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Real life Factor?

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Fri, 2012-07-13 15:45
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Duke Rollo Duke Rollo's picture
Real life Factor?
http://www.gastropods.com/Shell_Images/G-L/Glaucus_atlanticus.jpg Real life Factor?
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Fri, 2012-07-13 15:48
TekHed TekHed's picture
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Looks like concept art to me.
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Fri, 2012-07-13 16:01
Prophet710 Prophet710's picture
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Pretty good render, but I have to agree.
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Fri, 2012-07-13 20:41
Tyrnis Tyrnis's picture
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If it's a render, what does that have to do with anything? It's a render of a real creature. While it may not be an exact match for the Factors, it's not a bad species at all to read a little on for inspiration if you're going to be featuring the Factors in an EP game.
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Fri, 2012-07-13 20:45
TekHed TekHed's picture
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I saw nothing in that link to indicate to me it was a drawing of a real creature...
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Fri, 2012-07-13 20:50
Tyrnis Tyrnis's picture
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The image provided the name of the creature, which made it very easy to Google. For example: http://seaslugsofhawaii.com/species/Glaucus-atlanticus-a.html as well as: http://www.thecephalopodpage.org/MarineInvertebrateZoology/Glaucusatlant... They're actually pretty neat. EDIT: Added second link.
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Fri, 2012-07-13 21:04
Decivre Decivre's picture
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Gorgeous-looking organism, but I don't know if the factors would look like this. The blue swallow is decidedly evolved for oceanic travel, so a similar-looking creature wouldn't fare well as a land-based predator. Still, pretty awesome looking. I wonder if you can get one as a pet?
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Fri, 2012-07-13 21:10
CodeBreaker CodeBreaker's picture
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They don't do well in tanks. They have a very specific diet, which is very hard to maintain for all but the most experienced of tank keepers (i.e, professionals). Still a cool looking animal though. Not sure that that first image is a render, btw, fairly certain that it is simply a clean photo taken on a white background with some HDR applied.
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Fri, 2012-07-13 22:24
Decivre Decivre's picture
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CodeBreaker wrote:
They don't do well in tanks. They have a very specific diet, which is very hard to maintain for all but the most experienced of tank keepers (i.e, professionals). Still a cool looking animal though. Not sure that that first image is a render, btw, fairly certain that it is simply a clean photo taken on a white background with some HDR applied.
We need to genefix these adorable little things to be a bit more survivable. Because I want one, dammit!
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Tue, 2012-07-17 23:29
jackgraham jackgraham's picture
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Yup, actually, they are. Kind of. Someone (I think it was Rob) gave the artist who illustrated the Factors in core photos of sea slugs for reference. Nature: weirder than your imagination. :)
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Wed, 2012-07-18 01:00
Decivre Decivre's picture
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There are pictures of factors? Where?! GIVE US SAUCE!!! No seriously, are they in one of the books that already exist? Because I don't remember any.
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Wed, 2012-07-18 01:08
Geonis Geonis's picture
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@Decivre, Page 373 seems to be the one you are looking for. Edit: Core Book, sorry.
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Wed, 2012-07-18 01:17
Decivre Decivre's picture
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Geonis wrote:
@Decivre, Page 373 seems to be the one you are looking for. Edit: Core Book, sorry.
Holy shit, how did I miss these?!
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Wed, 2012-07-18 09:51
nezumi.hebereke nezumi.hebereke's picture
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Probably because of the basilisk hack embedded on page 374?
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Wed, 2012-07-18 14:54
Gerzel Gerzel's picture
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Negative. The hack that does that is in the customization points table pg 135 to prevent over-zealous players from reading the GM section. The hack you detected on pg 374 makes you send 20 bucks a month to Rob Boyle.
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