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I have just recently read through the Pathfinder Second Edition Bestiary 3. For whatever reason (maybe I was just paying closer attention), this seemed like the best bestiary Paizo has released in years, especially in terms of the illustrations. Usually, I find two or three or four favorites in a Pathfinder or Starfinder Bestiary. However, in 2nd Edition Bestiary 3, it seemed like somewhere between a quarter and a third of the illustrations were in competition for favorite bestiary entry illustration! There were so many excellent entries. A few I especially liked were the adlet, arboreal archive, blood painter, aghash div, grimple gremlin, blood hag, toshigami kami, Lovecraft's nightgaunt and yithian as well as ordinary creatures like the seahorse. I love this bestiary.

The bestiary appears as the 307th entry in the poorly named Survey of One Hundred Bestiaries at the blog of the Poison Pie Publishing House.

Where is the cover image? Issue 4 of this AP already has a cover.

The Pathfinder-compatible Librarian Class at the Poison Pie Publishing House has been expanded over the past year. Numerous additional dissertations have been added, for a current total of nineteen. These dissertations give variety to the librarian as mysteries do for oracles. Also the list of libraries on Golarion through which librarians can travel via the Portable Library has also been updated. The link remains here: Librarian Class.

Since the librarian is a divination-focused caster class, it may be worth mentioning that the Poison Pie Publishing House has also published a couple months ago a treatise on the tools of cleromancy. That link is here: Cleromancy: An Introductory Guide. Some visitors to this forum may enjoy it.

SF Character Auto Calculation, Fillable Sheet

SF Starship Auto Calculation, Choosable Component Sheet

Just wanted to add my voice to the chorus of other saying "Thanks, Gilfalas!" I was waiting to make my first Starfinder character until something like this came out. The whole family made characters yesterday using this sheet. We posted them in their current versions at the Poison Pie Publishing House.

It includes a PC, Hotmjessnir (just call him Hotmess!), Space Goblin Ace Pilot Operative.

Please post the text as a post.

Otherwise, i realy like.

Thanks for the suggestion. There is a fair bit of HTML encoding used to format the Librarian class page (tables, etc.). I don't think I can reproduce that as text in a post in the forums. I had better leave it as a link:

http://poisonpie.com/publishing/rpg/text/librarian.html

Hey Homebrewers:

For those who may be interested, I have uploaded a page for stats for an alternate class, the librarian, for the Pathfinder RPG. The librarian is an experiment in several aspects of player character making. First, the librarian is essentially a wizard who is limited to spells from the school of divination. This in itself presents two challenges. There weren't any offensive divination spells until Occult Adventures delivered Mind Thrust I through VI and Synapse Overload. Also, there aren't many high-level divination spells. If I did my research right, I found only one ninth-level divination spell: Foresight.

The second experimental feature of the librarian class was tying the class to a faction, "The Community of Librarians", dedicated to a Major Artifact, "The Portable Library". Like other extraplanar repositories of knowledge referenced in Pathfinder (the Akashic Record and Mnemovore), the Portable Library houses an extensive array of information. However, it is unique in two features. It is a work-in-progress, created by mortals rather than gods or outsiders and it possesses a door to every other library in the multiverse. Thus a librarian can use the Portable Library not only for research but also to move from library to library as a druid uses "tree stride" to move from tree to tree, except there is no finite range.

The obvious challenge to the use of the Portable Library as a practical in-game resource was library access. Fortunately, Pathfinder is a game in which libraries frequently appear in Adventure Paths and Modules. To illustrate this point, I compiled (an admittedly incomplete) list of more than 200 libraries pulled from Pathinder Adventure Paths, Modules, Player Companion and Campaign Setting books. Again, the purpose of this list is to illustrate the utility of libraries for transport around Golarion and through-out the planes. It is not intended to provide a complete listing of libraries. I may add to it in the future.

To add personal flavor and diversity within the class of librarians, I relied on their role as information-content generators for the Portable Library. As adventuring librarians progress, they compose a doctoral dissertation, which has five chapters and which will eventually be submitted to the Portable Library. As each chapter of the dissertation is completed (at 2nd, 6th, 10th... level), a new class feature is gained. The feature is unique to the librarians field of study. I put eight sample doctoral dissertations (including phrenology, metaphysics, and material dialectics) on the page as examples. This listing too is incomplete. People write doctoral dissertations about all sorts of diverse and rarefied topics.

Anyway, the class page is located on my blog:

http://poisonpie.com/publishing/rpg/text/librarian.html

The Librarian class is provided on a free and anonymous basis for players of the Pathfinder RPG system. If you have constructive comments, please post in this forum. If you think the librarian is a poor idea, then I encourage you to exercise your better nature and move onto other topics of more interest to you.

Thanks. Enjoy!