We've Created Another Monster!

Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Bestiary 3 (OGL)

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Travel to the far corners of the world, grab their monster myths, and use them in your game with Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Bestiary 3!

The hive-mind here at Paizo has pulled out all the stops for Bestiary 3: we've opened up tattered books on mythology, scoured dusty tomes at the library, and written notes on cocktail napkins as we read our favorite classic pulp fiction and literature to bring you a cornucopia of creatures for your Pathfinder Roleplaying Game! Like both of our previous Bestiaries, these creatures will take your game to a whole new level, whether you're using them as foes to strike fear into your players, allies to aid them, or new races for them to meet!

New fans of gaming and long-time veterans alike will have plenty to love in this fantastic tome! If you've got a decade or so under your gaming belt, you'll remember such creatures like the animal lords, carbuncles, caryatid columns, the demilich, huecuva, and jackalweres... but we didn't stop there. The world's mythology is ripe with exciting new options for your game, and we picked the best for this book! Berbalang, bogeymen, dybbuk, ghul, jorogumo, kappa, and norn are just some of the mythological creatures you have in this book, but even then... we're not done. Literary creatures like the pale stranger, jubjub bird, and bandersnatch (frumious variant included) are here for use in your game!

New planar races that we've hinted at before get expanded upon, like the asuras, demodands, kami, and kytons, and more familiar ones like daemons, divs, and rakshasas are ready to give demons and devils a run for their money. We've kicked the CR up in this book too, and with such perilous foes as the tzitzimitl (my personal favorite) or hekatonkheires, you'll need allies like the legion archon, androsphinx, and valkyrie to fight them!

Add this must-have to your gaming collection now and check out all of our Bestiaries and Pathfinder Roleplaying Game books here!

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Hmm, the bogeyman? While I'm sure it will be a great monster, I kinda thought that niche was already taken, courtesy of the bugbear. And I wish someone would use some of the bugbear variants from Classic Monsters Revisited in a story or game.


The Boogeyman is an evil Fey creature that looks like an evil clown(It) from I have been told anyway.


I wonder if you could combine the fey boogeyman with the Worm that Walks template to make the Nightmare Before Christmas boogeyman ....

Why does this make me cackle with possible glee?


Dragon78 wrote:
The Boogeyman is an evil Fey creature that looks like an evil clown(It) from I have been told anyway.

Doesn't that line imply that there are non-evil clowns?

But more seriously, I am truly looking forward to this book. Especially so for the new information on divs, rakshasa, demodands, etc.; as well as the updated and all-new monsters.

Liberty's Edge

Evil clown is just being redunant.


Valkyries! I have been using the Erinyes with some modifications to SLAs and stuff. This is exciting. I hope there are more things from that body of mythology in this book.

More Celtic mythology is always welcome, as are fey creatures (which are mostly Celtic inspired, I suppose).


All the Fey in the Bestairy 3 are:
1)Atomie
2)Sprite
3)Nixie
4)Rusalka
5)Faun
6)Fuath(Gremlin)
7)Norns
8)Boogeyman
9)Cold Rider
10)Nuckelavee
11)Fey creature template

Shadow Lodge

When it talks about needing allies such as the Valkyrie to fight the monsters in the manuel, does that mean there will be/are new classes?

Contributor

Etrian Shadowwell wrote:
When it talks about needing allies such as the Valkyrie to fight the monsters in the manuel, does that mean there will be/are new classes?

There are no new classes in this book--just monsters.

Dark Archive

Pathfinder Adventure Path Subscriber

So buying - sounds like a very well-rounded list from other mythologies. Might there be a few more agathions?

Contributor

DeciusNero wrote:
So buying - sounds like a very well-rounded list from other mythologies. Might there be a few more agathions?

There are no new agathions in this book.

Dark Archive

Liz Courts wrote:
Etrian Shadowwell wrote:
When it talks about needing allies such as the Valkyrie to fight the monsters in the manuel, does that mean there will be/are new classes?
There are no new classes in this book--just monsters.

What about in another upcoming book?

Dark Archive

Store Blog wrote:
Literary creatures like the pale stranger, jubjub bird, and bandersnatch (frumious variant included) are grew for use in your game!

What literary work is the pale stranger from? I thought it was based on Clint Eastwood's Pale Rider or High Plains Drifter? If there is a book featuring a pale stranger type of creature, I'd love to read it O.o

Contributor

xn0o0cl3 wrote:
What literary work is the pale stranger from? I thought it was based on Clint Eastwood's Pale Rider or High Plains Drifter? If there is a book featuring a pale stranger type of creature, I'd love to read it O.o

The one I was thinking of when I wrote the blog was the Saint of Killers from the Preacher comics. (Might be a stretch to call it literary, but the Saint's origin story is certainly epic.)

Paizo Employee Creative Director

xn0o0cl3 wrote:
Store Blog wrote:
Literary creatures like the pale stranger, jubjub bird, and bandersnatch (frumious variant included) are grew for use in your game!
What literary work is the pale stranger from? I thought it was based on Clint Eastwood's Pale Rider or High Plains Drifter? If there is a book featuring a pale stranger type of creature, I'd love to read it O.o

Clint Eastwood movies are the reason we put a pale stranger in the book. If there are other sources of inspiration that the designer brought to this creature, those sources are unknown to me.

Sovereign Court

xn0o0cl3 wrote:
Store Blog wrote:
Literary creatures like the pale stranger, jubjub bird, and bandersnatch (frumious variant included) are grew for use in your game!
What literary work is the pale stranger from? I thought it was based on Clint Eastwood's Pale Rider or High Plains Drifter? If there is a book featuring a pale stranger type of creature, I'd love to read it O.o

It has more of a "Priest" manwha feeling to me. (It rocks)

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