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Untold Horrors!

Confront the creatures that go bump in the night! Bestiary 4 presents hundreds of new monsters for use in the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. Within this tome of terrors you'll find pitiless psychopomps and blood-drinking nosferatu, insectile formians and faceless nightgaunts, and even unique mythological horrors like Spring- Heeled Jack and Grendel himself. Yet not every creature need be an enemy, as mighty empyreal lords, primeval outer dragons, and valorous swan maidens enlist you in their epic battles!

Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Bestiary 4 is the fourth indispensable volume of monsters for use with the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game and serves as a companion to the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook and Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Bestiary. This imaginative tabletop game builds upon more than 10 years of system development and an Open Playtest featuring more than 50,000 gamers to create a cutting-edge RPG experience that brings the all-time best-selling set of fantasy rules into the new millennium.

Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Bestiary 4 includes:

  • More than 300 different monsters
  • Creatures from classic horror literature and monster films, including the colour out of space, elder things, and kaiju
  • New player-friendly races like changelings, kitsune, and nagaji
  • Entities of mythic might, from despotic demon lords and alien elohim to terrifying Great Old Ones—including Cthulhu!
  • New creatures you can construct, like clockworks and juggernauts
  • New familiars, animal companions, and other allies
  • New templates to help you get more life out of classic monsters
  • Appendices to help you find the right monster, including lists by Challenge Rating, monster type, and habitat
  • Expanded universal monster rules to simplify combat
  • Challenges for every adventure and every level of play
  • ... and much, much more!

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The Horror Takes Center Stage....

5/5 —

This edition of the Bestiary series brings all the worst nightmares, not found in a traditional fantasy setting alive! Despite the horror feel, they work in any genre you might be playing. By far my favorite of the Bestiary series! The sheer creativity of the Paizo team explodes in this awesome collection of crazy!

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5/5 —

Herein is a fine and fascinating array of monsters, most with supernatural aspects and worthy of songs and legends... indeed it is suggested that to make the most of them you should be also using the Mythic Adventures rules. Fitting adversaries for those who fancy themselves as such legendary heroes, perhaps...

The Introduction is mainly explanation of how each monster entry is presented, complete with handy icons used to enable you to tell at a glance the creature type and the terrain and climate that it favours. These are supplemented by appendices that list them by CR, terrain and so on thus enabling you to populate a chosen area with ease. Other appendices deal with special abilities and other details, including a fascinating section on monster creation, another on monster advancement and one on monsters as player-characters.

The main bulk of the book is composed of an alphabetical listing of the monsters. Each comes with a colour illustration and stat block, with plenty of detail and description to enable you to work out suitable uses for it and how it will behave when encountered by the party.

Beginning with the abaia, an eel with a strong regard for the environment which acts as guardian to a body of water... and turns quite nasty if you do not respect the lake it inhabits (it doesn't mind people who take only what they need, it is those who abuse nature that upsets them), there follows a fascinating array of creatures.

The almiraj, for example, looks like a cross between a rabbit and a unicorn, but it's no fluffy bunny! If nothing else, anything slain by its horn is turned to stone so if the poor almiraj wants to eat whatever it has attacked (it's apparently a carnivore), it has to eat its prey alive.

One of the weirdest is the colour out of space. This is an eerie radient incorporeal ooze that leaches life out of its surroundings until it reaches maturity, at which time it departs into the interstellar depths from which it came. If that's not enough for you, the Great Old Ones are here, so if you wish to combat Cthulhu or Hastur or the like, now you can... if you dare. Most have cults associated with them, details of which are also given.

If it's monsters out of legend that you want, there are beings such as Grendel, if you prefer more mundane ones there are gremlins or even giraffes! Undead too, and an alchemist's error called a hungry flesh, a giant ooze. To cap it all, how about an immortal ichor, which is an intelligent mass of blood from a dead evil deity...

This is indeed a collection of monsters rich and strange, ones whose very being deserve a song or story, never mind those that will be written when heroes defeat them in battle!

Lots of fun new monsters!

4/5 —

Read my full review on Of Dice and Pen.

