Patfinder Adventure Path #19, Referencing Odd source books


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Nyambe stuff

I hope this helps. One or two of the paizo staff have mentioned these are good stuff. I suppose it depends on how much african style adventuring you do.

Cheers

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Paul Watson wrote:
Duniagdra DaaMyour wrote:
Howl of the Carrion King, p22 wrote:

Geier CR 3

Advanced vulture (Nyambe: African Adventures 234)
N Large animal
This is not the first time I've seen a creature reference to a source that is uncommon and not likely to be had by all by a Pathfinder Adventure Module. Why would anyone even think of doing this? How do I find these stats? I've never in all my years of gaming even heard of a Nyambe Game system. All my searching on the internet has come up empty. In fact, it's likely that I should just right the creature out of the adventure completely and put something a smart author should have put there in the first place because I'm not counting on anyone else having access to this information as well.

I call complete and utter BS on this. Not only did a search for Nyambe in Google put the site of the publisher (Atlas Games, for the curious) as the top choice, but a search of the Paizo store produces these results.

This is an example, one of many, of Paizo utilising the benefit of the OGL to get good, appropriate material without having to develop it all in-house. If they include the stats as anything other than a wandering monster, they'd provide the full stats. But a wandering monster table? Why not open those out a bit? DMs who don't have Nyambe can easily substitute something else appropriate (although maybe a core suggestion wouldn't go amiss when using OGL material)

Unfortunately you replied as I was deleting my post. Yes, I did finally find Nyambe. My claim is correct though that this is a highly uncommon game, completely non-existent in my area.

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French Wolf wrote:

Nyambe stuff

I hope this helps. One or two of the paizo staff have mentioned these are good stuff. I suppose it depends on how much african style adventuring you do.

Cheers

Yes, it took a lot of searching on amazon, but I did find this source and will have it soon in my D20 collection.

Scarab Sages

i don't understand the complaint. The creature is completely statted out for you in the AP. It is not necessary for you to own the book. The reference is there for those of us interested in where it came from if we decide we want to try and buy the book ourselves.

I do know that the Advanced Bestairy has been on my want list because of the APs for some time now.

Liberty's Edge

Pathfinder Pathfinder Accessories Subscriber; Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Superscriber

Apologies for the tone of the first reply. It was more aggressive than called for. I've since deleted it. But Wicht put it better than I did.

Also, you can buy the book from Paizo.

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Duniagdra DaaMyour wrote:
French Wolf wrote:

Nyambe stuff

I hope this helps. One or two of the paizo staff have mentioned these are good stuff. I suppose it depends on how much african style adventuring you do.

Cheers

Yes, it took a lot of searching on amazon, but I did find this source and will have it soon in my D20 collection.

Glad to help.

Cheers

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