@Emily Kubisz/Emberion: really happy to hear of Alluria's return. Definitely keep us posted, Kickstarter is the way to go. I have heard great things about Cerulean Seas and am eager to see more!
Also, do you guys need help outside of the fiscal realm? Some of the posters above seem ready to lend a hand. Are you/is Alluria still interested in submissions for new material?
@Dark Mistress: way to go DM! Nice work keeping the thread and hopes alive...
Oceanshieldwolf wrote: @Emily Kubisz/Emberion: really happy to hear of Alluria's return. Definitely keep us posted, Kickstarter is the way to go. I have heard great things about Cerulean Seas and am eager to see more!
Also, do you guys need help outside of the fiscal realm? Some of the posters above seem ready to lend a hand. Are you/is Alluria still interested in submissions for new material?
@Dark Mistress: way to go DM! Nice work keeping the thread and hopes alive...
@Oceanshieldwolf Yes! We are considering submissions, and if the kickstarter campaign is successful (submitted and waiting for approval at this point) we will also be looking for authors to help us flesh out existing material. Send submissions and inquiries to alluriapub@gmail.com
Just scream if you need any help..I can always throw some of my stuff into the mix.
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Kickstarter Campaign is here: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/alluria/cerulean-seas
Be sure to spread the word! We need all the help we can get.
Those are some nice supporter rewards. If the kickstarter gets funded, it's also a pretty good deal if you were wanting to purchase some of the items being offered as rewards.
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gg DM and Alluria! Hitting that link as soon as work's out!
Tweeted, shouted on Google+, and blabbed about it on the Fans of d20pfsrd.com Facebook group and page!
d20pfsrd.com wrote: Tweeted, shouted on Google+, and blabbed about it on the Fans of d20pfsrd.com Facebook group and page! Thanks! :) We are up to 600$ already! I hope it keeps up. We may be looking at the resurrection of Alluria Publishing! Like a phoenix from the ashes...
Thanks to all who help make this possible. We are not there yet, but it is looking very promising.
In less than 12 hours, you've achieved nearly half of what you're needing. I think that says as much about your quality of work as anything ever could.
I have a question though, waves of thought, is that based around DSP's psionics or is it your own system?
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@ShadowcatX: I seem to recall that on the old Alluria-homepage, it mentioned that they use DSP's system and have them on board for consulting. I think Jeremy mentioned something along those lines as well. ^^
ShadowcatX wrote: In less than 12 hours, you've achieved nearly half of what you're needing. I think that says as much about your quality of work as anything ever could.
I have a question though, waves of thought, is that based around DSP's psionics or is it your own system?
Yes, DSP. Originally, we were working on the project together and were going to release it jointly, but that never quite worked out. We do have, however, their support and input from their design team.
Any questions or input you guys want, just let me know. :) More than happy to help another publisher include psionic support.
Waves of Thought Sneak Peek: All of our Kickstarter backers will also get an exclusive sneak peek at our upcoming (hopefully) book "Waves of Thought: Undersea Psionics"
Joined the pledge. Cerulean Seas must be continued and psionics are always awesome when done by DSP/with their help!
Time to think about additional goals/rewards - Alluria has met the goal and there's still a lot of time left!
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I was honestly a bit surprised that the goal was set so low in the first place. I was sure it would have been several thousand dollars higher. Either way though, I'm really glad to be a part of it, and to see it having been met so incredibly fast!
Simply Amazing! I never realized that Alluria Publishing was so well loved! We have reached our goal in 2 days! But every little bit helps. Feel free to continue the drive, which will ensure our continued success. We aimed a bit low to simply get us above water, but every dollar helps with future projects. The wheels are turning again, and we may see new stuff as early as May. To all of our supporters so far: Our deepest and heart felt gratitude. Thank you, and we will not let you down.
Our webpage is back! However, due to nefarious practices of some companies who wait like vultures for a domain to expire and swoop in and claim its traffic, we have lost our .COM suffix. So now we are Alluriapublishing.NET. We feel the .NET suffix is a better fit anyway, as it fits well with our Cerulean Seas Setting.
www.alluriapublishing.net
Hey, nice to see you got your funding. If I can swing some cash your way I will....