Bestiary 4 contains over 300 new monsters. All the monster types are represented, although some more than others. There are many of the standards found in every Bestiary—new dinosaurs, devils, dragons—but also many unusual and bizarre creatures. It has provided me with lots of new options to throw at my players, and that’s always a good thing.

5/5 —

The Bestiary 4 for the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game has been one of the more favorites of the Bestiary series for me and I'd like to take a moment to tell you why.

To start, the Bestiary 4 has added everything from new types of fey to additional golems as well as the more prominent and popular Kaiju, Great Old Ones, and Empyreal Lords. Paizo's inclusion of these creatures that've gone on to become pop culture legends in their own right is a direct result of the designer's dedication to getting their monsters right. The Bestiary 4 is an awesome sourcebook and stands right up there with the Bestiary 3 in terms of 'fantasy verisimilitude,' hardening gamers resolve against such villainous foes as Cthulhu himself.

Not every book is a perfect image of idolatry however and the Bestiary 4 is no exception. While it's true that this book is littered with new baddies for your players to chase and new races for their characters to face, it is also bogged down with what seems to be an over-saturation of multiple page monsters. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, but it does seem as if several of these creatures could've used a proverbial trimming before being posted.

If you don't mind a bit of length though and you want more vile beasts for your players to square off against then the Bestiary 4 is yet another wonderful book to add to your collection and one that comes Five-Star recommended by your Severed Ronin.

Robert Beasley
"The Severed Ronin"

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5/5 —

This is a good Bestiary. I'd personally put it up with Bestiary 3, with both having a good mix of classic, mythological, and completely new monsters.

There's a bit of a horror them and a bit of a mythic theme, but neither is overwhelming. If you're looking for a whole book of mythic monsters, this isn't it. If you're worried the whole book is mythic monsters, there aren't that many in practice.

For me, the evocative flavor on the high CR creatures pushes it over the top. The demon lords, empyreals, and great old ones really feel like epic creatures.

If you're sure you don't need any more monsters... don't buy this book. That said, I wasn't sure if I needed any more monsters and was definitely impressed by this.

Short Version: These are sweet monsters, but only you know whether you want more monsters.

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Gancanagh wrote:

New Monsters

Ok, finally i'm seeing a LOT of monsters I had wished for!

Alpluachra! Tikbalang! JACK O LANTERN!!!!

Jeez I love that art!

Next week ARGUS in the bestiary 4 preview! COOL!

Dragon78 is gonna HATE that Alpluachra, he wanted the little fairy type :-p I love this parasite version!

Really like the Jack o Lantern. And that Tikbalang reminds me of the chimera made from the little kid and dog in the Full Metal Alchemist anime.

I really like the Jack O Lantern art, though I hope they made this version a fey and not an undead, plant, outsider, or construct.

I heard somewhere that cthulhu lives on earth.
Osha dombrowski wrote:

I heard somewhere that cthulhu lives on earth.

You heard right. In the original short story, he dwells in the undersea city of R'lyeh, beneath the Atlantic Ocean.

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Axial wrote:
Osha dombrowski wrote:

I heard somewhere that cthulhu lives on earth.

You heard right. In the original short story, he dwells in the undersea city of R'lyeh, beneath the Atlantic Ocean.

It is the Pacific Ocean actually, Dagon's the one haunting the Atlantic.

Tinkergoth wrote:
Gancanagh wrote:
MMCJawa wrote:
the Transformer reference sounds more like a hint for the Colossi
?? where do you see that?

Final line of the latest preview blog:

"That’s all for this week. Next week, we will close out our look at Bestiary 4 with a foe that is more than meets the eye!"

More than meets the eye is a recurring line from the Transformers theme song. My immediate thought on reading that was that it would be Colossi.

Or maybe it's an iceberg ooze.

Threeshades wrote:
Or maybe it's an iceberg ooze.

That... is frightening!

Has anyone gotten there PDF yet?
Dragon78 wrote:
Has anyone gotten there PDF yet?

It's going to be a bit. Some of us only just got our confirmation emails the other day. I'm thinking it'll be as early as late this week (Friday/Saturday) when they start going out.

