The brutal beasts of the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Bestiary come alive on your tabletop with this box-busting collection of more than 300 creature pawns for use with the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game or any tabletop fantasy RPG!
Printed on sturdy cardstock, each pawn contains a beautiful full-color image of a nasty monster from the core Pathfinder RPG monster reference. Each cardstock pawn slots into a size-appropriate plastic base, making them easy to mix with traditional metal or plastic miniatures. With multiple pawns for commonly encountered creatures and more than 250 distinct creature images, the Bestiary Box is the best way to ensure you've got the right creatures to push your Pathfinder campaign to the next level!
ISBN 978-1-60125-561-7
Bestiary Box Set List
Hundreds of monsters surge to life on your tabletop! Each has its own identification number for easy sorting. The Bestiary Box includes:
Short Version: If you use maps in your game, this gives a great foundation of enemies for a fraction of the price of minis.
The pawn boxes, particularly this one containing so many oft-used monsters, each replace hundreds (let's be honest, thousands) of dollars in minis in an easier-to-store solution.
There are a few problems that aren't enough to bump the score down, but are worth mentioning. I often find I don't have enough copies of common monsters, although the Monster Codex box helps a great deal there. The lack of gargantuan and colossal pawns is understandable (they'd be a giant pain to fit on sheets), but still felt. And, after years of weekly use, these pawns don't return snugly to the sheets anymore, necessitating different storage.
I'm finding it hard to figure out what to say when reviewing the Pathfinder pawn boxes. The product details are listed on the back of the packaging, so for the Bestiary Box you'll know you're getting 256 different creature pawns, with some of them coming in multiples for a final count of over 300. The pawns are thick, sturdy cardboard and have held up well through months and years of play. They slot neatly into little round plastic bases, and the box comes with 21 small/medium bases, 10 large bases, and 5 huge ones. Although there might be an omission here or there (I haven't cross-checked), almost every creature that appears in the Bestiary will have a corresponding pawn in this set. The only consistent exceptions are any creatures larger than Huge, as Paizo has refused to come out with any pawns that big. The artwork is full-colour and (usually) matches the creature pictures in the book, the pawns are titled and numbered to match the list on the back of the box for easy sorting, and there are little set indicators so you don't get the pawns from this box mixed up with pawns from other boxes. If I had any criticisms of the Bestiary Box specifically, it's that it's not always intuitive why they chose some creatures to have multiple pawns and others to only have one: for example, there are two "Bralani Azatas" (I'm not exactly sure what that is), but only one Shadow and only one Wraith, etc. Still, quibbles aside, this is an excellent set, and having these pawns sure beats checkers, coins, random minis ("Gandalf is the hyena"), and the various other things GMs sometimes have to put on the table. From one point of view, I can see why it sounds ridiculous to spend $ 44.99 USD on little pieces of cardboard. But . . . somehow it's worth it!
I will just drool over these, I'd offer a much more honest rating, but I can't buy them, they are permabackordered. Sooo... they're awesome. Looking. I'll just sit here in my sadness without them. Crying softly. Curled in a ball on the shower floor, cold water and tears running down my face and over my nakedness. I will attempt to carry on. I will survive this. Paizo, you're my only hope. Unless I pay 87.00 on amazon.
A Solid Compromise Between Paper Minis and Solid Minis
I decided to pick this up after I ran the introductory adventure from The Beginner Box. I had a lot of fun assembling the pawns from that box and placing them on the map for use during the adventure. I don't have the storage space or the budget to buy plastic or metal miniatures. I also don't have the craft skills to make paper minis. So, for me, pawns fit my requirements for miniature figures. The artwork is cool and they store easily in the Beginner Box or their own box.
When the clerk at the local game shop told me that the only way I would find a Pathfinder game would be to run one on my own, my mind immediately reeled thinking of the hundreds of miniatures that I would need to properly host a game.
Then I thought about the Pathfinder pawns line and the answer to my problem was in sight! I picked up the Bestiary Box prior to my first session and happily realized that almost every monster that I needed was represented within!
The pawns are sturdy and the artwork is gorgeous. The players really enjoy the added value of seeing the exact creatures they are facing. It makes encounter descriptions a breeze because I just set up the pawns and tell the players "this is what you see"!
