Nope, there are tons of giant monsters in 3. Behemoths, Titans, Megafauna, whatever the Bandersnatch is, constructs, clockworks, crabs, dinosaurs, new outsiders, dragons, whatever the grootslang is, the humbaba, more outsiders, linnorms, oozes, bugs, undead, fish, bird...things, and spiders.
Yes the Kaiju got cut from the book, there are tons of big ol beasties, but no kaiju
Yes the Kaiju got cut from the book, there are tons of big ol beasties, but no kaiju
Kaiju means "strange beast" and I refuse to believe there isn't a huge variety of strange beasts in that book.
Generally Kaiju refers to giant monsters and there is a -TON-(probably upwards of a million tons) of giant monsters in Bestiary 3.
James Jacobs said on the main thread in the products forum that he felt there wasn't enough room to do it justice or something like that... I'm going to see if I can find the quote.
Here's the quote
Monsters that big don't actually work all that well in a game that tops out the size category at "30 foot square bases." A truly godzilla-style creature would require its own rules subsystem, which is another reason we cut the kaiju from this book—a bestiary is NOT the right place to introduce new rules subsystems.
And here's a link to it in the thread - James on why kaiju didn't make the Bestiary 3
Yes the Kaiju got cut from the book, there are tons of big ol beasties, but no kaijuKaiju means "strange beast" and I refuse to believe there isn't a huge variety of strange beasts in that book.
Generally Kaiju refers to giant monsters and there is a -TON-(probably upwards of a million tons) of giant monsters in Bestiary 3.
THE Kaiju template was cut, however. James Jacobs has said basically "The kaiju template was too long and trimming it wouldn't do it justice, and we want to make each kaiju unique anyway." This is a paraphrase but that's the gist anyway. His use of "kaiju" is referring to colossal+ super-monsters on the Godzilla/Rodan scale. In his more recent posts, he basically says that each kaiju will be a uniquely statted monster and there won't be a template for them, because a template is both too generic and too complicated for such a creature.
There are enormous behemoths in Bestiary 3, but these still aren't really the kaiju in question.
And ninja'd by Chuck Wright with the actual quotes. :-)
*BAMF*
Glad the Kaiju got cut, so there is more room for better beasts, never liked the colossal beasts at all.
won't be missed by me.
Glad the Kaiju got cut, so there is more room for better beasts, never liked the colossal beasts at all.
won't be missed by me.
I'm in the same boat, it's not exactly as if I have a few minis laying around for something that big
I used the death web this last weekend.
The PCs were in a tiny hut. The PC on watch failed his perception check as the death web skittered up on them. He finally noticed that the moonlight was gone. So he woke everyone up and they all tried to figure out what was covering the outside of the dome.
I should note, that I use realism in the dimension spaces. So while you can look out of the dome, the interior of the dome is 10 feet high, and 20 feet in radius (or thereabouts). So, when you look out, all that external view get's distorted like in a funhouse mirror.
And they all managed to make repeated flub perception and survival rolls. I think the highest die roll was 5. :) So finally they decided it must be a swarm of something on the dome. So they decided to wait until morning (although almost all failed their DC 10 will saves to sleep knowing what was skittering around them).
The wizard stuck his hand through the dome with a fireball bead in his hand, and dropped it. Took some fire damage, and worse, took the auto-hit poison from the spider swarm. Dropped his strength (which was only 8 to begin with) down to 4. Then the PC's saw this giant distorted spider outside (couldn't tell it was undead), and debated what to do while the wizard tried to recover from the poison (he stopped at 3 str). While this was happening, the spider regenerated his swarm and closed over the dome again. The wizard stuck his arm back through, dropped another fireball, and took another hit of poison. Failed his next save and basically was immobile on the ground with 1 str (he couldn't even lift his own clothes).
All the other PCs ran out of the dome, the monk being the first (and mage armored) and he moved out in total defense mode, which meant the spider missed him on his readied attack and his attack of opportunity. By 1. :) Then the rest boiled out after him and started attacking the spider husk.
The wizard dropped his dome so he could cast one last spell before he took that last point of str damage, and managed to get off a few hp. The barbarian lit into him for massive damage, the rogue attacked for some, and the monk lit into him for a good bit. Then the spider ripped half the hitpoints off the barbarian (who saved, darn him, twice in a row) on his poison saves. Then the barb hit it again and killed it. The end.
Oh, except that the swarm had been reforming, so I had two medium swarms flee from the corpse, one ran right over the monk and poisoned him (lost 4 str before he made his 2 saves in a row).
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Not using it in a game exactly but I'm using the Azruverda in someth...
I used the death web this last weekend.
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in my LoF round
the half group (well a half celestial barbarian and a necromancer-priest of pharasma) indirectly insulted (the priest wanted a lyre of building
the barbarian a mithril fullplate of speed they are Lvl 3)
have I mentioned he plotted the death of his own brother because he demanded two much(the pcs know and witnessed it)
lets just say their next meeting will be VERY unpleasant
(they won't die but the encounter might be diturbing)
Any good(not alignment wise, but quality) familiars in this book?
Not sure if they are "good" per say, I don't keep track of them, but they have flying squirrels (+3 fly skill), foxes (+2 ref save), goats (+3 survival), otters (+3 swim), pigs (+3 diplomacy), and raccoons (+3 sleight of hand). I suppose it's good if you are building a redneck. I'm almost disappointed that the skunk isn't a viable option, but that would be ridiculous considering how awesome the skunk is.
There's an improved familiar that's good, an archon.
