Giant Nautilus, Shad, and Chososion - Respectively
Tue, 2005-12-06 21:54
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Giant Nautilus, Shad, and Chososion - Respectively
Wed, 2005-12-07 06:17
#3
Giant Nautilus, Shad, and Chososion - Respectively
I [heart] these pictures.
Ditto. I particularly like the shad.
It'd be a pikin' shame to resize these.
Wed, 2005-12-07 07:25
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Giant Nautilus, Shad, and Chososion - Respectively
The only thing that I think might need to be changed is the size of the Shad's nose. If you want to keep it, that works too. I like the style.
Thu, 2005-12-08 09:57
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Giant Nautilus, Shad, and Chososion - Respectively
"All the other Shad made fun of me, but I went to Doctor Thompson and he turned me from a zero into a hero!"
[Paid for by Doctor Jack Thompson M.D., Board Certified Plastic Surgeon]
Thu, 2005-12-08 10:44
#6
Giant Nautilus, Shad, and Chososion - Respectively
Much better, thank you.
"All the other Shad made fun of me, but I went to Doctor Thompson and he turned me from a zero into a hero!"
[Paid for by Doctor Jack Thompson M.D., Board Certified Plastic Surgeon]
:shock: Thats just... amazing
Thu, 2005-12-08 11:59
#7
Giant Nautilus, Shad, and Chososion - Respectively
Great work, Dr. Thompson! I can't even see the scars!
(Seriously, the Roman nose does make him look much more distinguished).
Thu, 2005-12-08 18:42
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Giant Nautilus, Shad, and Chososion - Respectively
I don't know, I kinda like the first one better. With the decreased nose, it's ears are too grotesque. It's like a cute ferengi now.
Thu, 2005-12-08 18:50
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Giant Nautilus, Shad, and Chososion - Respectively
I think both noses are good. I know that's not helpful for any kind of decision-making process, though.
Thu, 2005-12-08 21:27
#10
Giant Nautilus, Shad, and Chososion - Respectively
:shrug:
Makes no difference to me, honestly.
Fri, 2005-12-09 04:06
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Giant Nautilus, Shad, and Chososion - Respectively
Great!
But the chososion is actually a native of the Far Realm, so it shouldn't appear in the elemental planes installment. We'd reserve it for the installment for the planes beyond. Thanks.
There are a few more creatures missed out in the original list. These are found in PSMC3 Appendix.
blazon
sootbeast
vapor rat
saasin
denzelian
faribma
giggag swarm
scape
waiveras
hgaun
homucunlous, elemental
Fri, 2005-12-09 04:32
#12
Giant Nautilus, Shad, and Chososion - Respectively
We don't *know* that the chososion is from the Far Realms. It can be encountered exclusively on the Inner Planes, and I say that qualifies it for the Inner compendium. We put the dharculus in the Transitive, didn't we? And the dhour, also a creature of unknown origin.
Besides, one of the main features of the chososion is its dual-planar nature which assumes that most of its body is on another plane; we lose that if we put the creature on its home plane (FR, presumably).
Oh, perhaps we should list those minor creatures (almost negligible CR) in a separate document, as just a regular Creature Codex submission? There's very little to be said about them, I think.
Sat, 2005-12-10 20:56
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Giant Nautilus, Shad, and Chososion - Respectively
Indeed... Vermin [not the Type] of the planes as opposed to credible threats or usable monsters work better as a seperate document.
And the Chososion and other "Far Realm" entities should be classified according to their planes of interaction. Travel to the Far Realm is pretty much a waste of perfectly good PCs anyways -
"I sent my PCs to the Far Realms and all I got was this t-shirt made of human skin and blue tinker toys?" - Actual customer testimonial.
Note, why do people keep saying the chososion looks like an angry hat? I've never seen a hat like that 'afore.
Sat, 2005-12-10 21:57
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Giant Nautilus, Shad, and Chososion - Respectively
I would love to have a hat like that.
