Pathfinder 1E Paizo's box of beasts

[greatamericanfolkher]

To clarify a bit (the official product page should be up tomorrow), the Bestiary Box will have more than 300 pawns (not 250). It does not contain a book (since the book is the Pathfinder RPG Bestiary).

Thickness is the same as in the Beginner Box, only with Large and Huge bases in addition to the normal small/medium bases.

--Erik

Thank you for this!

 

[Erik Mona]

Brilliant idea and perfect support for so many segments of the market.

Thanks! I actually had the idea for pawns before we started working on the Beginner Box. The positive response to the ones we included there convinced us that we needed to get more out ASAP.

Does this pretty much cover the Bestiary or is it a spread across several products?

It pretty much covers the Bestiary. It is not exhaustive, but it's pretty close. I had to trim some things like herd animals in order to focus on more interesting critters, but I don't think too many folks will mourn the stuff that isn't in there. There will be new illustrations for some creatures that do not already have pawn-appropriate art (such as the various differently sized elementals and dragons), and the pawns only go up to Huge creatures. Gargantuan and Colossal pawns don't really make sense, as they'd basically take up an entire sheet and would require enormous bases with the attendant mold charges. So to keep things practical (and affordable), we drew the line at Huge. Once you break down the Bestiary by size, however, you realize that there aren't really that many monsters in the largest size categories, so I was comfortable making those cuts. There are more than 300 pawns in this box, though, so I consider it pretty value-packed, and I'm confident with the decisions made on which monsters to include.

Some more common creatures get multiple pawns, by the way. It didn't seem right to include only a single orc or goblin or what have you.

How feasible would it be producing a box like this for a specific adventure path such as Kingmaker or the forthcoming Skull and Shackles? Is the turnaround time quick enough to "catch the wave" so to speak?

It's pretty feasible. Ask me again in a few months and I ought to be able to tell you exactly how feasible.

If you turned this into a subscription, I'd be on it like a shot despite our group having a metric tonne of minis between us.

We are still working out exactly how these will fit into various subscriptions (or if they will be their own), but I'm confident that folks who want to subscribe will be able to. And I also strongly suspect they will be available as PDFs (and free PDFs for subscribers, at that).

Please remember that we need to solicit these products 10 months in advance for the book market, so there's still time to work out specific details like subscriptions. But we are on the case!

Glad people are excited about these. I can't wait!

--Erik Mona
Publisher
Paizo Publishing

 

[Mark CMG]

Hopefully there will be a breakdown of the pawns included by name and number forthcoming but likely there will be plenty of each for the multiples and most of the Bestiary represented, as stated above. Like MerricB, I've got tons of minis but unlike him I see this as a potentially useful set that would be easily transported to game nights when I might need some figures for random encounters (much like I like having the Fiery Dragon tin ready for summoned creatures and the like). I also disagree with the idea that more than 300 pawns at less than $0.12 apiece is somehow expensive. This seems very reasonable to me.

 

[Erik Mona]

Right now my plan is to include a complete list of what's in there (and how many) on the box itself, so that will be generated as a byproduct of the product, and will be shared widely.

I'm also strongly considering numbering them, so we can reference them in stat blocks. I think that could be really cool.

 

[S'mon]

The $ price seems pretty reasonable to me, though I doubt I will get this as I have lots of minis.

 

[Mark CMG]

Right now my plan is to include a complete list of what's in there (and how many) on the box itself, so that will be generated as a byproduct of the product, and will be shared widely.

I'm also strongly considering numbering them, so we can reference them in stat blocks. I think that could be really cool.

If, for instance, there are four goblins, and you decide that goblins are number 6, it might be nice to number them as 6A, 6B, 6C, and 6D so that it is easy for a GM and players to keep track of which is which too.

 

[Rogue Agent]

A little on the expensive side, but way cheaper than minis.

11 cents per pawn. Pretty reasonable.

I'll be holding out for the actual list of contents, however. A lot will depend on which creatures get multiple pawns and how many multiples we get.

 

[Jeffrey]

Okay, okay. This is a great idea and I just thought of it. Ready?

What you do is you make a few monster tokens special in some way, let's say that you only make a few of them - you can call them something like "not common cardboard" or something.

Okay. Here's the brilliant part:

You sprinkle these "not common cardboard" token in a small number of the boxed token sets! You see? That way people will have to buy multiple box sets of tokens in order to get a "complete" set of tokens!

I think it's a great id...

Huh?

What's that...?

Oh.

Hrm.

Nevermind.

 

[Erik Mona]

If, for instance, there are four goblins, and you decide that goblins are number 6, it might be nice to number them as 6A, 6B, 6C, and 6D so that it is easy for a GM and players to keep track of which is which too.

Right.

--Erik

 

[Dice4Hire]

How many bases are there of each size?