I know the stores in my area just got theirs in today.
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Phoenix area stores got them starting yesterday.
I picked up a set (and probably would have bought a 2nd had it been available). The pawns themselves are exactly the same form factor and material as the 1E pawns, but the art appears to be all new. The box is about 1/2 inch taller than the original Bestiary Box, in order to make room for what looks like several additional sheets. The box did get come with bases, including a single colored medium base (blue).
This is a great product overall, and is impossible to beat as a less expensive alternative to miniatures. Unfortunately it repeats the biggest mistake of the 1E box: Too few pawns of common, low-level baddies (skeletons, ghouls, wolves, etc.). While I appreciate that there are cost constraints in play, in this case a single extra sheet devoted to these guys would have made the box vastly more useful for GMs just getting into pawns.
Note: There is a single otyugh, rather than four as listed in the product description.
While I don't think anyone would complain about more simple characters like skeletons, those are often the easiest and cheapest minis to purchase. 5e/Wizards has a skeleton 3-pack for like $6, for instance. Mixing the two may not be a great aesthetic though, and it is more to purchase unfortunately.
While I don't think anyone would complain about more simple characters like skeletons, those are often the easiest and cheapest minis to purchase. 5e/Wizards has a skeleton 3-pack for like $6, for instance. Mixing the two may not be a great aesthetic though, and it is more to purchase unfortunately.
Personally I don't care for mixing minis and pawns, with the exception of using minis for PCs, as I find it helpful when PCs stand out at a glance.
In my case, I have plenty of 1E pawns to fill in for common low-level baddies. It just seems to me that this product could have been greatly improved with a minimal cost increase.
Well I hope there is one left for me somewhere. :)Phoenix area stores got them starting yesterday.
I picked up a set (and probably would have bought a 2nd had it been available).
Screwed you over, homie. ;-)
Re: “ not enough low level horde style critters” complaint, you can look to the Enemy Encounters set to fill out the ranks of that type of enemy.
Sure it’s another thing to purchase, but no one product can be everything, right?
Jokes on you, heading to IOG tomorrow.
Oh nice. I love that store...it's just SO. FAR. AWAY.
Re: “ not enough low level horde style critters” complaint, you can look to the Enemy Encounters set to fill out the ranks of that type of enemy.
Sure it’s another thing to purchase, but no one product can be everything, right?
Of course no product can be all things to all people. However, if it were my call, I think "solid basis for a new GM to run low-level encounters" (i.e. the kind new GMs are most likely to run), would be a box I made damn sure to tick with this product. YMMV.
Well that's strange. Thanks for pointing it out! The product description has been updated.
...Note: There is a single otyugh, rather than four as listed in the product description.
*tips hat*
Glad to occasionally be of service. It's the least I can do after all you guys put up with from me. ;-)
Anybody else here order this though amazon? Over a week after release date and they haven't shipped it yet. Maybe there was a delay somewhere?
Now that I think of it, this is the first time I've ordered pawns from amazon while the product has been launching. All of my previous pawn purchases have been scooping up products that have been on the market for years. Is it typical that amazon delivers over a week late on new releases?
Really! Wow, I didn't realize amazon had such a lag time on products like this.
Well, now I know! Thanks for sharing :)
It's best to think of Amazon as being a cheap but untimely option for Paizo products.
It's best to think of Amazon as being a cheap but untimely option for Paizo products.
With Starfinder,they seemed to have the highest amount of misprints too. I can't help but wonder if products flawed in some way tend to gravitate toward Amazon, one way or another. I've gotten more "new" bent-up RPG books from them than even other used independent sellers.
Can someone verify if the duplicate pawns are numbered? Like if there's 4 goblin warriors, they will have a 1, 2, 3, or 4 printed in the top corner? Got a starfinder pawn set and am very disappointed with the lame color system they used. Not interested in buying another set of pawns with that.
Why is it that products ordered early via Amazon never seem to ship in a timely manner? I'm seeing this product out in stores and my Amazon order placed in December is apparently still waiting for a product to ship. I've seen this in other forums for other Paizo products and don't understand why there is a delay. Other products from other companies that I order in advance from Amazon arrive on or slightly before the release date.
