Woot! My master plan begins to unfold. :)
Hyrum.
Nerreid
Oread
Pech
Sylph
Undine
Ooh, that reminds me -- if Paizo wants another "can you make this awesome" challenge (a la Misfit Monsters), can you make a scary badass attack-based fey creature (without it having as many HD as some of the 3.5e undead)?
I was looking through monster books looking for some kind of fey that can make attacks for a possible wandering monster encounter, and I saw the ankhou from one of the APs -- looks scary, bleed, sneak attack. And CR 14, attack bonus +14 - he needs a 17+ to hit himself. I think the melee folks in my game may have almost that attack bonus at level 7, and neither of them is really optimized to be a melee monster. Any kind of sidhe knight or redcap seem to end up kind of sad, what with his 1/2 BAB and d6 HD. (I know he can combine true seeing and deeper darkness and silence for a nasty combo, but that's still not going to help hit the full plate wearing paladin very well.)
So, give us a Dresdenverse-like Winter Knight or some other kind of fey muscle! :)
What does the carrion crawler look like on the poster? I have a sneaking suspicion that "carrion crawler" is a more accurate and tasteful name for the "corpse orgy" from Tome of Horrors III (in that it's a big lump of crawling carrion).
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There is neither a carrion crawler on the poster nor in the book. Someone's just trying to scare you.
Heh. If Paizo was gonna do it, they they might as well go all-out and do the mind flayers, beholders, displacer beast, slaadi, umber hulk, githyanki, githzeri, and any others than aren't popping into my head at the moment.
Denizen of Leng
Leng Spider
Gug
Cthulhu be praised! Seriously keep those Mythos monster coming please!!!!!
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There is neither a carrion crawler on the poster nor in the book. Someone's just trying to scare you.
Damn.... ummm ok ANOTHER mistake :( IT is SUPPOSED to read Carrion GOLEM... not Crawler. I saw the word Carrion and well... my mind said Carrion Crawler :(
Forgive me?? :D
P.S can you edit the post for me since I do not seem to be able to anymore? :D
Thanks!
Very pleased to see many RotR monsters in there.. and badgers - yay!
I'm especially happy with how the jyoti and sceaduinar turned out in the book. And now I can express my happiness with those and others since the list is out. ;)
I hope we get a spell to make the Crawling Claws! One of my favorite characters used to be a necromancer who wore a big cloak with like 50 crawling claws clutching the inside. Luckily, we didn't play with encumbrance rules in those days. :-P
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Denizen of Leng
Leng Spider
Gug
Cthulhu be praised! Seriously keep those Mythos monster coming please!!!!!
Don't forget the shantak. He's in the book too!
As for more mythos monsters... let's just say this. You will need to purchase Pathfinder #46, "Wake of the Watcher," on account of nearly a dozen more mythos monsters in that volume's double-sized bestiary.
Denizen of Leng
Leng Spider
Gug
Cthulhu be praised! Seriously keep those Mythos monster coming please!!!!!
Don't forget the shantak. He's in the book too!
As for more mythos monsters... let's just say this. You will need to purchase Pathfinder #46, "Wake of the Watcher," on account of nearly a dozen more mythos monsters in that volume's double-sized bestiary.
OOoo ... when's that one due out, James? Any chance we'll see Nightgaunts in it? ;)
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OOoo ... when's that one due out, James? Any chance we'll see Nightgaunts in it? ;)Denizen of Leng
Leng Spider
Gug
Cthulhu be praised! Seriously keep those Mythos monster coming please!!!!!
Don't forget the shantak. He's in the book too!
As for more mythos monsters... let's just say this. You will need to purchase Pathfinder #46, "Wake of the Watcher," on account of nearly a dozen more mythos monsters in that volume's double-sized bestiary.
It's due out a month after PF #45. :-P
As for what monsters are in there... I'm not saying yet. Time to start the monster anticipation up again already, I guess.
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Hey, did I fail my Perception check or are Aeons out of that list ?
The poster list does not reveal what monsters are aeons, daemons, devils, qlippoth, demons, azatas, agathions, angels, and so on.
The aeons are on the list, in other words. They're just not called aeons.
Were we to do a Bestiary 1 list, the balor would be listed as "Balor," not "Balor demon."
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Hey, did I fail my Perception check or are Aeons out of that list ?The poster list does not reveal what monsters are aeons, daemons, devils, qlippoth, demons, azatas, agathions, angels, and so on.
The aeons are on the list, in other words. They're just not called aeons.
Were we to do a Bestiary 1 list, the balor would be listed as "Balor," not "Balor demon."
You're the man, James. Thanks. I do absolutely LOVE the big bucket of love for outsiders in the book. Sceaduinar , Jyoti, Keketar, a bus full of daemons, a Planescape fan cries with joy.
Denizen of Leng
Leng Spider
Gug
Cthulhu be praised! Seriously keep those Mythos monster coming please!!!!!
Don't forget the shantak. He's in the book too!
As for more mythos monsters... let's just say this. You will need to purchase Pathfinder #46, "Wake of the Watcher," on account of nearly a dozen more mythos monsters in that volume's double-sized bestiary.
