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Sunday, September 20, 2015

Beast Breakdown, updated

Paizo's Adam Daigle mentioned that each year he judges the monsters contestants submit, he makes a spreadsheet to track things like CR, alignment, size, and type (and any subtypes). With that inspiration, I thought it was worth updating my own previous chart with the monsters created in the 2015 Season.

Alignments

The following alignments have been represented in Superstar monsters (the number in parentheses is how many were added in 2015):
CG: 2
NG: 1
LN: 2
CN: 12
N: 34 (10)
CE: 24 (2)
NE: 21 (4)
There have been no lawful good or lawful evil monsters, Until 2014, all the monsters had been neutral, chaotic neutral, neutral evil or chaotic evil.

Sizes

Monsters haven't quite come in all sizes and shapes, with none being Gargantuan or Colossal. That's likely a factor of the CR, which since 2010 have never been allowed to be more than CR 7 (and other than in 2012, were always lower than that).
Huge: 3
Large: 25 (5)
Medium: 37 (7)
Small: 20 (2)
Tiny: 7 (1)
Diminutive: 2 (1)
Fine: 2

Types

Aberrations have been the most common monster type, followed by magical beast. As with sizes, though, these numbers have likely been influenced a bit by restrictions: In 2012, monsters couldn't be a construct, dragon, ooze, or outsider.
Aberration: 19 (4)
Magical beast: 17 (3)
Fey: 15 (3)
Outsider: 9 (1)
Plant: 9 (3)
Undead: 7 (1)
Construct: 6 (0)
Dragon: 6 (1)
Ooze: 4 (0)
Monstrous humanoid: 3 (0)
Humanoid: 1 (0)
Subtypes
Aquatic: 5
Earth:4 (3)
Swarm: 4 (1)
Incorporeal: 4
Native: 4
Extraplanar: 3 (1)
Cold: 3
Chaotic: 2
Evil: 2
Water: 2
Elemental: 1 (1) 
Shapechanger: 1 (1)
Air: 1
Demon: 1
Giant: 1
Kami: 1
Mythic: 1