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<blockquote data-quote="Kramodlog" data-source="post: 6443106" data-attributes="member: 55961"><p><strong>5 out of 5 rating for Advanced Bestiary</strong></p><p></p><p>A must buy book for any Pathfinder and 3.X campaign. It contains 120 templates and just has many examples of creatures that use the templates. It also contains a few new feats, spells, and class abilities.This book will help you re-energize old monsters (intelligent oozes, golems and kobolds!) or inspire original ones (Bipedal Winter Wolf Herald of War!). Owen K.C. Stephens did a great job up dating the old Advanced Bestiary. No wonder Paizo recruited him. A lot of issues from the old AB have been fixed. Abilities have been removed or revised and CR corrected (Quickling, I'm looking at you!). The rules are very up to date with what Paizo is doing as Mythic rules are used with the Instrument of the Gods template. Some templates are more complicated and demand more work from the GM because they let you create very unique creatures. The Amalgam is such a template as it lets you fuse creatures together! There are new templates like the Alacritous Creature that can be in two places at once for a brief moment. The Swarm Blooded Creature bleeds a swarm when it is wounded. Or the Terathocephalos Creature... It means it has the head of another creature, so you can make a rhino headed hill giant or a cobra headed horse!The art and layout are awesome. It shows that the kickstarter campaign was a success and the people at Green Ronin were able to inject lots of money up front in design and art. Pro-level quality work IMHO.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kramodlog, post: 6443106, member: 55961"] [b]5 out of 5 rating for Advanced Bestiary[/b] A must buy book for any Pathfinder and 3.X campaign. It contains 120 templates and just has many examples of creatures that use the templates. It also contains a few new feats, spells, and class abilities.This book will help you re-energize old monsters (intelligent oozes, golems and kobolds!) or inspire original ones (Bipedal Winter Wolf Herald of War!). Owen K.C. Stephens did a great job up dating the old Advanced Bestiary. No wonder Paizo recruited him. A lot of issues from the old AB have been fixed. Abilities have been removed or revised and CR corrected (Quickling, I'm looking at you!). The rules are very up to date with what Paizo is doing as Mythic rules are used with the Instrument of the Gods template. Some templates are more complicated and demand more work from the GM because they let you create very unique creatures. The Amalgam is such a template as it lets you fuse creatures together! There are new templates like the Alacritous Creature that can be in two places at once for a brief moment. The Swarm Blooded Creature bleeds a swarm when it is wounded. Or the Terathocephalos Creature... It means it has the head of another creature, so you can make a rhino headed hill giant or a cobra headed horse!The art and layout are awesome. It shows that the kickstarter campaign was a success and the people at Green Ronin were able to inject lots of money up front in design and art. Pro-level quality work IMHO. [/QUOTE]
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