That's part of the Carrion Crown AP isn't it? I am VERY much looking forward to that one. I'm thinking of running that at Fur Fright next year. I'll converting it my world of Zu but it sounds too good to miss out. APs like that make me thank the Gods I decided to stick with the Adventure Paths ever since I converted the remainder of my Dragon and Dungeon subscriptions to try out Rise of the Runelords.
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Thanks for the usual Smartassed remark, Gorbacz. I'd never expect less from you. LOL! But some of us are trying to make every penny count in this terrible economy. So I order from Amazon to get my books at a cheaper price. Also, wouldn't it have been better to say nothing at all, than be rude?
While it might of seemed rude or put forward in a different manner it for the most part is true.
Expect items upward of two weeks to a month later from Amazon as opposed to direct from Pazio.
You get what you pay for.
Sean
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Thanks for the usual Smartassed remark, Gorbacz. I'd never expect less from you. LOL! But some of us are trying to make every penny count in this terrible economy. So I order from Amazon to get my books at a cheaper price. Also, wouldn't it have been better to say nothing at all, than be rude?
He's actually being very truthful. The streetdate that Paizo gives is an estimate of when it'll get to distributors and from distributors to game stores. Amazon uses a different (and differing?) distribution methods and their street date/release date is completely different from Paizo's. I.E. you'd have to ask Amazon for the reason not Paizo, as Paizo doesn't have much if anything to do with the Amazon release date movement.
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Aranea, Bodak, Carrion Crawler, Crypt Thing, Decapus, Dullahan, Glass Golem, Grick, Korred, Leucrotta, Mongrelman, Peryton, Spriggan… Lord Asmodeus Almighty – I would have bought the book for these monsters *alone*, and they are just the tip of the iceberg! :D
Necrophidius! Tentamort! Witchfire! Sinspawn! Worm That Walks! Neh-Thalggu! Slithering Tracker!
Little Tim! Bring daddy a hanky – daddy's eyes are rimming with tears of Hellfire…
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Just got a message from Amazon saying my pre-order for this book has been pushed back until January 25th. Can anyone enlighten me as to whats going on?
It's been my experience that Amazon's date lags Paizo's by about a month. Sounds like they're pretty much right on target (especially given the holidays).
1 point, Grobacz.
-Skeld
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There is neither a carrion crawler on the poster nor in the book. Someone's just trying to scare you.Damn.... ummm ok ANOTHER mistake :( IT is SUPPOSED to read Carrion GOLEM... not Crawler. I saw the word Carrion and well... my mind said Carrion Crawler :(
Forgive me?? :D
P.S can you edit the post for me since I do not seem to be able to anymore? :D
Thanks!
Normally, not the kind of thing we do... but in this case, since I really don't want folks thinking we've done something naughty... done!
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Any chance you guys included updated "Summon Monster" and "Summon Nature's Ally" lists for the new monsters?
Nope. No chance. We didn't have room, or the time to go through and pick out balanced additions to the spell, nor do we want to set up the expectation that something like that will be in every Bestiary, plus some other boring reasons.
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Thanks Vic,
It was a pretty major mistake so I figured it would be better to do so :)If I could have edited it myself I would have though if that makes you feel better hehe.
Just out of curiosity, since I saw a bunch of paraelementals like mud and ice...did they have a steam elemental?
Let me know.
Thanks.
They're not para-elementals; they're just regular elementals. We have smoke, magma, ice, and mud. And that's probably the limit of plain-old elementals we'll be adding to the game.
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I am unable to find the current release date. It has been jumping later and later so I was hoping someone would clarify when the anticipated date will be? I promise I won't hold anyone to a date if it changes again :)
Thank you,
Irranshalee.
Currently, i,.e. assuming everything goes to plan, subscription and preorders are planned to ship sometime next week, with the official release date a fortnight after that. This would put subscriptions to start (not finish as it always takes several day) by the 17th with a final release date around the New Year. However, I don't work for Paizo so my knowledge is just based on the posts of those who do and may well be out of date or otherwise wrong.
I see 3 of the original inevitables and one new one...just one!? :( Better than none, I guess. Hopefully I'll see more in a Paizo module or AP or something...I could really use some more inevitables. I find the lack of Lawful and Chaotic creatures disheartening.
Of course, I was only able to pick out one new inevitable based on the name theme, I am hoping there's maybe another 1 or 2 I just don't see.
We hope to begin shipping subscriber copies and preorders next week, with a retail release date about two weeks after that.
Vic, I could kiss you ...
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Any chance you guys included updated "Summon Monster" and "Summon Nature's Ally" lists for the new monsters?Nope. No chance. We didn't have room, or the time to go through and pick out balanced additions to the spell, nor do we want to set up the expectation that something like that will be in every Bestiary, plus some other boring reasons.
Would the other boring reasons maybe be Ultimate magic maybe having stuff like that? :)
By the way, James, is Crawling Hand perhaps Paizo's version of the Crawling Claw? ;)Sort of. it's basically an undead severed hand. While the crawling claw IS in the SRD (it's in the D20 Modern SRD), the crawling hand is built entirely from scratch. Same monster, different stats.
Oooh, does it have an INT score now? Can I have one as a familiar?
*Also, are the petitioners still templates or a low CR build?