Don't worry, when I get it, I'll begin digesting this sucker :)

I'll go ahead and take requests for what people wanna read about. I can imagine Elohim, Cthulhu, and Argus are obvious ones.
Odraude wrote:
Dragon78 wrote:
Has anyone gotten there PDF yet?
It's going to be a bit. Some of us only just got our confirmation emails the other day. I'm thinking it'll be as early as late this week (Friday/Saturday) when they start going out.

As I understand THIS update by Sara Marie, shipping should begin today.

Well who ever gets it first, can you post the complete list of the monsters in the book? I don't care if there listed by CR, or alphabetical order, or by type.
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Removed a few posts. Leave personal insults out of the conversation.

When is the actually street date for this? October 30th?
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Sketchpad wrote:
When is the actually street date for this? October 30th?

Yes.

So... people get it this week? What happend with the only-1-week-before-PDF-release thing?

So now its 15 days from the PDF release, I have to wait 15 days while list being made by people that test my patience and curiosity.

That is 15 days of pure hell.

Thanks...
Gancanagh wrote:

So... people get it this week? What happend with the only-1-week-before-PDF-release thing?

So now its 15 days from the PDF release, I have to wait 15 days while list being made by people that test my patience and curiosity.

That is 15 days of pure hell.

Thanks...

Yeah buddy! =D

There is, of course, an easy fix for this little predicament.

Just sayin'.

I don't know why you keep complaining about subscribers getting it early. It's not like we are undergoing clandestine night time raids of the Paizo warehouse to steal a copy. We signed up for the subscription plan which to reward our loyalty gives us early PDF/shipping rights. If you want the early pdf, pony up the extra bucks and sign up for the rule book line.
Gancanagh wrote:

So... people get it this week? What happend with the only-1-week-before-PDF-release thing?

So now its 15 days from the PDF release, I have to wait 15 days while list being made by people that test my patience and curiosity.

That is 15 days of pure hell.

Thanks...

What about me?!? I only buy nonmythic, nonepic monster books after I see them on the pfsrd (and only then if I like them)! I have to wait an entire WEEK after the release! It's totally not fair that people who pay extra in advance to get stuff sooner than me!

Spoiler:
Yes, that was sarcastic.
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137ben wrote:
Gancanagh wrote:

So... people get it this week? What happend with the only-1-week-before-PDF-release thing?

So now its 15 days from the PDF release, I have to wait 15 days while list being made by people that test my patience and curiosity.

That is 15 days of pure hell.

Thanks...

What about me?!? I only buy nonmythic, nonepic monster books after I see them on the pfsrd (and only then if I like them)! I have to wait an entire WEEK after the release! It's totally not fair that people who pay extra in advance to get stuff sooner than me!

** spoiler omitted **

Technically we don't even pay extra. We just commit to buying the product before its release date. There's literally no downside to subscribing.

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MMCJawa wrote:
I don't know why you keep complaining about subscribers getting it early. It's not like we are undergoing clandestine night time raids of the Paizo warehouse to steal a copy. We signed up for the subscription plan which to reward our loyalty gives us early PDF/shipping rights. If you want the early pdf, pony up the extra bucks and sign up for the rule book line.

Wait, we aren't!?! :O

*leaves Seattle warehouses*
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MMCJawa wrote:
I don't know why you keep complaining about subscribers getting it early. It's not like we are undergoing clandestine night time raids of the Paizo warehouse to steal a copy. We signed up for the subscription plan which to reward our loyalty gives us early PDF/shipping rights. If you want the early pdf, pony up the extra bucks and sign up for the rule book line.

*Quickly hides ski mask*

Yeah what he said, I totally didn't invest in a portal gun to get that book early or anything and that heard of goats next to that black alter with it's dark tome is totally just set dressing for my new gothic themed petting zoo...
doc the grey wrote:
MMCJawa wrote:
I don't know why you keep complaining about subscribers getting it early. It's not like we are undergoing clandestine night time raids of the Paizo warehouse to steal a copy. We signed up for the subscription plan which to reward our loyalty gives us early PDF/shipping rights. If you want the early pdf, pony up the extra bucks and sign up for the rule book line.

*Quickly hides ski mask*

Yeah what he said, I totally didn't invest in a portal gun to get that book early or anything and that heard of goats next to that black alter with it's dark tome is totally just set dressing for my new gothic themed petting zoo...