You can't beat this selection for the price. Take your game to the next level. This first set is indispensable and will be the only monster box you'll need for a while!
Well finnally. Have been out of stock for months. I wanted to start a Curse of the crimson throne campaign but even if I buy the pawns dont have any bases... Glad they are coming back. Thank you for answering! Cheers from Southamerica!
We are now expecting the restock to arrive in October.
Is there any confirmation that restock is still expected in October? I'm trying to decide if I want to wait a week or two and get the box with bases or just buy the PDF and print them on cardstock at home.
I agree, shipping to Canada costs 50+$ and amazon.ca doesn't seem to have any in stock. I have been waiting for this since February 2017 and it doesn't seem like I'll be able to get anything after all...
I agree, shipping to Canada costs 50+$ and amazon.ca doesn't seem to have any in stock. I have been waiting for this since February 2017 and it doesn't seem like I'll be able to get anything after all...
I ordered one on Amazon.ca and they cancelled it because "they were out of stock". Now the same seller has more so I ordered again.
I also ordered from Amazon.com. Total price with shipping and import fees came to about CND$73.
I'm not sure where you're seeing that text—I'm not. But the backorder will ship 1 to 7 days after the reprint arrives (or the non-mint version will ship 1 to 7 days after your order is placed).
Here is the text I'm seeing, copied and pasted from the end of the item description. I grabbed a little extra text before and after, but if you hit CTRL+F and type in "1 to 7 business days" it should home right in on it.
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The Bestiary Box also includes twenty 1"-bases for Medium and smaller pawns, ten 2"-bases for Large pawns, and five 3"-bases for Huge pawns.
Product Availability
Print Edition: This product is a backorder. Ships from our warehouse in 1 to 7 business days.
PDF: Will be added to your My Downloads Page immediately upon purchase of PDF.
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I guess my question changes, though, based on your answer. It looks like there was a lot of excitement around the most recent restock, and I missed it! Is there any idea when there will be another?
Or would it be a better idea (with Pathfinder 2 coming) to look harder at other sites? I mean, I imagine that the minis in this box will be 100% viable for Pathfinder 2, but...I'm sure everything will be different when the new edition hits...different branding, different monsters included, etc.
After all, if there's a new book out there with the title Pathfinder Bestiary, it stands to reason this pawn collection won't be out there supporting it. There'll be a different one!
I just don't want to wait months for a restock that, at some point, won't seem feasible anymore from a business standpoint.
For the love of god please ship some of these to Europe. Damaged sets are going for 90 quid on ebay. People are making a living selling individual pawns to hollow-eyed buyers in clandestine deals on street corners. The only ones on Amazon are shipped from somewhere called 'Idaho' and I don't even know where that is. Please help!
The reprint just started going out to distributors in the past couple weeks, and things usually take a little longer to get to Europe, but I'd expect to see copies in your stores within a couple weeks. (Though you should make sure that your store actually has some on order!)
As for helping you find Idaho, start by heading due west from Liverpool. You will get really wet for a bit (that's the Irish Sea) and then there will be a lot of potatoes (that's Ireland). Then you will get really, really wet for a bit (that's the Atlantic Ocean), and then you'll be on mostly dry land for a while (that's Canada). Keep going west, asking people where you are. (If they answer in French, just keep going.) Once they tell you you're in Edmonton, head south. When the density of potatoes returns to levels you haven't seen since Ireland, you've reached Idaho.
Would it be correct to assume that 2e Bestiary will have new art, and therefore there will be a separate 2e Bestiary Box? And therefore, while a product that would otherwise be edition-neutral, will have two competing versions and the 2e version will probably obsolete the 1e version?
i love this pawns, sadly im still waiting the Carrion Crown pawns!!
there will be or can i sart to letting that dream broke?
Paizo?
We may go back and do some Pawn sets for some of the older Adventure Paths (though we haven't announced any at the moment).
ahh!!
My heart beats again with this post ser Vic!!
(pressing F5 ´till announce shows up)
It would be amazing an updaterd version for Carrion Crown with Carrion Hill as a side quest in it for the amazing upcoming PF2e Remaster (and at last pawns for it)...
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