Imagine how terrifying it must be from the perspective of the gods to know the Remainders exist.
Entities that predate life and death and time and are above all three. Beings which can hardly be called “beings,” straddling the line that divides person from place from force. Entities which exist on such a different scale that they may as well not even be considered players in the grand cosmic game.
Imagine what it must be like from the perspective of a checkers piece to encounter a chess knight. An entity that can move and behave in ways that you cannot even conceive of because the rules of your existence are so vastly different. Imagine watching this entity leap over three of your allies at once, killing them all in one fell swoop, while your every attempt at leaping over IT does nothing; it cannot die by the rules of your game. You must land on it’s space to end it, but you do not know this because you have never encountered a beast like it before. You CANNOT know this because it is outside your rules.
What you can do is band together with your enemies and bind the thing in place. The battle is long, protracted, and costly; so many of your own, so many of your enemies, all fall, but you capture the thing and seal it away.
This is how the gods learned what Pharasma had always known, what they experienced when Rovagug emerged and opposed them. A mere knight, the Rough Beast was. Imagine, then, the level of horror they could experience encountering a rook, a bishop, or a queen. Imagine the divine nightmares as they look upon the pawns, the Great Old Ones, and know that if one of them reaches the opposite end of the board, they could become so much worse.
It’s almost enough to make them forget that mortals feel the same way looking at them.
I’ve written so many words, but I’ve never had my name on the cover of a book.
That, however, will be changing this December, with the release of the Qadira campaign setting book. Which I wrote. (Okay, there’s a 4-page section in there written by our own John Compton, but I wrote the rest of it.) James Jacobs, our creative director, was kind enough to develop it.
There will be ancient-Persia-inspired satrapian intriguing.
There will be fashion.
There will be religion.
There will be lost desert ruins haunted by unspeakable things.
There will be glittering cities and maybe a literal gold-paved road.
There will be HORSES SO MANY HORSES YAAAAAASSSS THIS IS THE HORSE BOOK (me when I got the assignment: “if people cannot use this book to play out their childhood Black Stallion daydreams, I will have done it wrong.”
There will be hints at the culture and rulership of the Padishah Empire of Kelesh.
My OC, Elden (tiefling redesign edition). One day I hope to play him as I always see him—somebody with a confident exterior and a tender core within. Soft boy that can and will kill you.
The stars are right! Archdevils, Great Old Ones, and more grace the pages of Pathfinder RPG Bestiary 6, arriving this April! Get a preview of Bestiary 6′s demigods on the Paizo blog: http://bit.ly/2nWOLcT
Pathfinder RPG Bestiary 6 arrives next month! Check out the final cover and stay tuned for exciting monster previews starting next week! http://bit.ly/2mDUp3o
[World Tour includes world movies. It’s my theme, I get to make the rules. Unlike a lot of kaiju fans, I don’t hate the monster design from Godzilla (1998). It’s one of the least objectionable things about that movie. Doing this popped into my head one night when I couldn’t sleep, and so I had to exorcise it with a stat block. These statistics are built around the chassis of Pathfinder’s giganotosaurus. My aim was to place this in a similar power level as the Ultraman monsters I’ve been doing, and at the lower level of that spectrum.]
Zilla CR 16 N Magical Beast This creature resembles an oversized dinosaur, bipedal but with long flexible forelimbs. Spines grow along its back, the largest over its shoulders. Its head is massive and blocky with a large lower jaw and prominent chin.
Zillas are oversized mutant reptiles, possessing of a destructive fecundity. Although they closely resemble dinosaurs, they are actually giant lizards, having assumed a dinosaur like form following exposure to mutagenic energies. A zilla is an amphibious carnivore that hunts fish and whales while at sea, and various megafauna when on land. Despite their immense size, they are surprisingly stealthy, able to control their footfalls, body temperature and other physiological markers to render them harder to detect. Of course, a hundred and fifty foot reptile attracts attention, so they tend to hunt in dense forests, canyons, cities, or other terrains that afford them some cover.
