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Anyway, what does the Leviathan look like? I hear it has a gaze attack that is worse than death, care to extrapolate on that?
The gaze attack are actually eye beams. Lots of them. they feeblemind, but there's more to it than just that.
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What is a Wisagatcak, anyway? Do you know how to pronounce it? What plane is it from? Does it like to create disasters?
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Do Roselings have anything to do with Leshys? What can they turn into? Is it just me or are their a lot more shapeshifters in this bestiary section than usual?
You know, it says shapechanger, but there's no mention anywhere in the description of the stat block of any shapechanging ability. I wonder if that's an error?
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Skeld, PDF Prophet wrote:In which plane do they live? Actually, if you have already read that much, from which plane do each of the creatures in the bestiary come?Inquisitive Malefactor wrote:What is an Irii, anyway? What does it's base form look like? Is there a lot of interspecies conflict seeing as half of them are Lawful and the other half Chaotic?** spoiler omitted **
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Skeld, PDF Prophet wrote:Could you provide some details on Leviathan?Prince Setehrael wrote:Skeld, PDF Prophet wrote:The Leviathan!!!I have my copy if there are questions....
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Yes.
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what about archetypes? what are they called?
Chronicler of Worlds (Bard)
Dreamthief (Rogue)
Energist (Alchemist)
Gloomblade (Fighter)
Idealist (Cleric)
Pact Witch (Witch)
Planar Scout (Ranger)
Portal Seeker (Investigator)
Progenitor (Druid)
Soul Warden (Spiritualist)
Worldseeker (Wizard)
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Skeld, PDF Prophet wrote:Wait I see permanent bonuses so does that mean that the other gifts are not a one time thing? Thanks. :)Inquisitive Malefactor wrote:An overview of the unique miracles the core 20 grant would also be pretty cool.By "unique miracles," are you referring to the divine gifts each deity can bestow?
** spoiler omitted **There's more to (almost) all of these, but this is the jist of it.
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I think some are and some aren't. The entire discussion of those abilities is caveated "GM discretion" and those provided are provided as examples.
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A list of the spells would also be nice.
Arbatrament (cleric 7, inquisitor 6)
Andor's onslaught (cleric 4, inquisitor 4)
Bestow planar infusion I (cleric 1, inquisitor 1, magus 1, medium 1, occultist 1, psychic 1, sorcerer/wizard 1, summoner 1, witch 1)
Bestow planar infusion II (cleric 4, inquisitor 4, magus 4, medium 4, occultist 4, psychic 4, sorcerer/wizard 4, summoner 4, witch 4)
Bestow planar infusion III (7, psychic 7, sorcerer/wizard 7, witch 7)
Commune with plane (cleric 5, psychic 5, ranger 4, summoner 5, witch 5)
Counterbalancing aura (cleric 8)
Diminish resistance (bard 2, cleric 2, inquisitor 2, magus 2, mesmerist 2, psychic 2, sorcerer/wizard 2, witch 2)
Dispel balance (cleric 5, inquisitor 5)
Ether step (magus 5, sorcerer/wizard 6, summoner 5)
Hasten judgement (antipaladin 4, cleric 5, druid 5, inquisitor 4, sorcerer/wizard 6, spiritualist 4, witch 5)
Homeward bound (cleric 3, sorcerer/wizard 4)
Infuse self (alchemist 3, bard 3, bloodrager 3, magus 3, sorcerer/wizard 3)
Invoke deity (antipaladin 4, cleric 6, inquisitor 6, medium 4, occultist 6, paladin 4, ranger 4, witch 6)
Judgement undone (cleric 9, psychic 9, shaman 9)
Positive pulse (cleric 1, inquisitor 1, paladin 1, shaman 1, sorcerer/wizard 1, spiritualist 1, summoner 1, witch 1)
Positive pulse, greater (cleric 4, inquisitor 4, paladin 3, shaman 4, sorcerer/wizard 4, spiritualist 4, summoner 3, witch 4)
Quintessence mastery (cleric 8, sorcerer/wizard 8, witch 8)
Shadow invasion (magus 4, sorcerer/wizard 4, summoner 4)
Songbird (bard 1, cleric 1, mesmerist 1, paladin 1, psychic 1, sorcerer/wizard 1)
Soulseeker (cleric 8, medium 4, occultist 6, shaman 8, spiritualist 6, witch 8)
Speak with soul (antipaladin 4, cleric 6, medium 4, paladin 4, shaman 6, spiritualist 6)
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Is Jandelay one of the demiplanes described in the book? =O
Could someone actually share the names of the major planes and the demiplanes described in the book?
Abaddon
Abyss
Astral Plane
Axis
Boneyard
Elysium
Ethereal Plane
First World
Heaven
Hell
Maelstrom
Negative Energy Plane
Nirvana
Plane of Air
Plane of Earth
Plane of Fire
Plane of Water
Positive Energy Plane
Shadow Plane
Demiplanes/Dimensions:
Akashic Record
Cynosure
Dead Vault
Dimension of Dreams/Dreamlands
Dimension of Time
Hao Jin Tapestry
Harrowed Realm
Jandelay
Leng
Xibalba
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Sorry to double post, but I'm really curious now; the Wisagatcak is apparently named after a Cree culture hero and manitou similar to Nanabozho. What is it like as a monster and Lawful Evil? I'm honestly uncertain how I would go about interpreting a figure like that.
