Hate to be a bother, but what are the Apsara all about? They're mentioned as merfolk in the preview, but that's it.
Also, I'm really excited about Indigo Ice.
Never mind, I bought the book.
Finally got my hands on Waves of Thought. Great work, nicely done ^^
Finally got my hands on Waves of Thought. Great work, nicely done ^^
might as well say more :)... mainly because my EDIT time was elapsed.
Chapter 1- Introduction: great writting and great explanations.
Chapter 2- Races: nicely done, all balanced and very flavorful. Furthermore, I like the Zef, because it's the first aquatic adaptation of one of your Remarkable Races. The halfbreeds are great too, although I'd like to see more images of them. The campaign setting book also had few images of the halfbreeds. Also, I'm surprised that one aspect about the Attinia (Seafolk/Amphian halfbreed) wasn't mentioned: the fact that some of them end up with 2 mothers... as amphians change gender from male to female. That might be awkward to write about it, as it is a touchy subject, but that's a reality that an attinia might face if she had a amphian father and a merfolk mother.
Chapter 3- Classes: Bonus points for "full immersion" about the Psychic Warrior XD. The aquanaut is interesting, although I'd like to know if Water Blast deals extra damage if the target slammed a surface, based on the distance travelled while being pushed by the blast. For instance, if a target travels 80 feet back due to the blast and hit a wall, does it take 8d6 points of damage, like it would for a fall ? Aside from that, the class is well done. Same goes with the prestige classes.
Chapter 4- Feats, powers, items: no problem here, all are great additions, especially the starfishes. The only thing that shocked me was the Puffer Quills image at the chapter's intro. It is... unique. Jokes aside, great work.
Chapter 5- Backstories: great read as well, although I'd like to know why it takes a separate chapter instead of being merged with the race chapter. Minor complain, but I'm curious about it.
Chapter 6- Monsters: A DM's best friend and a player's worst nightmare XD. Great library of monsters and a lot of variety here. However, I would make an errata about the Chant Dragon: There is no metnion that the chant dragon's body shape doesn't allow it to make claw and wing attacks like the other dragons. Sure, there's the stat blocks, but that might be confusing that they don't have claws or wings. So, you might need to add that little detail later.
Bottom line: Great book, you guys keep amazing me with that series, keep it up ^^ !
Here's what I hope to see in the future:
- an enhancement that cover Dreamscarred Press's Psionic Expanded book, to include flavor to the new classes and such. Also, you could take the opportunity to convert the new classes, like the Magus, Gunslinger (if that's even possible), Ninja and Samurai.
- Speaking of classes, have you ever thought of making new archetypes for the aquatic campaign ? I'd like to see that ^^, or least, you could just tell us which archetypes are often seen/used.
- more aquatic variants of the Remarkable Races. I was surprised to see the Mogogols in the first book, but I didn't expect the Zefs. The Zefs are the Zifs as the Aquatic Elves are to High Elves, correct ? So I'd like to see more. Here's a list of examples:
* Anumi created from fishes (sharks included), cephalopods (octopi, squids), pinnipeds (seals, walruses), cetaceans (dolphins, whales) and crustaceans (crabs, lobsters)
* Entobians that mimic aquatic insects
* Oaklings made from aquatic plants
* Aquatic obitus... or how to convert human skeletons into merfolk ones
- A terestrial version of the aquanaut. While it's not related to water, I'd like to see a non-aquatic version of a class that uses psionics to alter his body is animalistic shapes.
- I'd like to see the equivalent of the Advanced Race Guide for the Remarkable Races and the Cerulean Seas. For the latter, it may be a good way to include a racial prestige class, like you did for RR. For the former, you'll score bonus points if you add a nice group image of all Amuni subraces in their section ^^.
Aside from that, I'll be waiting for your next book :D
Finally got my hands on Waves of Thought. Great work, nicely done ^^might as well say more :)... mainly because my EDIT time was elapsed.
