Pathfinder Creature Feature: Megafauna

A viewer-requested video on a topic I had not originally considered, the megafauna video covers all manner of creatures that are now extinct on our world. Hopefully a fun little video for you and one that required me to do some real-world research along the way!
My apologies in advance for the funny audio in parts of this video too. I tried to fix in post, but seemed to be only making things worse!
▬ Contents of this video ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
0:00 - Intro & Preamble
5:00 - Dinosaurs
10:21 - Large Mammals
16:16 - Other Megafauna
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The large high-res map I use is not a Paizo official map, but the work of the incomparable Rob McCaleb ( www.artstation.com/robmccaleb ) used here with their gracious permission.
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  • @carlborneke8641
    @carlborneke86416 ай бұрын

    Dinosaurs, magic, ancient Egypt and highly advanced alien technology. Golarion has a little bit of everything and I absolutely love it.

  • @TheMythKeeper

    @TheMythKeeper

    6 ай бұрын

    Players, meet the kitchen sink. ;-)

  • @CooperativeWaffles

    @CooperativeWaffles

    6 ай бұрын

    ...and the baby remains in the bath💧water.

  • @chrystals.4376

    @chrystals.4376

    6 ай бұрын

    It's the pseudo Egypt that makes me tempted to try out Pathfinder before Starfinder.

  • @zacharyhawley1693

    @zacharyhawley1693

    5 ай бұрын

    😂 you can survive demonic invasions, an alien assault and traverse ancient ruins just to get devoured by dinosaurs. ❤❤❤

  • @GodzillaRex100

    @GodzillaRex100

    5 ай бұрын

    And Kaiju

  • @FiadhFeyre
    @FiadhFeyre7 ай бұрын

    I'm always here for dinosaurs. 🦕🦖

  • @TheMythKeeper

    @TheMythKeeper

    7 ай бұрын

    Rawr!

  • @OldGreyGryphon

    @OldGreyGryphon

    6 ай бұрын

    Same!

  • @levizilla-rf1pm

    @levizilla-rf1pm

    6 күн бұрын

    same

  • @Yacovo
    @Yacovo5 ай бұрын

    Megafauna: the reason wizards should never mock a druid. Thanks for the video.

  • @chrystals.4376
    @chrystals.43766 ай бұрын

    Demitridon is a Synapsid thats distantly related to Mammals, not a Reptile, but I wouldn't be surprised if Paizo made a goof with the classification, many still do.

  • @Breakingfasst88
    @Breakingfasst886 ай бұрын

    All these Dinosaurs make the world of so much more diverse, but seeing the Froghemoth Pathfinder is just something else. CR 13 and near 300 HP, that thing is IMMENSE. I'd love to have it as a boss monster in my campaign.

  • @TheMythKeeper

    @TheMythKeeper

    6 ай бұрын

    Its a big amphibian for sure!

  • @Kasarii

    @Kasarii

    5 ай бұрын

    A few of those could MAKE the dinosaurs extinct on Golarion.

  • @kevinobill4818
    @kevinobill48182 ай бұрын

    I’m a huge enthusiast on Dinosaurs and Dragons because they have a really gigantic history when it comes to fossil and influences.

  • @CheerfuEntropy
    @CheerfuEntropy6 ай бұрын

    So fun fact for dms running lets say ....predatory dinosaurs. Especially smart, social ones (like deinonychus perhaps). They discovered the syrinx structure in stegasorids, which is the vocal apparatus that birds have that lets them chirp and squawk....and mimic human speech. And the fact that stegos had it and birds also do, means its pretty likley that all did. So picture being hunted in tall grass and hearing your party member scream for help. then the scream is repeated to your left, and right....then twice....behind you.

  • @TheMythKeeper

    @TheMythKeeper

    6 ай бұрын

    Haha! That's awesome

  • @MusMasi

    @MusMasi

    6 ай бұрын

    or your mount starts to take the piss out of you.

  • @silvertheelf

    @silvertheelf

    5 ай бұрын

    @@MusMasiparrot time!

  • @russvickery71
    @russvickery716 ай бұрын

    Dinosaurs? I’m in. And a little tease about a Darklands deep dive? Hell yes, thank you again for your work. It’s appreciated.

  • @user-im5jb9pc1d
    @user-im5jb9pc1d6 ай бұрын

    Didn't think this would be a topic you'd share with us, but it is a pleasant surprise, as well as a great inspiration for my campaign. We'll soon be heading into the Realm of the Mammonth Lords - guess now I should add more big critters other than large mammals! Thanks for the video as always!