I checked out your website too - the remarkable races look really interesting (thinking entobian and obitu), and the artwork does seem quite good.
Again, nice to see you guys back up and running - with your back catalogue it seems a shame you had dark days.
I concur with Endzeitgeist - make some new reward tiers - there's plenty of time left to get some big funding happening.
P.S. Your highest tier seems unbelievable!
I hate to see this happen to such a great company. I have Cerulean Seas and it's a beautiful piece of RPG work. I've had some serious economic setbacks the last few months or I'd buy a hard copy of the book (which I'd rather have, anyway).
Any suggestions for new reward tiers?
You might combine the $20 and $30 pdf tiers so that people who want to donate $50 but don't want a physical copy of the book have an option other than donating twice? Not a huge deal, but it might help.
High-level tier: Suggest a topic for a Remarkable Race/or a Cerulean Seas-product and have it developed by Alluria?
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One popular theme among options is that higher-level donors get to add something to a future product. E.g. they get to have an NPC of theirs appear in a book, etc.
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Glad to see something is coming from all of this. Nice to see the thread alive and well. Not to mention Alluria Publishing. If things work out I will try and join in hopefully before the deadline ends.
I pledged too, even though I don't own any of Alluria's products. Just based on all great stuff I've read and seen about Cerulean Seas. Not a big contributer, but nonetheless thought it was a worthy pledge to make. Look forward to seeing how things pan out for Alluria and I hope this is the shot in the arm that will help them continue and grow.
I added a 1000$ tier, cause you never know. Also we are over 3000$! We have set a secondary goal of $10,000. The first goal was to get us out of debt and back in production. The second goal is to get the company from sputtering to take off!
Doing great so far! We are going to work to get some banners up and drive up more interest. If anyone has any ideas to keep interest up until the end of the drive, let us know!
Emberion wrote: Doing great so far! We are going to work to get some banners up and drive up more interest. If anyone has any ideas to keep interest up until the end of the drive, let us know! Back on the first page, I've posted homebrewed Anumi sub-races. Feel free to use them for future materials. I wasn't doing that for fame or recognition, but for fun... so screw credit and stuff. It's my gift to you.
JiCi wrote: Back on the first page, I've posted homebrewed Anumi sub-races. Feel free to use them for future materials. I wasn't doing that for fame or recognition, but for fun... so screw credit and stuff. It's my gift to you. @JiCi Thank you very much! We will likely make them into some sort of bonus material. They are very well done and appropriate.
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It'd also be cool to get some adaptations for aquatic entobians (IMO), perhaps as an evolution feat or something similiar.
Sethvir wrote: I pledged too, even though I don't own any of Alluria's products. Just based on all great stuff I've read and seen about Cerulean Seas. Not a big contributer, but nonetheless thought it was a worthy pledge to make. Look forward to seeing how things pan out for Alluria and I hope this is the shot in the arm that will help them continue and grow.
Same here. I had never heard of them before today, but from the outpouring of support I'm seeing here, I'm more than happy to help.
Originally, our goal was $2000, as this was simply what we needed to break even on our past projects and justify moving forward again. We never realized that our products were so well loved, however, as we reached our initial goal in a mere 2 days. With the remaining 3 weeks we intend to raise enough money to get ourselves in a position where this will not happen again and continue to bring you high quality 3rd party products for years to come. Cost of art, writing, layout, editing, printing, advertisement, and so on adds up VERY quickly. If we can reach our new goal of $10,000, this will ensure that we can hire the best artists, writers, and gaming specialists and really shake up the 3rd party gaming industry, much like we have done in the past by investing our own money.
Thank you to everyone for your support!
Emberion wrote: JiCi wrote: Back on the first page, I've posted homebrewed Anumi sub-races. Feel free to use them for future materials. I wasn't doing that for fame or recognition, but for fun... so screw credit and stuff. It's my gift to you. @JiCi Thank you very much! We will likely make them into some sort of bonus material. They are very well done and appropriate. You're very welcomed... although, I strongly suggest that you double-check them for avoid balance issues. I didn't test them that thoroughly.