Chapter 1- Introduction: great writting and great explanations.
Chapter 2- Races: nicely done, all balanced and very flavorful. Furthermore, I like the Zef, because it's the first aquatic adaptation of one of your Remarkable Races. The halfbreeds are great too, although I'd like to see more images of them. The campaign setting book also had few images of the halfbreeds. Also, I'm surprised that one aspect about the Attinia (Seafolk/Amphian halfbreed) wasn't mentioned: the fact that some of them end up with 2 mothers... as amphians change gender from male to female. That might be awkward to write about it, as it is a touchy subject, but that's a reality that an attinia might face if she had a amphian father and a merfolk mother.
Chapter 3- Classes: Bonus points for "full immersion" about the Psychic Warrior XD. The aquanaut is interesting, although I'd like to know if Water Blast deals extra damage if the target slammed a surface, based on the distance travelled while being pushed by the blast. For instance, if a target travels 80 feet back due to the blast and hit a wall, does it take 8d6 points of damage, like it would for a fall ? Aside from that, the class is well done. Same goes with the prestige classes.
Chapter 4- Feats, powers, items: no problem here, all are great additions, especially the starfishes. The only thing that shocked me was the Puffer Quills image at the chapter's intro. It is... unique. Jokes aside, great work.
Chapter 5- Backstories: great read as well, although I'd like to know why it takes a separate chapter instead of being merged with the race chapter. Minor complain, but I'm curious about it.
Chapter 6- Monsters: A DM's best friend and a player's worst nightmare XD. Great library of monsters and a lot of variety here. However, I would make an errata about the Chant Dragon: There is no metnion that the chant...
I too would like to see many of these things if possible.
I'm also eagerly awaiting Indigo Ice. If my information is right it should be out before Xmas.
Where is this cover? I can't find it on the Alluria page.
Present item?
I do not read or put any stock in reviews.Something someone else likes might be something I dislike.To me things like punctuation or spelling mistakes make little to no difference in the quality of a product as long as I can understand what the point was.
You pay no attention to reviews, yet...
I have had their Creepy Creatures book POD version in my want list at RPGnow for sometime now but I have been unwilling to make the purchase due to me not knowing or hearing anything on the print quality.
Contradiction ...too painful... must close screen.
I hope I'm not overstepping, but I got a sneak peek at Indigo Ice. All I'm going to say is that is going to be AWESOME.
Hey guys, Red here.
If you guys need a hand I'm sure I can convince my folks to donate a little time to help out. We've got a few on-staff artists, a lot of editors/writers, and a graphic designer. Not sure how much time we can donate but every little bit helps right? If nothing else we have a very active social media team (and a marketing person) so we could yell about your kickstarter from the top of the mountain to get you some press.
~Red
Indigo Ice available now, go check it out!
http://www.rpgnow.com/product/109095/Cerulean-Seas%3A-Indigo-Ice?src=FrontP age
any timeline on when it will be available here?
That's good to hear :)
I'll wait for its availability at Paizo though. Don't take it wrong, I just feel more comfortable with them than any online shops I've tried before.
And it us up.
I just got Indigo Ice, and it's one cool product (pun totally intended).
My only concern is that if I add this book to my games, I'll end up with a quartet of squawks named Skipper, Kowalski, Rico and Private.
