Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Bestiary 6 (PFRPG)

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Bow Down in Fear!

Monsters have long stalked us in the darkness. Within this book, you’ll find a host of these creatures for use in the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. Face off against archdevils and the Horsemen of the Apocalypse, planar dragons and the legendary wild hunt, proteans and psychopomps, and hundreds more! Some creatures, such as the capricious taniwha, the mysterious green man, or the powerful empyreal lords, might even be willing to provide your heroes aid—if they deserve it!

Pathfinder RPG Bestiary 6 is the sixth must-have volume of monsters for use with the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game and serves as a companion to the Pathfinder RPG Core Rulebook and Pathfinder RPG Bestiary. This imaginative tabletop game builds upon more than 10 years of system development and an open playtest featuring more than 50,000 gamers to create a cutting-edge RPG experience that brings the all-time best-selling set of fantasy rules into a new era.

Pathfinder RPG Bestiary 6 includes:

  • More than 200 different monsters.
  • New player-friendly races, like the crazed monkey goblins, the telepathic albino munavris, the river-dwelling fey naiads, the wolflike rougarou, and the yaddithians of the Elder Mythos.
  • Numerous powerful demigods, from archdevils and Great Old Ones to empyreal lords and qlippoth lords.
  • New animal companions and other allies, such as fierce devil monkeys and loyal clockwork hounds.
  • New templates, including the entothrope and the mongrel giant, to help you get more life out of classic monsters.
  • Appendices to help you find the right monster, including lists by Challenge Rating, monster type, and habitat.
  • Expanded universal monster rules to simplify combat.
  • Challenges for every adventure and every level of play.
  • AND MUCH, MUCH MORE!

ISBN-13: 978-1-60125-931-8

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And i thought i didn't need this one!

5/5

I had thought when Bestiary 6 came out I wouldn't need it.

How wrong was I!

This book will definitely take it's place as one of the essential Pathfinder books in my collection, if you're waiting to get this, don't! Get it now!

Well done Paizo!

My one complaint is mine had the same shitty yellow binding glue as the first printing of the Starfinder CRB, but I'm not dropping the rating because it is that good (also I still have binding glue leftover from my Starfinder CRB).


A solid addition

4/5

So Bestiary 5 was a bit disappointing to me, but this one is something that did something with Pathfinder I haven't seen in a while: gave me ideas that I wanted to use. A lot of the monsters presented are honestly interesting. As usual, there are some reprints from other products, but I always favor having consolidated lists of things. I won't use everything, but there is enough here that I'll be using a good chunk.

Also, the weremantis reminded me how much I love Portal, so I have to give it to them there.


Upward Trend

5/5

A wide variety of creatures with overall high quality artwork. I like the inclusion of the numerous high CR creatures.

Bestiary 5 and 6 have been my favorite Bestiary books by far.


Unusable

1/5

So me and two other guys from my gaming group ordered this book from amazon. WOW, all of us have missing and or scrambled pages.

I have over 17 missing pages (most of the archdevils content)and more or less 20 pages out of order. I don't know if they are sending all the "special" books down here, but I can assure you I will never buy a physical book from Paizo anymore.


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Luthorne wrote:
Fourshadow wrote:
Berselius wrote:
Kalindlara wrote:
The nupperibo and the eye of the deep both have the advantage of having appeared in the Adventure Path line, although the latter is beholder-y enough that Paizo might not want it simply out of a desire to distance their brand from iconic D&D creatures. ^_^
Maybe they could make them giant floating eyeballs capable of generating storms whose tendrils can burrow through skulls and turn humanoid beings into berserk slaves instead? :D

The Aatheriexa doesn't do exactly what you asked for, but it is darn close.

[url]http://www.d20pfsrd.com/bestiary/monster-listings/aberrations/aatheriexa[/url]

With this creature, I don't need Beholders. These suckers are really insidious, nasty and have some similarity to beholders, but bring in some creative differences! Including casting Lightning Bolt--there's your storm generation.
I absolutely loved Bestiary 5.

EDIT: Guess I have no idea how to make links work...sorry.

