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With more than 350 classic and brand new monsters, this 320-page hardcover rulebook greatly expands on the foes found in the Pathfinder Bestiary. From classic creatures like serpentfolk and jabberwock, returning favorites like the primal dragons or the Sandpoint devil, to brand new menaces sure to test even the bravest of heroes, this must-have tome of monsters designed to challenge characters of any level is an essential companion to your Pathfinder game!

Pathfinder Bestiary 2 includes:

  • More than 350 monsters drawn from mythology, genre classics, and more than a decade of Pathfinder, with plenty of new monsters too!
  • 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.
  • Detailed lore sidebars offering additional information about even more of Pathfinder's most popular monstrous friends and foes!

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So I was originally gonna give this 4 stars but...

5/5 —

So I got this pdf little bit in advance(because preordering it from roll20 somehow gave me access to pdf) and I did think about giving it 4 star because I was bit worried about stuff like whether writers are consistent with rarity traits(chucacabra is common, hodag is uncommon and water orm is rare, so is chucacabra a cryptid anymore?), lore (remorhaz vs frost worm entries, is bestiary 1 or 2 correct?) and other minor details(such as incorporeal creature that isn't spirit, so what difference between spirits that aren't undead but are incorporeal vs creatures that are incorporeal but aren't spirits?) but week amount of time to think about it made me realize that is too much nitpicking to remove a star :p

Sooo yeah, book does super cool stuff, besides majority of qlippoth coming back with cool art(and designs from 1e), I love how book introduces new lore about categories from previous books. Its great to see linnorms lore being slightly expanded as whole whenever they are introduced again in new bestiary book :D

On other nitpicks I do think some of designs are less striking than in 1e despite art being cool(like piscodaemon's pose isn't as cool. In general lot of daemons in book look less cool than in 1e bestiary art, though nto all of them) and that I hope paizo would send roll20 the pawn pictures after they are relaesed since creatures that don't have pics in bestiary get repeated pictures from other creatures in roll20 :'D I find it mildly annoying that aasimar uses duskwalker's picture in roll20 compendium.

Linnorms! And other cool things

5/5 —

I love bestiaries, all sorts of new monsters, new art, gives me all kinds of new ideas.

And there's plenty in here as a bunch are updated to P2, but don't worry, there's some brand new faces as well.

In addition to needed Fey (and Linnorms) B2 gives us plenty of missing Fiends and other Immortals, from the Oni to the Qlippoth to those jerks the Jyoti. As well as rearranging certain monsters to make more sense since "Outsiders" are no longer a category, for example Xill instead of being Fiends have the Aberration and Ethereal Traits, which makes for some new interesting scenarios.

Also more Linnorms! More curse and raged fueled poison noodles!

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Antony Walls wrote:

Mine finally arrived in the UK. Does everyone else have a sort of washed out yellow colour for the spine, front cover logos and back cover background?

While I admit that does nothing to really spoil the book it looks 'off' when sat next to the other core books on the shelf.

I suspect it is not a design choice as even the pathfinder logo, second edition tag, and colour around the title are yellow rather than parchment.

Yes, my copy finally arrived in Germany yesterday, and I've noticed the same color difference in comparison with all the other ruleboooks.

Dark Archive

I have had the Bestiary 2 for months (in Germany) and i didn't notice anything like that.

The special edition version is a slightly different red than the other three SE books, I agree. More importantly, the wife, who is a both a full-time artist and a big art nerd, sees the same thing!
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You can see the difference here.
Grand Lodge

Did anyone figure out why the dullahan has a DC 22 for its death calling ability, and not DC 19? It has 10 HD and Cha 18. It doesn’t even have Ability Focus for the +2, which would still only make the ability DC 21. Frightful Presence is at least DC 19.
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Zaister wrote:
You can see the difference here.

Weird, mine is way less “yellow” than yours, even if I see a slight discoloration when put beside the other books... Maybe the printer had trouble with the red color... :x

kevin_video wrote:
Did anyone figure out why the dullahan has a DC 22 for its death calling ability, and not DC 19? It has 10 HD and Cha 18. It doesn’t even have Ability Focus for the +2, which would still only make the ability DC 21. Frightful Presence is at least DC 19.

Wrong bestiary 2. This is PF2 one! :X

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Elfteiroh wrote:
kevin_video wrote:
Did anyone figure out why the dullahan has a DC 22 for its death calling ability, and not DC 19? It has 10 HD and Cha 18. It doesn’t even have Ability Focus for the +2, which would still only make the ability DC 21. Frightful Presence is at least DC 19.
Wrong bestiary 2. This is PF2 one! :X

Weird. I couldn't access it on my phone so I had to try get to it through Google, and it showed the 1e cover on the link. I've since found the other bestiary 2 and posted the question there.

Grand Archive
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kevin_video wrote:
Elfteiroh wrote:
kevin_video wrote:
Did anyone figure out why the dullahan has a DC 22 for its death calling ability, and not DC 19? It has 10 HD and Cha 18. It doesn’t even have Ability Focus for the +2, which would still only make the ability DC 21. Frightful Presence is at least DC 19.
Wrong bestiary 2. This is PF2 one! :X
Weird. I couldn't access it on my phone so I had to try get to it through Google, and it showed the 1e cover on the link. I've since found the other bestiary 2 and posted the question there.

Oh, that’s weird. Good thing you found the right one though! (And even better that you weren’t a new buyer that would have ended up with the wrong book!)

