Thanks Vic,
It was a pretty major mistake so I figured it would be better to do so :)If I could have edited it myself I would have though if that makes you feel better hehe.
Oh, and yet again, thanx for the list; I bet it took a while to type out.
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By the way, James, is Crawling Hand perhaps Paizo's version of the Crawling Claw? ;)Sort of. it's basically an undead severed hand. While the crawling claw IS in the SRD (it's in the D20 Modern SRD), the crawling hand is built entirely from scratch. Same monster, different stats.
Alright, thanks -- the PCs are *very* likely to meet a crawling claw swarm in the near future (depends on their choices, but probably not in the next session). I'd love to see Paizo's take on this classic (?) monster before they do. :)
I've got my subscriptions bunched up into monthly pulls to save on shipping. Will my Bestiary get delayed, or is this in sync with Episode 4 of Serpent Skull?
If you've got the monthly shipment option, this should ship with AP #40. Fingers crossed!
Fetchling.
Sigh.
Hope Todd did this one.
Hurray for the Camel!
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Thanks for the usual Smartassed remark, Gorbacz. I'd never expect less from you. LOL! But some of us are trying to make every penny count in this terrible economy. So I order from Amazon to get my books at a cheaper price. Also, wouldn't it have been better to say nothing at all, than be rude?
Hey, I'm a bag with teeth. I can't be cuddly and polite, that would run against the avatar.
Anyway, +1 to the "you get what you pay for" remark. Amazon takes their books from Diamond/Alliance (not directly from Paizo), so between the whole road the books take AND the usual randomness of Amazon (not limited just to RPG books), you can pretty much roll d100, add the result in days to Paizo release date and hope for nobody to screw up along the way.
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Would the other boring reasons maybe be Ultimate magic maybe having stuff like that? :)Any chance you guys included updated "Summon Monster" and "Summon Nature's Ally" lists for the new monsters?Nope. No chance. We didn't have room, or the time to go through and pick out balanced additions to the spell, nor do we want to set up the expectation that something like that will be in every Bestiary, plus some other boring reasons.
Nope.
We really just don't want to bloat the summon monster tables with too many choices, honestly. It's already kinda hard to choose a monster; making there be TOO many choices spread across TOO many books just leads to option paralysis in game and that's not good.
Adding new monsters to the summon monster lists is a great house rule. And we add a few here and there in the deity articles we print every four volumes in Pathifnder. But beyond that... we are unlikely to officially expand the summon spells with new Bestairies. Just not a direction we're interested in going.
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Alright, thanks -- the PCs are *very* likely to meet a crawling claw swarm in the near future (depends on their choices, but probably not in the next session). I'd love to see Paizo's take on this classic (?) monster before they do. :)By the way, James, is Crawling Hand perhaps Paizo's version of the Crawling Claw? ;)Sort of. it's basically an undead severed hand. While the crawling claw IS in the SRD (it's in the D20 Modern SRD), the crawling hand is built entirely from scratch. Same monster, different stats.
Well... the crawling hand isn't a swarm, so that'll require a bit of trickery on your part, I guess.
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Oh, and yet again, thanx for the list; I bet it took a while to type out.Thanks Vic,
It was a pretty major mistake so I figured it would be better to do so :)If I could have edited it myself I would have though if that makes you feel better hehe.
All told it took about an hour or so... I had to hand write it first in to a pad of paper so I would not ruin the poster and then I typed it in to the thread. I "just" about lost everything because it was almost to big to fit in to the post... luckily I saved it first and THEN hit send so I did not loose it all hehe
You are welcome! :)
Thanks!
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By the way, James, is Crawling Hand perhaps Paizo's version of the Crawling Claw? ;)Sort of. it's basically an undead severed hand. While the crawling claw IS in the SRD (it's in the D20 Modern SRD), the crawling hand is built entirely from scratch. Same monster, different stats.Oooh, does it have an INT score now? Can I have one as a familiar?
*Also, are the petitioners still templates or a low CR build?
Crawling hand isn't a familiar option, but it DOES have a necromantically-infused intelligence (of 2).
Petitioners are templates, but closer to how skeletons or zombies work than vampires or liches. AKA: If you die and become a petitioner, you're not really gonna want to keep playing that character because all of your racial and class abilities go away.
