Aspis (Antmen) in any Pathfinder products?

[Killer_GM]

Is anyone aware of any Pathfinder products that contain Aspis (they are Ant men that were in the 1st edition adventure A1 Slave Pits of the Undercity, and in the 2nd edition product Slavers)? Regards ~KGM

[Dren Everblack]

Killer_GM wrote:

Is anyone aware of any Pathfinder products that contain Aspis (they are Ant men that were in the 1st edition adventure A1 Slave Pits of the Undercity, and in the 2nd edition product Slavers)? Regards ~KGM

I am trying to briefly revive this thread to ask the following?

Which monster(s) from the current Pathfinder products (B1, B2, and B3) and the Tome of Horrors do you feel would come the closest to filling the same role as the Aspis in A1?

[warren Burgess]

Killer_GM wrote:

Is anyone aware of any Pathfinder products that contain Aspis (they are Ant men that were in the 1st edition adventure A1 Slave Pits of the Undercity, and in the 2nd edition product Slavers)? Regards ~KGM

daemonslye in the Conversion section converted A1 and its monsters pretty well Here is the Link Slave Pits

[Justin Franklin]

I had heard that the Paizo guys have some plans for the Formians, which are similar, otherwise nothing yet.

[James Jacobs]

Aspis are not open content. Formians are, but we'd rather do formians in a way that lets us present them more in line with their original appearance decades ago in the pulps as aliens rather than the more recent version in D&D as outsiders.

[Set]

James Jacobs wrote:

Aspis are not open content. Formians are, but we'd rather do formians in a way that lets us present them more in line with their original appearance decades ago in the pulps as aliens rather than the more recent version in D&D as outsiders.

Ooh, I like that! My own thoughts on the Formians would be that they are (like the old Gith races) intruders who have settled on the planes, who would still have to eat, etc. and not 'spirit made flesh' like true outsider races. If they expand from the plane of pure law to lawful evil and / or lawful good planes (becoming more inclined towards evil or good behaviors, respectively, over time), fiendish or celestial template formians could also exist, living in warrens burrowed into Avernus or Mount Celestia.

By stripping away abilities specific to the Outsider type, the Formian race could be used pretty much as listed for an Aspis replacement.

The mention of 'wasp-formians' in floating hive-cities in The Great Beyond, was pretty inspiring.