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There are amazing monsters to be found in the incredible diversity of Earth's myths and legends, from beatific guardians sent by the gods to terrors welling up from deep, dark places, avatars of hunger and hate.
The first 32 issues of the Mythic Monsters series (wow, that's a lot) have generally focused on specific creature types, with occasional forays into thematically grouped creatures like Sea Monsters, Fairy Tale Creatures, Colossal, Shadow, Bugs, Worms, Mythos (and Mythos Too), and extraplanar aligned creatures. We'll still do some of those, but we've been thinking a while about what makes something MYTHIC, and one idea we kept coming back to was the myths and legends of real-world cultures. We've toyed with the idea for a while, but it's time has finally come!
Check out the first installment of this new direction for Mythic Monsters: Mythic Monsters: Norse!
Packed with a dozen and one spectacular Scandinavian creatures from the secretive CR 5/MR 2 mythic huldra and fossegrim to the titanic and terrifying CR 30/MR 10 Fenris Wolf, this book brings you a dozen and one mythic monsters, plus bonus material on mythic linnorms and a trio of templates for giving any monster a Nordic flair: the Jotun thane, runecaster, and tricksome traveler!
This is just the beginning, of course. Next month we will be bringing you Mythic Monsters: Egypt, featuring familiar faces like sphinxes and werecrocodiles alongside creatures from the brand-new Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Bestiary 5 like the ahkhat, uraeus, cursed king, and pharaonic guardian, as well as the brand-new ammut eater of the dead and a mythic version of the much-loved living monolith prestige class!
There are many more cultures to cover and we have plans stretching from classic mythologies of Greece and the Middle East to China, Japan, India, Africa, Australia and Southeast Asia, North America, South and Central America, and more! Shout out your favorites, and the most popular ones might get moved up on the schedule!
We hope you enjoy these tributes to some of the most amazing monsters in fantasy, with their feet firmly planted in the great stories right in our own real-world back yard!
Almost all thew options you list sound good, though in my dream world there would be a Mythic Monsters for North American Indians and one for Mythic Monsters from American tall tales and legends. Heck, just from the southern Appalachians alone you get the Behinder, the Flat, the Bammat, the Toller, the Skim, the Tripodero, and the Gardinel. And that's just a sample list.
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I really love the mythic monster series from Legendary but my favorite bestiary of the past year was one with movie monsters updated to Pathfinder. I'd love to see something along those lines adapting more classic creatures from literature, folklore and film.
Owning nearly all of the Mythic Monster PDF line, I have to say that the entire series has been consistently strong. And I certainly do applaud your next-phase initiative to add to the line via an Earthcentric geographical approach.
As for my vote ... along the lines of what Eric Hinkle said above, I'd like to see an installment focusing on the indigenous/aboriginal peoples of the U.S. and Canada. Granted, that's a lot of territory right there. But like with Oozes and Mythos creatures, that would give you an excuse to do a 2nd edition! :-D
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Australian creatures would be rather cool.
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This little Aussie votes for Mythic Monsters: Australia, hands-down!
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If you would do something with Irish Celtic myth I would appreciate that. Not to mention anything out of Germany.
With a nice sub-system for entering the Dreamtime.
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Indonesian monsters (seriously, play DreadOut - these ghosts are disturbing...)! African monsters! Creatures from Thai mythology! South American monsters! I'd also like to second monsters based on North American Indian mythologies and Australian/New Zealand monsters.
As someone who has bought almost all the mythic line so far and the bestiary that was put out, your work is fantastic and I'd love to see more of it.
Call be bias but I'd love to see a book or two of purely new monsters maybe with a little background built in, strange cross breeds, powerful undead with original backstories, so on. An entire book of odd-jobs and NPC undead would be fantastic, ditto for the fey, who tend to fly under the radar. An entire book of Mythic NPCs for say, the Witchmarket would be a god send (And maybe some mythic mechanics for trading fey-style)
Either that or Celtic/Irish/Welsh Mythology, if only for the new and weird fey that would come out of it.
It would definitely be cool if you guys released a creature book based on Native American mythos... bonus points if you work in a Coyote-like trickster creature that is NOT a fey. Same goes with an Arabian book that somehow had a Death Owl as the new creature.
Apart from that, Japan, Africa, Germany, Romania, Russia, Australia, and Indonesian books would be appreciated.
Well, my favorite mythology is Greek, but that's for the stories; there aren't as that many cool monsters compared to other mythologies. The Romans added some other creatures that would make good monster manual entries.
Given the relatively small size of the Mythic Monster installments, though, you could probably do one entirely with Greek creatures. Whether or not other people want that is another question entirely.
Outside of the Greco-Roman sphere, I'd be interested in a Mythic Japanese mythology installment.