::Looks at Deanoth creepily::
I probably just typed too slowly.
Pfft. What have YOU done for us lately, Daigle?
A whole bunch of those monsters, to start. ;)I probably just typed too slowly.Pfft. What have YOU done for us lately, Daigle?
Likely story!
Fetchling.
Sigh.
Hope Todd did this one.
I didn't work on this book, though there's a number of critters I created that show up here with stats for the first time like the fetchling, jyoti, sceaduinar, etc. The guys who worked on the book did a -damn fine- job, and there aren't any shifts in the flavor of anything I'd described previously but been unable to give stats to. Daigle I know did a few of the critters I created, and I'm pleased as punch with how everything came out.
Two things I want to discuss regarding two monsters, but it's on hold till the book is in subscribers hands. The fetchling looks awesome though since you mentioned it. :)
And though I didn't work on this, I have stuff in the pipeline man, and I think you'll like it though I'll suffer at the (admittedly tiny) hands of Tom Rex if I say anything.
Likely story!I know this isn't the place, but...
Damn you, Mairkurion. Damn you to a leafy hell. :D
And pray tell, what sort of monsters would live in this "leafy hell" of which you speak?
}:{D>
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Well... the crawling hand isn't a swarm, so that'll require a bit of trickery on your part, I guess.Alright, thanks -- the PCs are *very* likely to meet a crawling claw swarm in the near future (depends on their choices, but probably not in the next session). I'd love to see Paizo's take on this classic (?) monster before they do. :)By the way, James, is Crawling Hand perhaps Paizo's version of the Crawling Claw? ;)Sort of. it's basically an undead severed hand. While the crawling claw IS in the SRD (it's in the D20 Modern SRD), the crawling hand is built entirely from scratch. Same monster, different stats.
I think the Bestiary has pretty good guidelines and examples for creating swarms of "standard" monsters. Then again, the swarm is not even mandatory; a handful (har har!) of these monsters will probably do just fine, and be even scarier (for the players) than a single, boring swarm. :)
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I've got my subscriptions bunched up into monthly pulls to save on shipping. Will my Bestiary get delayed, or is this in sync with Episode 4 of Serpent Skull?If you've got the monthly shipment option, this should ship with AP #40. Fingers crossed!
Excellent! If I get both before Christmas, make sure that some of my subscription money is used to buy the people in shipping some Pizza and Mountain Dew!!
Well... the crawling hand isn't a swarm, so that'll require a bit of trickery on your part, I guess.
Easily solved by the Pack simple template!
PACK - Several creatures of the same kind acting in concert treated as a single creature, similar to a swarm. Any creature of size Fine or larger can form a pack, including NPCs (such as a crazed mob or a unit of soldiers).
CR +1
Size Category: Increases by one step, with corresponding increase in space. Reach is not affected. Base Str, Dex, and Con are adjusted as appropriate.
Hit Points: Double normal. Hit dice are not affected.
Mob Attack: All melee attacks are area effect, attacking all foes within a threatened square (or within the confines of the pack). All ranged weapon attacks are considered to be an area attack filling a single 5' square.
Vulnerable to Area Attacks: All area attacks do double damage to a pack.
No muss, no fuss. And if you need a really big bunch of them, you can have multiple packs.
-The Gneech
Likely story!I know this isn't the place, but...
Damn you, Mairkurion. Damn you to a leafy hell. :D
And pray tell, what sort of monsters would live in this "leafy hell" of which you speak?
}:{D>
Daughters without cell phones?
Daughters without cell phones?
There are 5 inevitables in Bestiary 2. Three pick-ups from the 3.5 SRD and 2 new ones. Chances of us making up more some time in the future? 100%
So you are saying it is inevitable?
Crawling hand isn't a familiar option, but it DOES have a necromantically-infused intelligence (of 2).Petitioners are templates, but closer to how skeletons or zombies work than vampires or liches. AKA: If you die and become a petitioner, you're not really gonna want to keep playing that character because all of your racial and class abilities go away.
- Now I just need to map out a crypt and right up stats for the rest of the Addams clan...
- ...and Planar Commitment (unless that's changed); I can just see players seeing the entry and mass-suiciding to try and "force" the GM to let them play in the Abyss.
