Monsters have long stalked us in the darkness. Within this book, you’ll find a host of these creatures for use in the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. Face off against archdevils and the Horsemen of the Apocalypse, planar dragons and the legendary wild hunt, proteans and psychopomps, and hundreds more! Some creatures, such as the capricious taniwha, the mysterious green man, or the powerful empyreal lords, might even be willing to provide your heroes aid—if they deserve it!
Pathfinder RPG Bestiary 6 is the sixth must-have volume of monsters for use with the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game and serves as a companion to the Pathfinder RPG Core Rulebook and Pathfinder RPG 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 a new era.
Pathfinder RPG Bestiary 6 includes:
More than 200 different monsters.
New player-friendly races, like the crazed monkey goblins, the telepathic albino munavris, the river-dwelling fey naiads, the wolflike rougarou, and the yaddithians of the Elder Mythos.
Numerous powerful demigods, from archdevils and Great Old Ones to empyreal lords and qlippoth lords.
New animal companions and other allies, such as fierce devil monkeys and loyal clockwork hounds.
New templates, including the entothrope and the mongrel giant, 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!
ISBN-13: 978-1-60125-931-8
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I had thought when Bestiary 6 came out I wouldn't need it.
How wrong was I!
This book will definitely take it's place as one of the essential Pathfinder books in my collection, if you're waiting to get this, don't! Get it now!
Well done Paizo!
My one complaint is mine had the same s@$&ty yellow binding glue as the first printing of the Starfinder CRB, but I'm not dropping the rating because it is that good (also I still have binding glue leftover from my Starfinder CRB).
So Bestiary 5 was a bit disappointing to me, but this one is something that did something with Pathfinder I haven't seen in a while: gave me ideas that I wanted to use. A lot of the monsters presented are honestly interesting. As usual, there are some reprints from other products, but I always favor having consolidated lists of things. I won't use everything, but there is enough here that I'll be using a good chunk.
Also, the weremantis reminded me how much I love Portal, so I have to give it to them there.
So me and two other guys from my gaming group ordered this book from amazon. WOW, all of us have missing and or scrambled pages.
I have over 17 missing pages (most of the archdevils content)and more or less 20 pages out of order. I don't know if they are sending all the "special" books down here, but I can assure you I will never buy a physical book from Paizo anymore.
Read up on the Kurds (the people that are currently our allies against ISIS), and Melek Taus, the Peacock Angel. Stranger than fiction, and I'm pretty sure some would crap kittens if they knew that we were allied with 'devil-worshippers' against 'people of the book.'
Ummm.... almost all Kurds (the majority of whom are Muslim), and certainly all Yazidis (i.e. those who believe in Melek Taus) ARE 'people of the book'. That is, their religion is one of the many offshoots of Judaism. Sure, some would consider them 'devil-worshippers'... but those are generally the same people who would say that about all Muslims.
Yeah, Yazidis aren't in paganism category(nor any other "worshiper of dead religion that has been resurrected" category) >:(
(plus Yazidis' is one of cooler religions in Crusader Kings 2 xP)
The ahool, cherufe, cuero (el cuero), mngwa, ningen, and orang-pendak are some of the cryptids present in Bestiary 5, though the line is often blurred between cryptid and mythical beast...after all, much of cryptozoology is taking a look at various myths and legends to see if there might not be some real, undiscovered creature behind those tales. Some classify the lusca as a cryptid as well, for example, arguing it may be some immense squid that has yet to be discovered.
wouldn't surprise me to see a few more cryptids, although we are increasingly scraping the barrel now that that most famous ones have been largely done.
Removed a series of "boob-" and "nipple-monster" posts. Folks, let's not do this in the product discussion threads. We need them focused on the product itself.
If we get stats for the Midgard Serpent then we need stats for Fenrir.
I'd say that Jormungand and Fenrir don't actually fit within the Pathfinder CR scale.
Because Pathfinder caps at 30, and 30 is firmly below the level of actual gods. A CR 30 creature needs a plot device to be able to challenge an actual god.
But Loki's sons, while not gods, are threats so powerful that the gods need plot devices to deal with them.
So I'd say Jormungand and Fenrir are so strong that they fall into Pathfinder's "unstatable" range.
(However, they HAVE already statted in a couple editions of D&D, which in just about every edition but 2nd does support throwing down with the actual gods. Just one of the areas where Pathfinder and D&D actually diverge.)
If we can't talk about what we want to see in a Bestiary on the Bestiary thread what the everloving f&++ can we talk about?
I don't think it's out of line to say that we'd prefer these threads don't devolve into "lol butts" or another debate about the visual representation of the monsters included in the Bestiary (which is the eventual road that a "boob-"/"nipple-monster" chain of discussion leads to). It's absolutely OK to speculate what might be in the book, and we do have a pre-existing thread in the Product Discussion forum for a "Bestiary 6 wishlist" that might be appropriate :)
