New Pathfinder bestiary

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**reds8n**

http://icv2.com/articles/news/view/31656/more-mind-warping-monsters-invade-pathfinder-rpg

Paizo Inc. announced the fifth book of monsters for its highly popular Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. The aptly-named Bestiary 5 introduces more than 300 new monster types for the game, and will release in November.
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The new sourcebook includes monster challenges for every level of character as well as new allies to help the heroes, including new familiars and animal companions. The themes for this book include creatures with mind-warping powers, creatures from beyond reality, new angels and demons, and beings more typically associated with science fiction than fantasy, such as robots and grey aliens.

Bestiary 5 will be a 320 page, full-color hardcover book. It was written by Pathfinder’s lead designer Jason Bulmahn. MSRP is $44.99.

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**Manchu**

Sounds like an interesting one. Paizo has such high production values, too, so these are quite nice to look through.

**Nevelon**

I like that the bestiaries have themes. If you dig the sort of thing that’s in it, you can pick it up. I understand that they are also partially compilations of monsters from their adventure paths and other thin books brought together in one nice place.

But how many do we need?

I’ve been gaming a long time. I’ve probably killed everything in the basic monster manual/bestiary a couple times over. But frankly, I’d rather kill a few more trolls then some of the wacked out crap in the later bestiaries.

It might just be a bad string of encounters with one of my GMs, who likes to shoehorn bizarre stuff into his campaigns without rhyme or reasons. But I’m kinda burnt out on all the monster books. Never the less, I suspect that a few copies of this will enter my gaming group, and I’ll be fending off cyber-abominations from planet X before I know it.

**reds8n**

out now !

probably get this next month or so.

http://paizo.com/products/btpy9g9x

Beyond the veil!

Creatures strange beyond imagining and more terrifying than any nightmare lurk in the dark corners of the world and the weird realms beyond. Within this book, you'll find hundreds of monsters for use in the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. Face off against devils and dragons, deep ones and brain moles, robots and gremlins, and myriad other menaces! Yet not every creature needs to be an enemy, as whimsical liminal sprites, helpful moon dogs, and regal seilenoi all stand ready to aid you on your quests—if you prove yourself worthy.

Pathfinder RPG Bestiary 5 is the fifth indispensable volume of monsters for use with the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game and serves as a companion to the Pathfinder RPG Core Rulebook and Pathfinder RPG Bestiary. This imaginative tabletop game builds upon more than 10 years of system development and an Open Playtest featuring more than 50,000 gamers to create a cutting-edge RPG experience that brings the all-time best-selling set of fantasy rules into a new era.

Pathfinder RPG Bestiary 5 includes:

More than 300 different monsters.
New player-friendly races like caligni dark folk, deep one hybrids, plant-bodied ghorans, and simian orang-pendaks.
Psychic creatures both benevolent and terrifying, from the enigmatic anunnaki and faceless astomoi to the howling caller in darkness and insidious, alien grays.
New familiars, animal companions, and other allies, such as clockwork familiars, red pandas, and many-legged wollipeds.
New templates to help you get more life out of classic monsters.
Appendices to help you find the right monster, including lists by Challenge Rating, monster type, and habitat.
Expanded universal monster rules to simplify combat.
Challenges for every adventure and every level of play.
AND MUCH, MUCH MORE!

**Chongara**

I wonder if they're gonna start running into the problem the original run of 3.5 did, which was somewhere around the 4th monster book they were running out of ideas an introducing things roughly on the par of "Quartz Dragons" , "Poop Elemental" and "Slightly Robotic Goblin". There's really only so much design space to explore for really fresh monster designs for a D&D game. The blurb does not sound promising "Brain Mole" and "Moon Dog" sound particularly scraped off the bottom of the barrel and that's the stuff they're advertising front and center. Lord only knows what's stuck with a half-entry on page 173.

**Nevelon**

I know previous pathfinder bestiaries at least had some sort of theme. 2 most mostly extra planer, 3 was non-western myths IIRC. I think 4 was a lot of cthulu/outer void/mythic stuff. Not that I’ve picked them up, as I just play, not GM. And there is a mix of other random stuff in them, like the monsters from the latest adventure paths

But I agree that after a while things do get a little thin after a while. I may get a bit tired of putting down the classic orcs/trolls/ogres/giants etc, but some of the bizzaro stuff in the later books is just odd.

**reds8n**

Got this the other day.

All nice enough -- usual high quality product.

Only flicked through -- a few beasties grabbed ones attention -- for varying reasons.

But happy enough with it.

... not sure the robots "fit" as such -- but there is that Pathfinder in space thing a'comin' of course.

**Nevelon**

As someone playing through the “Iron Gods” adventure path right now, I can attest for the need for a few robots.

Part of their world setting includes a place (Numeria) where a spaceship crashed into the earth, scattering tech bits around the landscape. The concept of a little tech in your fantasy goes back to Expedition to Barrier Peaks (if I’m remembering my AD&D models correctly) and TV classics like Thundarr the Barbarian. (Demon Dogs!)

As this is the first bestiary since they finished the Iron Gods AP IIRC, I’m not surprised that they would include a lot of the things from there.

**Red Harvest**

It goes back further than that, to the original 3 D&D books, where you could have, according to "Underworld and Wilderness Adventures" ( book 3)

Other monsters to consider, depending upon the level and the surroundings: Giant Crabs, Giant Leeches, Giant Octupi, Crocodiles, Giant Squids, Sea Monsters, Nixies, Mermen, Griffons, Pterodactyles, Rocs, Invisible Stalkers, Cyborgs, Robots, Androids, Shadows, Dopplegangers.

No stat blocks given for them, but robots and Androids were categorized with golems. OD&D was a strange thing.

Expedition to the Barrier Peaks was indeed set on a wrecked spaceship. It also brought us vegepygmies and the froghemoth. Good Times?