* A race of Cyclops with Oracular powers, where have we [[Film/{{Krull}} heard that before?]]
* Lord Gyr of Gixx, continuing a fine D&D tradition of characters with names that sound a bit like Creator/GaryGygax. His friend-turned-rival, Lord Avid Arnsen, is named for D&D co-creator Dave Arneson.
* The illustration for the Cacodaemon, and even the name for the flying toothy maw of an orb outsider is one for ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}''.
** Which were themselves based on Jeff Easely's art of the Astral Dreadnought for 1987's ''Manual of the Planes'' for AD&D.
* [[Webcomic/PennyArcade Deep crows]] dwell in the dark places within the earth.
* One adventure, ''[[Film/EscapeFromNewYork Escape from Old Korvosa]]'', has a crate used to ship a [[Film/{{Braindead}} rat-monkey from S. Island.]] And speaking of "S. Island", [[Film/KingKong the Megaprimatus Ape]] was included in ''Bestiary 5''.
* A.E. van Vogt's estate loaned Creator/{{Paizo}} limited use of the coeurl (AKA the "original tentacle kitty", which inspired ''D&D'''s displacer beast).
* ''Skeletons of Scarwall'''s introduction starts with [[VideoGame/CastlevaniaIISimonsQuest "What A Horrible Night To Have A Curse."]]
* ''Children of the Void'' introduces two types of alien monsters, the parasitic akatas and the plantlike moonflowers. The former are inspired by the Xenomorphs from the ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' movies, while the moonflowers take their inspiration from ''Literature/TheDayOfTheTriffids'' and ''Theatre/LittleShopOfHorrors''.
* The cover of Seeker of Secrets features an adventurer engaging in the industry-wide gag of pulling ruby eyes out of grinning idols as a tribute to one of the first ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' covers.
* The campaign setting timeline mentions that a large forest was trampled by "[[Film/{{Ghostbusters 1984}} the Slor]]".
* ''Classic Horrors Revisited'' tells us that gargoyles' appearance adapts to their environment over time. One particular tribe has been living in a graveyard so long that they look like angel statues, and they've picked up a curse that [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E10Blink causes them to freeze into immobility when anyone looks at them]]. Just don't bli--
* Bestiary 6 introduced the Unrisen, a monstrous undead formed from botched resurrection magic. Its origin, plus its habit of being reduced to basic alchemical ingredients when killed, brings to mind the human transmutation scene from ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist''.
* The monster designs in ''Bestiary II'' are loaded with shout-outs. Obvious examples are the Arbiter (a legless [[TabletopGame/{{Planescape}} Modron]]), Cacodaemon (a miniature of the VideoGame/{{Doom}} version), and Soulbound Doll (the Zuni fetish from ''Film/TrilogyOfTerror'' and the Maidens from ''Manga/RozenMaiden'').
* One of the monsters in the first book of the ''Carrion Crown'' Adventure Path is a disembodied floating head, the most powerful of which is [[Franchise/{{Castlevania}} a flying medusa head, which can temporarily petrify those it bites]]. It even has Flyby Attack as a bonus feat.
** To drive the point home, the beginning of the article features a picture of [[MagicKnight Seltyiel]] fighting a group of medusa heads...in a ClockTower.
* The basic alchemist class is inspired by ''Literature/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde''. The vivisectionist archetype of the class is very clearly inspired by on ''Literature/TheIslandOfDoctorMoreau'', while the reanimator archetype is based on ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}'' by Mary Shelley and ''Literature/HerbertWestReanimator'' by Creator/HPLovecraft. The perfumer seems to be inspired by ''[[Literature/{{Perfume}} Perfume: The Story of a Murderer]]''.
** One well-known organization of alchemic lore is Ustlalav's Sincomakti School, an anagram of Lovecraft's Miskatonic University.
* Speaking of Lovecraft, Creator/{{Paizo}}'s gone beyond the subtlety of the ShoutOut and directly printed in ''several'' of their materials just how wicked sweet and totally awesome the Franchise/CthulhuMythos is, and by the way you should check out Creator/{{Chaosium}}'s ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'' game. The most explicit examples include:
** The adventures ''Carrion Hill'' and ''Wake of the Watcher'', inspired primarily by "Literature/TheDunwichHorror" and "Literature/TheShadowOverInnsmouth" respectively.