Oh... I only invested in Ryan Gosling to be my getaway driver.

God, I really want that scorpion jacket...
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Odraude wrote:
doc the grey wrote:
MMCJawa wrote:
I don't know why you keep complaining about subscribers getting it early. It's not like we are undergoing clandestine night time raids of the Paizo warehouse to steal a copy. We signed up for the subscription plan which to reward our loyalty gives us early PDF/shipping rights. If you want the early pdf, pony up the extra bucks and sign up for the rule book line.

*Quickly hides ski mask*

Yeah what he said, I totally didn't invest in a portal gun to get that book early or anything and that heard of goats next to that black alter with it's dark tome is totally just set dressing for my new gothic themed petting zoo...

Oh... I only invested in Ryan Gosling to be my getaway driver.

God, I really want that scorpion jacket...

Still haven't seen that is it worth the view?

Silver Crusade

You guys keep talking about it, I'm already on my way. Old-school style!
doc the grey wrote:
Odraude wrote:
doc the grey wrote:
MMCJawa wrote:
I don't know why you keep complaining about subscribers getting it early. It's not like we are undergoing clandestine night time raids of the Paizo warehouse to steal a copy. We signed up for the subscription plan which to reward our loyalty gives us early PDF/shipping rights. If you want the early pdf, pony up the extra bucks and sign up for the rule book line.

*Quickly hides ski mask*

Yeah what he said, I totally didn't invest in a portal gun to get that book early or anything and that heard of goats next to that black alter with it's dark tome is totally just set dressing for my new gothic themed petting zoo...

Oh... I only invested in Ryan Gosling to be my getaway driver.

God, I really want that scorpion jacket...

Still haven't seen that is it worth the view?

Definitely. Good crime movie. Great music and style.

Shadow Lodge
Odraude wrote:
doc the grey wrote:
Odraude wrote:
doc the grey wrote:
MMCJawa wrote:
I don't know why you keep complaining about subscribers getting it early. It's not like we are undergoing clandestine night time raids of the Paizo warehouse to steal a copy. We signed up for the subscription plan which to reward our loyalty gives us early PDF/shipping rights. If you want the early pdf, pony up the extra bucks and sign up for the rule book line.

*Quickly hides ski mask*

Yeah what he said, I totally didn't invest in a portal gun to get that book early or anything and that heard of goats next to that black alter with it's dark tome is totally just set dressing for my new gothic themed petting zoo...

Oh... I only invested in Ryan Gosling to be my getaway driver.

God, I really want that scorpion jacket...

Still haven't seen that is it worth the view?
Definitely. Good crime movie. Great music and style.

Will have to next since I have all these goats to get rid of and netflix apparently converted all their anime to subs. *Angriest Face*

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Hrm. My logical post was completely ignored by this thread. I guess that's a sign that the hour of Hastur is quickly approaching ....
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Alexander Augunas wrote:
Hrm. My logical post was completely ignored by this thread. I guess that's a sign that the hour of Hastur is quickly approaching ....

*looks up from hearding goats out of his living room* Hmm? I couldn't hear you over this kick ass new album I got with my black tome of awful, something called "The King in Yellow."

Silver Crusade
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Alexander Augunas wrote:
Hrm. My logical post was completely ignored by this thread. I guess that's a sign that the hour of Hastur is quickly approaching ....

Or that you shouldn't taunt Cosmo.

Is Mhar going to be in this book?
Shadow Lodge
Pathfinder Lost Omens, Rulebook, Starfinder Adventure Path, Starfinder Roleplaying Game Subscriber

Mhar is Golarion exclusive. The Bestiaries are open content.

I'm thinking the third Great Old One will either be Nyarlathotep (In one of his many forms), Bokrug (though he is far less recognizable among the Mythos), or Shub-Niggurath (Her spawn are already in the game).