I've been trying to download the PDF file to get access to my purchase but it merely says "preparing download." Using 3 different browsers (chrome, edge, firefox), no difference. Anyone familiar with this issue?
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ZarKimbo wrote:
I've been trying to download the PDF file to get access to my purchase but it merely says "preparing download." Using 3 different browsers (chrome, edge, firefox), no difference. Anyone familiar with this issue?

Could be a site loading issue. Definitely new to me. You'll likely have to contact Customer Service tomorrow.

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ZarKimbo wrote:
I've been trying to download the PDF file to get access to my purchase but it merely says "preparing download." Using 3 different browsers (chrome, edge, firefox), no difference. Anyone familiar with this issue?

Some standard ways to try shaking loose the download

a) Click "Problems downloading this file? Click here" (on same line as file name)

b) Click "Refresh Downloads" button (upper left corner of the downloads page)

c) Clear browser cache (for each browser)

d) Sign out of Paizo, clear Paizo cookies (for each browser), sign in again.

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It took ages to react (only displaying "Personalizing... Click link again in 60 seconds to download" and apparently got stuck), cleared the cache, but it did not even work with a TOR browser. However for some reason, it worked now, thanks a lot! I am really excited to finally take a look at it.
Sczarni

Typo: The Chupacabra, on page 52, has "Acrobatics +9 (+11 to Leap)".

That should probably be "Athletics +9 (+11 to Leap)", since Athletics is what you use to Leap.

Which would also impact the DC to escape its Grab.
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This got errata recently btw for anyone who missed it. I dont think there was an official announcement, but I found out because I saw it added on nethys. Its available here for anyone interested
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Hm. Does the current pdf reflect these errata?
Ed Reppert wrote:
Hm. Does the current pdf reflect these errata?

Most likely not. PDF will most likely be updated around second printing of the book I think.

Dark Archive
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So while running slithering for second time I realized they finally errata'd this book and nerfed spectres to be less over powered :O Is there a changelog so I can see what other changes they made?

Edit: Ah scrolled up and found it x'D

Is this the thread in which to post errata? Because I noted that the Spark Bat's (page 106) Arc Lightning ability doesn't have an action icon. I'm guessing it should be a single action.
Grand Lodge
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Is there a current printing of the bestiary 2 with the errata on the FAQ?
Dogs_Not_Gods wrote:
Is there a current printing of the bestiary 2 with the errata on the FAQ?

No, the current printing is the first printing without any errata. I almost wish they would print fewer of each book at a time to allow for faster reprints but im sure that would be difficult for them in terms of cost and logistics.

Sczarni
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The Crawling Hand has an ability called Grip Throat:

"A Medium or smaller creature that is grabbed by the crawling hand has difficulty speaking and must spend an extra action to perform any action with the verbal trait."

However, there is no such thing as a "verbal" trait.

Did the author mean "any action with the auditory trait", or did they mean "any spell with the verbal component"?
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Nefreet wrote:

The Crawling Hand has an ability called Grip Throat:

"A Medium or smaller creature that is grabbed by the crawling hand has difficulty speaking and must spend an extra action to perform any action with the verbal trait."

However, there is no such thing as a "verbal" trait.

Did the author mean "any action with the auditory trait", or did they mean "any spell with the verbal component"?

It is likely the author of this monster misremembered that there is a trait called 'verbal' in the game, and that it affects all actions involving speech. After taking a look at the auditory trait and verbal component, I think RAI is that Grip Throat affects both of them. That is how I'll rule it at my table anyway.

(BTW, I'm a big fan of Crawling Hand, and my 1E adventures often featured both versions -- plus my own home-brewed Crawling Hand Swarm. I have not used them in 2E yet, but I recently acquired three Giant Crawling Hand minis that I'm just itching to use... :))
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What's the difference between a Giant Crawling Hand and a Crawling Giant Hand?
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One is a crawling hand that became giant and the other is a giant's hand that started to crawl.

Does anybody know if they ever did a physical second printing of the Bestiary 2?

Now that it's deprecated in favor of the Remaster, I'm looking to get a kind of archival copy for my library.
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Aerik wrote:

Does anybody know if they ever did a physical second printing of the Bestiary 2?

Now that it's deprecated in favor of the Remaster, I'm looking to get a kind of archival copy for my library.

Not as far as I know. The PDF was never updated.

It could be Monster Core 2
Elfteiroh wrote:
Aerik wrote:

Does anybody know if they ever did a physical second printing of the Bestiary 2?

Now that it's deprecated in favor of the Remaster, I'm looking to get a kind of archival copy for my library.

Not as far as I know. The PDF was never updated.

Good to know. Thanks!

Horizon Hunters

Found that the Yeth Hounds in real world folklore don't have heads! That'd be a cool update for if/when they return post-remaster.

Is there a list somewhere of which artist illustrated which monster? The first edition bestiaries had artist credits along the edge of the page, but sample pages I've seen of the PDFs for the PFRPG 2E bestiaries don't seem to have that information. I'm not finding it on the Archives of Nethys pages for the monsters, either.
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Kavren Stark wrote:
Is there a list somewhere of which artist illustrated which monster? The first edition bestiaries had artist credits along the edge of the page, but sample pages I've seen of the PDFs for the PFRPG 2E bestiaries don't seem to have that information. I'm not finding it on the Archives of Nethys pages for the monsters, either.

There is no public list of that sort.

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