  • @user-im5jb9pc1d

    @user-im5jb9pc1d

    6 ай бұрын

    They're gonna be ambushed by a pack of snow-white wooly dimetrodons...cutting through the avalanche snow with their back sails :)

  • @TheMythKeeper

    @TheMythKeeper

    6 ай бұрын

    Hahaha! Yes, that's awesome. Like snow-sharks.

  • @israelmorales4249
    @israelmorales42496 ай бұрын

    This looks like a documentary in the one you "spared no expense". Awsome work like allways!

  • @TheMythKeeper

    @TheMythKeeper

    6 ай бұрын

    Haha! Thank you!

  • @ColinGrym
    @ColinGrym6 ай бұрын

    Happy New Year, hope your vacation went well, and nice to see you back at it. This video is a great starting point for strategies like Tame Animal, Speak With Animals, and Animal Growth. Being able to train (or at least cooperate with) giant hippos, felines, dinosaurs or even Rocs(!!) sure helps explain how "uncivilized", primal cultures/beliefs are able to compete with more technological or arcane competitors. I'm guessing if my character can convince a woolly mammoth that a Chelaxian knight is a threat then the fact that they're wearing plate armor just means they pop like a walnut instead of an apple when stomped on. I'm also now really looking forward to your exploration of the Orvian Vaults and their creator species as that was completely new information and the concept sounds fascinating.

  • @TheMythKeeper

    @TheMythKeeper

    6 ай бұрын

    Yeah the Xiomorns and the Orvian vaults are such a cool corner of lore in Pathfinder, that I've been saving them. I actually have a trio of videos planned in the early part of this year that will probably go something like Religion(maybe?) Xiomorns -> Creature Feature: Dungeon Denizens -> Region Deep Dive: The Darklands. Should be a lot of fun.

  • @adli6120
    @adli61206 ай бұрын

    It's always a good day when i find you uploaded a new video. Thank you

  • @TheMythKeeper

    @TheMythKeeper

    6 ай бұрын

    🤘

  • @onogal775
    @onogal7756 ай бұрын

    Amazing! A new video already. Just in time to get me into the mood for the start of our Kingmaker campaign this evening. Thanks a lot, always joy to watch your videos.

  • @TheMythKeeper

    @TheMythKeeper

    6 ай бұрын

    Nice! Also, there's plenty of opportunity to use some big animals in Kingmaker. Hope this is a fun one for you.

  • @Briar7862
    @Briar78626 ай бұрын

    Realm of Mammoth Lords to the Shackles: Oh no you don’t!

  • @Grevnor
    @Grevnor6 ай бұрын

    As an avid paleonerd, one: thank you; and two: dinosaur is actually a terrible name, and the current consensus among paleontologists isn't that birds evolved from dinosaurs, but the frankly mindshattering revelation that birds ARE dinosaurs, they just happened to be the only ones that survive the extinction event. Yes, that crow or bluejay that frequents your backyard is a living, breathing dinosaur. This is a very recent development, and like many dinosaurs being feathered, will probably take a while before it becomes common knowlwdge, so I absolutely don't fault you for not knowing this. And yes, it came as a shock to me too.

  • @TheMythKeeper

    @TheMythKeeper

    6 ай бұрын

    Thanks for sharing! Yeah that's very cool

  • @GabrielAlves-nv2vh

    @GabrielAlves-nv2vh

    6 ай бұрын

    You also could say that birds evolved from dinosaurs in the same manner that a t-rex evolved from dinosaurs (they don't become less dinosaur with time). And the lineage of birds are even older than the t-rex.

  • @trajanfidelis1532
    @trajanfidelis15326 ай бұрын

    Here be giants

  • @koboldlord
    @koboldlord5 ай бұрын

    Ever since I played Skyrim back when it first came out and came across those Mammoths I've been obsessed with the non-dinosaur megafauna. Pathfinder using them so often is something I love about the setting and my homebrew world follows the example witj plenty of megafauna.

  • @TheMythKeeper

    @TheMythKeeper

    5 ай бұрын

    I agree aurochs and megaloceri for the win!

  • @cutterjocky4917
    @cutterjocky49176 ай бұрын

    I'm disappointed you didn't cover the most dangerous of the mega-fauna, the terrifying Dire Rabbit, known for whipping out entire parties of knights with little or no effort.

  • @TheMythKeeper

    @TheMythKeeper

    6 ай бұрын

    Maybe I'll cover that when I do alchemical supplies and discuss the many uses of the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch ;-)

  • @StrangeCreed
    @StrangeCreedАй бұрын

    In 1e, the Dire Bat was actually the most affordable flying mount out there. I know this is a Pathfinder lore channel, but in my homebrew, I wound of fluffing them as massive flying foxes.

