Mythological Monsters of Bestiary 6

I love all these and I want to put a special shout out for the Wild Hunt. I personally think it is the best interpretation ever brought to the game. Linda Zayas-Palmer did fantastic work here, weaving folklore and gamelore seamlessly. Bravo!

As for mythological monsters, let's see...

Bloody bones.
Cipactli.
Daitengu.
Fen Mauler.

After that I lose track of what is made up and what is mythological. The monsters are very diverse and cool!

I love seeing new Cryptid stat blocks and the Mokele Memembe is no exception to that.

A couple of mine were mythological, although I'll wait for others to pick them out.

Also, I adore the euryale. ^_^

The illustration for the Euryale is amazingly beautiful! Well done Nikolai Ostertag. ;)

The Rawhead looks just human enough to be utterly creepy.

The euryale was missed opportunity to have a medusa with blood that creates creatures. Basically when they take slashing/piercing damage(or bleed) their blood turns into giant scorpions, snake swarms, etc.

The euryale was missed opportunity to have a medusa with blood that creates creatures. Basically when they take slashing/piercing damage(or bleed) their blood turns into giant scorpions, snake swarms, etc.

Firmly in the "cool on paper, book-keeping nightmare during game" category.

Firmly in the "cool on paper, book-keeping nightmare during game" category.

Not really, just requires giving them some summon monster SLA's and ability which says that they may cast one of those specific SLA's as an immediate action when damaged by a slashing or piercing weapon.

Gorbacz wrote:

Firmly in the "cool on paper, book-keeping nightmare during game" category.

Not really, just requires giving them some summon monster SLA's and ability which says that they may cast one of those specific SLA's as an immediate action when damaged by a slashing or piercing weapon.

A CR 20 monster.

Fighting a level 16+ party.

Summoning CR 2 snake swarms or CR 3 giant scorpions whenever it is damaged by slashing and piercing weapons.

Say, when did you play this game the last time? :)

A CR 20 monster.

Unfortunately I was unable to psychically determine the CR of monsters (especially when it'd only be around CR 12 max going off the myths by paizo seems to put all real-myth figures at ridiculously high CRs)

Summoning CR 2 snake swarms or CR 3 giant scorpions whenever it is damaged by slashing and piercing weapons.

Weird, I was sure that summon monster covered the larger spiders and scorpions as well. Still, pretty easy to write text allowing to conjure Black Scorpions, Giant Emperor Scorpions and Goliath Spiders.

Say, when did you play this game the last time? :)

Well that wasn't rude at all....

The CRs were posted in the Bestiary 6 thread, and no rudeness was intended.

The CRs were posted in the Bestiary 6 thread, and no rudeness was intended.

Who are you, and what have you done to the real Gorbacz?

Gorbacz wrote:

The CRs were posted in the Bestiary 6 thread, and no rudeness was intended.

Who are you, and what have you done to the real Gorbacz?

YOU'VE EXPOSED ME! THE REAL GORBACZ WOULD HAVE NEVER CHECKED WHAT THE CR WAS!

Darn rookie mistake.

The euryale was missed opportunity to have a medusa with blood that creates creatures. Basically when they take slashing/piercing damage(or bleed) their blood turns into giant scorpions, snake swarms, etc.

There is still Stheno of the named Gorgons.

Awesome! I've wanted a Rawhead and a Kikituk for ages. Making the Kikituk a construct is clever. The Rawhead looks really awesome.

The Euryale is magnificent. She's stunningly beautiful, and at her CR level, bound to be epically powerful as well. I'm predicting she'll be one of my favorites.

True MMCJawa, there is still Stheno.

Unfortunately I was unable to psychically determine the CR of monsters (especially when it'd only be around CR 12 max going off the myths by paizo seems to put all real-myth figures at ridiculously high CRs)

I imagine they put familiar figures at ridiculously high CRs to pander to most players since they tend to have no real concept of how power levels and scaling works, in this game.

I love the art for the rawhead. The doll tucked into his belt is such a nice, creepy touch.

Milo v3 wrote:

Unfortunately I was unable to psychically determine the CR of monsters (especially when it'd only be around CR 12 max going off the myths by paizo seems to put all real-myth figures at ridiculously high CRs)

I imagine they put familiar figures at ridiculously high CRs to pander to most players since they tend to have no real concept of how power levels and scaling works, in this game.

Nope.

Remember, what may be "ridiculously high CR" to one group might not be to another.

In this specific case, since we didn't yet have ANY CR 20 monstrous humanoids in any Bestairy, I wanted to fix that and put in a CR 20 monstrous humanoid. And rather than make one up (like I did with the deathsnatcher to do the same thing for another missing CR), I wanted the CR 20 one to have as much nostalgia and weight and impact as possible, so having it be something relatively recognizable from mythology that builds upon one of the game's most recognizable and iconic monstrous humanoids (medusa) made a lot of sense.

Hey! I just discovered that the Atuikakura—a giant sea cucumber—is from Japanese folklore! Love the global perspective!

Also, I adore the euryale. ^_^

I made a CR 14 Euryale (and had plans for a Stheno as well), but I think CR 20 works even better for a creature that thinks of itself as an enemy of the gods. (Ditto for the Rakshasa, for that matter.)

It will be interesting to see what sort of abilities 'Euryale, the Far Springer' has. Wiki mentions stuff like bronze scales, throwing fire and 'stealing power from the gods,' so there's lots of neat places one can go with that.

They are supposed to have bronze(or brass) wings, never heard anything about them having scales.

They are supposed to have bronze(or brass) wings, never heard anything about them having scales.

The Mythic Medusa from Mythic Adventures had wings.

I am talking about from the actual myths about Medusa's sisters. Maybe if they stat the other one as another type of medusa they could have the brass/bronze wings.

I believe that Mythic Monsters Revisited had stats for a more classical depiction of Medusa.

I believe that Mythic Monsters Revisited had stats for a more classical depiction of Medusa.

This is correct: the serpent-tailed brazen medusa.

I know I'm really late to this party, but this might be relevant to people who want miniatures for some of the more obscure mythological monsters. There is a company called Paymaster games that makes miniatures based on Native American and Pacific Islander mythology and history. They are currently in the process of making a miniature for Cipactli, the multi mouth crocodile monster in this book. Check em out. They are pretty small right now, I think they only have an Ebay store and do Kickstarters occasionally.

I've seen those before. They're quite nice.

La Llorona, from the American Southwest and Mexico.

Hey Wannabe Demon Lord, haven't seen on the board for while.

La Llorona, from the American Southwest and Mexico.

Yes! That's my favorite part of the whole book!

Terevalis Unctio of House Mysti wrote:

La Llorona, from the American Southwest and Mexico.

Yes! That's my favorite part of the whole book!

This makes me super happy.

Hey Wannabe Demon Lord, haven't seen on the board for while.

Been a bit busy. Might post some more creatures on the bestiary wish list tonight though.

Terevalis Unctio of House Mysti wrote:

La Llorona, from the American Southwest and Mexico.

Yes! That's my favorite part of the whole book!

Mine too!

littlediegito wrote:

Terevalis Unctio of House Mysti wrote:

La Llorona, from the American Southwest and Mexico.

Yes! That's my favorite part of the whole book!

This makes me super happy.

I was delighted to see the Weeping Woman, even if it wasn't the kelpie-esque version with a horse's head.