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The sizes and numbers appearing don't change all that much from 3.5. But there are changes. I don't really have the energy to sift through them right now, though... The book itself should be out in only a few weeks, in any case...

Yeah; rules for what monster types have what class skills is detailed in one of the Appendices of the Bestiary.

For new monster stat blocks, I usually don't bother listing the Rapid Shot or Power Attack variations, since those are tactics that are best used depending on a lot of different assumptions about the battlefield that a new monster entry cannot predict, and for our one-page formats, listing those...

HA! Awesome counters. The ant lion's my favorite, I think, but the ascomoid is a close second.

This is mostly due to an attempt to streamline stat blocks and excise unnecessary, or redundant, information. When a creature in Pathfinder RPG makes a standard attack, he just makes one attack with the weapon of his choice, be that a sword or a claw or a bite or whatever. For manufactured...

In some cases, yes, we adjusted SLAs a bit here and there. There are options supported for a pit fiend that can have a VERY customized set of spell like abilities in particular.

Because of compatibility with 3.5 for one, and because we wanted to present a tiefling on a single page (all of the monsters in the Bestiary are on one or two pages). We DID want there to be tiefling sorcerers, and the fiendish bloodline ability is an addition to address that that does not hurt...

Actaully... I'm not sure. I just make these things... I'm not sure how the rest of everything works at this place! :-) I do know that if you shoot an email to customer.service@paizo.com, or give customer service a call at 425-250-0800, they'll be able to hook you up with the answer superfast!

I should note... monsters in the PFRPG are not "easy" or "fast" to create. I don't consider "easy" and "fast" to be selling points for creating gaming material. That role is and should be filled by things like the simple templates, or by the fact that a GM prepares for the game before play...

But penalizes the iconic tiefling cultist of the fiendish demon-god. The problem is that no matter what mental stat you decide to penalize, you're going to be nerfing at least one really cool iconic bad guy role. Which is the main reason we decided to present the ten variant tieflings in...

In some cases, the monsters will be weaker; in others they'll be stronger, and in some they'll be pretty much the same. One of the big things we did when building the monsters for the Bestiary was to create lists of a lot of benchmakrs. "How many hp should a CR X monster have? How much average...

Folks interested in variant Tiefling ability score modifiers should check out the article on tieflings in Pathfinder #25; there's 10 different variants, each based on a different fiend race (devil, demon, daemon, div, asura, rakshasa, demodand, kyton, qlippoth, and oni). A tiefling gets these...

While I quite like the look of the Westcrown map, and think that it adds a bit of authenticity to the AP since this style of map is a lot more realistic compared to real maps of medieval/ancient times... we have had a fair amount of complaints from readers who prefer the more standard city style...

Heh... yeah; Jason's got an idea or two on how to fix this, but he's at Gen Con Australia right now so I can't ask him right now WHAT that fix is. Might be as simple as just giving the Rune domain the ability to use arcane mark as a cantrip as part of the domain's power. Or maybe a line added to...

Correct. This is somewhere I fear we could have been a bit more clear on how the simple templates work. The quick version and the rebuild version give the same basic results, but there are times when the rebuild version needs a heavy dose of common sense to go along with it. Animals you rebuild...

The "Advanced template" really is that simple. Add 2 points to the monster's AC, add 2 hp/HD, and then add 2 to every d20 roll you make using the monster's stats. That's it. It works really really well in play, actually, and is quite easy to apply during a game. There is no "more complicated"...

The basic idea is that the "vanilla" attack, the one that should be the baseline move in combat, is to simply swing your weapon and hit a foe and do hit point damage. That should always be the standard, but it shouldn't be something that is an inferior choice. By making the combat maneuvers a...

As of this time 24 hours ago... neither did I. We'd always hoped and assumed that the Bestiary would be out in time for Pathfinder #26, but it's not so when someone posted a question about it yesterday morning over at Paizo.com... we got on it and whipped it together and got it live by evening...

This might be some of the leftovers from Gen Con or a few of the reserve books we held back in the event that our original Gen Con shipment got delayed in customs or whatever. In any event, the amount of books that we managed to get back went pretty much right into the Hobby Store distribution...

I don't know if the actual job posting lists a format preference, but as long as it's a document we can open and read, it's fine. PDFs work, as do .doc files (but NOT .docX files from the latest version of Word!). RTF files work well also. We don't really care much about layout for the writing...