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Yes, the book is well illustrated – sometimes gorgeously so however, I expected it would be. The key to Bestiary 3’s quality goes beyond the usual high production values that Paizo is known for. It turns out that Bestiary 3 is a not only a useful monster book for Pathfinder RPG, it is an extremely useful book moreover, it is a far better game supplement, on balance, than Bestiary 2 was. However, as I started to turn the pages, my indifference changed to mild interest and then quickly morphed into pleasure as the pages kept turning and the various monsters Paizo had put together impressed me – a lot.
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So when I cracked the Bestiary 3, I frankly wasn’t expecting much and I wasn’t terribly excited by the supposed promise of the book, either. Fact is, I felt pretty much overwhelmed with monster material for Pathfinder already. Include into that collection the various demonic, diabolic, and daemonic horrors from the three volumes of the “ Books of the Damned” and add the massive Tome of Horrors Complete, too? As you might imagine, I was simply not feeling any sharp hunger for yet-another-monster-book for Pathfinder.
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After all, I already had Bestiary 1 and Bestiary 2, monsters from the various Adventure Path installments, plus many more foes from the various modules and Pathfinder Chronicles released by Paizo over the past nearly three years. To top it off, the considerable excitement and buzz which accompanied Frog God Games’ 800 page+ Tome of Horrors Complete for Pathfinder RPG last September left me thoroughly underwhelmed in terms of my own perceived “need” for a Bestiary 3. One of the roles that Bestiary 3 was to fill was to act as a sort of “Oriental Monstrous Compendium” to accompany Paizo’s roll-out of Tian-Xia as well as to assist GM’s of the Jade Regent Adventure Path, a heavily “eastern themed” adventure epic for PFRPG. Those expectations were not raised by the pre-release buzz concerning Bestiary 3, either.
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Accordingly, I must admit that I had relatively low expectations for Bestiary 3. In the past, this decline has been quite noticeable by the time the third volume of any “monster manual” has been released. While the first monster book for any RPG is part of the must-have core system, subsequent volumes and collections of monsters tend to rapidly diminish in both quality and utility. Last month, Paizo Publishing LLC released Bestiary 3 for Pathfinder RPG and by now the book should have made it onto the shelves of your FLGS.