Bestiary are good but OK well after a couple i'm fed up with them.
I'm also the kind of guy who could modify and mix existing monsters. So really it's totally dull for me to have X bestiary.
Let's hope that they won't go to the polyhedral outsiders which were in AD&D... (don't remember their names).
God they were the worse monsters I had ever seen. I can't believe I paid for these.
Oh Chewie, you wound me so.
How I miss the modrons...
I can't get enough in the way of monster books... I'm an addict.
So yeah, I'm excited. ;)
P.S. What is happening to the word "worst"? It seems to be disappearing from the English language...
Worse is one of those words that people simply do not know how to use correctly and always mix up when it should and should not be used. As I'm sure you know, having caught the error in the first place, you use worse when comparing two things and worst when comparing three or more thing. Sometimes people have problems making this distinction. Some people simply don't care about the conventions of grammar (that and the intermingling of foreign languages are basically how accents are formed).
One that I personally hate that I hear all the time where I live is "I could care less." It drives me CRAZY when people use this expression, because what you are basically saying is that you do, in fact, care about whatever I'm talking about because you COULD care less. The fact that your caring has the ability to decrease further means that you care to some extent.
What people SHOULD be saying is "I could NOT/couldN'T care less, thereby implying that your capacity to care could not possibly go any lower, meaning you probably don't care much, if at all.
On topic, give me more monster books. I love me my monsters, especially when they have basis in real-world mythology, as my campaign setting uses as many real world myths and pantheons as I can comfortably force into it. But anyway, the real question remains; COULD you care less about my post on grammar skills or could you not care less? :-P
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Let's hope that they won't go to the polyhedral outsiders which were in AD&D... (don't remember their names).
God they were the worse monsters I had ever seen. I can't believe I paid for these.I loved the modrons when I was a kid; I thought they had a goofy kind of charm.
P.S. What is happening to the word "worst"? It seems to be disappearing from the English language...
So sorry hogarth.
English is not my mother tongue (i'm a frog) and I typed too fast (it's usually not the kind of mistake I make).
I hope you will excuse me.
Nevertheless I hope my message was clear. although I understand that others have different opinions...
I just don't want to go the way 3.5 went (i.e. zillions books and rules and so on). Pathfinder is already getting too complicated. Not for my understanding but for the good flow of the game (see combats once you're above lvl 12 ans it's getting even worse after that).
P.S. What is happening to the word "worst"? It seems to be disappearing from the English language...
So sorry hogarth.
English is not my mother tongue (i'm a frog) and I typed too fast (it's usually not the kind of mistake I make).
I hope you will excuse me.
Actually, your English is excellent -- I've noticed many, many English speakers using "worse" instead of "worst", so you convinced me you were a native English-speaker!
English is not my mother tongue (i'm a frog) and I typed too fast (it's usually not the kind of mistake I make).
I hope you will excuse me.
Good at jumping, are you? (Sorry; couldn't resist.) At any rate, hogarth's right: You've got a far better command of the English language than a lot of native speakers I've run across.
And I can see your point about "book overload." I was going to argue that Pathfinder already did D&D one better by combining the player and ref guides into one book...but then, I remembered that Pathfinder does, in fact, have a separate (if more in-depth and arguably optional) ref guide.
To cut a long story short: After a certain book count, playing the game outside of one's own home does get inconvenient. Especially when these are rather substantial hardcovers that we're talking about.
As long as they continue to churn out monsters of the entire CR range, I will be happy. The later 3.5 monster manuals had some interesting beasts, but because of the high CR of most of them, the chances of actually getting to use them was low, so the overall value of the book was low. The bestiary 2 for PF was a good value because it had a lot of lower CR monsters that could actually be used in most campaigns in addition to the really cool looking, but high CR, monsters.