What you need to do is [ url = (put the url here) ](put the text you want to link to the url here)[ / url ], without the spaces. For example, the aatheriexa.

Hope that helps!

It did help, thank you.

For some reason, these critters remind me of the classic Island of Terror with Peter Cushing.
Anyway, carry on with your wishes for Beasts in these fantastic Bestiaries...

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AmbassadoroftheDominion wrote:


Protean Lords: three, that I know of

There are 7 named (3 given any real detail). If Zolo of Hungry Teeth counts, there are 8 but when named it's unclear if he/she/it/tangerine/x^° is or isn't.


I don't see any protean lords' names mentioned in Bestiary 2.


Todd,
I am quite interested in the other four, but as it stands the only three I know of are in an article your wrote during the Legacy of Fire Adventure Path, End of Eternity. is there a specific source I should look into regarding the others?
the three I know are the Colorless Lord, the Maker of Kings, and the Wanderer.
the Hungry Teeth sounds amazing, but I don't think I've read about him.


So it was in legacy of fire that those three were mention but what about the other ones?


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AmbassadoroftheDominion wrote:

Todd,

I am quite interested in the other four, but as it stands the only three I know of are in an article your wrote during the Legacy of Fire Adventure Path, End of Eternity. is there a specific source I should look into regarding the others?
the three I know are the Colorless Lord, the Maker of Kings, and the Wanderer.
the Hungry Teeth sounds amazing, but I don't think I've read about him.

In the same article, he said:

Keepers of Chaos wrote:
Several of the best known of these godlike beings are noted here, though others, such as the blathering Mother of Tongues, the formless Lord of Entropy, the vine-eyed Watcher in the Wheel, and the dreaded Lord of the Insane, are known to other races in fearful rumors and the raving of madmen.

So that's probably the other four. Not sure about Zolo of Hungry Teeth, though.


Yes but what product(s) where they mentioned in?


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Dragon78 wrote:
Yes but what product(s) where they mentioned in?

As AmbassadoroftheDominion noted, it was in the article on Proteans, Keepers of Chaos, from The End of Eternity.

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Dragon78 wrote:
Yes but what product(s) where they mentioned in?

According to the Pathfinder Wiki, all of the named Protean Lords are mentioned in Pathfinder #22: The End of Eternity (the Legacy of Fire AP issue mentioned previously.

Oops. Ninja'd. Of note, the "protean lords" page on the wiki only has the main three. Each of the other named lords has its own page.


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OK, thanks for the info, it is hard to remember in what book is what information.

I do find it strange to call a protean lord "the Maker of Kings". Maybe call it "the Maker and Breaker of Kings".

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Dragon78 wrote:

OK, thanks for the info, it is hard to remember in what book is what information.

I do find it strange to call a protean lord "the Maker of Kings". Maybe call it "the Maker and Breaker of Kings".

Well, if it helps, his full title is "The Crownless, Maker of Kings."

As for remembering sources, I totally agree. I find that the Pathfinder Wiki's citations are often more important/valuable than the information on the pages.


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Dragon78 wrote:

OK, thanks for the info, it is hard to remember in what book is what information.

I do find it strange to call a protean lord "the Maker of Kings". Maybe call it "the Maker and Breaker of Kings".

The 'kings' in question are those proteans rising to become keketar, it seems, as well as arriving when a keketar chorus receives visions that herald some change in their philosophy.

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Luthorne wrote:
AmbassadoroftheDominion wrote:

Todd,

I am quite interested in the other four, but as it stands the only three I know of are in an article your wrote during the Legacy of Fire Adventure Path, End of Eternity. is there a specific source I should look into regarding the others?
the three I know are the Colorless Lord, the Maker of Kings, and the Wanderer.
the Hungry Teeth sounds amazing, but I don't think I've read about him.

In the same article, he said:

Keepers of Chaos wrote:
Several of the best known of these godlike beings are noted here, though others, such as the blathering Mother of Tongues, the formless Lord of Entropy, the vine-eyed Watcher in the Wheel, and the dreaded Lord of the Insane, are known to other races in fearful rumors and the raving of madmen.
So that's probably the other four. Not sure about Zolo of Hungry Teeth, though.

