Despite how far heroes travel or how many times they save the day, there are always new monsters lurking just around the corner. Pathfinder Monster Core 2 is a 376-page hardcover bursting with brand-new creatures as well as updated Pathfinder classics waiting to find a place at your table. The lavishly illustrated tome also includes guidelines for reading monster entries and adjusting existing monsters to tailor-fit your story! This book is a must-have for Game Masters ready to bring new and exciting challenges to their games!
Pathfinder Monster Core 2 makes use of the updated rules 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.
Pathfinder Monster Core 2 includes:
Over 300 individual monster writeups, including common foes, like dangerous animals and mighty elementals, to deadly creatures that can threaten even the most hardened heroes, such as the unsettling swarm striders and the devastating obcisidaemon!
Eight brand-new dragons to challenge your players, including the powerful cinder dragon, the terrifying despair dragon, the steadfast requiem dragon, the clever rune dragon, and more!
Classic monsters drawn from mythology, like the coatl and the garuda, as well as creatures drawn from the legends of Pathfinder’s Lost Omens setting, including favorites like the majestic dweomercat and the unstoppable Spawn of Rovagug!
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 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 5 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.
Written by: Alexander Augunas, Jesse Benner, Joshua Birdsong, Logan Bonner, Jason Bulmahn, James Case, Jessica Catalan, John Compton, Paris Crenshaw, Adam Daigle, Katina Davis, Jesse Decker, Darrin Drader, Felix Dritz, Brian Duckwitz, Robert N. Emerson, Scott Fernandez, Eleanor Ferron, Hexe Fey, Benjamin Fields, Keith Garret, Scott Gladstein, Leo Glass, Matthew Goodall, Alice Grizzle, T.H. Gulliver, Sen H.H.S., Steve Hammond, Tim Hitchcock, Joan Hong, Vanessa Hoskins, James Jacobs, Brian R. James, Michelle Jones, TJ Kahn, Mikko Kallio, Jason Keeley, Joshua Kim, Avi Kool, John Laffan, Lyz Liddell, Luis Loza, Colm Lundberg, Ron Lundeen, Mahpiya, Philippe-Antoine Menard, Jacob W. Michaels, Patchen Mortimer, Dennis Muldoon, Andrew Mullen, Quinn Murphy, Dave Nelson, Jason Nelson, K. Tessa Newton, Tim Nightengale, Samantha Phelan, Randy Price, Stephen Radney-MacFarland, BJ Recio, Jessica Redekop, Mikhail Rekun, Patrick Renie, Alex Riggs, David N. Ross, Simone D. Sallé, Michael Sayre, David Schwartz, Mark Seifter, Chris Sims, Rodney Sloan, Shay Snow, Kendra Leigh Speedling, Amber Stewart, Jeffrey Swank, Tan Shao Han, Russ Taylor, William Thompson, Jason Tondro, Clark Valentine, Ruvaid Virk, Andrew White, Landon Winkler, and Linda Zayas-Palmer.
ISBN-13: 978-1-64078-746-9
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Dinosaurs! Tzitzimitl! Whatever those other guys were called! Wayne knocked it out of the park on this one!
Yet another thing I'm super eager to get my hands on, you're bleeding me dry, Paizo.
Look at this beautiful cover. I'm in love with it.
And as a dragon lover myself, I can't deny the magical dragons (the ones previously know as true dragons) are the monsters I'm looking forward the most.
And there are eight brand new dragons in this one. I'm really curious about how the Cinder dragon will be different enough from the iconic Red Dragon. I really liked what we got for the Horned Dragon. It feels distinct enough from the Green, but we can still recognize some traits from their previous incarnation, specially the Pathfinder take in their more disciplined personalities.
Look at this beautiful cover. I'm in love with it.
And as a dragon lover myself, I can't deny the magical dragons (the ones previously know as true dragons) are the monsters I'm looking forward the most.
And there are eight brand new dragons in this one. I'm really curious about how the Cinder dragon will be different enough from the iconic Red Dragon. I really liked what we got for the Horned Dragon. It feels distinct enough from the Green, but we can still recognize some traits from their previous incarnation, specially the Pathfinder take in their more disciplined personalities.
You are going to have a great fall! This and Draconic Codex??? So much to look forward to!
Really glad lots of you are chiming in about if you want a pawn box for this! It's not something that's planned right now, but info like this is exactly what we need! Have a good weekend, everyone!
So I'm just getting into PF, and I'm trying to make sure I don't buy things that are redundant.
Is the monster core 2 the ORC equivalent of the Bestiary 2? And if so, should I hold off on buying Bestiary 3 and 4 in the hopes that monster cores 3 and 4 will be released?
I want stuff in the ORC "ruleset" (yes, I know they're compatible) rather than the OGL one when I can. Should I hold off on buying rulebooks unless they're ORC?
More or less: are all the OGL books soft confirmed to eventually be released as ORC books?
So I'm just getting into PF, and I'm trying to make sure I don't buy things that are redundant.