Tue, 2005-12-13 23:15
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Giant Nautilus, Shad, and Chososion - Respectively
We don't *know* that the chososion is from the Far Realms. It can be encountered exclusively on the Inner Planes, and I say that qualifies it for the Inner compendium. We put the dharculus in the Transitive, didn't we? And the dhour, also a creature of unknown origin.
Oh, perhaps we should list those minor creatures (almost negligible CR) in a separate document, as just a regular Creature Codex submission? There's very little to be said about them, I think.
Chososion is explicitly stated as hailing from the Far Realm; see MC Annual #4. And dharculus is not in the transitive doc. We need to have some creatures for the "other planes" installment, which will include Far Realm, demiplanes, Plane of Mirror, etc.
I included the "vermin" in the transitive doc. Might as well do it for the elemental planes. Besides the Inner Planes, I don't think we have much of these "vermin", anyway.
Tue, 2005-12-13 23:31
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Giant Nautilus, Shad, and Chososion - Respectively
Chososion is explicitly stated as hailing from the Far Realm; see MC Annual #4.
Chososions aren't in that book, they're in the Planescape Monstrous Compendium III. Could you be thinking of the dharculus or neh-thalggu?
Chososions exist simultaneously in the Inner Planes and a theoretical plane known as the Macrocosm, "a bridge to an entirely different multiverse." This might be the Far Realm, but isn't necessarily.
Since the Inner Planes are likely where PCs will be encountering them, I agree with nemui that this is the book they should appear in.
I included the "vermin" in the transitive doc. Might as well do it for the elemental planes.
I think this is a good idea. It's best to have all the creatures from a certain set of planes listed in the same book, rather than forcing people to cross-reference a "vermin" book to flesh out their encounters.
Thu, 2005-12-15 09:42
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Giant Nautilus, Shad, and Chososion - Respectively
Chososions aren't in that book, they're in the Planescape Monstrous Compendium III. Could you be thinking of the dharculus or neh-thalggu? [...] Since the Inner Planes are likely where PCs will be encountering them, I agree with nemui that this is the book they should appear in.
You are right. It was the dharculus that MCA4 listed as from the Far Realm. Okay, in it goes then.
Thu, 2005-12-15 18:11
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Giant Nautilus, Shad, and Chososion - Respectively
@seraph, re "vermin": How do you propose we handle these, under a single creature entry or what? Many of them don't even have stat blocks - for example, the windblown are mindless, harmless, floating fungi colonies, and the frostmite is basically a flea.
Air: Saasin, windblown.
Earth: Denzelian, faribma, giggag swarm, tosh.
Fire: Scape, waiveras
Water: None, just a general note on fish, plankton, kelp, etc.
Para Ice: Frostmite
Para Magma: Blazon, gelterfish.
Para Ooze: None, just a general note on venomous leeches, insects, jellyfish, etc.
Para Smoke: Sootbeast, vapor rat.
Wed, 2006-02-01 08:05
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Giant Nautilus, Shad, and Chososion - Respectively
Wed, 2006-02-01 10:52
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Giant Nautilus, Shad, and Chososion - Respectively
the last one is great, although the little guy has a verry skinny torso, and meaby it would be cool to put some fish in the back/forground.
but anyhow, great piece!
Fri, 2006-02-03 04:01
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Giant Nautilus, Shad, and Chososion - Respectively
THe full color nautilus is great. Can we expect to see the shad and chososion in color as well?
Fri, 2006-02-03 11:17
#22
Giant Nautilus, Shad, and Chososion - Respectively
I'll give it a try, sometime this week....
Mon, 2006-02-06 02:14
#23
Giant Nautilus, Shad, and Chososion - Respectively
I [heart] these pictures. Well played.
You might want to play around with some colors, but I don't know if that'd make them too busy. The nautilius at least is kind of sweet in an eerie skeychy sort of way. It reminds me of some DiTerlizzi things (deflate that head right now!) which looked like they came out of some Guvner's field notebook.