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so i herd you liek bunyipz
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SPLIT YOUR LUNGS WITH BLOOD AND THUNDER
WHEN YOU SEE THE WHITE WHALE
BREAK YOUR BACKS AND CRACK YOUR OARS MEN
IF YOU WISH TO PREVAIL
THIS IVORY LEG IS WHAT PROPELS ME
HARPOONS THRUST IN THE SKY
AIM DIRECTLY FOR HIS CROOKED BROW
AND LOOK HIM STRAIGHT IN THE EYE
WHITE WHALE
HOLY GRAIL
WHITE WHALE
HOLY GRAIL
The wyvern variant could be a skoffin. That has the right number of wings and legs and is in the public domain.
There's the great white whale, who I expect is statted up as the "dire cachalot" or somesuch.
There appears to be a dire manatee too. However, judging from the bite scar on it, it's probably a particularly tubby sea wolf.
And of course, there's a wendigo, who unfortunately has no feet. Otherwise he could wear wendigo go-go boots. Though those would be a good cursed item--boots so wickedly stylish that they burn your feet off and turn the rest of you into a wendigo.
Bunyip!
Wendigo!
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Leviathan!
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The wyvern variant could be a skoffin. That has the right number of wings and legs and is in the public domain.
Had to fine-tune my Googles to find skoffin hits within range of the pic(I got some sort of cat urban legend and metal albums on the first page...), but it looks like it pans out!
Also, that pun. For shame. For shame.
I’d say that the first monster strikes me as more of an afanc than a bunyip.
Then again, I have never actually seen either one.
I see today's theme is monsters without feet. Interesting.
My guesses:
charybdis, since its making a whirlpool
wendigo
jersey devil
leviathan
Gary
The last one does look like a Gary to me! Good call ;)
You guys apparently don't know beans about what Garys look like. Their bodies are perfect spheres of flame, off of which run long eyestalks that end in naked eyeballs and also several tentacles.
Great preview art, though!
I was just thinking this morning what kind of monster this game really needs: a drop bear.
Heh, drop bear made me think of Care Bears(tm). They obviously couldn't be called that, though. :)
Then my mind started wandering to other products that could be satired as well: Boobie dolls, Poke-her cards, Wii wii-motes, ...
(Satire is a protected form of fair use under copyright law, too. ;))
Not even close to what I was getting at.
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Heh, drop bear made me think of Care Bears(tm). They obviously couldn't be called that, though. :)
Care Bears are mutated Ewoks.
Totally love the undead-moose-rat-flying-creature art! Simply Awesome!
#3 doesn't have enough legs / talons to be a piasa. Not far off otherwise.
HPL!
HPL!
HPL!
That is all...
CHEATEROUS!
HPL!
HPL!
That is all...
Linkified for all the other kiddies.
Yeah, that Charybdis would sure be different from classical descriptions. Looks more like a dire fiendish manatee. Or wait...maybe it's the Seal of N’gah. ^^
sad to see the wendigo isn't getting the ultra-awesome art from PF6...
"If his chest had been a cannon, he would have shot his heart upon it!"
Ever since I saw the first picture, I need to keep myself from making "your mom" jokes.
sad to see the wendigo isn't getting the ultra-awesome art from PF6...
Yeah. Sometimes, the decisions about what pictures to get new and what pictures to recycle confuse me (look at stuff like nymphs or succubi in bestiary 1)
Picture 2 reminds me of Ithaqua, the Wind Walker of the Cthulhu mythos (who had a connection to the wendigo). Picture 3 could be a Shantak (described as huge, scaly, birdlike creature with batlike wings, slimy skin, and two strong talons).
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sad to see the wendigo isn't getting the ultra-awesome art from PF6...
While Kev Crossley's image of the wendigo from PF #6 was indeed awesome, his art style on that particular piece just doesn't fit with the rest of the book, so we re-did the art. That hardly means we're not using Kev anymore, though! He did all the chapter break illos for "Book of the Damned II: Lords of Chaos" and they look really cool; we previewed some of them on this blog a few weeks back, in fact.
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Yeah. Sometimes, the decisions about what pictures to get new and what pictures to recycle confuse me (look at stuff like nymphs or succubi in bestiary 1)
The choice as to whether or not to recycle art is a complex one—but it basically boils down to "Is this picture appropriate enough in the opinion of us at Paizo to re-use, or should we pay to get a new version done that more closely matches the overall art style of the monster book?" Our hardcover bestiaries are far and away the most art intense books we produce, and if we had to pay for new art for every picture, we'd end up having to charge a lot more for the book, which would suck. Usually the amount of art we want to re-order vastly outnumbers what we can afford, so we have to make a certain amount of Sophie's choices and compromises now and then. It's actually one of the harder parts of putting a Bestairy together—some of the choices cause a fair amount of agonizing in house before we finally settle on what direction to go.
Yeah. Sometimes, the decisions about what pictures to get new and what pictures to recycle confuse me (look at stuff like nymphs or succubi in bestiary 1)The choice as to whether or not to recycle art is a complex one—but it basically boils down to "Is this picture appropriate enough in the opinion of us at Paizo to re-use, or should we pay to get a new version done that more closely matches the overall art style of the monster book?" Our hardcover bestiaries are far and away the most art intense books we produce, and if we had to pay for new art for every picture, we'd end up having to charge a lot more for the book, which would suck. Usually the amount of art we want to re-order vastly outnumbers what we can afford, so we have to make a certain amount of Sophie's choices and compromises now and then. It's actually one of the harder parts of putting a Bestairy together—some of the choices cause a fair amount of agonizing in house before we finally settle on what direction to go.
I don't care, I just wants some pitchers of wimmen that are often nekkid! ;-P
(My gripe with the succubus is purely taste - I just think her face is too ugly to be a succubus. The nymph, though, is too blue for a regular Nymph. Personally, I blame all the rabid Avatar fanbois and their drooling over blue chicks!)
Manatee is only one of the critters that really, really needs the dire treatment. Others include squirrel, badger, chihuahua and rhea.
TABLE OF CONTEEEEENTS! WHEN!?
So far three have been correctly named.
So... how many were correctly named last week?
Bunyip
Wendigo
Abishai
Leviathan
#3 looks like the Chupacabra. Ok, already done, but just sayin'
adn to post this song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a8IwX6M0GY
LOL @ Vic. :)
Seriously, that made me laugh out loud.
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Manatee is only one of the critters that really, really needs the dire treatment. Others include squirrel, badger, chihuahua and rhea.
Wouldn't a dire chihuauhua be a Great Dane?