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I have my beastiary box, but one page of the minis was printed upside down. The rounded side is on the bottom of each mini. It was the page containing the gelatinous cube.
I have to say that I love this company. I got ahold of customer support and they quickly helped my situation. I'll continue to support them for as long as I am able.
Starting book 6 of Tyrant's Grasp modified to 2e for my group. We are all pumped to begin the next adventure thereafter!!!
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I am still on 1e but never managed to get my hands on a bestiary 1 pawn box. Since this seems to contain about 90% of the same monsters, I was wondering if they’re available for purchase somewhere in europe... $50 for shipping is a tad much.
Order it from a local book or game shop.
Where in europe are you?
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Why is it that products ordered early via Amazon never seem to ship in a timely manner? I'm seeing this product out in stores and my Amazon order placed in December is apparently still waiting for a product to ship. I've seen this in other forums for other Paizo products and don't understand why there is a delay. Other products from other companies that I order in advance from Amazon arrive on or slightly before the release date.
If you’re in the Continental US the savings you get from ordering on Amazon does not outweigh the time you have to wait to actually get the product. I pre-ordered a book on Amazon and watched the listed release date slide a month or more down the road while people who ordered from Paizo were already getting books. I ordered said book, it shipped the next day, I had it three days after that and still had it several weeks before Amazon’s street date.
Yeah I paid shipping and didn’t save $3 off the cover price - but all of my money went to Paizo and I got my book earlier
is there anyway to use the pdf version of this in a virtual table top cuz i am feelin like i wasted 25 bucks
The PDF is meant to print and cut out; you'd essentially need to do the same but on the computer, though exporting images from the PDF may violate the TOS. I'd expect Roll20 and others to have purchasable Pathfinder pawn packs, already separated and named, but I have no clue if they are offered yet.
is there anyway to use the pdf version of this in a virtual table top cuz i am feelin like i wasted 25 bucksThe PDF is meant to print and cut out; you'd essentially need to do the same but on the computer, though exporting images from the PDF may violate the TOS. I'd expect Roll20 and others to have purchasable Pathfinder pawn packs, already separated and named, but I have no clue if they are offered yet.
I can't imagine that you're not allowed to cut and paste out the images to make tokens for virtual table top games. That would pretty well defeat the purpose of the PDFs.
I can't imagine that you're not allowed to cut and paste out the images to make tokens for virtual table top games. That would pretty well defeat the purpose of the PDFs.is there anyway to use the pdf version of this in a virtual table top cuz i am feelin like i wasted 25 bucksThe PDF is meant to print and cut out; you'd essentially need to do the same but on the computer, though exporting images from the PDF may violate the TOS. I'd expect Roll20 and others to have purchasable Pathfinder pawn packs, already separated and named, but I have no clue if they are offered yet.
Yeah if that's the case, I've heard this app is good for that then: https://www.rptools.net/toolbox/token-tool/
How can I use these in foundry? I figured I could download the PDF and upload the images but the thing has password protection so I cant even extract it to use it. What is the literal, actual point of these .pdfs if I can't use it digitally?
I was able to save the images individually from the PDF using Adobe, no password interference at all.
WPS Office won't let me, requires a password. Gonna try downloading Adobe and seeing if this will work. I was hoping to start loading these into Foundry and using them for my game and this is... actually proving to be HARDER than just saving the images from AoN.
I don't see why not. After all, they're just images.
Started printing this out (PDF) and noticed that on page 3, the Alghollthu, Skum is printed backward.
This is a copy/paste from the PDF: MUKS ,UHTLLOHGLA
Does the artwork in this collection reuse the artwork from the PF1e collections?
Does the artwork in this collection reuse the artwork from the PF1e collections?It's all new art.
Thank you very much.
Is this still being manufactured? I'm trying to order this in to my FLGS in Canada, but they don't know when they'll be able to restock. I then found out that the pawns line is being discontinued. I've just started playing Pathfinder 2E, and it'll be disappointing if I can't get pawn sets for the books I just bought.
And if this goes out of stock there's always the 1e pawnsets.