Can I use this thread to shout out a few ideas you guys at Alluria could try in latter products? If not, well, I'm gonna use that one anyway :P
Alluria Advanced Race Guide
- A book similar to the Pathfinder Advanced Race Guide, minus the race creation appendix
- Expanded material for the 11 Remarkable Races plus the Cerulean Seas races
- 6 pages per race, like the Featured races section of Pathfinder's
- Alternate racial traits
- Favored class options
- Racial class archetypes
- New racial equipement, feats and spells
- Could be two separate books: one for the Remarkable Races and one for the Cerulean Seas
New race ideas (both Remarkable and Cerulean)
- Anumi created from other animal families:
* fishes (sharks included)
* cattle (cow, buffalo)
* primates (monkey, gorilla)
* mustelids (weasel, otter)
* camelids (camel, llama)
* pachyderms (elephant, rhinoceros, hippopotamus)
* cetaceans (dolphin, whale)
* pinnipeds (seal, walruse)
* cervids (deer, moose)
* cephalopods (octopus, squid)
* chiropteraes (bat)
* crustaceans (crab, lobster)
* marsupials (almost all Australian animals, which don't seem to fall into any of the existing category; i.e. platypuses aren't birds, possums and bandicoots aren't rodents, koalas aren't ursines and thylacines aren't canines or felines)
- New metamorphoses for Entobians (aside from beetle, moth, butterfly and dragonfly; could get alternate racial trais that replace their 2 claw attacks.)
* aquatic insects
* spider
* scorpion
* centipede
* bee/wasp/hornet/bumblebee/yellowjacket
* mantis
* horn beetle/stag beetle
* grasshopper/cricket
* ant
* mosquito
* cicada
* scarab
- Oaklings made from species of flora, like aquatic plants and tropical trees
- Non-human obitus (could be racial traits as well)
- Merfolks (all 3 categories) based on new aquatic creatures:
* stingray/manta ray
* swordfish
* anglerfish
* half-sea titan (a counterpart to the half-giant)
* seagull
* starfish
* squid (merkoth variant, could be a crossbreed between a merkoth and a trueform squid, a squibbon... or a kraken)
* pirhana
* sahuagin and brother of frost crossbreed
* pufferfish
* catfish
* merseacatfolks
* lionfish
* angelish
* turtle
* ningen non-seafolk crossbreeds (if selkies can interbreed with trueform seals, surely ningens can interbreed with trueform whales)
* trueform seafolk crossbreeds (carchardians might breed a different kind of sharkfolk; squibbons might breed a different kind of merkoth)
* sea elven crossbreeds (sea elf + non-seafolk (nommo, kai-lio, cindarian, amphian, melusine, merkoth, crystolix, ningen) = what?)
- if you do something to expand the material on seafolks, how about detailling a little the halfbreeds, with a picture and short bio for each? Don't be afraid to get into how these halfbreeds deal with their parents as well. For instance, half-nommo and half-melusine halfbreeds might hate their deep sea heritage; half-anthromorph halfbreed might be alienated by the differences between the sea world and surface world; half-amphian halfbreed might have to deal with having two mothers if their father was a male amphian that turned into a female. It might be a really touchy subject, but come on, GMs and players alike might have to deal with this.
That,s all I can think , but I'm sure you can come up with more stuff :)
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.
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.
I will be on the look out for it and any other books you care to make POD down the road. I like underwater adventures but I like them more as land based animal-human hybrids going underwater. But there are ways of doing that with magic without too much trouble. Like make a choker collar loaded with the life bubble spell if nothing else.
Add one more book to the pile, I just bought Waves of Thought. I like how DSP is doing Psionics so I am interested in seeing what Alluria will be contributing. Media mail takes about a week to get to my place?
Add one more book to the pile, I just bought Waves of Thought. I like how DSP is doing Psionics so I am interested in seeing what Alluria will be contributing. Media mail takes about a week to get to my place?
Good things.
I am getting a weird jumble of ideas in my head now. Like a weird amalgamation of ranger and psychic warrior in the beast master mode as a means of creating a hero like a certain aquatic DC comics hero that I shan't name but is best known for wearing orange and green.
So there's a new photo on the Alluria Facebook page. Deep Sea Dwarves?
That's great news ^_^
I'll have to look for the most part. Waves of Thought has shipped, I just have to wait and see when it gets here.
Obitu of the Sea, why yes we have those. Check them out on the Alluria Facebook page.
Obitu of the Sea, why yes we have those. Check them out on the Alluria Facebook page.