  • @TheMythKeeper

    @TheMythKeeper

    Ай бұрын

    Hah! I like this

  • @burningbronze7555
    @burningbronze75556 ай бұрын

    A dimetrodon is not closely related to dinosaurs in any respect they are closer to humans and other mammals as they are of the lineage that gave rise to us.

  • @dummy_vicc2976
    @dummy_vicc29766 ай бұрын

    honestly im surprised that pathfinder included the moa but not poukai/the haast eagle, which is the moas' main predator

  • @TheMythKeeper

    @TheMythKeeper

    6 ай бұрын

    Pretty random, I agree

  • @ericknorskr8568
    @ericknorskr85685 ай бұрын

    binging your videos while playing through WotR again. thank you very much!

  • @TheMythKeeper

    @TheMythKeeper

    5 ай бұрын

    Haha! Awesome, thank you!

  • @phatasticpat5374
    @phatasticpat53746 ай бұрын

    Fantastic video as always. Looking forward to the vault builders and how they tie emerald spire.

  • @levizilla-rf1pm
    @levizilla-rf1pm6 күн бұрын

    I always loved the idea of fantasy including prehistoric animals , I just think its such a great mix I am also currently writing a world where dinosaurs and dragons had a war for millions of years and the funniest thing about this world is that I literally made up an evolution for some fantasy creatures like orcs who in my world are descendants of gorgonopsids . And the great thing I realised while writing is that inspiration comes from EVERYWHERE tI got the whole idea for the world from a video about dinotopia and I even have some aspects that are inspired by pacific rim

  • @gamervox1707
    @gamervox17076 ай бұрын

    Dimetrodon is a protomammal or stem mammal. I hope they fix this.

  • @TheMythKeeper

    @TheMythKeeper

    6 ай бұрын

    I do call out that this is not technically a dino!

  • @vlaandhael

    @vlaandhael

    6 ай бұрын

    @@TheMythKeeper yup, was enough for me!

  • @Rodrigo_Vega

    @Rodrigo_Vega

    6 ай бұрын

    Yea, like it's not even remotely close to a dinosaur. It's more closely related to a Human than to a Spinosaurus. So maybe it would be a better fit in the "mammal megafauna" with the cave bear and Smilodon, even if it comes from an entirely more remote time.

  • @icedragongamemaster6797
    @icedragongamemaster67975 ай бұрын

    The Serpent Skull adventure path has many dinosaurs! I proudly GM it this period.)

  • @TheMythKeeper

    @TheMythKeeper

    5 ай бұрын

    I've also run Serpent's Skull in the past and its a great AP. You're in for some fun.

  • @VenatorStellorum
    @VenatorStellorum6 ай бұрын

    As an aspiring paleontologist, this video is MY JAM

  • @TheMythKeeper

    @TheMythKeeper

    6 ай бұрын

    Haha! Awesome! This was weirdly fun to write up too.

  • @grinningbuck
    @grinningbuck6 ай бұрын

    8:55 Fun fact for Jurassic Park fans: what we see in the movies are actually deinonychuses, not velociraptors! And as always, thanks for sharing, MythKeeper!

  • @EzraeL91

    @EzraeL91

    6 ай бұрын

    Funnier fact: they were too big even for a Deinonychus, for that dinosaur was 1,50m (4'11") tall at best while the JP raptors towered over humans.

  • @pwillet
    @pwillet6 ай бұрын

    Look forward to that vault of Orf (sp?) video, as that sounds like it could be really cool lore.

  • @TheMythKeeper

    @TheMythKeeper

    6 ай бұрын

    Xiomorns & the Vaults of Orv are definitely coming on the not too distant future.

  • @justinjacobs1501
    @justinjacobs15015 ай бұрын

    Fun fact, Dimetrodon is actually more closely related to modern humans than it is to dinosaurs.

  • @cernunnos_lives
    @cernunnos_lives6 ай бұрын

    Our ancestors spent thousands of years trying to tame the world around them. And now we live in a world just dreaming about that lost world. The wild world they had to live in for 300,000 years. I would lose it watching Mammoths and Wholly Rhinos going by.

  • @MrTotalAhole
    @MrTotalAhole6 ай бұрын

    Yes! Dinos!

