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Creepy Creatures: Bestiary of the Bizarre $17.00
Publisher: Alluria Publishing
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by Sean H. [Featured Reviewer] Date Added: 07/17/2010 14:35:09

Creepy Creatures: Bestiary of the Bizarre is a 115-page PDF (111-pages if you remove the covers, front paper and OGL page) for the Pathfinder RPG written by Sam G. Hing and published by Allura Publishing.

The layout is a traditional book design, primarily two-column and easy enough to read. The monsters follow standard Pathfinder templates. The art is full color throughout with each creature having its own illustration, with each artist credited on the page (which is appreciated) additionally each creature gets a set of glyphs which label it by type, terrain and climate.

Creepy Creatures begins with a brief overview about how the monsters are marked with glyphs for quick sorting of their role. The Challenge Ratings of the monster range from 1/3 to 20 (with the CR of 16-19 not represented) and the appendices in the back nicely divide the monsters by CR, role, type and terrain.

Each monster gets a page, except for the two dragons who each gets two pages, and its own full color illustration which are average to excellent in quality. But for many of the creatures, it just seems that they could use a bit more information to make them really come alive.

There is a good variety of monsters here, fairly light on the outsiders, which is all for the good. Several of the monsters are chimeric beasts (such as the hawkape and frogodile) and crazy animal variants (carnivorous elk!) which I actually approve of as they harken back to both old school designs and just general bizarreness. As is usual for such works there are several undead, which are always difficult as so many have already been done but some of the ones here are quite clever and adventure ideas immediately came to mind reading them.

My only complaint is to fully use one of creature templates, Gixubus, you need the Remarkable Races collection for the base creature (the Anumus) to use beyond the example creature. A few other monster reference races from the Remarkable Races collection but are not as closely tied to them.

Overall, if you like bizarre and unusual creatures (they are quite correct in their subtitle) for your Pathfinder campaign, this book should be quite inspirational.

Disclosure: As a featured reviewer for RPGNow/ DriveThroughRPG, I received my copy of this product for free from the publisher for the purpose of this review.



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