Oni and other Asian Monsters


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Liberty's Edge

Hey all I was just wondering if any of you fine 3pp had come out with supplements such as asian bestiaries or just stuff on Oni. Looking through the core bestiaries all of the oni are either too powerful or too weak with maybe 1 or 2 mid range oni options.

Any suggestions or products that could help flesh this area out?


Pathfinder LO Special Edition Subscriber

Some of the Kaidan stuff might fit what you are after. Can't remember which books have the more mid-range Oni in them though.

Liberty's Edge

nice i will check them out


We definitely do want to create a Kaidan Bestiary and plan to do so eventually (once the GM and Players Guides are released), however, most of our monsters are currently spread across our various adventure modules:

Curse of the Golden Spear trilogy: The Gift, Dim Spirit, Dark Path.

One shot modules for Kaidan: Frozen Wind, Up from Darkness, Tolling of Tears and Haiku of Horror: Autumn Moon Bath House.

Also from our Kaidan haunts guide are a number of unique undead and a lesser oni: #30 Haunts for Kaidan.

RPG Superstar 2013 Top 8

I've got a thread for that here. There are three oni in the Year of Yokai thread so far at CRs 3, 9 and 10. If you want to give me money, though, two of the Creature Codices have featured Japanese monsters. The Infernal Index has the CR 10 hanadaka oni and First Level Foes has the CR 1 nuppeppo.

Liberty's Edge

nice thanks for the suggestions guys

Dark Archive

If you don't mind converting 3.0 material there was two asian themed bestiary.

Creatures of Rokugan D20
Jade Dragons and Hungry Ghost

Also their is a monster section in Oriental Adventures for 3.0

Liberty's Edge

Good call on the creatures of rokugan. im looking through it now and it seems really interesting

Scarab Sages RPG Superstar 2008 Top 4; Contributor; Publisher, Legendary Games

Doesn't help you much right now, but we do have two Asian-themed monster products on the schedule for later this year in our Mythic Monsters series from Legendary Games - one themed for Japan and one for India.

Liberty's Edge

Nice! i will be looking forward to those with great interest

Liberty's Edge

So I am currently making this a pet project i guess to up convert creatures of rokugan to pathfinder. I have been looking for conversions but i guess the L5R community isnt too keen to upgrade. it will be slow going but i can make a new thread once i have enough material put out to show you guys, if you are all interested.


@ Terokai- you may want to post something to this effect in the 'conversions' forum (or even see if anyone else has already done some of the work), since not everyone from there looks here :)

Liberty's Edge

Good call!


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