water and 2. you're going to wear armor, aren't you? Ergo, artificial life support.

You lose so much from not having a water body, I don't know why you'd ever want to be in water.

Actually, my fine feline, when one is a drone mechanic who intends to ride one's Tiny Hover Drone, it pays to be Diminutive! Utilizing the Water Body feature typical of my race, I would be too large and heavy to properly maneuver on my fine craft, The Splendid.

If you watch my show, Professor Quid the Science Squid, you can see how the hover engines of the craft can only lift a certain weight while still being able to gain altitude. I go over it in detail, while still being understandable even to your little kitten cubs.

Thus, with a need for the ability to breathe outside of water, there is absolutely no reason that I should not be able to have access to modified gills that allow me to breathe air with the rest of you fine non-aquatic individuals. That's why Veylon Enterprises provides a line of gill sheathes specifically for races such as my own, or our good Kalo friends.

There is no dang reason AT ALL to punish aquatic races by changing the rules text on Gill Sheath to specifically preclude water-to-air in addition to air-to-water. They don't lose their lung slot for augmentations, and who's to say that their alien physiology can't maintain such an augmentation. You're only punishing creative builds like Professor Quid here.