Enter the Jungle of Despair!

I LOVE the hydra with its swap out heads! Great idea!

The hydra makes waiting for a huge water and earth elemntal tolerable for another set. What a great piece. And hooray for more serpentfolk. I like the giant leech, but with those teeth it’s more like a giant lamprey.

Oh, and welcome to our new Pathfinder Battles blogger, Mark. Any and all previews are welcome diversions from otherwise monotonous weekdays!

Welcome and gratulations to being the new franchise manager, Mark! :-)

It´s great to finally have someone again doing the previews who knows what he´s talking about!

The Serpentfolk Cleric is the only image i havn´t seen yet, but it´s great of you to say that there are more in this set, so we know one can build a war-band of this very dangerous evil race.
Although the Legends of Golarion set already had two Serpentfolk (and the Degenerate), more are very welcome.
I believe, the art is from the Monster Codex, which also has the
-"Serpentfolk Bone Prophet"
-"Serpentfolk Illusionist"
-"Serpentfolk Spell Blade"
-Serpentfolk Spy"

I guess we´ll get three of these as well. ;-)

One more mini i know of being in the set is the

If i had to speculate which other minis COULD be in this set:

Bestiary:
-Ant, Giant
-Assassin Vine (L)
-Ape, Dire (L)
-Boar
-Couatl (L)
-Dinosaur,Pteranodon (L)
-Familiar, Lizard, Monkey, Toad OR Viper (s)
-Girallon (L)
-Mantis, Giant (L)
-Shambling Mound (L)
-Shocker Lizard (s)
-Tiger, Dire (L)
-Vegepygmy (s)
-Yellow Musk Creeper

Bestiary 2:
-Aranea
-Dinosaur, Compsognathus (s)
-Grippli (s)
-Krenshar
-Lycantrophe, Weretiger
-Mandragora (s)
-Mosquito, Giant
-Xtabay (s)

I´m looking forward to more plants next monday!

Dangit, I just wrapped up our Serpent's Skull AP, too!!!

Aw man, I just got out of the swamp of ennui and now this?!

Welcome to the minis blog, Yoda!

These look pretty awesome. I really want that hydra.

Glad to have you on the minis blogs!

I love hydras, so I'm very excited for this. ^_^

We are getting Tanuki before we get any Wayangs?

Come on Paizo, help us play our playable characters. Please.

Oh, I am so loving this set, more and more the more you tease it. Ssssserpentsss! Yes! I may not be able to spring for a subscription or a whole case, but am awfully tempted to go halvies...plus the incentive! I'm playing through Tomb of Annihilation in 5th Edtion, and have quite a few jungle-appropriate minis myself that I'm lending to the DM... But more will always be welcome, especially as I gear up to run the Shackled City - with extensive additions - this summer. I'd thought about dipping into Serpent's Skull as well for more dimensions, but don't have any personal experience with it, as player or reader. Was that the main inspiration for this set? Or is it useful for/in Ruins of Azlant as well?

One thing Mark forgot to mention in the blog is that the hydra also has charred stumps that you can swap out for the heads if your adventurers are prepared and have that torch to cauterize the wound.

-Lisa

AWESOME!

Primitive-garbed *pre-painted* VESK for Starfinder!

...the hydra seems cool, too, but terrified I'd break it somehow...

One thing Mark forgot to mention in the blog is that the hydra also has charred stumps that you can swap out for the heads if your adventurers are prepared and have that torch to cauterize the wound.

-Lisa

This sounds amazing! ^_^

One thing Mark forgot to mention in the blog is that the hydra also has charred stumps that you can swap out for the heads if your adventurers are prepared and have that torch to cauterize the wound.

-Lisa

I thought I'd included that image in this blog as well, but I guess I didn't. But, now I can show it off as a future bonus preview... which was the plan all along! Yeah, that's it!

If you reveal your Master Plan before you action it, then people will know your Master Plan.

How can you complete your Master Plan if everyone knows it and is prepared for it?