Is the monster core 2 the ORC equivalent of the Bestiary 2? And if so, should I hold off on buying Bestiary 3 and 4 in the hopes that monster cores 3 and 4 will be released?
I want stuff in the ORC "ruleset" (yes, I know they're compatible) rather than the OGL one when I can. Should I hold off on buying rulebooks unless they're ORC?
More or less: are all the OGL books soft confirmed to eventually be released as ORC books?
Monster Core took the most iconic creatures from Bestiary 1-3 and put them in one book and Remastered them. Monster Core 2 takes the next most iconic set of creatures from those 3 books and Remaster them as well.
Not sure how many more creatures will be left amongst the 3 books that might necessitate a 3rd Monster Core book. It's possible, but we'll have to wait and see.
(Also, PF2E only had Bestiary 1-3, not a 4th one. PF1E had Bestiary 1-6, for the record).
So I'm just getting into PF, and I'm trying to make sure I don't buy things that are redundant.
Is the monster core 2 the ORC equivalent of the Bestiary 2? And if so, should I hold off on buying Bestiary 3 and 4 in the hopes that monster cores 3 and 4 will be released?
I want stuff in the ORC "ruleset" (yes, I know they're compatible) rather than the OGL one when I can. Should I hold off on buying rulebooks unless they're ORC?
More or less: are all the OGL books soft confirmed to eventually be released as ORC books?
Monster Core took the most iconic creatures from Bestiary 1-3 and put them in one book and Remastered them. Monster Core 2 takes the next most iconic set of creatures from those 3 books and Remaster them as well.
Not sure how many more creatures will be left amongst the 3 books that might necessitate a 3rd Monster Core book. It's possible, but we'll have to wait and see.
(Also, PF2E only had Bestiary 1-3, not a 4th one. PF1E had Bestiary 1-6, for the record).
Ah, sweet! I didn't realize about the "reorganizing" coming from all 3 books (thought there were 4!). I figured it was just an update of the first one. Good to know. Thank you!
To add to that post, the first monster core also had mix of new monsters in it(some completely new and some which were replacements for monsters removed along with OGL) and seems like this will be the same, so its mix of remastering old monsters and new.
To add to that post, the first monster core also had mix of new monsters in it(some completely new and some which were replacements for monsters removed along with OGL) and seems like this will be the same, so its mix of remastering old monsters and new.
Yes, and we talked about this more in our Creature Feature Panel during PaizoCon Day 3! It's on Twitch right now, but it will be on YouTube soon as well!
Look at this beautiful cover. I'm in love with it.
And as a dragon lover myself, I can't deny the magical dragons (the ones previously know as true dragons) are the monsters I'm looking forward the most.
And there are eight brand new dragons in this one. I'm really curious about how the Cinder dragon will be different enough from the iconic Red Dragon. I really liked what we got for the Horned Dragon. It feels distinct enough from the Green, but we can still recognize some traits from their previous incarnation, specially the Pathfinder take in their more disciplined personalities.
You are going to have a great fall! This and Draconic Codex??? So much to look forward to!
Really hoping there are actual replacements for the other colors as well. The only (evil) one we got a replacement for in Monster Core 1 was the green dragon.
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Look at this beautiful cover. I'm in love with it.
And as a dragon lover myself, I can't deny the magical dragons (the ones previously know as true dragons) are the monsters I'm looking forward the most.
And there are eight brand new dragons in this one. I'm really curious about how the Cinder dragon will be different enough from the iconic Red Dragon. I really liked what we got for the Horned Dragon. It feels distinct enough from the Green, but we can still recognize some traits from their previous incarnation, specially the Pathfinder take in their more disciplined personalities.
You are going to have a great fall! This and Draconic Codex??? So much to look forward to!
Really hoping there are actual replacements for the other colors as well. The only (evil) one we got a replacement for in Monster Core 1 was the green dragon.
Cinder (ex-red), Bog (ex-black), Rime (ex-white) have all been confirmed. Then there's also have been Mocking (ex-copper) that have been confirmed for new designs inspired by the metalics. The "ex-chromatics" have been pretty "faithful" and focusing on their physical aspects, while the ex-metalics have apparently been mostly based on their personalities, but turned to 11 (at least for Mocking). We don't know how many of these are in this, but if they are not in there, then they should be in teh Lost Omen Draconic Codex.
No news on this yet! Is this something you'd look forward to?
As a GM on a time and money budget, I made the decision to invest in pawns over miniatures because they give me more flexibility and range in my storytelling.
I love all of the creatures that Paizo puts out but there's nothing worse than having a carefully crafted battlefield using a beautiful flip mat, a great setup for a story, the players seeing a number of small and medium enemies ready to charge them, and then putting down a large pawn representing the big villain in the fight and saying, "I know this says "<some name>" on the pawn but what you really see is "<what I wanted the monster to be>". With the new dragons coming out, I want to be able to have a pawn of the Barrage Dragon and not have to find an older pawn of a diabolic dragon and say - "kind of like that but imagine there are cannons sticking out of the body like on this picture here."
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