NOW LIVE! Today's the day you meet your new best friend. You don’t have to leave Wolfy behind... In 'Pets & Sidekicks' your companions level up with you!

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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aeolius" data-source="post: 5397751" data-attributes="member: 2072">I devised a spellbook in a similar vein, a dreamcatcher filled with spell tokens (Complete Arcane). As for scrimshaw, I had a pirate bone creature of the same name.      I agree that, for those looking for official rules, options can be somewhat limited; Stormwrack, Into the Blue, and The Deep seem to be the most thorough treatments, thus far, and of course all are out of print.   As for the environment being limiting, I tend to think quite the opposite. There are undersea analogs of most Drylander environments; forests of kelp or mangrove roots, a jungle of floating sargassum seaweed, “deserts” of bleached corals or urchin barrens, fields of seagrass, and brambles of living sea stars come to mind, as well as the more extreme settings of black smokers (hydrothermal vents), cold seeps (undersea lakes), and the blackness of the abyssal depths themselves. Add to this the dangers of a three dimensional world; Drylanders sailing upon the surface of the sea, shallow-dwelling and amphibious creatures lurking just below them, beasts which roam the open seas, and the mysterious bioluminescent world of the deep.       Absolutely! Stormwrack was very inspirational, to my current game. Blackwater, riverine, and pearlsteel found instant uses, as did many of the monsters mentioned within.      In my last game, I had “abyssal elves”, inspired by the same movie. They were taken from drow stock and became a race gifted with “hydrokinesis”. I also have my ephyra, a psionic “mer-jellyfish” race.       That’s one reason that I set the following stipulations for PCs in my game; they must have a natural swim speed and the ability to breathe underwater without the use of magic. Savage Species also has a “Ritual of Gills” that grants the aquatic subtype, if you are looking for something unconventional.      Very nice. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> In my current game one PC is a sea elf ninja, while another is a merfolk shugenja.</blockquote>

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