Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Misfit Monsters Redeemed (PFRPG)

Oh wow.

Please let the lava children still look like Alfred E Neuman.

Seriously though, if you can make me take flail snails seriously, that'll be one hell of a feat.

Part of the redemption process will be getting these monsters good art. AKA: The lava children are VERY unlikely to look like Alfred E. Neuman.

Part of the redemption process will be getting these monsters good art. AKA: The lava children are VERY unlikely to look like Alfred E. Neuman.

:O

LOVE IS OVER

Although this has me extremely curious about how some of these guys are going to look now. Particularly the flumph. :)

Thank you!

Silently wipes away a little tear ... now wait, this is oil ...

And when will we see the killer pillow ...?

Horrifically, isn't the gambado actually based on a monster from folklore of the American West?

Jesus, I overslept like crazy! It's April 1st already, apparently.

No, wait....this is an actual book? Really?

[spends next 12 minutes laughing hysterically]

O_o

Now this is going to be interesting.

I'm not familiar with all of the critters. Is there a gallery somewhere?

Wow... adhherer? Disenchanter? This brings back a lot of embarassing DMing memories! :)

dire corby?

You know, in the tradition of the old Dragon magazine this really should have been released in April

Ok this is awesome. I totally dig this book idea. :D

1) Norkers are HARDLY misfits. They're bad-ass.

Agreed. My first RPGA adventure, our party almost got wiped out by Norkers.

2) Norkers are also not open content.

That's too bad. I would love to see a Pathfinderized version of the Norker.

Interesting. I'm definitely curious to see this but until I do I can't say whether or not I think it's a good thing or not.

THE FLUMPH HAS HAD HIS REDEMPTION!

HUZZAH!!!

Wow. This ought to be interesting.

I just fangasmed!! Paizo owes me a new chair!

This book is missing one important monster: the Gazebo.

Apart from that slight nicpick, this is gonna be PURE GOLD.

James Jacobs wrote:

1) Norkers are HARDLY misfits. They're bad-ass.

Agreed. My first RPGA adventure, our party almost got wiped out by Norkers.

I loved em in Forgotten Temple of Tharizdun.

2) Norkers are also not open content.

i look forward to this more than any other book in this round - seriously!

This book reminded me of this website .

Please tell me you haven't reimagined the Shocker. Any creature called "The Shocker" is just asking for trouble, especially at our game table.

This book reminded me of this website .

Please tell me you haven't reimagined the Shocker. Any creature called "The Shocker" is just asking for trouble, especially at our game table.

It all depends on how he's spreading his fingers. ;)

This book reminded me of this website .

Please tell me you haven't reimagined the Shocker. Any creature called "The Shocker" is just asking for trouble, especially at our game table.

That's a pretty good website, but far more (in)famous is this particular article:

Dungeons & Dragons: Celebrating 30 years of Very Stupid Monsters.

Now with sequel! Dungeons & Dragons: Celebrating 30 years of Very Stupid Monsters Part Two.

Some of those monsters are seriously asking for an overhaul. And with the right illo & statblock, some of these misfits can be redeemed (like what SKR did for the mimic not too long ago).

Wow.

Just, wow.

I love Paizo.

OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD

FLAIL SNAIL! WOLF-IN-SHEEP'S-CLOTHING!

Clearly, you're saving the Carbuncle and Umpleby for Misfit Monsters Redeemed 2!

FLAIL SNAIL! WOLF-IN-SHEEP'S-CLOTHING

Sweet monkey Jesus, James, I don't know if I'm more excited about this book or Gnomes of Golarion.

EEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!

OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD

FLAIL SNAIL! WOLF-IN-SHEEP'S-CLOTHING!

Clearly, you're saving the Carbuncle and Umpleby for Misfit Monsters Redeemed 2!
!

Carbuncle's actually going to be in Kingmaker issue, it seems. Check out the blog.

Carbuncle's actually going to be in Kingmaker issue, it seems. Check out the blog.

Oh my God, I think I just gamergasmed.

<breaks out the kleenex and hands it to the poster above>

One serious problem the flumph has is 'why on Golarion (or any other world) is it called a flumph'?
I can currently think of two possible explanations for this:
1) It's based on some comic misinterpretation or other misunderstanding by other races of their own name for themselves.
2) (Going Lovecraftian) It's the sinister wet flopping noises made by their victims as they collapse to the floor, their insides sucked out with just a pile of bones in a loose bag of skin left behind.

