Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Bestiary 6 (PFRPG)

Can't wait to get my hands on the hardcover! Looking forward to seeing the Four Horsemen all statted up!

** spoiler omitted **

And it only gets better from there.

As for sakhils, my search for them turned up nothing.

A big thanks to you and the gentleman who provided the information on the new Sahkils. *Urrgh* They are creepy ones.

That people are finding the new sahkils creepy warms my little heart. Mission accomplished!

That people are finding the new sahkils creepy warms my little heart. Mission accomplished!

*narrows eyes*

I think the ouroboros is my favorite for sheer WTF factor.

It is snakes, all the way down.

I really wish people wouldn't give product reviews until the street release date:(

Hey D78, didn't you just review a product before the street date? :)

Indeed, my bronze cousin Dragon 78. And that was a review filled with personal tastes... =/

There's nothing wrong with changing opinion (and we shouldn't beat people up so much when they do).

And there's nothing wrong with injecting personal tastes into reviews.

No problem with injecting personal tastes into reviews...

But there certainly is a problem with injecting a review in your personal tastes... ;)

Just now getting around to looking at my copy, lots of good stuff in here.

Glad to see the Nekomata finally made it in, in horrifying fashion no less
and the number of plant type monsters makes me giddy, one of these days I will have to make that "Hungry Jungle" adventure I've been meaning to get around to.

Excellent work everyone who was involved.

Well you guys wanted me to give a review, so I did.

Well you guys wanted me to give a review, so I did.

Even though I loved the book far more than you, I'm glad there is now a dissenting opinion up on the boards. It is not a perfect book and having some different criticism is a good thing.

Thank you for doing that!

:)

Eric Hinkle wrote:

Feros wrote:

The Lupin were based (somewhat) on the real world Cajun legends about the humanoid wolf-man race Rougarou. So they should sound like them! :)

They were? I thought they were based on some older French legends about non-murderous werewolves, like the one that saved a drunken monk from being killed by wildcats.

These are not necessarily contradictory. I believe that there are significant amounts of French influence in Cajun culture.

Cajun is a bastardization of "Acadian". Acadia was a French colony in what is now Eastern Canada. The British, to reduce French influence once Wolff beat Montcalme at Quebec City, shipped the residents of Acadia to the swamps of Louisiana and basically dropped them off to fend for themselves.

Hence the French contribution to culture in that area.

Banshee

What are a t-rex's two worst problems? Tiny brain, itty-bitty arms. Now, imagine if someone came along and solved those two problems.

Someone did. And the saurians are the result.

Almost sounds like the K'Chain Che'Malle...

Banshee

Any juicy polymorph options? (e.g., any monstrous humanoids or undead with pounce?)

Well you guys wanted me to give a review, so I did.

Well, my cousin, I can agree with you that there are indeed to many outsiders, while there are only seven dragons... =/

I believe the dragon type is the one with less creatures to represent it, is it not? Well, at least we have dragons for all CR, excluding CR 25+

Can anyone describe the book's version of the Kikituk?

Things with pounce:

Empyreal Lord, Arshea - Medium Outsider (Angel, Extraplanar, Good) - CR 29

O.o

How does Arshea fight?

Lord Gadigan wrote:

Things with pounce:

Empyreal Lord, Arshea - Medium Outsider (Angel, Extraplanar, Good) - CR 29

O.o

How does Arshea fight?

Who said anything about fighting?

Lord Gadigan wrote:

Things with pounce:

Empyreal Lord, Arshea - Medium Outsider (Angel, Extraplanar, Good) - CR 29

O.o

How does Arshea fight?

An endless dance of motion and form.

AlgaeNymph wrote:

Lord Gadigan wrote:

Things with pounce:

Empyreal Lord, Arshea - Medium Outsider (Angel, Extraplanar, Good) - CR 29

O.o

How does Arshea fight?

An endless dance of motion and form.

Feels familiar somehow...

Do they also Flirt mid-combat? Arshea looks like the Frisk-y sort.

Arshea,

The living version of a certain 80s pop song. ;)

FallenDabus wrote:

O_O

Todd, what rank chaotic hell have you unleashed upon us?

tHe B3$T k1Nd :D

You folks have been bugging me for a CR20 protean, and I finally got to make one. It's also IMO a fairly buff CR20 (and there are options for ones advanced in power beyond the base stats and slithering their way towards protean lord status - whatever that might entail).

As for what the Izfiitar looks like? Whatever the hell it wants to look like. Most often it looks like a medium sized, 6 armed keketar with a split tail. Just imagine a fight against a protean chorus with one (or two or several) of them. Muahaha!

You are pandering to me and I appreciate it!

Did anyone know the new Animal Companions and the new Dinosaurs? :D

The new animal companions are...

All of the new dinosaurs are also animal companions, so that should answer both.

Is the devil monkey a reprint because I feel like I have seen the art for it somewhere before?

Arshea,

The living version of a certain 80s pop song. ;)

This one?

Adding cataboligne to my list of favorite bestiary entries for this line alone.

Oddly, catabolignes do not seem hostile toward proteans, who will often merrily lead these devastating qlippoth on destructive sprees.

I want my buddy cop movie.

YUS

Is the devil monkey a reprint because I feel like I have seen the art for it somewhere before?

The devil monkey is all new to the game.

There's actually 2 reasons it's in the book:

1) I love putting creatures inspired by real-world cryptids in the game.

2) Until this guy showed up, there were no huge "monkey/ape" creatures in any of the Bestiaries. Sure, making him huge takes him away from the real-world myth (in truth, I suspect the devil monkey of cryptozoology is just a displaced or escaped-from-the-zoo babboon), but since we already have baboons in the game, this was a chance to make a legend fit its oversized boots.

