Paizo Publishing

Heroes are defined by their foes - from shambling skeletons to terrifying dragons, each enemy leaves a mark on their growing legend. Make your legends memorable with foes from the new Pathfinder Monster Core rulebook for Pathfinder 2nd Edition! This hardcover book is packed with a wide range of monsters useful to all Pathfinder campaigns, giving the Game Master plenty of threats to throw at their adventurers, at any level of experience. This fully illustrated tome also includes guidelines for reading monster entries and tailoring existing monsters to fit your story! A comprehensive resource for Pathfinder 2nd Edition monsters.

Monster Core is the third core rulebook for the fully remastered Pathfinder 2nd Edition. These rules are compatible with previous 2nd Edition rulebooks, incorporating comprehensive errata and rules updates and some of the best additions from later books into new, easier-to-access volumes with new presentations inspired by years of player feedback. Along with the Player Core, GM Core, and Player Core 2, these books provide a new foundation for Pathfinder gaming.

• Over 400 individual monster writeups, including everything from common animals, like wolves and bears, to terrifying supernatural foes, such as the rune giant or the grim reaper!
• Eight brand new dragons to challenge your players, including the power-hungry fortune dragon, the peerless adamantine dragon, the mischievous mirage dragon, the fiendish diabolic dragon, and more!
• Classic monsters drawn from mythology, like the minotaur and the medusa, as well as creatures drawn from the legends of the Lost Omens setting, including favorites like the wicked sinspawn and unpredictable proteans.
• Simple templates that allow you to customize a monster, making it more or less powerful with just a few simple adjustments.
• Guidelines for reading and using a monster statistics, ensuring you get the most out of a creature both in and out of combat.
• Lists of creatures sorted by both type and level, making it easy to find the monster you need when you need it.
• Fully integrated errata from the first 4 years of Pathfinder 2nd Edition, including new balance adjustments to ensure that every creature presents a thrilling level-appropriate challenge!
• Hundreds of beautiful full-color creature illustrations!
• Published under the new Open RPG Creative (ORC) license, giving players and Game Masters even more freedom for making their own creations based on Pathfinder 2nd Edition.

This sketch cover edition features an image of the original pencil sketch of the cover illustration.