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.
The Dawn Grappler is interesting (it's only Medium though so I guess we have a problem with Halfling Werewolves?) and I do like how the story calls out that the people who made them were... idiots.
... the Physician Devils remind me of the Physicians from Oglaf.
(do you really only get a single spell from Soulbound Healing? And I'm guessing "any" does indeed mean "any" since the Physician doesn't know that many healing spells.
Just wanted to let you know: The stat block header for Devil, Addiction lists "Diction Devil" which was, in fact, the name of my 8th grade English teacher.
Just wanted to let you know: The stat block header for Devil, Addiction lists "Diction Devil" which was, in fact, the name of my 8th grade English teacher.
Noted! Thanks!
We pushed this one out without the typical final proofing phase we usually do, because we really wanted it to be release for PaizoCon (and, really, 3 years is long enough for a wait, right?).
That said, we expect to have errors pop up, and definitely would like to know about them. We intend to update the PDF at some point in the next couple of months, to fix errors.
Just wanted to let you know: The stat block header for Devil, Addiction lists "Diction Devil" which was, in fact, the name of my 8th grade English teacher.
Noted! Thanks!
We pushed this one out without the typical final proofing phase we usually do, because we really wanted it to be release for PaizoCon (and, really, 3 years is long enough for a wait, right?).
That said, we expect to have errors pop up, and definitely would like to know about them. We intend to update the PDF at some point in the next couple of months, to fix errors.
Tim
Of course, this also means that someone needs to stat up a "Diction Devil."
Every time someone within 30 feet of the diction devil takes an action that involves speaking, they need to succeed at a Linguistics check to use proper diction or take 1d6 nonlethal damage. If this is a spell with a verbal component, the damage requires a concentration check to avoid losing the spell.
Hey GarnathFrostmantle, thanks for the review. We did strive to make the layout as close to what one would expect in a Paizo Bestiary. Glad you like it. :)
And thanks also to Rysky for the review, and the running reviews in the comments. Love seeing this kind of stuff. :)