Zolo (of Hungry Shapes) is mentioned in passing in the Cuthbert's mace portion of Artifacts and Legends.


*wonders if St. Cuthbert's mace will ever make an appearance in an AP*


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So that is where Zolo was mentioned. I hope with all this talk of Protean Lords that we will see some them stated up soon.


So, uhh...someone suggested that this book was put in place of the Encounter Codex because people didn't like the idea of said codex?

1) Why didn't people like the Encounter Codex?

2) Is the Encounter Codex still going to happen?


Axial wrote:

So, uhh...someone suggested that this book was put in place of the Encounter Codex because people didn't like the idea of said codex?

1) Why didn't people like the Encounter Codex?

2) Is the Encounter Codex still going to happen?

1) I don't get why people wouldn't like this codex... I'm really looking forward to it!

2) Below are Sir Erik words about it in the Adventurer's Guide board.

Erik Mona wrote:

Encounter Codex is still in the mix, but has not yet landed in a permanent spot. It's neither gone, nor forgotten... nor next.


Here's an interesting creature you could add to it.

Wila

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DungeonmasterCal wrote:

Here's an interesting creature you could add to it.

Wila

Pathfinder does have the Veela, but they aren't quite the same thing.


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I would like to forget Pathfinder's take on the Veela.

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Dragon78 wrote:

I would like to forget Pathfinder's take on the Veela.

:O


The reason I dont really like pathfinders veela is because they should only be air based, not the other elements...

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Nightterror wrote:
The reason I dont really like pathfinders veela is because they should only be air based, not the other elements...

I'm okay with deliciously sexy dancing lads of all Elements.


I like the artwork, though it is a water veela, it can easily be used as air based veela. I don't care if they have genders, though I prefer them female, but for other reasons that Dragon78 that only wants pretty female pictures, I have more deeper reasons.


Actually I was disappointed they were not fey, though I do not like the art as well, that is easier to fix then stats.


Did we ever get word on whether non-Horsemen daemons are in this one? I just realized the (awesome) Phasmadaemon and (pretty ok) Obscidaemon from Book of the Damned 3 never got printed in a Bestiary. Plus there's the (supremely awesome) Lapsudaemon in Hell's Rebels 4. But maybe they're too high CR to all make it in, and 1-2 wouldn't be worth doing.


I want the Phasmadaemon and Sangudaemon in bestairy 6, they are the best daemons by far after the 4 based on the horsmen of the apocalypse (leuko, mela, purro and thano)


I am sure at least some creatures from hell's rebels made it in though I don't know wich ones.


Correction, Lapsudaemon was in Hell's Vengeance 4, not Hell's Rebels.


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Hmm, I'd like to see the centianima, kuribu angel, morgodea, nightprowler nightshade, procyal agathion, scrivenite, scythe glass swarm, shadow golem, slithering pit, telgrodadt, tenome, typhilipede, and/or zephyr of the Hell's Rebels monsters, I think.

Edit: Though the proteans would also be cool.

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Looks at description: Fight Krampus !?! A cthulhu-oid player race! A non-third-party Canine race!

OH MY GOD THIS BESTIARY SOUNDS AWESOME!


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Yes Mangaholic, welcome to the forum;)


I definitely would like to see the Nightprowler Nightshade in this! Absolutely love-to-hate the Nightshades. Some truly evil boss undead in these 'shades!
They are one of the many reasons I love B2 so much!


Where is the Nightprowler found again?

I was thinking we haven't had a new nightshade since B2. But then there a lot of things we haven't had any new ones for awhile now.

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Dragon78 wrote:
Where is the Nightprowler found again?

Pathfinder Adventure Path #102: Breaking the Bones of Hell. Page 90. ^_^


Ok, I found it, wow, it's weak for a nightshade.


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Dragon78 wrote:
Ok, I found it, wow, it's weak for a nightshade.

That's actually a reason I like it...if you want to use nightshades, you can toss these in earlier, or you can toss in a few to beef up a nightwalker encounter. Not to mention, a nightwalker with a few nightprowlers as pets or minions is a cool - and perhaps slightly terrifying - mental image.