Although a single zilla is a destructive menace, they rarely stay single for long. Zillas are parthenogenetic, and when amply fed can lay more than a hundred eggs at a time. They provision these with food and watch over their young for the first several months of their lives. These young are ravenous, and often resort to cannibalism if they cannot get ample food from other sources. A baby zilla balloons to full size in a matter of three to five years. Treat a baby zilla as a deinonychus with the magical beast type, the amphibious and subtle presence special qualities and a swim speed equal to its land speed. A baby zilla is a CR 4 creature.
Variant Zillas Because of their origins in mutation, many zillas have slightly different abilities. For example, a zilla might lose its roar and swallow whole special attacks in favor of a breath weapon (1d4 rounds, 16d8 fire, 140 foot line, Ref DC 27), or have smaller claws (dealing 1d6 base damage) and a tail slap as a secondary attack (dealing 2d8 base damage).
I agree with you on Zilla’s design. Even if I don’t recognize that as Godzilla at all, I do like that it became a separate creature from the Big G; no sense wasting a good design like that, right?
I feel the same way about the creature designs of the Rampage movie; I don’t recognize any of those critters as George, Lizzie, or Ralph, but they’re still fantastic creature designs!
Whoever had this castle built decided to let the mountain do half of the wall work for them. Options include day, night, neutral, and empty variations for making your own furniture layouts. Lower and upper stories for each variation. All maps come with gridded and gridless versions. | Mountain Cave Castle Battlemap on Roll20|
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You’ve passed so many farms on your journey that trouble was bound to crop up around one eventually.
Options include day, evening, rainy fog, night, or fire at night. All maps come with gridded and gridless versions. |Farmland Road Battlemap on Roll20|
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The tilted mast waves its last white sail as it succumbs to the crushing shift of ice below. Such a shame, as it looked to be a lovely vessel, nearly 100 feet, stern to bow. Perhaps there are supplies to plunder, sailors to aid, or new residents to steer clear of. Options include day or night in open snowy field, with a nearby encampment, or in a dangerous ice floe. All maps come with gridded and gridless versions. |Ice Shipwreck Battlemap on Roll20|
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This map was voted on by my patrons for our first Patreon anniversary, and is not archived on Patreon, but is now available for purchase on Roll20.
Send your explorers through the twists and turns of this hideout, with three levels of 40x30 unit maps. The maps also come with guides for GMs to easily discern where levels connect and give players descriptive hints of passages they may try to use.
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Amidtown bridge for stealthing or city brawls, with day, evening, fog, and night variants, and a General Fields Pack of three different fields, each in day, fog and night, for the price of one map. Sometimes a random encounter needs some non-descript grass.
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behold! a picture of my latest pathfinder character, leylan alkhamar, the bard and worshipper of desna…. he’s so very, very extra….and has a DARK PAST who could believe it
In which our heroes seek the answer to life, the universe, and everything… no, that’s not it…
Our heroes have tracked down the corrupt watchmen and the captive priest in a flooded corner of the worst neighborhood in Absalom. Now all that’s left is to wrest the priest away from them. Time for combat!
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The party has made it to Oregent and the Lumber Consortium’s masquerade, but first they have to contend with friends and foes new and old. And worse, they may not know who is friend and who is foe until it’s too late.
It’s time to get back to our Pathfinder campaign! This week, since it’s been a month and a half since we left those characters, you get a recap. And not just any recap! It’s our beloved gnome Vell recapping all the important things you may have forgotten from our first year of episodes!
If you’ve got a friend who you think should get started on The Drunken Geek, this is the episode to send them!
What could possibly go wrong traveling across the breadth of Andoran at mid-winter? I’ll tell you what: a blizzard. How will the party deal with it when their only source of shelter is already occupied? All that plus Leeroy Jenkins, Oklahoma!, and more.