Edit:
Oh, and on the flail snail front, given their magical resistances (at least in 2nd edition AD&D) I envisioned very large ones being used on battlefields as mobile platforms with howdahs or small iron fortress mounted on the shell.

I always thought it was onomotopoeia; the "flumph" is the noise they make whilst they keep themselves aloft - sort of like the sound jellyfish would make if they made sounds.

I always thought it was onomotopoeia; the "flumph" is the noise they make whilst they keep themselves aloft - sort of like the sound jellyfish would make if they made sounds.

Hmm. That could be viable too.

I wonder if Tim Hitchcock will get the flumph article?

I believe it's Adam Daigle who got that one.

Awww... from the title I first thought was, "Wow, Paizo sure fast-tracked that Monster PCs book."

Charles Evans 25 wrote:

I wonder if Tim Hitchcock will get the flumph article?

I believe it's Adam Daigle who got that one.

I believe you are correct. :)

yoda8myhead wrote:

Charles Evans 25 wrote:

I wonder if Tim Hitchcock will get the flumph article?

I believe it's Adam Daigle who got that one.

I believe you are correct. :)

Give it the justice it deserves! :)

Awww... from the title I first thought was, "Wow, Paizo sure fast-tracked that Monster PCs book."

There had better be rules for playing a Flumph Paladin!

So if a monster shows up in this book, it will officially be part of the Pathfinder rules, and also officially part of Golarion. That right?

So if a monster shows up in this book, it will officially be part of the Pathfinder rules, and also officially part of Golarion. That right?

Not necessarily Golarion, but certainly part of the Campaign Setting. They all probably live on one of the other planets or planes, since they're rare and pointless, for the most part.

Mothman wrote:

So if a monster shows up in this book, it will officially be part of the Pathfinder rules, and also officially part of Golarion. That right?

Not necessarily Golarion, but certainly part of the Campaign Setting. They all probably live on one of the other planets or planes, since they're rare and pointless, for the most part.

Right. Campaign Setting is what I meant, but that's an important distinction you make.

...since they're rare and pointless, for the most part.

Like cat people. ;)

since they're rare and pointless, for the most part.

Wolf-in-Sheep's-Clothing. Flail Snail.

NOT POINTLESS

Wolf-in-Sheep's-Clothing. Flail Snail.

NOT POINTLESS

Exactly. Flail snails are wonderful with a little garlic butter sauce and pair nicely with sautéed flumph eyestalks. Not pointless at all.

Dire Corbies are not pointless misfits; they are cool and already ARE in Golarion, specifically in the Endless Gulf in the Darklands. That having been said, I look forward to seeing what further coolness oozes out of them in this book.

I think I'm gonna go as a Flumph for halloween this year, in celebration of this book.

I hope dire corbies eat flumphs for breakfast.

DOOM! DOOM! DOOM!

DOOM!

OMG. I can't believe it's not April.

Or maybe it turns out that all that flumph-hating was just the greatest marketing ploy ever.

Coz this book is gonne get itself sold, yo.

Well if anything should be from another world, it's the wolf-in-sheeps-clothing.

D20 modern wisc, would have a 12 pack of beer on a stump and eat stupid hunters.

I think I'm gonna go as a Flumph for halloween this year, in celebration of this book.

You're thinking too small here. Clearly, someone needs to dress up as a flumph for Paizo's costume contest at GenCon this year. They'd win hands-down. :-)

And, no...that can't be me. I won't be making the pilgrimmage to GenCon 2010.

ChrisRevocateur wrote:

I think I'm gonna go as a Flumph for halloween this year, in celebration of this book.

You're thinking too small here. Clearly, someone needs to dress up as a flumph for Paizo's costume contest at GenCon this year. They'd win hands-down. :-)

And, no...that can't be me. I won't be making the pilgrimmage to GenCon 2010.

But you could dress up as a flumph for PaizoCon 2010! :)

ChrisRevocateur wrote:

I think I'm gonna go as a Flumph for halloween this year, in celebration of this book.

You're thinking too small here. Clearly, someone needs to dress up as a flumph for Paizo's costume contest at GenCon this year. They'd win hands-down. :-)

And, no...that can't be me. I won't be making the pilgrimmage to GenCon 2010.

1) I'm not going to GenCon (nor am I going to PaizoCon).

2) The book gets released in October, so Halloween is perfect.

This looks really awesome. Glad to see Paizo showing a little love to the misfits.