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I was weirded out to notice that wendigo and rune giants are listed as uncommon. I always imagined rune giants at least were rare as they populate mostly xin-shalast and kodar mountain area and even then nobody knew they existed until Rise of the Runelords happened. Wendigo on other hand are just as horrifying as other rare creatures listed in book(pit fiends, demiliches, norns, adamantine golems) so I'd imagine they would be rare because if level 17 outsiders who manipulate people into cannibalism are only "uncommon" that is scary thought.
This also applies to monsters like neh thalgu(or "brain collectors") and Deh-Nolo(cybernetic creature from starfinder) since those creatures are literally an alien, so you'd think they would be rare creature only known about scholars of Dominion of the Black.
So yeah, have you noticed any monsters that feel like they should be rare instead of uncommon? What about creatures that are too rare?
If I'm reading the rarity section correctly (unless the bestiary has its own version of it distinct from the rulebook), uncommon essentially already means really rare, rare means it might not even exist in the world, and unique means that if it exists at all, there's only one. Ever.
I think the issue might be one of terminology rather than the distinctions they've actually set? Correct me if I'm wrong.
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I believe the rarity is how rare they are compared to other monsters of their level. So a level 17 wendigo is going to be more rare than a level 3 enemy with the same rarity. Otherwise pretty much all high level enemies would have to be classified as rare.
Yea. Some demon I saw listed as common. Like.. huh? So a farmer in his fields might see one as he goes to plow the rows of corn or whatever?
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Yea. Some demon I saw listed as common. Like.. huh? So a farmer in his fields might see one as he goes to plow the rows of corn or whatever?
Or maybe the farmer knows what the demon is, even if he has never seen one.
I mean, in medieval Europe, many farmers knew what a succubus was, if only because the local priest told them every week. Even if none of them, both the farmer and the priest, have ever seen a succubus, for obvious reasons.
