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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game
Bestiary 3
Test your courage against the most infamous foes of myth and legend! Bestiary 3 presents hundreds of monsters for use in the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. Within this book you’ll find demiliches and demodands, grave knights and goblin snakes, norns and nephilim, imperial dragons and unfettered eidolons, and so much more! Yet not every creature needs to be an enemy, as winged garudas, crafty tanukis, and leonine lammasus all wait to join your party and answer the call of glory.
The Pathfinder RPG Bestiary 3 is the third 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 bestselling set of fantasy rules into the new millennium.
The Pathfinder RPG Bestiary 3 includes:
- More than 300 different monsters.
- Classic terrors from myth and literature, from the frumious bandersnatch and the righteous valkyrie to the cunning dybbuk and elusive kappa.
- Hordes of new creatures you can construct, grow, or summon to aid your party in its adventures.
- New player-friendly races to let you adventure as canny ratfolk, genie-blooded sulis, and more.
- New familiars, animal companions, and other allies.
- Challenges for any adventure and every level of play.
- Some of the strangest and most beloved creatures from fantasy roleplaying history and the Pathfinder campaign setting.
- Hosts of new templates and variants.
- Appendices to aid in monster navigation, including lists by Challenge Rating, monster type, and habitat.
- Expanded universal monster rules to simplify special attacks, defenses, and qualities.
... and much, much more!
Cover art by Wayne Reynolds
The Pathfinder RPG Bestiary 3 is the third 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 bestselling set of fantasy rules into the new millennium.
The Pathfinder RPG Bestiary 3 includes:
- More than 300 different monsters.
- Classic terrors from myth and literature, from the frumious bandersnatch and the righteous valkyrie to the cunning dybbuk and elusive kappa.
- Hordes of new creatures you can construct, grow, or summon to aid your party in its adventures.
- New player-friendly races to let you adventure as canny ratfolk, genie-blooded sulis, and more.
- New familiars, animal companions, and other allies.
- Challenges for any adventure and every level of play.
- Some of the strangest and most beloved creatures from fantasy roleplaying history and the Pathfinder campaign setting.
- Hosts of new templates and variants.
- Appendices to aid in monster navigation, including lists by Challenge Rating, monster type, and habitat.
- Expanded universal monster rules to simplify special attacks, defenses, and qualities.
... and much, much more!
Cover art by Wayne Reynolds
319 pages, Hardcover
First published December 1, 2011
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Jason Bulmahn
123 books41 followersLead Designer of Paizo Inc and Minotaur Games, creator of the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game.
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October 31, 2013
While Bestiary 3 was not the monument of "monsters I'll never use" that Bestiary 4 was, it still suffered as a book that went places I really don't care to go as a gamer. This doesn't mean that the book is inherently bad, but it does mean that for me, it's not a particularly useful gaming reference. Much of the book is spent on monsters from world cultures, especially Pacific and Indian cultures. These areas have incredibly rich mythologies and monster traditions to draw from. The problem is, I have a hard time importing such monsters into my game without feeling like I just dumped my game into another setting. That said, I suspect if anybody is running any kind of Asian-themed Pathfinder game, Bestiary 3 will have lots and lots of terrific source material for you. As usual, the production value of this book is high throughout, and there were a fair number of individual entries that got me thinking about how i could incorporate them into a campaign of my own. Unfortunately, there were not quite enough for me to get especially enthused over this book overall, but who knows? The more I refer to it looking for a diamond in the rough, the more diamonds I am liable to find.
October 11, 2023
Basic premise: More monsters for the Pathfinder system!
The artwork for this book is fantastic, and every monster gets a picture. Stat blocks are easy to read and information is easy to find. The appendices are useful-lots of useful info there and it's easy to skim to find what is needed in the moment. The new familiars and animal companions are fun, so are things like the frumious bandersnatch! There are more traditional monsters, too, like kappas. I just like saying bandersnatch.
The artwork for this book is fantastic, and every monster gets a picture. Stat blocks are easy to read and information is easy to find. The appendices are useful-lots of useful info there and it's easy to skim to find what is needed in the moment. The new familiars and animal companions are fun, so are things like the frumious bandersnatch! There are more traditional monsters, too, like kappas. I just like saying bandersnatch.
December 7, 2012
The Alice in Wonderland cycle of monsters is at last complete along with some old friends from AD&D. Too bad some of the monsters have too low a CR.
January 5, 2013
In the 3rd year of the Pathfinder RPG, they put out their 3rd Bestiary - another great monster book!
September 19, 2013
Lots of inspiring ideas for encounters here.
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