NEW CHALLENGER APPROACHING! The Baughur!
Wading through the thick muck and mire of the swamps and wetlands the large baughur looks to be nothing but a small fleshy island breaching the water. Flies and birds orbit its thick hide as it shovels its ho...
Hey everyone, hope you're having a nice weekend.
The Larkiera STL files are now available for the Dweller Tier members in the usual dropbox folder link.
And I wanted to say thanks to the Patrons in the discord group for the final look to this fish, WorldShaper, the 3d modeller, asked if a simple stand or some terrain would better suit the method to hold up t...
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Thank you for your subscription and here is your content!
Welcome Package:
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2023-09-01 12:57:37 +0000 UTC View Post
The very first fish releases! Which is pretty thematic since because of water there's a bit of a delay on the 3D print as our modeller is in Florida and the hurricane caused a few lost days. But it's coming! and on Discord you can find some nice work in progress shots.
Thanks again to everyone who voted for the Larkiera, here's the fishy beast and all of what you're gett...
Merrrry Wayward Wednesday
So I think that hybrid encounter/trap ruleset worked and now I'm thinking about future plants that can be treated in a similar way, so here's some healing or something beneficial on the go. As I'm fleshing out the cavern biome I'm trying to think of some nice symbiote relationships between plants and animals, so here's one of them!
As ...
Hey everyone!
September's release will feature the first fish! The Sol'Kesh bestiary has quite a lot of aquatic creatures so it's about time the finned ones get some miniature releases, and the Larkiera is swimming in soon.
September 1st Release
The Larkiera is a predator of the rivers, with slit-pupil eyes to easily see through...
Hey everyone! I had an idea based on some talks in Discord of adding plant stats to the Bestiary.
But I'm trying something new (at least I think it's new, there's so much quality RPG content out there) and these are a bit of a hybrid between traps and creature stat blocks, they don't offer experience but they can be killed and have a part to play in the initiative roll.
I'd love...
Everyone one clam up! It's Wayward Wednesday.
On Sol'Kesh, when coral reefs became indefinitely exposed to the sun, they adapted and became the Coral Strands biome. The creatures that crawl and swim around them have had to adjust to a life above and below the waves and here is something of an aquatic take on a spiderweb, but with clams! Using it's foot to rise up in thin...
Happy Wayward Wednesday everyone!
So this creature is nearly a direct suggestion from one of the players on the Sol'Kesh Live play RPG, Farren. On Discord he suggested a cat that has a method for camouflage, his was more in the desert but I got this cat into the woods, using a similar method for camouflage.
I'm going to end up doing a fully colou...
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2023-08-15 13:09:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Release the slug swarm!
Hey everyone, today we launch the second creature of August and this one comes with a few bonuses :)
Bonus rules!
For a single medium sized and a single large sized Elder Lanceleth who have their own unique abi...
Hey everyone!
To celebrate a whole year of Sol'Kesh, we've been working on some nice updates coming in for the Patreon and the bestiary's progress.
To start things off, for all you people out there curious on what this project and Patreon is all about, feel free to access the Intro Package here:
&n...
2023-08-14 11:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostStarting to think everyone just loves the letter B, that's 4 B's in a row!
Thanks to everyone who voted, maybe next month the poor Fennfistle and Gorr will finally get their win...or I'll move onto into the vaunted B position :P
So here's the fishy beast itself, now to think of a good harvestable item...
2023-08-10 13:34:48 +0000 UTC
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We have ourselves a Wayward Wednesday! And this vine here is based on a few conversations over in discord on some potential plants that thrive in Sol'Kesh, and that could potentially be used as weapons. (because of course)
I'm thinking of releasing a plant-statblock as a test based on this so that the next time the party is walking in the Sol'Kesh woods, that perhaps th...
Hey everyone!
As I've been building out the bestiary book, I've been noting down the genus of animal that the Sol'Kesh creatures have evolved from. Which is technically correct, but I'm starting to think it's not as easy to grasp compared to if I instead wrote Stem Evolution instead. While a genus is better at a wider range of species, it often requires an online search ...
NEW CHALLENGER APPROACHING!
Fish!
