Golarion Day: Oni

Thursday, July 14, 2011

When we updated the ogre mage for the Pathfinder RPG Bestiary, we did a bit more than just bring his statistics in line with what he should be for a CR 8 foe. We made him into an oni. Alas, we didn’t have room to give oni as a full-on race of evil outsiders proper justice in that book, beyond mentioning that, yes, there were more oni out there.

This Gen Con, with the release of the first installment of the Jade Regent Adventure Path, we’ll be fixing that. Pathfinder #49 features an article about the oni, and for the duration of this Adventure Path, new oni will appear in the Bestiary. (And chances are better than good that you’ll be seeing even more oni near the end of the year!) Pictured here are four of those new oni—the fire yai, ice yai, water yai, and wind yai—oni closely associated with actual giants.

Illustrations by Jim Nelson

James Jacobs
Creative Director