Over 400 of fantasy's fiercest foes burst from the pages of this enormous 360-page compendium of the most popular and commonly encountered creatures in the world of Pathfinder! From familiar enemies like orcs, dragons, and vampires to new horrors like the nightmarish nilith and the three-headed mukradi, to suitable servants for summoners of every alignment, this must-have companion to the Pathfinder Core Rulebook is crawling with creatures to challenge characters of any level.
The Pathfinder Bestiary includes:
More than 400 monsters!
Gorgeous full-color illustrations on nearly every page!
Detailed monster lists sorted by level, type, and rarity to help you find the right monster for any situation!
Universal monster rules to simplify special attacks, defenses, and qualities like grab, swallow whole, and regeneration.
Guidelines for providing appropriate monstrous treasures for any occasion.
Detailed lore sidebars offering additional information about Pathfinder's most popular monstrous friends and foes!
It's okay, but I do miss the Ecology and Environment Section of the 1st edition. It made it easier to figure how to set up the battle scenes. I also like in the 1st edition, they suggested encounter to place into you game depending on the setting.
Very likely the best monster book ever made in the d&d/pf history, period. Oh, I love the second edition rules so much, they made such exquisite monster writing possible, especially at lower levels.
This is a great book. They did a good job of making creatures much more distinct and memorable than in the 1st edition Bestiary. Pretty much every creature has at least one interestingly distinct ability which makes it play differently in combat. So it’s no longer the case that kobolds, goblins, orcs, hobgoblins, etc, are virtually indistinguishable opponents. Likewise, different dragons are given more distinguishing abilities other than breath weapon type and resistances.
All in all, the changes in the PF2 Bestiary are among the best, if not the best, improvements they’ve made to the game.
It's your tried and true bestiary, with an absolute ton of creatures. What's different? Every little detail!
The monster stats are now more legible, easier to use, shorter and yet incredibly more interesting than before! Almost all of the monsters I've seen have been improved to have fun and intersting new actions and abilities! They are all well described and include interesting sidebar textboxes with lore about them.
I love it!
P.S.: it goes without saying this is an absolute must-have, especially if you homebrew.
The only two I'm doubting of adding here are the Colour Out of Space and the Hound of Tindalos. Everything not mentioned here, well I'm not a big fan of those, I understand that others are and I of course won't mind their inclusion (though I hope robots end up with the Starfinder material)
The hardcovers can be preordered well before the street date (which is the date that the PDFs become available), but that doesn't necessarily mean that you will get the hardcovers before the PDFs, as the hardcovers have to be shipped while the PDFs become available the moment you buy them.
Am I reading it correctly that hardcovers are gottenalmost a month before the pdf's? (the dates in the book entry of ths product page)
No that’s a glitch.
Paizo do their best to ship everyone their books so that we all get them on streetdate (1st August). It’s not perfect given orders going all over the world and the massive number of orders. Some books arrive up to a week or so early and some up to a week or so late. It’s pretty close though.
When should we expect to see previews of the Bestiary? Monsters? Page spreads? Art? Anything should do it, as we are close to a month away from the release.
^ That'd be...interesting, especially since we don't know which & how many of the monsters have been revamped for P2...
Sounds like fun!
:D
For me, I'd be perfectly happy with a list of the monsters (including type &/or monster group, e.g. angel, devil, etc.; alignment & level would also be helpful?).
I really hope to see the Furcifur in there somewhere, BEST creature created by Paizo in a long time, it would be outrages if we have to wait until Bestiary 3/4 to get one of those. Also give the Skrik Nettle finally some love, very awesome creature that never got from the AP.
Also with a lot of the old bestiary writers gone (Wesley, Adam ect ect) are there still people working on the Mythology creatures(I'm not talking about the usual Minotaurs and Hydras) in there? Like the more unusual ones (Papinijuwari, Lampad, Abaia and Buggane for example)
I'm a bit worried this will be a Lovecraft/Science Fiction/Aboleth/D&D love fest otherwise.
also, please change the model of the Chimera, it is so silly in the D&D version, much awesome things can be done with the Chimerae, it would be a shame to see the D&D copy clone again, this is pathfinder after all, and Chimerae are from mythology, not from D&D.
...Also with a lot of the old bestiary writers gone (Wesley, Adam ect ect) are there still people working on the Mythology creatures(I'm not talking about the usual Minotaurs and Hydras) in there? Like the more unusual ones (Papinijuwari, Lampad, Abaia and Buggane for example)...
...Also with a lot of the old bestiary writers gone (Wesley, Adam ect ect) are there still people working on the Mythology creatures(I'm not talking about the usual Minotaurs and Hydras) in there? Like the more unusual ones (Papinijuwari, Lampad, Abaia and Buggane for example)...
I haven't gone anywhere. :)
Ahhh my bad, I thought I've read about your departure on this blog! Must confuse you with another! Sorry lol.
I know it’s a long shot. Please allow me to hope beyond hope. My favorite monster and race is Lizardfolk. I really hope they make it into this bestiary for me xD
I know it’s a long shot. Please allow me to hope beyond hope. My favorite monster and race is Lizardfolk. I really hope they make it into this bestiary for me xD
It's better than you imagined. Lizardfolk (iruxi) are not only in the Bestiary, but they've also been announced as an ancestry available for player characters in the Lost Omens Character Guide.
Copies from paizo.com have been shipping out to folks with our July New Release shipping. We've expanded the window a bit for this release to try to get preordered and subscriber copies shipped in time for the launch. I know people are very excited to see these books and I’d like to quick remind folks to be respectful when posting about getting your copy earlier than others, and when asking people if they can share info from copies folks have already received.
Posting snippets and discussing them is fine. Typing up really long chunks of text or taking pictures of every page is excessive. We want people to have fun and be excited, but we also want to be respectful of folks who own or support FLGSs, or plan to pick up their copies at Gen Con and do not have the potential for getting a copy early.
I know it’s a long shot. Please allow me to hope beyond hope. My favorite monster and race is Lizardfolk. I really hope they make it into this bestiary for me xD
It's better than you imagined. Lizardfolk (iruxi) are not only in the Bestiary, but they've also been announced as an ancestry available for player characters in the Lost Omens Character Guide.
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