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I picked up the Skull and Shackles pawns yesterday and much to my sadness, I realized they didn't come with stands. Because I am silly, I didn't read the back that pointed this out in big, bold letters. So I decided to also pick up a Bestiary Pawn box (because those do come with stands) and I was wondering if there were any suggestions? I am debating between the different the Bestiary Pawn boxes and the NPC Codex Pawn boxes. Either way, the new pawns can be used to diversify or add encounters, so I am kind of wondering which one might be best.
Depends on what you're looking to add to...
If you want more NPC/PC characters, the NPC Codex is a great fit. If you want more monsters to throw at your players, any Bestiary box should tide you over until you want to add more.
If you want to have all of the monsters that the game will make use of, I'm thinking you need Bestiary boxes 2 and 3. Bestiary Box 1 might have some useful monsters too, but I can't really think of any you need from it off hand. Bestiary Box 4 was published after S&S so it doesn't have any monsters you technically NEED, on the other hand, a lot of the new monsters from the back of the S&S books appear in Box 4, so it's still actually a pretty good value for this AP if you like to run random encounters using the monsters in the books.
I would say that the NPC Codex boxes are not a very good value for running this AP.
Honestly, I'd recommend you just buy a few containers of stands on their own. Also, I've gone over to toad and troll and purchased individual plastic minis of some of the recurring chracters / monsters - generic pirates, Chelish marines, grindylows, Sandara, Hardigan, some sharks, etc.
I love them too. But if you're only going to buy one or two boxes for the express purpose of running S&S, neither of those boxes make the cut. The S&S pawns have that covered already.