Alzrius wrote: It'd also be cool to get some adaptations for aquatic entobians (IMO), perhaps as an evolution feat or something similiar. - Entobians could get new evolutions based on new insects, including aquatic insects (perfect for Cerulean Seas !).
- Anumi are a no-brainer as there are new families to cover, again including aquatic races.
- Oaklings could have new sub-species based on different trees.
- Squoles apparently have a 4th sub-race called a Smoke squole that wasn't covered.
- Taddols could have new sub-species based on other elf sub-races, like wild, wood, gray, aquatic and even drow. Of course, that could go for the ettin side as well.
- Kvals could have sub-races that are descendants from different fiends.
@JiCI Those are also good ideas, some of which we had started working on. Once the company gets back up and running, we are planning to divert some resources into bonus material such as this as a way to generate both support and advertising.
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It'd be really nice to see bonus material regarding integrating Ultimate Magic, Ultimate Combat, and Bestiary 3 into Cerulean Seas (and, depending on how soon Alluria gets back up and running, the Advanced Race Guide too).
I recognize that this is a lot, and that it seems to imply that an update would be needed whenever Paizo releases a big hardcover book, but I recall how awesome it was when you guys updated Cerulean Seas for the APG and Bestiary 2, and I'd love to see that again.
@Alzrius We are planning an Ultimate Cerulean Seas book, that will incorporate the new stuff. Probably by December.
Also, we are currently looking for new writers and artists. Email me at alluriapub@gmail.com for more details.
I'd like to put some money into this, but am rather unfamiliar with Kickstarter and just had a quick question over how the print products would work for a non-american. I'm considering supporting at a level to get a print copy of the campaign book, but I live in New Zealand and so recognise that sending books to me would cost more than sending to more local supporters. Could you let me know how things would work for foreign pledgers? Cheers!
Berik wrote: I'd like to put some money into this, but am rather unfamiliar with Kickstarter and just had a quick question over how the print products would work for a non-american. I'm considering supporting at a level to get a print copy of the campaign book, but I live in New Zealand and so recognise that sending books to me would cost more than sending to more local supporters. Could you let me know how things would work for foreign pledgers? Cheers! Typically, foreign contributors will add a bit more to their pledge to accommodate shipping, and also know that the delivery may take a bit longer as well. The electronic products, of course, are not an issue.
A dozen days left to donate!
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By the way, U.S. Domestic shipping is included in the pledge amount. Add $10 for international shipping. Thanks!
Pyrrhic Victory wrote: mark Yes?
Mark Moreland wrote: Pyrrhic Victory wrote: mark Yes? *fan eyes* Hi Mark!Loved the Gnomes book!
Only one week left of the kickstarter campaign! There are lots of great incentives to pledge, so get them while they last!
Thanks a ton D_M for keeping this topic alive and thanks to End for suggesting kickstarter!
I just noticed this thread and recall being interested but too poor to purchase Cerulean Seas before. I am pleased to be able to contribute, even if only a little bit. I hope others do the same and get you to that goal. Good luck!
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Dark Sasha wrote: Thanks a ton D_M for keeping this topic alive and thanks to End for suggesting kickstarter!
I just noticed this thread and recall being interested but too poor to purchase Cerulean Seas before. I am pleased to be able to contribute, even if only a little bit. I hope others do the same and get you to that goal. Good luck!
I really didn't do anything special other than just let Alluria know they have a lot of dedicated fans that would like to see them back and let fans know what was going on after I found out.
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As a update to those that have not been checking. The pledge broke 4k but has kinda stalled. i finally managed to pry 30 lose to pledge. There is only 7 days left so if anyone has not pledge and is a fan of Alluria i urge to go pledge now and get some stuff.
Dark_Mistress wrote: As a update to those that have not been checking. The pledge broke 4k but has kinda stalled. i finally managed to pry 30 lose to pledge. There is only 7 days left so if anyone has not pledge and is a fan of Alluria i urge to go pledge now and get some stuff. Thanks again DM, and thanks to all who have contributed so far!
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