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Purple Dragon Knight
Master of Realmslore
Canada
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 Posted - 03 Aug 2008 : 00:34:33
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I just received my copy of "Classic Monsters Revisited" from Paizo...
All I have to say is: incredible!
This book is simply marvelous! all scribes here would benefit from owning it, and it is directly portable in the Realms. This book provides goblin songs, poems, recipes, etc! It cover orcs, goblins, hobgoblins, gnolls, ogres, bugbears and kobolds (I may be forgetting a few, but you get the idea: it has everything on the "classic D&D baddies")
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Brimstone
Great Reader
USA
3287 Posts |
Posted - 03 Aug 2008 : 01:32:20
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-Trolls, Minotaurs, and Lizardfolk. 
-I like how Ogres are inbred humans in a deliverince sorta way! 
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"These things also I have observed: that knowledge of our world is
to be nurtured like a precious flower, for it is the most precious
thing we have. Wherefore guard the word written and heed
words unwritten and set them down ere they fade . . . Learn
then, well, the arts of reading, writing, and listening true, and they
will lead you to the greatest art of all: understanding."
Alaundo of Candlekeep |
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Markustay
Realms Explorer extraordinaire
USA
15724 Posts |
Posted - 03 Aug 2008 : 02:29:45
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Also looking forward to getting this one - I've heard nothing but great reviews.
Its like old-school FR, when the lore was more prominent then the mechanics, and attention to detail ruled the day. |
"I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me" --- Dudley Field Malone
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Quale
Master of Realmslore
1757 Posts |
Posted - 03 Aug 2008 : 19:02:00
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| I don't like that with ogres, but yea it's nice, find it much more useful than 4e MM |
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Markustay
Realms Explorer extraordinaire
USA
15724 Posts |
Posted - 03 Aug 2008 : 19:45:22
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I always pictured Ogres as being Hill Giant/Human Crossbreeds, but that sounds painful and makes little sense (especially since I picture Hill Giants as Mountain Giant/Ogre crossbreeds).
Anyhow, I think that works for Golarion, but I don't think that would work elsewhere - ogres have been Goblinoids, Giants, and their own, seperate race depending on what editon and world you play, so I Guess this just adds to their 'mystery'.
One of those races that always evolve on a world, but in a different way each time. Both cool and weird.
Hmmm... maybe Hill Giant/Half-Orc Crossbreeds - they do look like huge Half-Orcs.  |
"I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me" --- Dudley Field Malone
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Quale
Master of Realmslore
1757 Posts |
Posted - 04 Aug 2008 : 16:47:25
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| I always pictured them with fey/hag/giant origin |
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Ardashir
Senior Scribe
USA
544 Posts |
Posted - 25 Sep 2008 : 18:03:56
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Originally posted by Brimstone
-I like how Ogres are inbred humans in a deliverince sorta way!
BRIMSTONE
I thought the deal with ogres was nice too, though my own take would be "overgrown examples of the stupid, sadistic kids I remember from school."
For some reason it's just scarier that way.
And good work on why bugbears like killing people: the smell of human fear acts on them like an endorphin. So your fear = their pleasure! |
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Ayunken-vanzan
Senior Scribe
Germany
657 Posts |
Posted - 25 Sep 2008 : 21:58:30
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Classic Monster revisited was the first of the Pathfinder Chronicles arriving at the beginning of last week. I have started to read it, and I am impressed. The bugbear is detailed as the classic "monster in the closet"/"monster under your child's bed". Despite its bulk it is sneaky, and it likes to slowly increase the horror of its victim: first a sound its prey dismisses as the wind or something like that. Then a window left open, but not by the victim, and slowly he understands that there is something out there lurking ...
The bugbear savors the stench of fear emanating from its prey, and if the hunt proves to be most satisfying, it may take an ear as remembrance of a fulfilling night. |
"What mattered our lives now? When our world had been torn from us? Folk wept, or drank, or stood staring out over the land, wondering what new horror each dawn would bring."
Elender Stormfall of Suzail
"Anyone can kill deities, cause plagues, or destroy organizations. It takes real skill to make them live on."
Varl
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