Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Bestiary 6 (PFRPG)

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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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And i thought i didn't need this one!

5/5

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).


A solid addition

4/5

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.


Upward Trend

5/5

A wide variety of creatures with overall high quality artwork. I like the inclusion of the numerous high CR creatures.

Bestiary 5 and 6 have been my favorite Bestiary books by far.


Unusable

1/5

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.


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The Gold Sovereign wrote:

Was the CR for the each of the Horsemen and Archdevils already revealed? I don't think so. If not, could someone be kind enough to share it with us?

Now, regarding the Horsemen only, were their illustrations updated? Is Charon's art just like the one in the cover or is it his skeleton-like appearance?

Thanks a lot!

spoiler:

Horsemen have a CR range of 27-30. They also have some nasty side effects if you kill one: All other Horsemen increase in CR by +1 (I don't think the exact specifics of stat changes for each one are spelled out, and another Daemon gets promoted to CR 27.

I would have to double check to see if the other llustrations are new, but they all seem to have the same design as previous iterations. However Charon fits closer to the original BotD illustration, and is a shrouded figure with that stylish hat from the old artwork.

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Eric Hinkle wrote:
doc the grey wrote:
Dude!?! Who's idea was the f~%$ing Lovelorn art!? Jesus that thing is awesome! Like a Kyton's housepet in a Hostel flick.
Can you give us a brief description of what the Lovelorn looks like? For that matter, what kind of a creature is it?

Um amazing and horrifying if you dig videodrome like body horror and at CR 4 it makes it an easy throw for low level encounters. My only regret is that it can't be a familiar. It totally looks like something a follower of Zon-Kuthon would have.

That said, if you want to spoil the sick surprise...:
It looks like a spider made from a human heart with fingers for legs
I warn you, this was one that might be better if you just open the book and let it surprise you.


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Does the Quetzalcoatlus actually have hair? I would think feathers would be more likely.

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MMCJawa wrote:
Rysky wrote:

Okay, looking over the list there's 3 I saw that are super vague sounding but vague in the way that makes me super curious.

Urhag, super hag? Do we get super Changelings?

The Unrisen.... what is it? Failed resurrection undead? Anti-undead?

The Whisperer? .... what is it? We already have stats for the Mi-Go...

Edit: Well, the Mi-Go was in that story... but maybe something else was there with them...

** spoiler omitted **

P.S. Based on Daigle's interest and their point of origin, I assumed Rougarou are mostly found in Arcadia. Daigle is sort of the "overlord" for that continent, at least seems that way based on posts and such.

Really? From a cursory glance I thought The Whisperer was more like a primal Slender Man, filling a similar niche but in the depth of old primal woods.


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MMCJawa wrote:
The Gold Sovereign wrote:

Was the CR for the each of the Horsemen and Archdevils already revealed? I don't think so. If not, could someone be kind enough to share it with us?

Now, regarding the Horsemen only, were their illustrations updated? Is Charon's art just like the one in the cover or is it his skeleton-like appearance?

Thanks a lot!

** spoiler omitted **

Thanks. Anyway to get exact CRs for Horsemen and especially Archdevils? I'm wondering how they sorted their relative power.

Shadow Lodge

David knott 242 wrote:

Does the Quetzalcoatlus actually have hair? I would think feathers would be more likely.

Yes? The art sort of implies that they have protofeathers like most modern interpretations but with the inking style I could see someone reading it either way. It reminds me a lot of the art for the Quetzalcoatlus from Saurian, very cool. Sad though that it's ANIMAL COMPANION STATS START IT SMALL AND IT DOESN'T GET LARGE TILL 7TH! That combined with Hard to Train is a royal pain.


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David knott 242 wrote:

Does the Quetzalcoatlus actually have hair? I would think feathers would be more likely.

Pterosaurs have hair-like integument, which we know from fossil discoveries. Probably similar in appearance to the protofeathers of some dinosaurs, but probably convergently evolved.


Does the titanoboa get anything to make it different from all the other big snakes? And are the megafauna more than just more rhinos and elephants?

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J-Spee Lovecraft wrote:
Does the titanoboa get anything to make it different from all the other big snakes? And are the megafauna more than just more rhinos and elephants?

Nahh, just a really big constrictor. It has swallow whole if the giant anaconda doesn't get that and the thing is colossal.


