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Noted. My point about the inherent ridiculousness of the Golarion setting still stands. I find it really difficult to empathize with the alignment system when its definitions of good and evil are so often arbitrary and contradictory.

A pastiche is a parody of an entire genre. Golarion is basically Discworld except that it takes itself seriously with no hint of self-awareness or satire. Is there any compelling reason the PCs need to kill everything they come across? Couldn't they earn experience from non-lethal solutions...

I find a world where people can be literally born gay, evil or both to be offensive because it implicitly equates alignment with sexual orientation. I have no problem with diversity itself. When the writers start projecting their own moral relativism into a game with objective morality without...

I am more interested in the practical effects of the metaphysics. Prior to 3rd edition, mindless undead were neutral, good undead existed, some undead were animated by positive energy, healing spells were part of the necromancy school, and good clerics could cast animate dead in emergencies...

PF is more mature than the D&D game which inspired it, mainly by including explicit mentions that various monsters are rape fiends. That is not the sort of maturity I am interested in. The sort of maturity I want to see is a critical examination of morality as a magical absolute and its...

Gladly. They didn't eat their own kind and in fact used cannibalism as an insult. Orcs in Tolkien's work are remarkably human, for what it's worth. (One could interpret this as a signal they are gay lovers. I think that's a stretch, but YMMV.) As for being rapacious rapists, there were many...

Lord of the Rings didn't portray orcs as rapacious rapists. In fact, they demonstrated positive qualities like honor, loyalty, and friendship. Half-orcs were produced in breeding programs with willing participants over the course of decades. Sauron wasn't evil because he was a rapist, he was...

PF is great and all, but I don't find the official setting particularly original or thought-provoking. I'll list my complaints below: Various races like drow, orcs, goblins and so on are arbitrarily evil, cartoonishly so. Ogres are rapist hillbillies. Half-orcs are rape babies. Rape is a...

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I would agree about demons and azatas if not for the fact that proteans, qlippoth and demodands all have clear motifs.

Take a look at the agathions, angels, asuras, demodands, inevitables, kytons, proteans, qlippoth, rakshasa... notice how the monsters under each major race look obviously related to the other monsters under the same major race? Agathions are animal-headed humanoids. Angels are winged humanoids...

Furthermore, I've always been bothered by the fact that you cannot tell demons and devils apart by appearance. It's like the art department drew 50 fiends and then the editor randomly sorted them into demons or devils. Demons and devils should be as visibly distinguished as a succubus and an...

The gods of evil have always bothered me. The gods of good and neutrality are served by their angels and so on, but the gods of evil must bargain with fiends and have no dedicated workforce. This leads to the strange situation of demon lords having bigger armies than actual evil gods. Why...

Nagas are human-faced snakes. There are a dozen other monsters that are human heads or torsos on animal lower bodies. The metagame reason is their combat ability and skills. The fluff reason needs to be more substantial and explain why hybrid beasts like chimeras and owlbears and lamias are not...

Yeah. It's always been weird to me how there are about ten types on the material plane, but (with few exceptions) only one or two types on every other plane. Also, The line between the types is blurry (examples: http://d-infinity.net/blog/derek-holland/fantasy-biology-magical-beast-type ). The...

Don't I know it. I've spent months writing a list. The ones I was never able to find satisfactory replacements for were the Gith and the Thri-kreen... which, AFAIK, had substitutes included in the CPMR book. But, for whatever reason, DSP decided to make CPMR a limited issue collectible rather...

I missed the Ultimate Psionics kickstarter when it came out and only recently learned that one of the exclusive rewards was a 32-page "Classic Psionic Monsters Revisited" bestiary module that included sanitized substitutes for WotC-owned monsters like the yuan-ti, thri-kreen, displacer beast...

The problem is a legacy issue. In 3.0, everything not from the Material Plane was an outsider or elemental unless it was a native outsider. In 3.5, the extraplanar subtype was added to open the possibility for extraplanar creatures of other types. Unfortunately, it wasn't used as extensively as...

Combing through the bestiaries, there are 41 native outsiders, 37 extraplanar non-outsiders, and a whopping 239 extraplanar outsiders. In a similar vein to D&D 5e, I wanted to get rid of the outsider type because it's essentially synonymous with the extraplanar subtype; some outsiders are better...

I have to admit that I do have an axe to grind. I've always disliked the outsider type, even more than I've disliked all the other redundant or arbitrary types. The outsider type not only includes fiends, celestials, inevitables, proteans, aeons, genies, jyoti, shae, and so on, but also random...