My suggestion... was heard? O_O!
b(^3^)b Alluria b(^3^)b
Obitu of the Sea, why yes we have those. Check them out on the Alluria Facebook page.My suggestion... was heard? O_O!
b(^3^)b Alluria b(^3^)b
I suppose they did. They look really cool too.
I finished reading Waves of Thought and I love it. I am looking into playing with it a bit although I am thinking of making a new anthromorph using Skortched Urf's Fursona to make a shark folk who is either a psychic warrior or an aquanaut. Or maybe both with the shark folk being a former slave race of the sahuagin.
I finished reading Waves of Thought and I love it. I am looking into playing with it a bit although I am thinking of making a new anthromorph using Skortched Urf's Fursona to make a shark folk who is either a psychic warrior or an aquanaut. Or maybe both with the shark folk being a former slave race of the sahuagin.
I'd go with Fursona 2 if you have it.
I have both actually. I bought 3 of that series. But the first one has an order that serves well if you want to make a race based on the great white shark.
Next time I have cash to play with I will try and pick that up.
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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)
Very curious, especially about Viridian Vale!
Half-breeds and Hybrids: Book of Mixed-races and Planars
Yase...
Remarkable Races: Cerulean Seas Edition
Sea Squoles!?! :D
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)Very curious, especially about Viridian Vale!
Half-breeds and Hybrids: Book of Mixed-races and PlanarsYase...
Remarkable Races: Cerulean Seas EditionSea Squoles!?! :D
Well, a Vale is a wide river valley. I'm also super excited about Half-breeds and Hybrids. Finally, yes sea squole, at least that's what I've heard..
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)
Consider them Day 1 purchases ^_^
Then the Cerulean Seas Bestiary
Wait, in addition of the monsters we get in the other books? Wow, that's crazy :o
Fin and Flipper : Book of Trueforms (rules for playing trueform PCs)
Interesting. HOWEVER, it would be really nice to have more than just aquatic animals being represented here, because as I re-read the template description, the Trueform template can be applied to any animal, not just aquatic ones. So, a Trueform wolf or eagle would be possible.
Half-breeds and Hybrids: Book of Mixed-races and Planars
All I'm asking is to go wild on that one and exploit to the maximum to the home vs heritage factor. You could get really creative there.
Tooth & Claw: Book of Anthromorphs
Elements and Enchantment: Book of Feykith
Tales of Tails: Book of Merfolk
Hmmm... do you plan to release small booklets for these 3? Because I could see that as just 1 big book instead. That's just my opinion though.
Remarkable Races: Cerulean Seas Edition
I'm a bit clueless about that one. Are you gonna take every Remarkable Race and adapt them to the Cerulean Seas, or are you just gonna expand them with aquatic variations, like the aquatic obitu? I doubt that it would be to give the Cerulean races the same treatment as the Remarkable races considering that you have 3 books about them, so color me curious about that one.
Kind of wondering how they will approach oriental adventures...since I have no idea how you would transfer that flavor over to marine environments other than suddenly having marine ninjas and samurai.
Remarkable Races: Cerulean Seas EditionI'm a bit clueless about that one. Are you gonna take every Remarkable Race and adapt them to the Cerulean Seas, or are you just gonna expand them with aquatic variations, like the aquatic obitu? I doubt that it would be to give the Cerulean races the same treatment as the Remarkable races considering that you have 3 books about them, so color me curious about that one.
I think I can answer this one. From a post on the Alluria Facebook page "A relluk's buoyancy would be about -875 according to my calculations. They sink like a rock. Towards the end of the year, we will be releasing Remarkable Races Submerged, which will detail waterbug entobians and aquatic squoles. You wont have to wait very long for aquatic obitu though." What other races will be in there, I have no clue, however I do know aquatic obitu are one of the new races in Azure Abyss.
Kind of wondering how they will approach oriental adventures...since I have no idea how you would transfer that flavor over to marine environments other than suddenly having marine ninjas and samurai.
Well, Japan has a lot of culture that is related to the ocean.