Eventually I need to get more of these books, especially if they become available in both print and pdf. I know I have bought a few of the books in this line from Amazon that were rather nice and would buy more in the future if that were made available.
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Eventually I need to get more of these books, especially if they become available in both print and pdf. I know I have bought a few of the books in this line from Amazon that were rather nice and would buy more in the future if that were made available.
All of the books in this line are available in print and PDF through Amazon and on the Legendary Games website. If you're getting books in print, we strongly encourage you to buy directly from us, as it avoids the high margins that resellers take on print books, typically 50-60%. We'll also be having a Black Friday sale coming soon, so you might want to keep an eye out for that and grab some great stuff this weekend!
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..from Outer Spaaace!
..from pulp Mars/Venus/...
..from Underground /Dark Lands
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..from Outer Spaaace!
..from pulp Mars/Venus/...
..from Underground /Dark Lands
Mythic Monsters: Aliens and the bestiary sections of each of our Legendary Planet AP chapters should get you a bunch of your first two requests, while Mythic Monsters: Aberrations has a lot of your underdarky favorites.
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So, Fenris Wolf is tougher than Cthulhu?
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So, Fenris Wolf is tougher than Cthulhu?
Both are CR 30, as is the mythic tarrasque and the mythic Midgard Serpent.
Of course, "toughness" is a relative term at that power level, so each has places where they're better than the other. Of course, Pathfinder Cthulhu isn't Call of Cthulhu Cthulhu, whose attack is "eats 1d4 investigators per round." :)
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An early preview is yours for the next Mythic Monsters!
Mythic Monsters: Egypt brings you a dozen and one mythological monsters from the burning sands, verdant rivers, and crumbling ruins of ancient pharaohs. Egyptian myths and legends are some of the oldest in the world and influenced the religious and cultural traditions of many kingdoms and empires that followed. While they sometimes were seen as an ancient, exotic, and even decadent culture by the younger kingdoms, their monuments were so titanic, their artistry and iconography so vivid, and their tales and lore so intricate and often so strange that they enjoyed a sort of dual legendarium. The gods and monsters native to the tales of Egypt were one thing, and one that evolved over dynasties spanning milennia, but on top of their own indigenous stories Egypt became a source for all things mysterious. From the classical Greeks to Lovecraftian horror and beyond, any monster, magic, or mystery became more exotic and esoteric when its roots were traced to Egypt, and the same is true when invoking the tropes of Egypt in a fantasy setting or campaign.
Mythic Monsters: Egypt brings you an assortment of amazing adversaries for your heroes, ranging from CR 4 to (I haven't nailed down the final CR for the new ammut, but it will probably be in the high teens), starting with a squadron of sphinxes to confront your adventuring heroes from the hungry hunting hieracosphinx to the crass but clever criosphinx and the proud and noble androsphinx. Not all Egyptian monsters are adversaries, as honorable characters may find allies in the winged maftet and the wise two-headed uraeus. Others are every inch a menace, from hateful werecrocodiles and sinister sha and sacred sha carrying plagues in their wake to deadly scavenging scarab swarms and giant scarabs. Of course, much of the Egyptian legendarium in popular and fantasy culture centers around tombs and ruins, and mummies are far from the only inhabitants of the necropolis, as elemental ahkhats are literally a part of the buildings they guard, while mummified cursed kings and eternally vigilant pharaonic guardians guard their domains with jealous and zealous care. As if a dozen existing monsters were not enough, the vicious corpse-eating ammuts sit in judgment on the dead and the damned. For heroes that want to embody that Egyptian vibe for themselves, this book also provides a mythic version of the treasure-hunting archaeologist bard and the legendary living monolith prestige class, anointed with a sacred stone by the ancient sphinx to serve as guardians extraordinaire.
I was going through my mythic supplements today and I realized that the only categories that I can think of that don't have representation in the Mythic Monsters line are Mythic Robots and Mythic Kaiju.
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I was going through my mythic supplements today and I realized that the only categories that I can think of that don't have representation in the Mythic Monsters line are Mythic Robots and Mythic Kaiju.
Mythic Robots is on our list to do; a few of them made it into the Mythic Monster Manual, but there are more of them out now, probably enough to fill a full book. I'd expect that one in the spring.
As for kaiju, we covered the super-sized monster angle in Mythic Monsters: Colossal, and I'm not sure that there are enough kaiju and Spawn of the Destroyer to quite make up a full book's worth.
Also, since each spawn and kaiju is already a unique creature with a good assortment of special tricks, it's kind of gilding the lily to add mythic on top of that. Of course, we did it with the tarrasque, so there's precedent. I think that one we'd keep in our "think about it" pile but it's not in imminent danger of moving to the "LET'S DO IT" pile.