The Sakhils and the slithering pit are really cool! As are the skin crawler and siabrae (think druid lich).

I'm also a big fan of the rougarou; seemed weird that we didn't have a 0-HD non-gnoll dog race yet. I'm makes me and several of my friends VERY happy to see them included.

I've always loved ravens too, so the giant raven and raven swarm makes my hear flutter. Being able to get a giant raven mount for my ratfolk grenadier is jsut icing on the cake.

The Qlippoth and Qlippoth Lords are suitably horrifying.

I would like to formerly revoke my previous statements. There is quite a bit of awesome in this book

(Though I still like #4 better, for its plentiful Lovecraft horrors.)

I think the ouroboros is my favorite for sheer WTF factor.

It is snakes, all the way down.

Yeah, it even comes with an aura that really messes you up simply for the sheer impossibility of what it is that you're seeing. The brain can't comprehend a giant, self-eating snake made up of snakes which are made up of snakes, which are...endlessly made up of ever smaller snakes. lol.

I'm not a fan of its picture though.

*sees art of Lovelorn*

Meh. It's not that bad.

*reads the abilities*

F*+$ YOU AND THE HORSE YOU RODE IN ON.

Awww, you say the sweetest things, Rysky!

Dragon78 wrote:

What is the fire whale?

If it's a MGS5 reference, this will be the greatest Bestiary.

In dev, I insisted on calling it the charwhal

Rysky wrote:

*sees art of Lovelorn*

Meh. It's not that bad.

*reads the abilities*

F*+$ YOU AND THE HORSE YOU RODE IN ON.

Awww, you say the sweetest things, Rysky!

IT WAS YOU!!!!!

O.O

Rysky wrote:

*sees art of Lovelorn*

Meh. It's not that bad.

*reads the abilities*

F*+$ YOU AND THE HORSE YOU RODE IN ON.

Awww, you say the sweetest things, Rysky!

You're welcome, I try ^W^

*said while glaring*

Kalindlara wrote:

Dragon78 wrote:

What is the fire whale?

If it's a MGS5 reference, this will be the greatest Bestiary.

In dev, I insisted on calling it the charwhal

I will not call it anything else from now on.

I love that a group of lovelorn is called a "tragedy." :D

... of course it is.

I must give congratulations though, Crystal and friend shaped flumph. You've made monsters that have gone onto my "things that need to f#@*ing DIE yesterday" list.

I must give congratulations though, Crystal and friend shaped flumph. You've made monsters that have gone onto my "things that need to f%$@ing DIE yesterday" list.

It's not a very big list.

Yeah... Crystal's concept for the lovelorn is one of my favorites from the totally new monsters in the book (she's one of the only folks who I asked to work on the book who basically got as some of their monster descriptions "Do whatever you want!" because I knew she'd hit it out of the proverbial park!).

Y'all Evil.

My thoughts when I read the Lovelorn entry was, "this was written by someone who got jerked around by love A LOT at some point in their lives."

Crystal, I seriously hope I was wrong in that assessment. :)

The Gold Sovereign wrote:

"Elemental Revival! Abyssal Resurrection! Hellish Resurrection! Empyreal... Empyreal...

Well son, when an Empyreal Lord dies, it... It dies."

Was something done about this?

I can assure you today that there is no cultural or mythological support for the idea that good deities can live again after being killed. Having good demigods the only one-and/done type is right and proper.

*Looks at myth of Herakles and what happened after he wore a poison shirt* Of course, never ;)

Though it would be cool if one of the types were less resurrect-y but had more new powerful beings arise than most other types. Sure, it's harder to permakill some of 'em, but they tend to be more stuck in their positions. I like the idea of power flowing more freely in both directions in some factions than others. They aren't mirrors of each other, this isn't Planescape. They're beings who have managed to reach that level of power in ways befitting their own race.

And of course we know Horsemen can die. I do like hearing of the Horsemen's "+CR when one dies," thing, it fits very well with there murder spree against Protean Lords after one of the Horsemen died in the past. In short, despite being 'just' 4, they're one of the Demigod groups most dangerous to try and go after.

Ravingdork wrote:

A book that is half CR 21+ is half useless to the vast majority of GMs out there.

Judging from the reception this book's gained so far, that sounds like baseless hyperbole.

It's fine if the book isn't the book you wanted, but that doesn't mean it's not a successful book that a lot of other people enjoy.

We've never been quiet about the book's content skewing higher CR, in any event.

My personal view is while people end up using less high-CR monsters total in a campaign, high CR types are more likely to inspire a campaign. They'll be bosses, or goals, or inform you on just what that cult is worshiping and why, or so on.

Trying to lure a Kaiju into the enemy big bag is a classic and fantastic thing to do that doesn't require being that level oneselves, and I love that sort of thing.

I also love beseeching Empyreal Lords, making deals with Archdevils, and so on.

This sort of product is great for that. Low-CR gives me stuff to use, High-CR gives me *ideas* on what path players are crossing that passes all those Low-CRs.

Ok, people have covered Yaddithians and Naiads. What of the third new PC race, rougarou?

Also, people have covered animal companions, are there any new Familiar options in the book?

I also love beseeching Empyreal Lords, making deals with Archdevils, and so on.

If empyreal lords are around, why bother with anything else -- especially archdevils -- in the first place?

Davia D wrote:

I also love beseeching Empyreal Lords, making deals with Archdevils, and so on.

If empyreal lords are around, why bother with anything else -- especially archdevils -- in the first place?

Because your requests certainly don't match up with both parties morality.