Monster Selection for Bestiary 3


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Will there be a chance for us to have some input into which monsters get chosen. If it matters I want the nightwalker in it.

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Borg 1 wrote:
Will there be a chance for us to have some input into which monsters get chosen. If it matters I want the nightwalker in it.

We don't open up the monster selection for Bestiaries to the public.

And It's a bit soon to start talking about Bestiary 3, when Bestiary 2 isn't out yet.

That all said... fans of all the nightshades should end up pretty happy by the end of this year.


James Jacobs wrote:
That all said... fans of all the nightshades should end up pretty happy by the end of this year.

Woo hoo!

Nightshades were cool enough to be the only creature I pulled into 1st edition *from* 3.0. (Later found out there were 2nd edition stats - the conversion was meaner though :).

They have featured most prominently in my world.


James Jacobs wrote:
And It's a bit soon to start talking about Bestiary 3, when Bestiary 2 isn't out yet.

I keep trying to ferret the meaning out of this statement. The bold part it what really throws me. Anybody have any luck?


James Jacobs wrote:
Borg 1 wrote:
Will there be a chance for us to have some input into which monsters get chosen. If it matters I want the nightwalker in it.

We don't open up the monster selection for Bestiaries to the public.

And It's a bit soon to start talking about Bestiary 3, when Bestiary 2 isn't out yet.

That all said... fans of all the nightshades should end up pretty happy by the end of this year.

Will the Platypus be in there? Because we all know how much you love the billed creatures.

You could create a template - Duck-billed it would be very simple to add to any creature.

Duck-billed: +10 Awesome to any creature possessing this template.

Imagine the horror on the faces of players as the face a duckbilled, savage, feral, fiendish, dire, vampire, flumph.

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Mairkurion {tm} wrote:
James Jacobs wrote:
And It's a bit soon to start talking about Bestiary 3, when Bestiary 2 isn't out yet.
I keep trying to ferret the meaning out of this statement. The bold part it what really throws me. Anybody have any luck?

All it means is that we're still writing Bestiary 2. If it does well, a Bestiary 3 and a Bestiary 4 and a Bestiary 8 and a Bestiary 34 and so on are pretty easy, no-brainer books to keep doing. As long as they keep selling, of course.


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James Jacobs wrote:
All it means is that we're still writing Bestiary 2. If it does well, a Bestiary 3 and a Bestiary 4 and a Bestiary 8 and a Bestiary 34 and so on are pretty easy, no-brainer books to keep doing. As long as they keep selling, of course.

If my market research* is correct, you can manage to do at least 6 of these.

*Market research limited to knowing how many 3.X monster books** are on my shelf at home.

**Fiend Folio counts. I don't actually have number 4 or 5, but I have Tome of Horrors and Book of Fiends instead.


James Jacobs wrote:
Mairkurion {tm} wrote:
James Jacobs wrote:
And It's a bit soon to start talking about Bestiary 3, when Bestiary 2 isn't out yet.
I keep trying to ferret the meaning out of this statement. The bold part it what really throws me. Anybody have any luck?
All it means is that we're still writing Bestiary 2. If it does well, a Bestiary 3 and a Bestiary 4 and a Bestiary 8 and a Bestiary 34 and so on are pretty easy, no-brainer books to keep doing. As long as they keep selling, of course.

I'm still working on this. How can we buy books you haven't written yet to get you to tell us about them? That ain't right. [I should have posted this with a different alias. JJ is not thinking dumb enough.]

Liberty's Edge

I'm a big fan of templates. Dark world versions, dragon types, ones that give new opportunities to use the generic stock creatures in very new ways or create a new setting. Also I agree with the above duck billed statement, nothing better than duck powered up by wizard spells into a horrific billed beast :P

Also, had a nice Hellfire Wyrm final boss encounter once, I'd like to see a new version of that.


gregg carrier wrote:

I'm a big fan of templates. Dark world versions, dragon types, ones that give new opportunities to use the generic stock creatures in very new ways or create a new setting. Also I agree with the above duck billed statement, nothing better than duck powered up by wizard spells into a horrific billed beast :P

Also, had a nice Hellfire Wyrm final boss encounter once, I'd like to see a new version of that.

IIRC it had low hit points for its CR, but I did like the concept. I homebrewed it into a template that devoted itself to Asmodeus or the Mephistopheles. I dont remember which


Here to request Allips and Azers plz.


Lord Starmight wrote:
Here to request Allips and Azers plz.

Allips are in the Bonus Bestiary, a free download here


I'm still holding out for robots, but if they ever show up it'll probably be in a book that has a sci-fi theme rather than a generic book like a bestiary. Like maybe a Numeria book.


I'd love to see quetzalcoatlus pathfinderized.

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Twin Agate Dragons wrote:
I'd love to see quetzalcoatlus pathfinderized.

You might want to pick up a copy of Pathfinder #37 then...

The Exchange

Lord Starmight wrote:
Here to request Allips and Azers plz.

I've got allips here and dread allips here.


Allips, Oh Boy! Are they coming out with summon undead yet!?! One of my favorite things is to use clairvoyance and then summon Allips to send them through the walls upon unsuspecting enemies :D The first time I did this to a DM was a hysterically wonderful encounter.


James Jacobs wrote:
Twin Agate Dragons wrote:
I'd love to see quetzalcoatlus pathfinderized.

You might want to pick up a copy of Pathfinder #37 then...

I'll be starting up a Serpents Skull subscription in August. giddy

Grand Lodge

James Jacobs wrote:
Mairkurion {tm} wrote:
James Jacobs wrote:
And It's a bit soon to start talking about Bestiary 3, when Bestiary 2 isn't out yet.
I keep trying to ferret the meaning out of this statement. The bold part it what really throws me. Anybody have any luck?
All it means is that we're still writing Bestiary 2. If it does well, a Bestiary 3 and a Bestiary 4 and a Bestiary 8 and a Bestiary 34 and so on are pretty easy, no-brainer books to keep doing. As long as they keep selling, of course.

There can never be too many monster books! Keep them rolling! Heck I would be happy with a full sized monster book each month! *drool*


I bought every last monster book from 3.5; not that I used any of them, but just because I LOVED to read about the monsters, drool over the artwork, etc. Even now I still buy the monster books for 4e even though I've never played 4 and probably never will. Monster books still make me giddy as an adult :)

So in conclusion, I will habitually and readily purchase every Bestiary that Paizo puts out!

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