That's the troglodytes' word for their race (see Shattered Star #2, p. 10).
Ruyan.
Didn't know that. Would prefer having Troglodyte in there with the Xulgath in parenthesis so we know what it is.
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Didn't know that. Would prefer having Troglodyte in there with the Xulgath in parenthesis so we know what it is.
I'm going to make a guess that Troglodyte as stinky lizard creature is an style only available under the OGL, which means that they couldn't use Troglodyte as the name of the mini, in the same way this set has a Wrath Demon instead of a Vrock.
Hm. They use it all over the AP and in the Bestiary though - where would be the difference? Toys industry vs. books?
Ruyan.
OGL only covers print media I believe is the reason.
AFAIK Troglodyte is Public domain ( google it ancient greeks used it)
I think that's the proper name of a particular trog in the AP.
That's what I thought as well, but couldn't find the reference for that.
Ruyan.
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OGL only covers print media I believe is the reason.This.
Even if it allowed you to use it on the minis, you'd have to print the decleration on each box, which would fill up a large amount of space (even worse, think of it on the H & M boxes!)
The OGL has no media restrictions, but we nevertheless don't use it for the minis line.
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Also, we're slowly but surely trying to give all races their own identity. It's weird to me that a skum would call itself a skum, or a troglodyte would call itself a troglodyte.
Hence, the skum racial name is "ulat-kini."
For troglodytes, it's "Xulgath." Unlike the skum, though, we didn't decide on using that name (trivia time—Xulgath is the racial name for all lizard humanoids in my homebrew game) until recently, so we weren't able to get the word into the Bestiary.
It's a late addition, in other words, but that doesn't make it wrong.
You can expect us to probably do similar things for other races that have names that you wouldn't expect would be the names those races use for themselves. Catfolk and ratfolk and lizardfolk all come to mind...
Why make the uncharacteric white scaled trog and not a standard green or olive one first? Or are there more in the set?
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Because in Pathfinder, the white scaled troglodyte IS the standard. They can shift their colors as needed to blend in to other environments, of course... but as illustrated in the Pathfinder RPG Bestiary... their standard, neutral coloration is whitish with gray spots, as befits a creature that lives most of its life in caves.
Because in Pathfinder, the white scaled troglodyte IS the standard. They can shift their colors as needed to blend in to other environments, of course... but as illustrated in the Pathfinder RPG Bestiary... their standard, neutral coloration is whitish with gray spots, as befits a creature that lives most of its life in caves.
Aahhh! That makes sense, now I understand. Thanx for explaining something so obvious, I guess you can tell I haven't gotten my copy of the Bestiary yet.
Too bad you didn't take that tack with the drow. In the basic D&D books they had shadow elves instead of drow and they were also pale skinned with huge eyes. Still if you had made drow pale skinned there would probably be a riot!! Heh!