Pathfinder 1E Mythos beasties in Pathfinder Bestiaries?
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Epametheus
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Bestiary 2 has shantaks, gugs, and hounds of Tindalos. And I'm sure I'm forgetting something.
Bestiary 3 also has the zoogs, from the Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath.
The module Carrion Hill has the Spawn of Yog-Sothoth.
Pathfinder # 46, Wake of the Watcher, contains:
1) An article on the worship of the Outer Gods and the Great Old Ones
2) Colour Out of Space
3) Dark Young
4) Dimensional Shambler
5) Elder Thing
6) Gnoph-Keh
7) Mi-go
8) Moits of Shub-niggurath (new monster; think of them as larval Dark Young)
9) Star-Spawn of Cthulhu
Bestiary 3 also has the zoogs, from the Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath.
The module Carrion Hill has the Spawn of Yog-Sothoth.
Pathfinder # 46, Wake of the Watcher, contains:
1) An article on the worship of the Outer Gods and the Great Old Ones
2) Colour Out of Space
3) Dark Young
4) Dimensional Shambler
5) Elder Thing
6) Gnoph-Keh
7) Mi-go
8) Moits of Shub-niggurath (new monster; think of them as larval Dark Young)
9) Star-Spawn of Cthulhu
Glade Riven
Adventurer
While not part of the mythos, Paizo has made flumphs a part of it. Caulborn look to be something of Paizo's creation (although I could be wrong - quick googling and wikipedia searchs turned up only Paizo stuff), but have some freaky psychic stuff.
frankthedm
First Post
Paizo likes comic horror. One of their 3.5 Dungeon adventures even had a troupe of traveling bards putting on The King In Yellow.
Mad Hamish
First Post
Great, you're confronting Gugs, Shoggoths etc but you've got Flumphs on your side...
This is true; the adventure is "And Madness Followed" in Dungeon #134 (May 2006). Great adventure. I never actually ran it as presented, but I used elements from it several times. One Epic-level party I ran actually had the main crafter make a pact with the King in Yellow and create the artifact book that's in the adventure.
NiTessine
Explorer
Yeah, they're originally from City of Strangers, the ancient race that built Kaer Maga.
James Jacobs
Adventurer
We have indeed been putting Lovecraftian monsters in our Bestiaries from the start, along with some other creatures from public domain literature—we generally provide a partial list of these monsters in the first paragraph of each Bestiary's introduction:
Bestiary 1: H. G. Wells's morlocks, Lovecraft's ghasts and shoggoths
Bestiary 2: Frank Belknap Long's hounds of Tindalos, Lewis Carroll's jabberwock, and Lovecraft's Leng spiders, gugs, denizens of Leng, and shantaks.
Bestiary 3: Lovecraft's moon-beasts, vooniths, yithians, and zoogs; Lewis Carroll's bandersnatch and jubjub bird—also Robert E. Howard's zuvembie and China Mieville's ceratioidi (although those last two are unusual cases and aren't from the public domain—we got permission from Howard's estate to print the zuvembie and hired China to develop the ceratioidi for us in "Guide to the River Kingdoms")
Beyond this, we often include mythos elements in our adventures—Pathfinder AP volumes #4, #6, #21, #49, and particularly #46 all have monsters from the mythos in them, and we've done a few adventures in the Module line (notably Crucible of Chaos and Carrion Hill) that do more with these themes.
We'll be doing more. Because I loves me the mythos. And as it turns out, so do a lot of other folks!
Bestiary 1: H. G. Wells's morlocks, Lovecraft's ghasts and shoggoths
Bestiary 2: Frank Belknap Long's hounds of Tindalos, Lewis Carroll's jabberwock, and Lovecraft's Leng spiders, gugs, denizens of Leng, and shantaks.
Bestiary 3: Lovecraft's moon-beasts, vooniths, yithians, and zoogs; Lewis Carroll's bandersnatch and jubjub bird—also Robert E. Howard's zuvembie and China Mieville's ceratioidi (although those last two are unusual cases and aren't from the public domain—we got permission from Howard's estate to print the zuvembie and hired China to develop the ceratioidi for us in "Guide to the River Kingdoms")
Beyond this, we often include mythos elements in our adventures—Pathfinder AP volumes #4, #6, #21, #49, and particularly #46 all have monsters from the mythos in them, and we've done a few adventures in the Module line (notably Crucible of Chaos and Carrion Hill) that do more with these themes.
We'll be doing more. Because I loves me the mythos. And as it turns out, so do a lot of other folks!
James Jacobs
Adventurer
While we did indeed tie flumphs to the Dark Tapestry, I wouldn't say that we've made flumphs a part of the Lovecraft mythos. I'm not so sure that's a two-way street. ;-P