And... then we won't get the chance to hear the soliloquy.

I'd thought about dipping into Serpent's Skull as well for more dimensions, but don't have any personal experience with it, as player or reader. Was that the main inspiration for this set? Or is it useful for/in Ruins of Azlant as well?

Serpent's Skull wasn't the exclusive inspiration, or we'd have called the set something more closely tied to the AP (either straight up "Serpent's Skull" or a name more along the lines of the recent "Crown of Fangs", which was one chapter in the Curse of the Crimson Throne AP).

We noted that we had covered a lot of adventure tropes in past sets, from dungeon exploration in Dungeons Deep to urban themes in The Rusty Dragon Inn, but had yet to do a lot with jungle creatures except in the Legends of Golarion set. So we looked at Serpent's Skull, Heart of the Jungle, and other material set in the Mwangi Expanse or similar environments for inspiration, without focusing on just one.

In the end, people running Serpent's Skull will find a lot of the minis in this set useful, but not to the extent that folks running other jungle adventures will have a ton of specific NPCs or monsters they can't use themselves.

As for Ruins of Azlant, that takes place in a more subtropical climate, so it doesn't have a ton of jungle monsters in it.

Welcome Mark! And don't be shy, join the crusade to bring us PPMs featuring long lasting battle spells like Walls of Something (modular perhaps?), Guy's Hands, Great Magic Weapon Cutting Things and the like, the ancients will be pleased.

Ehi, one can hope...

Every time I see one of theses blogs I get hopeful that one of the reveals will be a card game character. Alas, not this time.

I'm really hoping you find a way to convince WizKids include some non-iconic Card Game Characters in some part of the Pathfinder Battles line. I snatched up Radillo, Meliski, and Ranzak in the Rusty Dragon Inn. I'd do the same to any box set or singles that contained card game characters.

Here is a list of creatures which appear in the "Serpents skull" AP, but havn´t been done as Pathfinder Battles minis before:

Nice ideas for Dungeon Dressings (which appear in the AP) would be:
-Rope Bridge (1 square wide & 3-4 squares long)
-Tribal hut (large 2 squares high, wide & long)
-Totem mask (small)
-Glass bottle with head in it (medium)
-Totem pole (medium)

Question: How is it possible for a Hydra to have 10 heads?
Spoiler warning: It's not, it's mathematically impossible. Hydras can only have odd numbers of heads. Every time Heracles cut one off, three grew back. Net gain of 2 and it started with 7.

You can make more powerful hydras by increasing their Hit Dice—each added HD increases the hydra’s statistics as appropriate, but also gives it one additional head and a +1 increase to its natural armor. A hydra’s CR increases by +1 for each Hit Die it gains.

When a hydra’s head is destroyed, two heads regrow in 1d4 rounds. A hydra cannot have more than twice its original number of heads at any one time. To prevent new heads from growing, at least 5 points of acid or fire damage must be dealt to the stump (a touch attack to hit) before they appear. Acid or fire damage from area attacks can affect stumps and the body simultaneously. A hydra doesn’t die from losing its heads until all are cut off and the stumps seared by acid or fire.

It looks like i was right with some of my predictions:

Jungle of Despair booster

CONFIRMED!

I would have expected a Dire Tiger instead of a normal one, but this is cool too (maybe cooler).
The "in-jump" pose looks dynamic enough to work and the generation 2.0 clear poles are a lot better than the fragile thin ones.

The naming seems also to suggest, that we´ll get more than one version of

nice to have the tiger, I'll probbably mod it down to earth for use as companion.

nice to have the tiger, I'll probbably mod it down to earth for use as companion.

Great idea, i think i'll do that too (with one of them).

Looking forward to this weeks preview (hopefully today) & it's plant reveals.
I hope for a yellow musk creeper personally, but Vegepygmies, a dryad, a shambling mound or Assassin vine would also be great.

I’m up,for more plants! especially ones there is no previous coverage for.