Created for Pathfinder fans by Pathfinder fans, the Wayfinder Bestiary is our first compilation product, combining the monsters from Wayfinder 1 through 15 in one tome! While some entries and art should be familiar to Wayfinder readers, many entries have been expanded, and some even have new art! Several years in the making, we hope you enjoy this completely FREE download!
Contributing Authors: Gabriel Almer, Becky Barnes, John Bennett, Joshua Blazej, Morgan Boehringer, Dylan Brooks, Russ Brown, Will Cooper, Ryan Costello, Jr., Sarah Counts, Paris Crenshaw, Ryan Crossman, Rich Crotty, Calder CaDavid, Craig Cartin, Chris Crowe, Matt Duval, Denis Faupel, Robert Feather, Benjamin Fields, Nick Floyd, Guy Fox, Crystal Frasier, Jason Garrett, Christoph Gimmler, Amy C. Goodenough, Frank Gori, Wojciech Gruchala, Jesper Haglund, Sam Harris, Nick Herold, Kiel Howell, Scott Janke, Jason Keeley, Joe Kondrak, Cole Kronewitter, Thomas LeBlanc, Jeff Lee, John Leising, John E. Ling, Jr., Rob Little, Christopher “Acre” Lockwood, Dave Mallon, Matthew Medeiros, Joe Medley, Jacob W. Michaels, Nicholas Milasich, Alex Moore, Eric Morton, Kevin Andrew Murphy, Dustin James Nelson, Fraser Nelund, Mark Nordheim, Tom Phillips, Alex Putnam, Danielle Putnam, Ed Ortiz, Jr., Linda Zayas-Palmer, Michael Phillips, Max Rich, Matt Rupprecht, Joseph Scott, Mark Seifter, David Schwartz, Justin Sluder, Kendra Leigh Speedling, Matthew Starch, Jeffrey Swank, Russ Taylor, Margherita Tramontano, Ian Turner, Ben Warren, Christopher Wasko, Brendan Ward, and Mike Welham.
Interior Artists: Becky Barnes, Catherine Batka, Darran Caldemeyer, Paul Chapman, Tyler Clark, Jeremy Corff, Emilie Cormier, Liz Courts, Andrew DeFelice, William Dodds, Peter Fairfax, Lynnette Fetters, Crystal Frasier, Erin Frye, Silvia Gonzalez, Bob Greyvenstein, Michael Jaecks, James M. Keegan, Chris L. Kimball, Jason Kirckof, Adam Koča, Danny Hedager Krog, Alberto Ortiz Leon, Mike Lowe, Dave Mallon, Stephen McAndrews, Audrey Medley, Dionisis Milonas , Jesse Mohn, Alex Moore, Dustin Nelson, Kate Neve, Karla Yanin Salas Orozco, Brian Patterson, Beatrice Pelagatti, dodeqaa Polyhedra, Basil Arnould Price, Cody Ragsdale, Nick Russell, Tanyaporn Sangsnit, Bill Simpson, Ashton Sperry, Matthew Stinson, Carlos Torreblanca, Todd Westcot, and Stephen Wood.
Cover Artist: Michael Jaecks
Foreword: Tim Nightengale, Wayfinder Editor-in-Chief
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Seriously. This is seven years of Wayfinder magazine bestiary entries collected into one volume. 181 pages of new, original monsters. They range from the CR 1/4 creamfoot fennec (a cute little animal and new familiar option) to the massive CR 30 mawagetebab'dly (try saying that five times fast) which is a kaiju version of a hydra (!!!). There are monsters included here that are perfect for all terrains, various lands in Golarion, and suitable as encounters for various Paizo adventure paths. This is a resource a good GM should not pass up. Best of all, it's produced under the community use rules and therefore--FREE! Why would you not get this?
This is a truly beautiful product made by a wide assortment of wonderful people, both writers and artists, some who were able to break into the RPG market because of Wayfinder giving a spotlight on their creativity and dedication.
Collecting from 15 issues of Wayfinder there is no rhyme or reason here, similar to Paizo's Bestiarys, just a whole f$*&ton of cool monsters to throw at your players and to help you shape adventures. And even better, it's free.
So today is 6/1/17 and I downloaded this, just to see what the good kids of Wayfinder have done. Because of this Bestiary, I went out and got the other wayfinders that I didn't have.
Went through and read every entry in the last few hours.
Art is on the good scale. Some I don't care for, but that's just an art style choice.
Most of the writing and the monsters are pretty good. Edit here and there, but nothing distracted from my reading.
The layout. (there is a scene from High Fidelity where Jack Black is listening to a demo tape of the band, cringes and says) "It's really freaking good."
I'm sure there was some guidance/permission and help on font choice etc because it's pretty close to likeness rights. It's good. Like really good.
Just added to my downloads, but I'm so tired after getting home from PaizoCon, I'm not going to really grok any of it tonight. Look forward to spending more time with it when I get a chance.
Rysky, that'd be cool if you want through and did quick thoughts...
I really like what I have seen so far. Doubly so since it's free.
Any chance this will have a print edition?
Unlikely. Once you surpass 84 pages, saddle stitch is no longer possible. Binding and cover options make this more expensive to print too.
Probably possible for people to print on their own though....
Tim
We'd need to add a few more pages (or drop one) as well ... 181 is not a good print page count. ;) Rest assured if we ever decide to print it, that will get done. ;)
"I'm helping!" the Aridnyk cheers as it blasts you with Inflicts. "Still helping!" it says again as it keeps blasting your corpse.
They're haunting beautiful (pun not intended) and can instead of appearing as a mish mash of animals appear as a holy symbol of the deity they served in life. Cool!
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