I'm really, REALLY hoping for Ragathiel, especially considering how he's one of the more popular (if not THE most) Empyreal Lords. Paizo apparently has a policy of not putting deities in core rulebooks that aren't from some real-world mythological source, but really...how many of the Empyreal lords are directly based on a historical deity? Korada certainly isn't. Vildeis isn't. Olheon isn't. The Black Butterfly isn't.
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Odraude wrote:
MMCJawa wrote:
I don't know why you keep complaining about subscribers getting it early. It's not like we are undergoing clandestine night time raids of the Paizo warehouse to steal a copy. We signed up for the subscription plan which to reward our loyalty gives us early PDF/shipping rights. If you want the early pdf, pony up the extra bucks and sign up for the rule book line.

Wait, we aren't!?! :O

*leaves Seattle warehouses*

*Sigh* No man, we are! We just don't want anyone else to know! Now get back in there! >:)

Shadow Lodge
Axial wrote:

I'm thinking the third Great Old One will either be Nyarlathotep (In one of his many forms), Bokrug (though he is far less recognizable among the Mythos), or Shub-Niggurath (Her spawn are already in the game).

I'm really, REALLY hoping for Ragathiel, especially considering how he's one of the more popular (if not THE most) Empyreal Lords. Paizo apparently has a policy of not putting deities in core rulebooks that aren't from some real-world mythological source, but really...how many of the Empyreal lords are directly based on a historical deity? Korada certainly isn't. Vildeis isn't. Olheon isn't. The Black Butterfly isn't.

I can tell you that we are probably not getting Nyarlathotep or Shub as they count as elder gods and along with Azathoth are god level creatures.

As for Ragathiel from what I was told at Gencon he won't be in their either as the list of empyreal lords was pretty much set, statted, and sent to the printers before he came out and blew up.

Really? No Ragathiel???

Wow, then the Empyreals must have been statted months and months in advance before Chronicle of the Righteous.
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Axial wrote:

Really? No Ragathiel???

Wow, then the Empyreals must have been statted months and months in advance before Chronicle of the Righteous.

Yeah that was what I heard from James basically. I know that we are getting 3, one of each of the classic alignments, and that one of them (I think the Azata) is a very little talked about one.

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I'd prefer an Agathion to an Angel, personally. I think the Agathions have more personality and their varied appearances makes them more appealing to me. Just my preferences, though.

Angels are even more varied. They aren't limited to being Neutral Good, they're just listed as such for convenience's sake.

Cernunnos I believe is an Empyreal Lord in Pathfinder, so he would be a good bet
Silver Crusade

St. Cuthbert's Mace is a thing in Pathfinder already too. Who knows where that may lead? :)

Darn, now I'm wondering who the three Empyreal lords are...I mean, if they were ALREADY FINISHED before Chronicle of the Righteous came out, then who the hell would they be!?

I mean, I guess I appreciate Paizo for working ahead, but come on now. This is a little bit ridiculous.
Silver Crusade

Looking back through the "Azata Lord", "archon Lord" and so-on lists might present some candidates too...
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Hmm maybe the Elohim are to Angels what the Qippoth are to Demons...
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Rysky wrote:
Hmm maybe the Elohim are to Angels what the Qippoth are to Demons...

Epic Meepo did something of that sort with his Sephiroth. If the Elohim don't meet your game needs or expectations, you might give them a try.

Lol, you can say about me what you want, I always get the heat into conversations.

With so many new replies (30) I thought it would be covered with spoilers already, gladly that isn't so. :-p

And I was not talking to the receivers, but to paizo as they release the PDF two weeks later but they can release it a week later cuz the PDF is already made so why this time 2 weeks? NEver seen that before, but with my favorite book it is suddely so...

Ow and its not a money problem for me, its a mail problem, they already stole so much of my mail, it just vanishes and that stupid PostNL never knows and even searches for the product they just send in a new one to get stolen, and the delays are ENDLESS, so even if I ordered the book I probably get it later than 30 October.

So i'm not gonna give those Mailmans here Bestiary 4, no.
Silver Crusade
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Evil Midnight Lurker wrote:
Rysky wrote:
Hmm maybe the Elohim are to Angels what the Qippoth are to Demons...
Epic Meepo did something of that sort with his Sephiroth. If the Elohim don't meet your game needs or expectations, you might give them a try.

Good God this is awesome. :D

That subtype background material...hotness.

dat Neshamah
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