Ok, I read up on the Cree stuff you're talking about and my take on it is that the these two things have absolutely nothing to do with each other. There's no overlap between the Cree cultural entity you're talking about and the thing in the book.
Maybe the person that came up with it can comment on their inspiration, but I don't see any commonality here at all.
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So, as far as I can remember, Empousai are (in greek mythology, in any rate) shapeshifting evil spirits who schtick is seducing, then eating young men. Seeing how in Pathfinder they are instead CN servants of Calistara, can we safely assume that they are only man-eaters in the figurative sense, rather than the literal?
I can't spek to the author's intent, but I also don't see the overlap between what's in the book and the mythological stuff you're referencing. They don't look the same to me.
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Sorry to double post, but I'm really curious now; the Wisagatcak is apparently named after a Cree culture hero and manitou similar to Nanabozho. What is it like as a monster and Lawful Evil? I'm honestly uncertain how I would go about interpreting a figure like that.
The googling I got was that Wisakedjak is trickster deity that created flood that destroyed the old world .-. So maybe that sort of source was idea behind that?
That said, yeah, its always rather bad idea to do interpretation of native american mythology without consulting native americans on how to interpret them
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Um yeah I’m perplexed/concerned about this as well. How do you go from Cree culture flood Hero to Hell Spiders?
While I didn't work on this monster, it appears to be based on something of that name introduced in BotD1. There was no overt link to Cree culture indicated in that book that I recall and I assume nobody knew the name was sourced from that real world source for the monster in Planar Adventures that elaborated on the BotD1 reference.
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Rysky wrote:Um yeah I’m perplexed/concerned about this as well. How do you go from Cree culture flood Hero to Hell Spiders?While I didn't work on this monster, it appears to be based on something of that name introduced in BotD1. There was no overt link to Cree culture indicated in that book that I recall and I assume nobody knew the name was sourced from that real world source for the monster in Planar Adventures that elaborated on the BotD1 reference.
Well that would explain it since Book of the Damned 1 is old one and lot of older books contain weird stuff ._. But still surprised whoever updated it for planar adventures didn't try googling it.
Either way, I'm not from USA, but I'm under impression that is really offensive thing to do to Native Americans <_<
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Construct nerd that I am, I has hoping for something on the machine armoury Oh well.
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I didn't draw on any mythological sources for the empusa. ^_^
So it looks like there are two monsters in here with mythological names whose write-ups are different from their mythological origins. Any reason why? Was it a case of not knowing the origin of the name, or attaching a cool name from mythology to a monster that was just created, or something else?
Given how much Paizo tries to draw on real mythology, it seems odd to start changing that.
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Rysky wrote:Um yeah I’m perplexed/concerned about this as well. How do you go from Cree culture flood Hero to Hell Spiders?While I didn't work on this monster, it appears to be based on something of that name introduced in BotD1. There was no overt link to Cree culture indicated in that book that I recall and I assume nobody knew the name was sourced from that real world source for the monster in Planar Adventures that elaborated on the BotD1 reference.
Wes name dropped a lot of new monsters in Book of the Damned 1, but didn't provide stats for them. They were mentioned throughout the book, but on page 18, where he wrote about Cocytus, he mentions:
...Wisagatcak—swift and spidery, six-limbed fiends–hide amid icy crags and ruins, whispering lies and despair into the ears of travelers.
That's all we'd ever done about them until Planar Adventures, and it's that single line of text that I drew upon when I assigned the monster for further development in the book.
It's likely that Wes, who did a lot of real-world mythology research for monsters, drew upon these myths, but he's not been an employee of Paizo for over a year now, and there was no other indication in the text that they were anything more than icy spider fiends. So no, other than the name being very similar or even the same depending on the source, the Planar Adventures Wisagatcak did not draw upon any real-world mythology or lore in its design.
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Isabelle Lee wrote:I didn't draw on any mythological sources for the empusa. ^_^So it looks like there are two monsters in here with mythological names whose write-ups are different from their mythological origins. Any reason why? Was it a case of not knowing the origin of the name, or attaching a cool name from mythology to a monster that was just created, or something else?
Given how much Paizo tries to draw on real mythology, it seems odd to start changing that.
While as I noted that the Wisagatcak is not drawn from mythology, the empusa was. The goal here was to add in a monster that would specifically serve as an agent for Calistria, since as a chaotic neutral deity, the current offerings (proteans, valkyries, chaos beasts) were not really on theme for her. The game already has MORE than enough variants on the succubus, and I wasn't interested in carrying that line forward from mythology. I did like the idea of them having one leg that wasn't human, though, and in combining that with the Calistiran element, that's why in development they ended up having one insect leg, to tie in with Calistria's wasp themes.
EDIT: And don't forget that the sirrush and Leviathan are both inspired by mythology!