Edit: Though I should say I also think they're cool in their own right.

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Nightterror wrote:
I like the artwork, though it is a water veela, it can easily be used as air based veela. I don't care if they have genders, though I prefer them female, but for other reasons that Dragon78 that only wants pretty female pictures, I have more deeper reasons.

I checked the pawns to see if the other elements were in there, but it had just the one; and only one at that.


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I want nightblooms, plant versions of the nightshade

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Dragon78 wrote:
Ok, I found it, wow, it's weak for a nightshade.

It's intended to be the bottom end of nightshades, and fills the CR spread for them up. I wouldn't expext us to do any more of them in the future...


Funny, I thought the nightcrawler was supposed to be the weakest.

A plant based nightshade would be awesome.


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Dragon78 wrote:
Funny, I thought the nightcrawler was supposed to be the weakest.

Isn't the nightcrawler the second strongest? With Nightprowler < Nightwing < Nightwalker < Nightcrawler < Nightwave?

Paizo Employee Creative Director

Dragon78 wrote:

Funny, I thought the nightcrawler was supposed to be the weakest.

That's not even true in the context of the basic 4 nightshades.


James Jacobs wrote:
Dragon78 wrote:
Ok, I found it, wow, it's weak for a nightshade.
It's intended to be the bottom end of nightshades, and fills the CR spread for them up. I wouldn't expext us to do any more of them in the future...

I dont really understand. Why environment drakes and giants get endless variety and nightshades (which are much more interesting) stop at just six?


James Jacobs wrote:
It's intended to be the bottom end of nightshades, and fills the CR spread for them up. I wouldn't expext us to do any more of them in the future...

There are 26 demons in the bestiaries so far.... but nightshades are the ones who are full up now?

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Nightterror wrote:
James Jacobs wrote:
Dragon78 wrote:
Ok, I found it, wow, it's weak for a nightshade.
It's intended to be the bottom end of nightshades, and fills the CR spread for them up. I wouldn't expext us to do any more of them in the future...
I dont really understand. Why environment drakes and giants get endless variety and nightshades (which are much more interesting) stop at just six?

Because the design philosophies for the CR niche occupied by giants is much wider, and because the initial CR niche that drakes were supposed to occupy (CR 3 to about 8—they were intended to fill a gap that was "sub true dragon) ended up being eroded through lack of communication of the intent.

Since nightshades are created so much less frequently, we've been able to control their creation more easily. Furthermore, they're intended to be a high CR category of foe anyway, so going lower than the nightprowler kinda goes against their fundamental theme.

And because part of the nightshade theme is that there's a specific nightshade to epitomize different movements—originally flying, burrowing, walking, and flying. That expanded with the nightskitter and the addition of a climb rate. With the nightprowler, we've already broken that initial design theme and instead have a new theme following along a human/quadruped/winged/finned/arachnid/legless motif. If we figure a way out to expand that category more, there might be more nightshades to come. I had initially thought we'd used up all the categories with the nightskitter, but the redefinition made a certain amount of sense.

And because not everything has to iterate forever.

Paizo Employee Creative Director

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Milo v3 wrote:
James Jacobs wrote:
It's intended to be the bottom end of nightshades, and fills the CR spread for them up. I wouldn't expext us to do any more of them in the future...
There are 26 demons in the bestiaries so far.... but nightshades are the ones who are full up now?

Correct. Not everything needs to be or SHOULD be infinitely expandable. Sometimes things are defined by the fact that they have relatively narrow and low-number groupings.


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All I know is Nightbloom Nightshades would be akin to having Fungal Queens turning into Nightshades. Which I think James isn't for.

Also Linnorms. :p :)


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Sorry, I meant "Nightwing" not "Nightcrawler". But still, considering how nightshades are formed, CR14 should be the lowest one.

When I think of plant like Nightshades, I do not think of fungus. Maybe a shadowy poisonous flytrap or sundew like one or even a flowering plant like a lotus of pure darkness.


Dragon,

Lotus? We talking Rock Lee or Might Guy Lotus? ;)

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