Battlezoo ancestries: Living Legends brings monster heroes to Pathfinder 2E

Battlezoo Ancestries: Living Legends arrives as a 230-page hardcover and PDF, and the pitch is as direct as Pathfinder books get: let players build characters from creatures that usually show up as enemies, hazards, or legends. For Pathfinder 2E tables, that means 14 ancestries to work with, including angels, arboreals, cerebrophages, devils, evil eyes, fusions, gargoyles, giants, golemborn, lamias, psychopomps, sphinxes, swarmbloods, and werecreatures.

The print edition makes its case fast. The hardcover carries a $59.99 MSRP, while the PDF is priced at $39.99, putting it firmly in premium-supplement territory rather than casual add-on range. Roll For Combat’s Kickstarter for the project ran from March 11, 2025 through April 11, 2025, and finished at $122,593 pledged from 1,444 backers against a $10,000 goal. That kind of response fits the book’s biggest selling point: it is not trying to add one clever ancestry and call it a day. It is trying to open up an entire monster-hero lane for character creation.

For Pathfinder 2E players, the strongest argument is utility at the table. The Foundry VTT module metadata matches the print and PDF release and credits Jessica Catalan, Jason Keeley, Jessica Redekop, Mikhail Rekun, and Mark Seifter as authors. The module description says the book lets players take on the role of creatures straight out of legend, and the digital support matters here because ancestry books live or die on whether groups can actually plug them into their campaigns without extra prep. The included tokens and illustrations make the book easier to drop into an online game than a normal hardcover-only release.

The 5E version broadens the audience, but the Pathfinder 2E edition feels like the cleaner fit for readers who already have a PF2E table and want fresh ancestry options now. The design idea is the same across systems, yet Pathfinder players are the ones most likely to get immediate mileage from the book’s ancestry mechanics, NPC-building potential, and visual support in Foundry. If the goal is to add monstrous, celestial, infernal, or otherwise unconventional player characters, Living Legends looks like a real rules expansion rather than a shelf trophy. If the goal is just to collect every Battlezoo book, that works too, but the stronger buy is the table that wants to play the book right away.