  • @TheMythKeeper

    @TheMythKeeper

    6 ай бұрын

    🦕🦖

  • @RicardoPM777
    @RicardoPM7774 ай бұрын

    I liked your dinosaur division

  • @TheMythKeeper

    @TheMythKeeper

    4 ай бұрын

    Thank you! Surprisingly fun to write this one

  • @derskalde4973
    @derskalde49734 ай бұрын

    TIL that Dinotopia is basically a canon event on Golarion. Though I wonder how this different Megafauna came to live alongside each other. For example, Dimetrodon was, as far as I can remember, long extinct before even the first dinosaurs showed up, and then the same with the dinos before giant mammals appeared. Did the dinos, and maybe early giant mammals, get "dinotopia-d", while later ones, like mammoths and the stereotypical Ice Age creatures, evolved during the dark times, after the Meteor that killed the Azlanti? Or did they, like, just evolve one after another, and no one cared to inform them, that they should have gone extinct before the new batch arrives? I think, the Image for the Moa is actually a Terrorbird. So what about other prehistoric creatures? Like boar-croc, or that hooved, galloping land crocodile? Or the infamous Vulgaris Magistralis? Is he still around? Does he still cook on een werkende vulkaan? Does he still ride op een mammoet in het rond, en op zondag op een mastodont? XD

  • @TheMythKeeper

    @TheMythKeeper

    4 ай бұрын

    I think it’s the one where no one cared to inform them they should be extinct 😆

  • @OldGreyGryphon
    @OldGreyGryphon6 ай бұрын

    I may have cheered out loud (in the the break room at work no less) when I saw this video. I love prehistoric animals and Pathfinder has an amazing variety! Side note, does anyone else see some strong parallels between the Vaults of Orv and Edger Rice Burroughs “Pellucidar”?

  • @TheMythKeeper

    @TheMythKeeper

    6 ай бұрын

    Absolutely. Both Edger Rice Burroughs "At the Earth's Core" and related books and Jules Verne's "Journey to the Center of the Earth" are both pretty sound source material for the concept of Orv.

  • @davidpotts2299
    @davidpotts2299Ай бұрын

    Nice video thanks

  • @ThudFudgins
    @ThudFudgins5 ай бұрын

    Talk about the drow of Pathfinder!!

  • @TheMythKeeper

    @TheMythKeeper

    5 ай бұрын

    Soon ;-)

  • @ThudFudgins

    @ThudFudgins

    5 ай бұрын

    @@TheMythKeeper ❤️

  • @chrystals.4376
    @chrystals.43766 ай бұрын

    Small criticisms aside, I want a whooly rhino.

  • @gaijin8014
    @gaijin80146 ай бұрын

    When you mentioned Stegosaurus I was hoping you would mention the "Thagomizer" on its tail (names after the Farside comics)

  • @TheMythKeeper

    @TheMythKeeper

    6 ай бұрын

    Haha! Good reference, sorry I missed that ;-)

  • @gaijin8014

    @gaijin8014

    6 ай бұрын

    @@TheMythKeeper All good 👍 If my players ever roll high on a knowledge check they get to listen to one of your deep dives on it. Thank you for everything you do!

  • @CooperativeWaffles
    @CooperativeWaffles6 ай бұрын

    Oversized Bison & Buffalo Dire-Honey Badger

  • @TheMythKeeper

    @TheMythKeeper

    6 ай бұрын

    Dire Honey Badger sounds deadly

  • @RicardoPM777
    @RicardoPM7774 ай бұрын

    👏👏👏

  • @kktallman6257
    @kktallman62576 ай бұрын

    I'm surprised you'd bring up the froghemoth. Considering they're not animals, but abberous extraterrestrial creatures that originally adapted to a volcanic environment.

  • @TheMythKeeper

    @TheMythKeeper

    6 ай бұрын

    Well they have animal-like intelligence (INT score 2) and they're basically big frogs, so I figured this might be a good place to discuss them.

  • @dakotacognion5219
    @dakotacognion52196 ай бұрын

    Please do the Elementals of Pathfinder such common elementals (earth, water, fire, air), gargoyle, genies, salamander and Phoenix.

  • @TheMythKeeper

    @TheMythKeeper

    6 ай бұрын

    I'll do a deeper dive of these as creature features eventually, but in the meantime make sure you check out my Inner Sphere: Elemental Planes video, which has an overall guide to the elemental planes.

  • @tannerdaugherty407
    @tannerdaugherty4076 ай бұрын

    Fun fact not all megafauna are extinct. The North American Moose is considered North Americas last Megafauna. They are horrifying.

  • @TheMythKeeper

    @TheMythKeeper

    6 ай бұрын

    🤣

  • @notalefty999
    @notalefty999Ай бұрын

    I once likened my girlfriend to my favourite variety of megafauna. She took the compliment surprisingly badly.