So, Fenris Wolf is tougher than Cthulhu?Both are CR 30, as is the mythic tarrasque and the mythic Midgard Serpent.
Okay, I failed to notice that the CR for mythic monsters include their adjustment for mythic ranks. So Fenris Wolf and Cthulhu are on the same level. Sorry, mythic is not my first language.
Of course, "toughness" is a relative term at that power level, so each has places where they're better than the other. Of course, Pathfinder Cthulhu isn't Call of Cthulhu Cthulhu, whose attack is "eats 1d4 investigators per round." :)
With cleaving claws and multiple grabs, I'm pretty sure Cthulhu can eat approximately 1d4 investigators per round. :)
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Some food for thought for Mythic Monsters, but in another direction. This thread seemed the best place to share it.
I think several GMs out there really want to introduce Mythic in Paizo's APs.
These days, a GM who wants to do this needs to consider buying several of the Mythics pdf to actually use only one or two monsters in each. And many other monsters in the APs are just not covered. I believe most GMs, myself included, will end up not buying the current Mythic pdfs.
It would greatly help to provide Mythic versions of the AP's monsters (or even NPCs) within a single pdf, or maybe a pdf for each book in the AP. If successful, it could even be expanded to a similar pdf for each Paizo module (such as Dragon's Demand).
I see such Mythic AP's monsters pdf as a great boon and in line with both your Mythic and AP Plug-Ins product lines :-)
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Some food for thought for Mythic Monsters, but in another direction. This thread seemed the best place to share it.
I think several GMs out there really want to introduce Mythic in Paizo's APs.
These days, a GM who wants to do this needs to consider buying several of the Mythics pdf to actually use only one or two monsters in each. And many other monsters in the APs are just not covered. I believe most GMs, myself included, will end up not buying the current Mythic pdfs.
It would greatly help to provide Mythic versions of the AP's monsters (or even NPCs) within a single pdf, or maybe a pdf for each book in the AP. If successful, it could even be expanded to a similar pdf for each Paizo module (such as Dragon's Demand).
I see such Mythic AP's monsters pdf as a great boon and in line with both your Mythic and AP Plug-Ins product lines :-)
Hmmm... that's not a bad idea. I'll put that on the idea pile for early next year. I wonder whether the best format for that would be:
So this presumptive "Mythic Module Monsters" product could go one of a couple of ways.
OPTION 1: Do mini-PDFs for each issue, probably 1.99 or 2.99 per PDF. So, if we were starting with RotRL, Mythic Module Monsters AP #1 would go with Burnt Offerings, AP #2 with Skinsaw, AP #3 with Hook Mountain, etc.
This would have the advantage of being quick and easy to do, and also sets up a simple precedent for non-AP releases, so if we wanted to do mythic monsters for adventures we could (though older Paizo adventures typically only had one new monster in them, if any) without breaking format. It would be an easy adaptation for non-adventure products that have new monsters in them, like a regional Campaign Setting book.
OPTION 2: Keep them the same size as at present, which basically means 2 books for each AP (since each mod has around 4 new monsters and a standard Mythic Monsters has 12).
This has the advantage of keeping close to the standard format but that's about it.
OPTION 3: Do one big book per AP. This would be about double the size of a standard Mythic Monsters book, though without the frontmatter or the new monster. This does offer the option of a print version, but is probably a less appealing price point. It also means more time in between releases.
Thoughts?
Lesser Key of Solomon. Or similar actual demonic cosmologies.
Actual angel traditions.
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The latest in our new series of Mythic Monsters is here, featuring the monsters and mythology of ancient Egypt!
Mythic Monsters: Egypt is a creature compendium containing a dozen existing monsters drawn from Egyptian myth and legend, from the sinister werecrocodile and voracious scarab beetle swarm to the sage sphinxes and wise two-headed uraeus serpent, plus the brand-new corpse-devouring ammut and mythic character options for archaeologist bards and the living monolith prestige class. Here’s a quick preview of the table of contents by CR!
CR 4/MR 1 Mythic scarab swarm
CR 4/MR 1 Mythic werecrocodile fighter
CR 5/MR 2 Mythic ahkhat
CR 5/MR 2 Mythic sha
CR 6/MR 2 Mythic hieroacosphinx
CR 6/MR 2 Mythic uraeus
CR 7/MR 3 Mythic maftet
CR 7/MR 3 Mythic sacred sha
CR 9/MR 3 Mythic criosphinx
CR 11/MR 4 Mythic androsphinx
CR 11/MR 4 Mythic werecrocodile brawler
CR 12/MR 5 Mythic cursed king
CR 13/MR 5 Mythic pharaonic guardian
CR 17/MR 7 Ammut
Currently available exclusively through the Legendary Games webstore and our Patreon, Mythic Monsters: Egypt will be available in wide release, including right here at Paizo, next week!