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I suppose there is some 3rd party product, but, in my experience, they are mostly generic. Not the best stuff, as they don't consider your party level and have limited consideration about the environment.
Several AP and adventures have specific encounter tables that are more appropriate for the PCs levels and the terrain.
Several people posting on the forum have prepared complete or almost complete databases of the creatures based on the environment where they live and generated their own encounter tables from them, maybe someone will share them.
Any reason you can't just roll a d6, one side for each of the 6 bestiaries?
There are 6 bestiaries?
There are 6 bestiaries?
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There are 6 bestiaries?Yep!
Plus two Monster codex, one hundred twenty bestiaries in the modules of the APs, the monster section in some of the other hardbound, and a bit more.
And the three Tomes of Horrors, they are not a Paizo product, but Paizo writers have used them extensively.
Just to make sure, does the 6th one have all of the information from the others?
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Just to make sure, does the 6th one have all of the information from the others?
Each book contains different monsters (the Bestiaries often have reprints of monsters from the APs and from the Tome of Horrors), and they don't contain information about monsters in previous bestiaries.
P. 314 of the Bestiary 6 says:
APPENDIX 10: MONSTERS BY TERRAIN
The following lists group this book’s monsters by terrain. Note that there can be a certain amount of crossover in these lists.
You can find a description of all the monsters published by Paizo on the Archive of Nethys: AoN monster Index
Urgh. I wanted to buy a couple of the books, just to have some in paper form. And now I find that I need 6 just to get all the monsters.
You could go the route of Skulls and Shackles, seeing as the edition gets no support anymore.
Eh. I'll just keep the one I have and not worry about the rest for now.
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hmm... a related question then.
Some of the monsters in the bestiaries have rather bare bones descriptions. Are there any sources where one can learn more about their ecology and culture? (for example planar dragons. I met one in the computer version of Wrath of the Righteous and would like to know more)
The bestiaries in the AP modules generally have longer pieces about the monsters, often with notes about their habitat and ecology. Sadly, the planar dragons in the AP module n. 147 don't have it.
Older versions of the game generally ad that kind of information, but today the statistics take up too much space, and the developers try to keep the description all on one page.
Monsters from the bestiaries are usually copy pasted in with their "big fluff" paragraphs in their individual entries on the d20pfsrd, or if the monster belongs to a bigger pool of monsters (e.g. true dragons and by type), then the text will be in those bigger areas.
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You could go the route of Skulls and Shackles, seeing as the edition gets no support anymore.
Wow, that was a very smart way of suggesting piracy without saying it out loud, fortunately, some people here are smarter *hits the flag button* walk the plank!