paizo.com Recent Blog Posts in Calikangspaizo.com Recent Blog Posts in Calikangs2011-07-12T22:18:13Z2011-07-12T22:18:13ZIntroducing the Calikanghttps://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo5lalz?Introducing-the-Calikang2009-11-06T08:00:00Z<div align="center"><a href="https://paizo.com/image/content/CouncilOfThieves/PZO9029-Cover.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="https//paizo.com/image/content/CouncilOfThieves/PZO9029-Cover_360.jpeg" border="0"></a><br /><span class="tiny">Illustration by Steve Prescott</span></div>
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<h1><br>Introducing the Calikang</h1>
<p class=date>Friday, November 6, 2009</p>
<p>Sometimes, art makes the choices for me. When we ordered the cover to Greg A. Vaughn's <a href="https://paizo.com/pathfinder/v5748btpy87dd">"Mother of Flies,"</a> we asked Steve Prescott to paint us a scene in a thieves' guild treasury involving the iconics in a fight against a six-armed stone golem. The art, as you can see here, is great!</p>
<p>Unfortunately, by the time I got to the section in the adventure where this six-armed menace made its appearance, I realized something. A six-armed stone golem (particularly one armed with a pair of tree-sized-swords) would be something like a CR 15 monster. Not really a fair fight to inflict on 10th-level characters, and certainly not good design to have the dude guarding the treasury be tougher than the adventure's actual boss.</p>
<p>So, in a last-minute brainstorm in Wes's office when he was probably trying to go home, he, Crystal Frasier, Lisa Stevens, and I figured out what to do with the situation. The result is a new monster from distant Vudra, the six-armed calikang, a race spawned from a deity's failure and doomed now to seek atonement for an ancient sin. We ordered an extra piece of art for this volume's Bestiary, I wrote up the monster that weekend, and everything fell perfectly in place just in time to ship to the printers.</p>
<p>As for the calikang itself? You'll just have to wait for <a href="https://paizo.com/pathfinder/v5748btpy87dd">"Mother of Flies"</a> to find out what he can do!</p>
<p>James Jacobs <br>
<i>Pathfinder</i> Editor-in-Chief</p>
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<blockquote>
<h1><br>Introducing the Calikang</h1>
<p class=date>Friday, November 6, 2009</p>
<p>Sometimes, art makes the choices for me. When we ordered the cover to Greg A. Vaughn's <a href="https://paizo.com/pathfinder/v5748btpy87dd">"Mother of Flies,"</a> we asked Steve Prescott to paint us a scene in a thieves' guild treasury involving the iconics in a fight against a six-armed stone golem. The art, as you can see here, is great!</p>
<p>Unfortunately, by the time I got to the section in the adventure where this six-armed menace made its appearance, I realized something. A six-armed stone golem (particularly one armed with a pair of tree-sized-swords) would be something like a CR 15 monster. Not really a fair fight to inflict on 10th-level characters, and certainly not good design to have the dude guarding the treasury be tougher than the adventure's actual boss.</p>
<p>So, in a last-minute brainstorm in Wes's office when he was probably trying to go home, he, Crystal Frasier, Lisa Stevens, and I figured out what to do with the situation. The result is a new monster from distant Vudra, the six-armed calikang, a race spawned from a deity's failure and doomed now to seek atonement for an ancient sin. We ordered an extra piece of art for this volume's Bestiary, I wrote up the monster that weekend, and everything fell perfectly in place just in time to ship to the printers.</p>
<p>As for the calikang itself? You'll just have to wait for <a href="https://paizo.com/pathfinder/v5748btpy87dd">"Mother of Flies"</a> to find out what he can do!</p>
<p>James Jacobs <br>
<i>Pathfinder</i> Editor-in-Chief</p>
</blockquote>
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<p><a href="https://paizo.comcommunity/blog/tags">Tags</a>: <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/monsters/calikangs">Calikangs</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/monsters">Monsters</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/pathfinderAdventurePath">Pathfinder Adventure Path</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/people/artists/stevePrescott">Steve Prescott</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/locations/vudra">Vudra</a>, <a href="https://paizo.com/community/blog/tags/wallpapers">Wallpapers</a></p>2009-11-06T08:00:00Z