300+ monsters is insane, I can't wait.
Hum, I hope we see a summon undead series of spells eventually. Some of these undead I would really like to see ripped from the underworld to do my bidding.
Damn you, Mairkurion. Damn you to a leafy hell. :DAnd pray tell, what sort of monsters would live in this "leafy hell" of which you speak?
}:{D>
Fiendish, charred treants, burned with Hellfire and cursed by Asmodeus, of course! ;P
I'm sure a twigjack would qualify.
Ignore the angry and envious dwarf and icky bug dude. It's filled with nimble nubile nymphs, dancing delectable dryads, and everfilling pools & streams of alcohol. Why you'll love the special-, er, wait... {consults reservations} oh, I'm terribly sorry, that's booked solid for Urizen and Moorluck until the end of eternity.
Ah yes, "Leafy Hell": you're stuck in a Moebius roadtrip with the Gallbladder & Mustache of Cosmo while attempting to elude the Infernal Poodle Lords. You'll be listening to CDs of CSPANN minutes and drinking Callous Jack-brand pruno.
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Well, maybe if I had the new bestiary to read, it wouldn't be so bad.
Well, maybe if I had the new bestiary to read, it wouldn't be so bad.
It's in the glovebox uploaded on an Etch-a-Sketch.
Will this product contain new Companion selections for Druids/Rangers?
Honest mistake, but anyone else disappointed the Carrion Crawler isn't coming to the #1 fantasy RPG?
Daughters without cell phones?Likely story!I know this isn't the place, but...
Damn you, Mairkurion. Damn you to a leafy hell. :D
And pray tell, what sort of monsters would live in this "leafy hell" of which you speak?
}:{D>
Sounds heavenly to me. Any chance one of them is single? ;)
Will this product contain new Companion selections for Druids/Rangers?
I asked this in Paizochat tonight, and Jacobs told me that every Animal size S or larger should have AC stats. Likewise Animals smaller the S should have familiar stats. He also said that it 'should' be the case for future Animals in products from this point on.
I asked this in Paizochat tonight, and Jacobs told me that every Animal size S or larger should have AC stats. Likewise Animals smaller the S should have familiar stats. He also said that it 'should' be the case for future Animals in products from this point on.
Thats fantastic!
The thing that irritates me at the moment is that the core Rulebook limits the pool of available animals for rangers, yet the bestiary gave rangers equal access to the expanded set of companions (I play a ranger, this matters to me!) and obviously going forward there will be equal availabity... so I wonder if they are going to remove the restrictions across the board at some point, allowing free and equal access... seems odd to only restrict in one place but make all others equal.
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I asked this in Paizochat tonight, and Jacobs told me that every Animal size S or larger should have AC stats. Likewise Animals smaller the S should have familiar stats. He also said that it 'should' be the case for future Animals in products from this point on.Thats fantastic!
The thing that irritates me at the moment is that the core Rulebook limits the pool of available animals for rangers, yet the bestiary gave rangers equal access to the expanded set of companions (I play a ranger, this matters to me!) and obviously going forward there will be equal availabity... so I wonder if they are going to remove the restrictions across the board at some point, allowing free and equal access... seems odd to only restrict in one place but make all others equal.
If you want to have a wider selection of ranger pets, ask your GM nicely. If he wants rules, there are things like the beastmaster archetype from the APG that open up the ranger animal companion.
The list for rangers is limited normally because we want animal companions to mostly be a druid thing. Rangers are ALREADY quite good at combat, and putting another good combat thing on top of that is too much while allowing them to retain their other abilities; the aforementioned Beastmaster archetype has the ranger lose some other class abilities to gain more animal companion choices, after all.
Thanks James :)
I was just finding it odd that the core Rulebook had restrictions, but subsequent supplemental products (ie the Bestiary ) did not, and allowed full choices to both classes. It also confirms that some companions are more equal than others (ie the large cat).
Honest mistake, but anyone else disappointed the Carrion Crawler isn't coming to the #1 fantasy RPG?
How about "disappointed that carrion crawlers, mind flayers, and beholders aren't open content"? That way legalities are still covered.
OTOH, given just how much stuff -is- open content, disappointment might seem a bit of an ingratitude.
We loves the OGL, yes we does precious...
-The Gneech