I am really enjoying what I see, especially the dinos.


Being from NM, I am happy that they included a creature from our folklore.

Was Diego behind it?


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I have a mighty need to know more about the Naiad and Yaddithian! Please?


doc the grey wrote:
J-Spee Lovecraft wrote:
Does the titanoboa get anything to make it different from all the other big snakes? And are the megafauna more than just more rhinos and elephants?
Nahh, just a really big constrictor. It has swallow whole if the giant anaconda doesn't get that and the thing is colossal.

They really made it colossal?

Seems like any creature that's even remotely big is considered colossal, these days.


Sauce987654321 wrote:
doc the grey wrote:
J-Spee Lovecraft wrote:
Does the titanoboa get anything to make it different from all the other big snakes? And are the megafauna more than just more rhinos and elephants?
Nahh, just a really big constrictor. It has swallow whole if the giant anaconda doesn't get that and the thing is colossal.

They really made it colossal?

Seems like any creature that's even remotely big is considered colossal, these days.

Well anything greater than 64' long or tall.

Edit: upon further research, it really should be gargantuan, but it's a fantasy RPG so hyperbole is acceptable to a certain extent.


Steven "Troll" O'Neal wrote:
Sauce987654321 wrote:
doc the grey wrote:
J-Spee Lovecraft wrote:
Does the titanoboa get anything to make it different from all the other big snakes? And are the megafauna more than just more rhinos and elephants?
Nahh, just a really big constrictor. It has swallow whole if the giant anaconda doesn't get that and the thing is colossal.

They really made it colossal?

Seems like any creature that's even remotely big is considered colossal, these days.

Well anything greater than 64' long or tall.

It's under 50 ft. and if I recall it was estimated at 2,500 pounds, making this the smallest colossal creature that really should've been a high end huge size.


Yeah, should have looked that up before posting.


Steven "Troll" O'Neal wrote:
I have a mighty need to know more about the Naiad and Yaddithian! Please?

I don't think much has been said about the Naiad...if anything at all. I am curious too.


I'd like to know about the Mapinguari. The descriptions of that particular cryptid range from "basically a Megatherium" to "too bizarre for words" so I'd like to know what direction was taken with it.

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Question for the devs. With the Blight's rejuvenation ability is it supposed to be within his cursed domain? The glossary in the back refers to "cursed terrain" but this is the only reference to such a thing anywhere.

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Fourshadow wrote:
Steven "Troll" O'Neal wrote:
I have a mighty need to know more about the Naiad and Yaddithian! Please?
I don't think much has been said about the Naiad...if anything at all. I am curious too.

Ask and ye shall receive.

The naiad is cool and basically gets a swim speed and some limited nymph like powers to offer favor to people and the ability to bond with a water feature which empowers them when they are near it.

The Yaddithian is a pretty balanced option that gets cold resistance, no breath, and the ability to use his own mind as a spellbook. Unfortunately, with his tapir nose and bright yellow coloring he kind of looks like a Smurfs villain or the anteater from the old Pink Panther cartoons. Not very mythos'y, not very scary or weird looking, very disappointed in that.


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doc the grey wrote:
Fourshadow wrote:
Steven "Troll" O'Neal wrote:
I have a mighty need to know more about the Naiad and Yaddithian! Please?
I don't think much has been said about the Naiad...if anything at all. I am curious too.

Ask and ye shall receive.

The naiad is cool and basically gets a swim speed and some limited nymph like powers to offer favor to people and the ability to bond with a water feature which empowers them when they are near it.

The Yaddithian is a pretty balanced option that gets cold resistance, no breath, and the ability to use his own mind as a spellbook. Unfortunately, with his tapir nose and bright yellow coloring he kind of looks like a Smurfs villain or the anteater from the old Pink Panther cartoons. Not very mythos'y, not very scary or weird looking, very disappointed in that.

I'm okay with this. I'm planning a mythos inspired starfinder campaign and was going to include them as an alien race.


doc the grey wrote:
Fourshadow wrote:
Steven "Troll" O'Neal wrote:
I have a mighty need to know more about the Naiad and Yaddithian! Please?
The Yaddithian is a pretty balanced option that gets cold resistance, no breath, and the ability to use his own mind as a spellbook. Unfortunately, with his tapir nose and bright yellow coloring he kind of looks like a Smurfs villain or the anteater from the old Pink Panther cartoons. Not very mythos'y, not very scary or weird looking, very disappointed in that.

