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Given that sasquatch,yetis, and orang-pendek all officially exist in the Pathfinder setting what about Australia's cryptid ape the Yowie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yowie
Do they exist on Golarion ?
Have any official stats been done for them? I know they don't appear in any of the bestiaries have the perhaps appeared in any of the modules ?
We haven't statted up Yowie yet, but I'm 100% sure they're out there. Early on we indicated that the mystery continent of Sarusan was our "Australia analogue" but today that's not the case, since we're trying to keep that continent a blank slate for GMs to play with or simply to keep a bit of mystery about Golarion for the time being. So it's not cool/fair/good to "strand" Australia inspired content to a place we'll probably never explore in print. Instead, we've been looking at Australia stuff now and then where appropriate to inspire us.
Yowie hasn't reached Golarion yet as a result, but as I'm probably the primary reason there's such an emphasis on cryptid-inspried monsters in Pathfinder, traditionally, I can assure you Yowie is and has been on the to-do list. Can't make promises when or if we'll get there, alas.
On the note of apelike cryptids and Golarion, would some of the more 'Faulkner/Southern Gothic' areas of Ustalav make for a good skunk ape area? Sinaria County perhaps?
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On the note of apelike cryptids and Golarion, would some of the more 'Faulkner/Southern Gothic' areas of Ustalav make for a good skunk ape area? Sinaria County perhaps?
Hmmm... I feel like Skunk Ape would fit in better down in Andoran. Dunno why. But not Ustalav.
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If you do end up creating yowies how would you make them different from sasquatch and other similar cryptidsWe haven't statted up Yowie yet, but I'm 100% sure they're out there. Early on we indicated that the mystery continent of Sarusan was our "Australia analogue" but today that's not the case, since we're trying to keep that continent a blank slate for GMs to play with or simply to keep a bit of mystery about Golarion for the time being. So it's not cool/fair/good to "strand" Australia inspired content to a place we'll probably never explore in print. Instead, we've been looking at Australia stuff now and then where appropriate to inspire us.
Yowie hasn't reached Golarion yet as a result, but as I'm probably the primary reason there's such an emphasis on cryptid-inspried monsters in Pathfinder, traditionally, I can assure you Yowie is and has been on the to-do list. Can't make promises when or if we'll get there, alas.
I'd have to refresh my knowledge about them, read a bunch of yowie lore, and go from there. If it turned out that there's just not enough to separate them from what we did with sasquatch or whoever, I'd just say that yowies use sasquatch stats but with different flavor text.