  • @tylermckay2586
    @tylermckay25865 ай бұрын

    Where does the large map of the Inner Sea region come that you used in the intro? I have been trying to find a high quality map like that for a really long time

  • @TheMythKeeper

    @TheMythKeeper

    5 ай бұрын

    Its the Rob McCaleb high-res one. You'll have to dig around to find it.

  • @SeanSpeer
    @SeanSpeer6 ай бұрын

    FROGHEMOTH.

  • @TheMythKeeper

    @TheMythKeeper

    6 ай бұрын

    Can't go wrong with a big frog!

  • @MusMasi
    @MusMasi6 ай бұрын

    Loved the Video, was a bit distracting though when you were speaking about Moa your showed a picture of a Terror Bird or Phorusrhacid instead. Moa come from New Zealand and survived up until Human Contact over several centuries ago, while Terror Birds are long extinct From the South America that were around the same time as the giant sloths.

  • @TheMythKeeper

    @TheMythKeeper

    6 ай бұрын

    Sorry about that. I think I just liked the art on the bird eating the horse, but that's a good pointer.

  • @MusMasi

    @MusMasi

    6 ай бұрын

    @@TheMythKeeper yeah it is cool art, Its eating an American Mini horse, they went extinct as well.

  • @lawrenceverdekal8551
    @lawrenceverdekal85516 ай бұрын

    Thanks for the great, informative vid and can't for more

  • @TheMythKeeper

    @TheMythKeeper

    6 ай бұрын

    Glad you enjoyed it

  • @angrycup8708
    @angrycup87087 күн бұрын

    A calicotherium is closely related to a horse noth giant ground shloths

  • @TheMythKeeper

    @TheMythKeeper

    6 күн бұрын

    Maybe it just looks like a sloth 😅

  • @angrycup8708

    @angrycup8708

    6 күн бұрын

    @@TheMythKeeper that is correct. They convergently evolved to fill the same niche. The picture you showed was also of a groundsloth and not a calicothere.

  • @RykerDavis123
    @RykerDavis1235 ай бұрын

    Hehe big dino

  • @silvertheelf
    @silvertheelf5 ай бұрын

    I laughed too hard at the plesiosaur section because you just used the same image recolored instead of actual images of the animals. That was hilarious. As a prehistoric life nerd I will hold back the insatiable urge to correct every single error in this video.

  • @TheMythKeeper

    @TheMythKeeper

    5 ай бұрын

    Thank you! Thank you!

  • @burningbronze7555
    @burningbronze75556 ай бұрын

    Chalicotherium are closer to horses and rhinos than sloths because it has to do with how they are born, Chalicotherium also would be most like Earth's giant pandas they when exstics as Earth became even more grass step dominated. they would live very similar to the grounds sloth similar nich and all. sloths are slower to armadillos and anteaters the last parts of strange batch live birthing mammals unrelated to the the other lineage

  • @lightblckknight
    @lightblckknight5 ай бұрын

    What do you have on Qidar?

  • @TheMythKeeper

    @TheMythKeeper

    5 ай бұрын

    I think you mean Qadira? I haven't done that video yet! But its not too far away now.

  • @JamesAdams-nd1td
    @JamesAdams-nd1td6 ай бұрын

    Megafauna are so weird and cool, and I love them. I like that Pathfinder actually gave a reason for why dinosaurs still exist in their world. Mystara kind of has a reason with “aka shoved species into the Hollow World and teleported them to the 9th planet in the solar system to save them,” but that doesn’t explain how or why there’s still mammoths and smilodons on the surface of Mystara. And Eberron, which is my favorite DND world . . . Doesn’t seem to have a reason for why dinosaurs are wondering around and serving as mounts for Halflings.

  • @TheMythKeeper

    @TheMythKeeper

    6 ай бұрын

    The real reason tho: because it's cool!

  • @MusMasi

    @MusMasi

    6 ай бұрын

    Can the reason be that there was no global scale mass extinction? Golarian needs an explaination because they had earth fall.

  • @dmeep
    @dmeep6 ай бұрын

    was this video just a trick to make us learn more about dinosaurs?

  • @TheMythKeeper

    @TheMythKeeper

    6 ай бұрын

    Yes! Please take all the dino facts!

  • @boris_bulletdodger9109
    @boris_bulletdodger91096 ай бұрын

    Positive comment

  • @TheMythKeeper

    @TheMythKeeper

    6 ай бұрын

    Positive reply ;-)

  • @floppa2154
    @floppa21544 ай бұрын

    мне понравилось ! накрутка лайка и комментарий , для алгоритмов ютуба =)