Now, I'm fairly certain I've got as many of the PDFs as I can get, but I can't find this 'Advanced Bestiary' that is mentioned in the 'Cave Creature' insert, page 17 of the Pathfinder Chronicles: Into the Darklands.
Probably having yet another brain-fart, but after trawling back and forth through the site and my downloads, I can't find it for love nor money.
It's a Green Ronin 3.5E book.
It's not on the Paizo Store AFAIK.
I would SO buy an updated "Pathfinderized" version of this book...
I would definitely buy a PF'd version as well
I'd also recommend Rite Publishing's excellent Book of Monster Templates, the closest there is in PFRPG to the Advanced Bestiary....
I picked it up from RPGNow a few months ago. You can pretty much use it straight for PFRPG, as long as you double-check the final monster against the main table in the "Monster Creation" section of the PF Bestiary to make sure its stats are appropriate for its CR (and to tweak them if necessary).
Paizo has been using this product for years...it's referenced in "Burnt Offerings". They used it as recently as "Into the Nightmare Rift."
Wait... Paizo referenced a 3pp book?
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Wait... Paizo referenced a 3pp book?
They've referenced a number of 3rd party books, since for a long while they were 3pp. This list includes Advanced Bestiary (RotRL even had some prestige classes from there, I think), Tome of Horrors, Tome of Horrors Complete, some books Sean wrote, and I'm guessing we'll be seeing the Midgard Bestiary referenced soon, because Daigle was the developer of that one.
Mostly monster books at this point though.
The Midgard Bestiary has already been referenced in the current AP, not because Mr Daigle was the developer, but because it is awesome. One of the reasons it is awesome is because Daigle is very good at his what he does, but that's not the same thing.
The other 3pp bestiary frequently referenced is The Book of Fiends.
The other 3pp bestiary frequently referenced is The Book of Fiends.
...which, of course was written in part by Erik Mona.
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The Midgard Bestiary has already been referenced in the current AP, not because Mr Daigle was the developer, but because it is awesome. One of the reasons it is awesome is because Daigle is very good at his what he does, but that's not the same thing.
Chris is correct. We used the kikimora from the Midgard Bestiary in Reign of Winter. We used it mainly because it REALLY fit the material, but I'm sure me working on the book helped Rob and I make that decision.
Also, thanks for the kind words, Chris. :)
I haven't had time to read the bestiaries of all RoW yet, so I wasn't sure if one had been used yet. I knew this was the AP it'd be in though! And I definitely didn't mean to imply nepotism, if that's what came across.
And I definitely didn't mean to imply nepotism, if that's what came across.
No worries! Don't confuse my boosterism and sometimes-awkward sense of humor with admonishment!
The 'Advanced Bestiary' is referenced in Rise of the Runelords: Anniversary Edition p218. Is this the same book?
yes