Dungeon Denizens Revisited

Pathfinder Campaign Setting

by Clinton Boomer, Jason Bulmahn, Joshua J. Frost

Icons of Fantasy Gaming

Adventurers have been battling these creatures for more than 30 years—weird monsters born and bred to destroy heroes. You recognize them on sight: bulettes, cloakers, gelatinous cubes, mimics, otyughs, owlbears, purple worms, ropers, rust monsters, and shambling mounds. Some were created by the experiments of mad wizards, made to guard lonely towers. Others live exclusively in sewers and dungeons, products of niche evolution amid humanity’s forgotten filth. All are fodder for the blades and spells of adventurers. But there’s more to each of these beasts than meets the eye.

Within this 64-page book is detailed information on the motivations, tactics, ecology, and history of these classic monsters, all reimagined for the Pathfinder Chronicles campaign setting while staying true to their roots as iconic elements of the game. Learn about rare and deadly variant creatures, and the best ways of separating them from their treasure. Buy customized equipment for hunting them, and learn new magic using pieces from their strange corpses. All your old enemies are here, and they’re just as monstrous as you remember!

Cover art by Wayne Reynolds

Genres: Role Playing Games, Gaming, Fantasy

64 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2009

About the author

Clinton J. Boomer, known to his friends as ‘Booms,’ resides in the quaint, leafy, idyllic paradise of Macomb, Illinois, where he attended 4th grade through college. He began writing before the time of his own recollection, predominantly dictating stories to his ever-patient mother about fire-monsters and ice-monsters throwing children into garbage cans.

He began gaming with the 1993 release of Planescape, which shaped his Jr. High years, and he was first published professionally in the Ennie Award-winning Pathfinder Chronicles Campaign Setting from Paizo Publishing after placing in the Final Four of Paizo’s inaugural RPG Superstar! Competition. He currently devotes a full 99.9% of his waking hours to thinking about fantasy-adventure in general or ninjas, more specifically.

Boomer is a writer, filmmaker, gamer and bartender; his short comedic films, the “D&D PHB PSAs,” have over 3600 subscribers on YouTube and and have been viewed more than a million & a half times. A member of the WereCabbages creative guild, a frequent freelance contributor to Rite Publishing, Sean K. Reynolds Games, Paizo Publishing, Reality Deviants Press, Zombie Sky Press and the Hellcrashers setting, his debut novel The Hole Behind Midnight was released in 2011. Daniel O’Brien, columnist for Cracked.com and contributor to the New York Times bestseller You Might Be a Zombie and Other Bad News called it “ … Raymond Chandler meets Douglas Adams by way of a fantasy nerd’s fever dream. And it’s AWESOME.”

Boomer is currently the happiest he has ever been in his whole life.

Reviews

[Eric Smith · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a good GM supplement that offers some explanations in terms of ecology and suggestions for campaign uses of some of the more unusual and frankly outright strange creatures from the fantasy roleplaying universe. So if you have ever been interested in things like mating habits of mimics, otyugh society, or why the freaking owlbears are always so damn angry this could be a fun quick read for you.
Most useful for GM's with really no purpose for players unless interested in knowing certain monster ecologies for some roleplaying reason.

[William Quest · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is a holdout on the old 3.5 stats, but with the Core book implemented, it is simple to convert. What is important, however, it the content. Paizo gives us a fresh look at some old foes we love to hate, some interesting variations and impressive artwork to admire. A great sourcebook.