They're trying to kill Paizo for being too based. Allowing the first unions in our TTRPG market? No fucking way! Don't buy from Wizards ever again you hogs
They're trying to kill Paizo for being too based. Allowing the first unions in our TTRPG market? No fucking way! Don't buy from Wizards ever again you hogs
There are very few original concepts in D&D. I think their only actually original monster is the Beholder.
Gotta real talk. Pathfinder is way cooler with monsters because they go and interview people from different cultures or even hire them (one dev is an Alaskan Native) to build a more diverse cast of stories and folktales. I was clamoring to get Strength of Thousands because it is such a breath of fresh of air to get a non-Western fantasy setting published for once.
The Mosquito Witch, for example, was heavily influenced by Native American and African folklore such as the Adze and Soucouyant
YES! SoT/Mwangi Expanse book was great for that, and there's a ton in various other books since then. Have you read Impossible Lands yet? Tons of good stuff there too! Breath of fresh air!
Displacer beasts, flumphs, a few others here and there.
I think you're right about Flumphs, though. WOTC/Hasbro owns the copyrighted names of these things, but they're generally folklore, based heavily on someone else's IP whose estate hasn't enforced copyright, or too generic. So, they go the Games Workshop route of using original copyrightable names (like Space Marines vs Adeptus Astartes, it's Displacer Beast instead of Coeurl), so other companies can call them something different and execute their abilities different enough and probably be okay (if they can afford to fight it in court).
Flumphs are actually in PF2E, so I'm pretty sure it was covered by OGL, but Beholders obviously arent