#dailybestiary

[dr-archeville]

Holy crap, I think I’ve managed to reblog everything from @dailybestiary  O_O

[monstersdownthepath]

Hey there. I'm thrilled you're so into Pathfinder monsters and I'm really happy to see your writing out there. That said, it might be nice if you thought of another name to call your bestiary entries. The Daily Bestiary is something I've been working *very* hard on since 2011. So to see another blog out there putting "Daily Bestiary" right at the top of similar articles (and tagging them that as well) is a bit of a punch in the gut. Just something to think about as you keep writing. Thanks!

100% honesty, I had no idea your blog existed until I started searching for better pics for some of my entries around early August, and I never imagined actually being contacted by it. The thought of overlap/the possible confusion between the two never occurred to me.

I’ll try to think of a better naming system/tag while at work today. Just “Bestiary Entry” sounds good to me for now, but I’ll also take suggestions from followers.

[dr-archeville]

A New Year’s(ish) Resolution for 2016: get back to reblogging/commenting on posts from @dailybestiary and @dailycharacteroption!

(Wait, has it really been ten months since my last reblog/comment?  o_O  Okay, let me see how well I can get back into doing the new ones before I start tackling the backlog.)

Other New Year’s Resolutions

Find gainful employment

Read more of the books I own

Watch more of the movies I own

Watch more things on my Netflix queue

Play more of the video games I own

[dr-archeville]

dailybestiary said: “The movies contain potassium benzoate.   …That’s bad.”

spoopyfolk said: I totally read this in the voice of Homer Simpson and that Chinese shopkeeper.

Exxxcellent...

quantumstarlight said: Wrap yourself in plastic to keep out the rain! (But seriously, what about one of those cheap ponchos? Would that help?)

Potentially, though I don’t have one.  I could make one from some garbage bags... but I’m not sure how it would look to show up to an interview wearing garbage bags.  >_<

[shaddy24]

My Tumblr Crushes:

entjadun

alliekhaleesi

dailybestiary

askkakuro

massterchief

macthewrexosexual

milesabovepeter

xekstrin

jethroq

Aw, sorry Allie. Looks like my boyfriend has overtaken you again. It's a constant back and forth between you two.

[dr-archeville]

It's been over three weeks since I last reblogged anything from dailybestiary or dailycharacteroption.

That doesn't seem right at all.

*cracks knuckles*

[dr-archeville]

Bodaks apparently date back to The Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth, but not until this year’s Undead Revisited does it seem they received serious attention (at the hands of Eric Cagle).  They are created from mortals killed from exposure to absolute evil.  Evil so pure is typically only to be found on the Outer Planes.  PCs encountering them on the Prime Plane had best cover their eyes and pray for dawn.

Demons and fey are both susceptible to cold iron, so there may be settings where bodak (from Bestiary 2) are tied more strongly to the chaos of the fey than the evil of demons.  A fey lord so vain he was cursed so that any who look upon him die and rise up as a mockery of his own now-twisted form? 

And in D20 Modern/d20 Dark*Matter, bodaks were an undead form of the extraterrestrial fraal (Grey aliens).  If the fraal/Greys are advanced humans from the future, come back to avert some catastrophe, might bodaks be advanced ghouls from the same future?

[dr-archeville]

At CR 17 and with the powers of a volcano, brijidines are practically forces of nature.  The volcanic goddess to whom natives sacrifice gifts of fruit and jewelry might be a brijidine, and it was likely a brijidine that taught the first elves to smith (and compose ribald poems).  They will most likely be on good PCs’ sides, though they have fiery tempers and may be more concerned with fighting devils than with whatever the PCs’ priorities might be.

Reblogging because I know several of my followers would love to meet beautiful fire-ladies who love spicy food and dirty limericks (from Bestiary 2).

Also, I'd be willing to bet the name is a reference to Brigid and/or St. Brigit of Kildare.