Battlezoo is a series of sourcebooks for Pathfinder 2nd Edition and Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition published by Roll For Combat.
Products published under the Battlezoo label include:
- The Battlezoo Bestiary series, the result of RPG Superstar contests, in which aspiring designers submit their creature ideas to be judged by both professionals and the community.
- The Battlezoo Ancestry series, which allows players to play as unusual monsters.
- Battlezoo Eldamon, which incorporates the Mon genre, including 162 elemental creatures to befriend and 13 different elements to master.
- The world of Alacar, including the World of the Indigo Isles lore book and the Jewels of the Indigo Isles Adventure Path.
This game provides examples of:
- Absurdly Spacious Sewer: The sewers of Farlight were designed to serve a population of one hundred thousand. With no water supply and barely any population to support, many sections are positively pristine. These conditions have made the sewers an enticing home for criminals, fugitives and ghosts.
- Bazaar of the Bizarre: In the Dream Market, a browsing customer can find every manner of oddity with unique and unpredictable effects. Even the bannog merchants who sell them don't always know what they do. Unwary sorts sometimes regret their purchases the next day.
- Equipment Upgrade: The Monster Parts system, introduced in Battlezoo Bestiary, allows equipment to be upgraded using pieces from defeated foes.
- Hellhole Prison: The dungeons of Kraken underneath Seawall are said to be unpleasant: leaky, with occasional outbreaks of green slime.
- Hungry Jungle:
- The Drowned Jungle is a forbidding and dense rainforest subject to frequent, intense downpours and filled with dangerous creatures.
- Mosquito swarms fill the air in the Shivering Jungle, spreading malaria and other fevers, while the swamp waters sometimes carry cholera. The challenge of surviving its dangers is what makes the place feel like home for the native xotlxotl.
- Introduced Species Calamity: Lake Ookakauoo, which has a unique ecosystem and is home to delicious basket clams not found anywhere else, has recently been subject to invasive reefclaws introduced by trading ships from other islands. They both aggressively hunt local species and damage plants that prevent additional saltwater intrusion into the lake.
- Mon: Eldamon are ancient creatures slightly out of phase with reality that like to meld into items, creatures and locations. Anyone can befriend eldamon and have them fight mock duels, but only the eldamon trainer class can phase them into our world in order to use them in combat. Through hard work and deep bonding, eldamon trainers can entice their eldamon to evolve.
- Non-Indicative Name: The original explorers of Goldcrop Island found the waters of Barnacle Bay calm, delightful, rich with coral, fish and sand. They gave the inlet its relatively unpleasant name in an attempt to dissuade others from coming to their private paradise, but this didn't work. Similarly, there are no small, colourful birds to be seen from the top of the Canary Cliffs.
- No OSHA Compliance: As Willerm's funds dwindled during Farlight's construction, he cut quite a few corners. Safety standards were relaxed, and numerous workers died in accidents. Quite a few Farlight houses have a skeleton in the closet, the foundation or the cistern. Over the years, angry spirits have arisen.
- The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: The Indigo Isles has a trend of cosmetic piracy, with performative adventuring pirates acting as rakish romantic heroes. Various pirates are famous, respected and even considered trendy in the Indigo Isles. Many children grow up dreaming of becoming pirates rather than being forced into piracy only in the worst of circumstances.
- Ship Out of Water: The wreck of Jenna's Love is not off the coastline, but lies miles inland. No one knows how the wreck wound up in its present location, impaled upon a massive dead cypress.
- Taken for Granite: The Palm is a towering, oversized palm tree that has somehow been transformed into shale rock. Radiating necromantic energy, it corrupts nearby creatures into undead thralls crusted with shale rock.
- Wrong Side of the Tracks: To call the Claw Quarter of Rumplank rough and tumble would certainly be putting it gently. In what is arguably Rumplank's most dangerous district, the unwary pedestrian is as likely to be pickpocketed by thieving children as they are to run afoul of territorial pirate gangs. Confidence artists, false priests and charlatans dot every corner along the filthy, winding streets.