Mechanically it sounds amazing. Visually it sounds disappointing. I'll wait and see though. :)


Hmm my quoting didn't work right.

And apparently the Yaddithians cast smurf on our avatars.


Plausible Pseudonym wrote:
MMCJawa wrote:
The Gold Sovereign wrote:

Was the CR for the each of the Horsemen and Archdevils already revealed? I don't think so. If not, could someone be kind enough to share it with us?

Now, regarding the Horsemen only, were their illustrations updated? Is Charon's art just like the one in the cover or is it his skeleton-like appearance?

Thanks a lot!

** spoiler omitted **
Thanks. Anyway to get exact CRs for Horsemen and especially Archdevils? I'm wondering how they sorted their relative power.

This was actually my second attempt on that question. I'm sure we all already knew their CR goes from 27 to 30... u.u'

Well... Anyone could answer that? The exact CR for each of the demigods abovementioned?

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The Gold Sovereign wrote:
Plausible Pseudonym wrote:
MMCJawa wrote:
The Gold Sovereign wrote:

Was the CR for the each of the Horsemen and Archdevils already revealed? I don't think so. If not, could someone be kind enough to share it with us?

Now, regarding the Horsemen only, were their illustrations updated? Is Charon's art just like the one in the cover or is it his skeleton-like appearance?

Thanks a lot!

** spoiler omitted **
Thanks. Anyway to get exact CRs for Horsemen and especially Archdevils? I'm wondering how they sorted their relative power.

This was actually my second attempt on that question. I'm sure we all already knew their CR goes from 27 to 30... u.u'

Well... Anyone could answer that? The exact CR for each of the demigods abovementioned?

Horsemen:

Apollyon CR 29
Charon CR 30
Szuriel CR 28
Trelmarixian CR 27

Archdevils:

Baalzebul CR 30
Barbatos CR 26
Belial CR 28
Dispater CR 27
Geryon 29
Mammon 28
Mephistopheles 30
Moloch 29


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Thanks a LOT Michelle!

I'm completely satisfied with the CR for these demigods, specially for Geryon, Baalzebul and Apollyon. Actually, I'm pretty much satisfied with the CR for all creatures so far.


Thanks for the CRs, interesting that Barbatos is slightly weaker than Furcas, a subordinate. If it were going to happen anywhere I guess Hell is the place.


MMCJawa wrote:
Charon's hat

*-*


Which monsters are mythic?


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The Gold Sovereign wrote:
Benchak the Nightstalker wrote:
Charnel Gods are the living statues haunted by dead gods mentioned in an earlier product description. When a god dies, sometimes a fragment of their divine power takes root in a graven image of the deity. The process drives them insane, and they particularly hate people who used to worship them (both because such followers remind them of how far they've fallen, and because they need someone to blame for their death). You might recognize the example Charnel God (formerly "a demon lord of the hunt") as a neat reference to a dead deity from the Golarion campaign setting.

Neat reference to a dead deity, hum?

I hope we are not playing with Desna's heart... Are we?

Mordant spire is what came to my mind :P


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Charon wearing or not wearing a hat seems small potatoes compared to all the catfolk and hobgoblin variances out there in Pathfinder art :P

Silver Crusade

Pathfinder Adventure Path Subscriber
Nick O'Connell wrote:
Which monsters are mythic?

None.


So here is a question....what distinguishes the Rougarou (fluff wise) from any shifter ???

I mean are they tied to lycanthropic heritage as well ? or it something completely different ?

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nighttree wrote:

So here is a question....what distinguishes the Rougarou (fluff wise) from any shifter ???

I mean are they tied to lycanthropic heritage as well ? or it something completely different ?

How many times does the "stop using the word 'fluff', it's derogatory" post needs to be repeated?

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Sauce987654321 wrote:
doc the grey wrote:
J-Spee Lovecraft wrote:
Does the titanoboa get anything to make it different from all the other big snakes? And are the megafauna more than just more rhinos and elephants?
Nahh, just a really big constrictor. It has swallow whole if the giant anaconda doesn't get that and the thing is colossal.

They really made it colossal?

Seems like any creature that's even remotely big is considered colossal, these days.

