Populating Planets

Continuing some of my recent worlds-building, I've been speculating about which monsters from the Pathfinder Bestiaries could be used on other planets. In my next few posts I'll be grouping some of these according to the ecologies that they can be used to build on different types of worlds.

-Nate

Otherworldly Monsters

At first glance, the notion of populating planets in a space fantasy RPG campaign with new, exotic and challenging monsters might seem to be a daunting task. A quick review of the Pathfinder Bestiary and its sequels, however, provides plenty of options for inhabitants of different worlds. The trick here, though, is to make sure that the campaign setting's Homeworld is inhabited only by familiar creatures (that is, ones that players recognize from known mythological sources). More unusual monsters, then—that are neither constructs, undead, nor outsiders—can become inhabitants of those alien worlds.

Bestiary	Monster (page #)
1	Aboleth (8), ankheg (15), basidirond (28), behir (34), boggard (37), bulette (39), cave fisher (41), choker (45), chuul (46), cloaker (47), darkmantle (55), froghemoth (136), intellect devourer (180), morlock (209), neothelid (214), otyugh (223), purple worm (230), remorhaz (233), roper (237), shambling mound (246), shoggoth (249), skum (253), stirge (260), vegepygmy (273), violet fungus (274), xill (283), xorn (284), yellow musk creeper (285)
2	Akata (23), aranea (30), athach (33), aurumvorax (35), blindheim (46), bunyip (50), carnivorous blob (51), catobplepas (52), charda (55), death worm (76), decapus (77), destrachan (83), devilfish (88), dust digger (112), faceless stalker (122), frost worm (126), fungal crawler (127), gray render (140), grick (146), grindylow (148), grippli (149), gug (151), krenshar (174), magma ooze (184), mercane (188), mongrelman (191), moonflower (192), neh-thalggu (197), pech (206), phycomid (210), quickwood (228), reefclaw (234), sard (237), seugathi (243), shantak (244), skulk (248), slime mold (249), slurk (251), solifugid (253), tendriculos (259), tentamort (261), thrasfyr (263), vemerak (278), witch-wyrd (285), xtabay (289), yrthak (290)
3	Adaro (7), ahuizotl (10), akhlut (11), alraune (13), ascomoid (20), axe beak (29), azruverda (30), baku (31), behemeoths (36-9), brain ooze (43), carbuncle (44), carnivorous crystal (45), cecaelia (49), ceratidoidi (50), cerebric fungus (52), flumph (119), garden ooze (122), ghorazagh (124), globster (131), gorynych (137), grodair (143), grootslang (144), hodag (148), iku-turso (153), lukwata (187), mobogo (194), moon-beast (195), myceloid (196), phantom fungus (219), plasma ooze (220), popobala (221), siyokoy (246), tojanida (270), trollhound (274), vodyanoi (282), voonith (283), yithian (286), zoog (288)
4	Abaia (7), argus (13), astral leviathan (14), bhole (18), body thief (20-1), brethedan (23), buggane (26), colour out of space (28-9), dossenus (63), outer dragon (63-75), formian (108-13), inctulis (157), karkinoi (173), kasatha (174), leaf ray (179), lunarma (185), lur-king ray (186-7), mi-go (193), myrmecoleon (198), nependis (202), nycar (207), oma (209), pard (211), qallupilluk (224), samsaran (230), sea cat (233). shard slag (240), shobhad (242), shriezyx (244), snallygaster (247), trox (264), weedwhip (276), xanthos (282)
5	Aatheriexa (7), ahool (15), amphiptere (18), bagiennik (40), brain mole (46), cameroceras (49), capramace (50), cerynitis (53), cetus (54), cytillipede (65), digmaul (82), doppeldrek (85), echeneis (103), aether elemental (106-7), gegenees (118), ghoran (119), eclipse giant (121), moon giant (122), sun giant (123), grioth (137), muckdweller (175), nulmind (184), reptoid (202), rhu-chalik (203), scitalis (222), shasalqu (229), somalcygot (234), stormghost (236), stranglereed (237), tizheruk (249), tsaalgrend (251), ursikka (261), wolliped (279)