Hey everyone, we have here our forth Creature-Democracy poll today and coming in on the B slot is the Larkiera.
Although it's never had a mini or 5e rules, I have shown its journal e...
2023-08-03 12:45:32 +0000 UTC View Post
So I was thinking, what if cordyceps fungi hitched a ride without killing the bug... besides the fun visual if that would make evolutionary sense. So... here's my idea! and a fun little beetle
For all you wonderful Patreons looking for the high res version you can find it here:
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2023-08-01 11:35:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy 1 year anniversary to the Patreon everyone! And thank you so much to those who stuck with it throughout the months, joining the discord and being part of this world building journey. I love the little community we've built here and can't express how amazing it is brainstorming with you all on some ideas to work into the island of Sol'Kesh together. I'll be doing a bit of ...
2023-08-01 11:30:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone!
August is soon here and for the first time we're releasing a swarm-creature, the Lanceth (recently name changed since a Patron discovered the original name, Lancelet is the name of some burrowing fish-like thing)
In a few days the Ynnil will launch, adding some much needed range to the creature attacks. Thanks everyone who voted for it in the last <...
When the Astral Adventures team was looking for a sweet and spicy sauce, the DM Rose, invented the greatest pepper of all time, the Barbecue Sauce Plant. Blending the sweet of sucrose and the spicy kick of capsaicin, this ready to squeeze pepper pairs nicely on 2023-07-26 11:54:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Gotta love what the wild luck of a Nat 20 can do to a game. Rose and the crew have quite the cinematic session in this one, enjoy!
And if anyone else whats to record live sessions, on twitch or whatever platform you like, I'd love to support you! I'm offering unreleased creatures to anyone interested!
And for those that haven't already joined the rest of the Sol'K...
It's Wayward Wednesday you wonderful Patrons you.
I'm taking a bit of an animal break for the weekly sketches and instead fleshing out the life cycle of one of the Sol'Kesh creatures, the silvette. I tried to mimic a bit of what sharks do with their eggs by having these long strands of eggs flow in the river stream.
And you can find this, along with all the ot...
2023-07-19 15:15:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome Traveler to the Sol’Kesh Speculative Evolution Bestiary!
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This week has seen to some torrential rains up here in Canada and what better way to celebrate a hot, wet summer than with an animal that will enjoy every minute of it.
Evolved from the Speleomantes genus of salamanders, the solmundis rests in the cool mud of the wetlands biome, waiting to dart out its harpoon-like tongue and impale any passing prey.
So today you'll be...
2023-07-15 11:59:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey Happy Wayward Wednesday Patrons!
Two beasts in a row for the book's fishing feature, this isn't Sol'Kesh's first long ranger spitter, but I liked the idea of a school of these just launching a barrage of water and anything flying overhead.
You can find this, along with all the other wayward high res sketches here:
2023-07-12 12:59:23 +0000 UTC
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We have a winner! And one new way I'll treat these Polls is by revealing the journal entry of the creature to you much-appreciated Patreons earlier than the public release.
So thanks to you and your votes, here's the spitting lizard. Created mostly as a reason to get some more ranged attacks in from the beasts of Sol'Kesh after talking to some of the Discord members 2023-07-07 13:00:01 +0000 UTC
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Happy Wayward Wednesday everyone, it's not the usual sketch but it's some progress into the book!
Environment art is still a style I'm trying to get better at, so hopefully with the 6 biome and 6 apex predator landscape illustrations planned I'll end up adequate, a true lofty goal.
If you missed the first biome illustration you can find it 2023-07-05 11:15:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Creature-Democracy time is upon us once again!
So the last 2 creature-polls had giant bugs take the win, to give our more scaly and amphibious friends a chance I cut any bugs from the vote. Is that still democracy? Is democracy even real? these are the hard questions I don't ask myself wh...
Hey everyone, I'd like to introduce the new 3D modeler to the team!
Greetings everyone!
my name is Keith and I would like to present you with my first offering as sculptor on the Sol'Kesh Bestiary project.
I was fortunate enough to stumble upon this opportunity to sculpt for you based on Terry's fantastic concepts and I am having so much fun!
This pi... 2023-07-03 14:32:52 +0000 UTC View Post