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Pathfinder Monster Core Special Edition

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Heroes are defined by their foes—from shambling skeletons to terrifying dragons, each enemy leaves a mark on their growing legend. Make your legends memorable with foes from the new Pathfinder Monster Core rulebook for Pathfinder Second Edition! This 376-page hardcover book is packed with a wide range of monsters useful to all Pathfinder campaigns, giving the Game Master plenty of threats to throw at their adventurers, at any level of experience. The lavishly illustrated tome also includes guidelines for reading monster entries and adjusting existing monsters to tailor fit your story! This is the definitive resource for Pathfinder Second Edition monsters!

Pathfinder Monster Core is the third core rulebook for the fully remastered Pathfinder Second Edition RPG! These rules are compatible with previous Pathfinder Second Edition rulebooks, incorporating comprehensive errata and rules updates and some of the best additions from later books into new, easier-to-access volumes with new presentations inspired by years of player feedback. Along with the Player Core, GM Core, and Player Core 2, these books provide a new foundation for the future of tabletop gaming!

This deluxe special edition is bound in faux leather with metallic deboss cover elements and a bound-in ribbon bookmark.

Pathfinder Monster Core includes:

Over 400 individual monster writeups, including everything from common animals, like wolves and bears, to terrifying supernatural foes, such as the rune giant or the grim reaper!
Eight brand new dragons to challenge your players, including the power-hungry fortune dragon, the peerless adamantine dragon, the mischievous mirage dragon, the fiendish diabolic dragon, and more!
Classic monsters drawn from mythology, like the minotaur and the medusa, as well as creatures drawn from the legends of the Lost Omens setting, including favorites like the wicked sinspawn and unpredictable proteans.
Simple templates that allow you to customize a monster, making it more or less powerful with just a few simple adjustments.
Guidelines for reading and using a monster statistics, ensuring you get the most out of a creature both in and out of combat.
Lists of creatures sorted by both type and level, making it easy to find the monster you need when you need it.
Fully integrated errata from the first 4 years of Pathfinder Second Edition, including new balance adjustments to ensure that every creature presents a thrilling level-appropriate challenge!
Hundreds of beautiful full-color creature illustrations!
Published under the new Open RPG Creative (ORC) license, giving players and Game Masters even more freedom for making their own creations based on Pathfinder Second Edition.

ISBN-13: 978-1-64078-567-0

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The Pathfinder Monster Core is also available as:

A 376-page regular edition hardcover

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Will the special edition match the theme of the Player Core and GM Core books? Dark green with embossed/indented dragons covers? I've been waiting for the picture to update to make sure it does follow the theme as I prefer it compared to the old Special Edition formats (the current picture with just the green and gold text), and I just received my order confirmation email today. I remember reading somewhere that it does but I can't recall exactly where.

Moshtradamus

Mar 15, 2024, 04:57 pm

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Moshtradamus wrote:

Will the special edition match the theme of the Player Core and GM Core books? Dark green with embossed/indented dragons covers? I've been waiting for the picture to update to make sure it does follow the theme as I prefer it compared to the old Special Edition formats (the current picture with just the green and gold text), and I just received my order confirmation email today. I remember reading somewhere that it does but I can't recall exactly where.

Reached out to Customer Service by email to ask, and they confirmed the special edition cover matches the Player Core and GM Core (and updated the picture on this listing, too!)

RogueWraith909

May 15, 2024, 04:14 am

Mika Hawkins wrote:

Announced for March 2024! Product image and description are NOT final and may be subject to change.

Is the Sketch version out yet? Can't find a copy anywhere and i've been looking... hoping to the whole set as Sketch cover versions (I'm in the UK if that helps at all).

Elfteiroh

May 15, 2024, 08:59 pm

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RogueWraith909 wrote:

Mika Hawkins wrote:
Announced for March 2024! Product image and description are NOT final and may be subject to change.
Is the Sketch version out yet? Can't find a copy anywhere and i've been looking... hoping to the whole set as Sketch cover versions (I'm in the UK if that helps at all).

This all dependant on if distributors and local gaming store are interested in ordering the books. The Sketch books have been released internationally, Paizo presented their catalogs to distributors, that have presented what they were interested in distributing to the stores.

This is a multi-steps chain, and there's a lot of "breaking points", and most of those are outside of Paizo's direct sphere of influence. Sadly.

Like, I have heard about distributors setting up "order quotas" that stores had to fulfill to be able to order the sketch books.
From what I know, Paizo can ask them to not do it, but outside of outright refusing to sell them the book, which would be counter-productive, Paizo can't force any distributor to do anything. :(

As customers, the only thing we can do is to ask the stores to ask their distributors, and hope that enough stores ask enough time for the distributors to see that they could make money by distributing these books more widely.

Note: This is from what I heard. It might not 100% reflect the exact reality. But I think it's close enough to what's happening in the "distribution black box".
Also, to point that every links in that chain basically believe that they are doing the best they can to protect their interests, with the info they have. I don't believe that they are necessarily malicious. (Just making sure that it gets across, as the internet is bad to convey tone!)
The best things we can do on our side is to try to feed the chain with info that might help them see that helping us will be profitable.