We fudge sizes now and then for prehistoric crittters, such as the titanoboa and the giganotosaurus, in order to fit gaps in existing animal sizes and CRs.


So, have the Yaddithians been confirmed as playable aberrations? Just curious, and I didn't see any confirmation anywhere


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14 sided die wrote:
So, have the Yaddithians been confirmed as playable aberrations? Just curious, and I didn't see any confirmation anywhere

I'll go ahead and confirm that now. Of course, "playable" is one word for it - when you're older than the campaign setting's civilizations, your mindset may be a little unusual. (The description notes that the Yaddithian presented, a 9th-level wizard, is essentially the baseline for the survivors of the eons-old race.)

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David knott 242 wrote:

Does the Quetzalcoatlus actually have hair? I would think feathers would be more likely.

Pterosaurs did not have feathers, they had pycnofibers, which are something a little bit like hair, and a little bit like feather, but are neither.

Sovereign Court

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Sauce987654321 wrote:
doc the grey wrote:
J-Spee Lovecraft wrote:
Does the titanoboa get anything to make it different from all the other big snakes? And are the megafauna more than just more rhinos and elephants?
Nahh, just a really big constrictor. It has swallow whole if the giant anaconda doesn't get that and the thing is colossal.

They really made it colossal?

Seems like any creature that's even remotely big is considered colossal, these days.

Pathfinder gorillas are 8 feet tall. The largest individual of the largest species of extant gorilla was 6'6". The Adventure Fantasy business demands you scale everything up a bit.

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doc the grey wrote:
Unfortunately, with his tapir nose and bright yellow coloring he kind of looks like a Smurfs villain or the anteater from the old Pink Panther cartoons. Not very mythos'y, not very scary or weird looking, very disappointed in that.

That's, um, what Yaddithians look like, though.

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Gorbacz wrote:
nighttree wrote:

So here is a question....what distinguishes the Rougarou (fluff wise) from any shifter ???

I mean are they tied to lycanthropic heritage as well ? or it something completely different ?

How many times does the "stop using the word 'fluff', it's derogatory" post needs to be repeated?

Possibly until it starts being derogatory, then once more?


What are the CR's for the Clockwork Hound and Clockwork Assassin?


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Isabelle Lee wrote:
14 sided die wrote:
So, have the Yaddithians been confirmed as playable aberrations? Just curious, and I didn't see any confirmation anywhere
I'll go ahead and confirm that now. Of course, "playable" is one word for it - when you're older than the campaign setting's civilizations, your mindset may be a little unusual. (The description notes that the Yaddithian presented, a 9th-level wizard, is essentially the baseline for the survivors of the eons-old race.)

fair 'nuff, but still, 0HD aberration is a good thing in my books, I have.... ideas


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Brew Bird wrote:
What are the CR's for the Clockwork Hound and Clockwork Assassin?

Clockwork Hound:
CR 5

Clockwork Assassin:
CR 13

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Okay, I have to ask. Is there some kind of running gag going here that I don't get, or does having the S words in your post just do that to your avatar?

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14 sided die wrote:
So, have the Yaddithians been confirmed as playable aberrations? Just curious, and I didn't see any confirmation anywhere

Short answer is "yes" they are playable and overall on par powerwise with something like the tiefling at best. They make really good mages with an Int & Con bump and Cosmic mind but they've got slow speed and their big ability beyond ageless isn't really useful to a non prep arcane caster.

I'd let someone run one if the game was right. It sure as hell isn't like a drow noble or munvari in terms of power curve.

Shadow Lodge

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Michelle A.J. wrote:
Okay, I have to ask. Is there some kind of running gag going here that I don't get, or does having the S words in your post just do that to your avatar?

Yeah, the boards have some program that makes your avatar change if you mention those tiny blue dutch creatures.

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Michelle A.J. wrote:
Okay, I have to ask. Is there some kind of running gag going here that I don't get, or does having the S words in your post just do that to your avatar?

The latter. It's been part of the website infrastructure since way back when. ^_^


Michelle A.J. wrote:
Okay, I have to ask. Is there some kind of running gag going here that I don't get, or does having the S words in your post just do that to your avatar?

It was a surprise to me. They smurfed my avatar!


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Really? So if you say "smurf" you turn into one? I don't be-

Dang it.

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