** ''Wake of the Watcher'' also features a full article on the Great Old Ones, including rules for worshipping them, and stats for Literature/{{the Colour Out of Space}}, [[Literature/AtTheMountainsOfMadness Elder Things]], [[Literature/TheWhispererInDarkness Mi-Go]], and Spawn of Shub-Niggurath. As both a capstone reference and campaign-ending encounter, ''Wake of the Watcher'' includes stats for a Star-Spawn of Cthulhu.
** The first ''Bestiary'' features the Shoggoths, as well as Ghouls and Ghasts (which existed in ''D&D'' since the beginning but have been modeled after Lovecraft's versions for ''Pathfinder''). Likewise, the Skum is a preexisting ''D&D'' monster that's been retrofitted into a stand-in for Lovecraft's Deep Ones (as well as ''D&D'''s Kuo-Toa, which are not open source).
** ''Bestiary 2'' features Gugs, the Denizens of Leng, the Spiders of Leng, Literature/TheHoundsOfTindalos, Serpentfolk, and the Worm That Walks.
** ''Bestiary 3'' features [[Literature/TheShadowOutOfTime the Great Race of Yith]], Vooniths, and Zoogs.
** ''Faiths of Corruption'' includes cults of the Great Old Ones.
** ''The Great Beyond'' includes blurbs on Lovecraft's Dreamlands (here called the Dimension of Dream) and Plateau of Leng as places dimension-traveling [=PCs=] can visit. The city of [[Literature/TheDreamQuestOfUnknownKadath Unknown Kadath]] has been mentioned in Creator/{{Paizo}} products once or twice.
** ''Into the Nightmare Rift'' includes a gazetteer of Leng and stats for some of Lovecraft's more fantasy-oriented creatures, such as the Nightgaunt.
** ''Bestiary 4'' gives us the Colour Out of Space, Dagon, and finally features Bokrug, Hastur, and Cthulhu.
** ''Bestiary 5'' finally includes actual Deep Ones and Lovecraftian Ghouls rather than the aforementioned analogues of them.
** ''Strange Aeons'' is a full-length campaign of Lovecraftian horrors, the result of a 'special agreement' between Creator/{{Paizo}} and Creator/{{Chaosium}}.
* The sourcebook for Andoran mentions some of its smaller but notable communities, including the towns of [[Manga/GunslingerGirl Claes and Triela]].
* The Ultimate Combat sourcebook features a character archetype for Fighters: The Dragoon. [[Franchise/FinalFantasy A spear specialist who eventually gets a leaping attack]].
* Two of the peaks in the Five Kings Mountains are named Mounts [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Langley and Soryu]].
* The sourcebook ''Princes of Darkness'', focusing on using devils in a campaign, features a magic item called a ''bilious talisman'', which strongly resembles the Behelit from ''{{Manga/Berserk}}''.
* One reference liable to go over the heads of modern gamers - the Holy Gun archetype in ''Ultimate Combat'' gains firearm-using feats from a class feature called [[Series/HaveGunWillTravel Have Gun]]. If you couldn't guess, this is for a variant paladin.
* The Kellid and Shoanti human ethnicities are strongly inspired by the Cimmerians and Picts, respectively, from Creator/RobertEHoward's mythos. (The Shoanti have a little [[BraidsBeadsAndBuckskins Native American]] thrown in... but then, so did Howard's Picts.)
* There are several different kinds of gremlin in ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'', but one in particular, the jinkin, is based on the movie ''Film/{{Gremlins}}''.
* The underwater "gillmen" are a clear ShoutOut to the Atlanteans of [[Creator/MarvelComics Marvel]] and Creator/DCComics, like the ComicBook/SubMariner (on whom their illustration is strongly based) and ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}.
* The [[MagicKnight Magus]] class has an alternate class feature called "Bladebound," in which the Magus wields a "black blade," an EmpathicWeapon that can [[LifeDrinker drain the life from others to heal the wielder]] and has a mind of its own that can [[ArtifactOfDoom try to take over the wielder's mind]]. [[Literature/TheElricSaga Elric of Melnibone]] can sympathize.
* The red planet of Akiton (initially mentioned in ''Children of the Void'' and further detailed in ''Distant Worlds''), with its giant four-armed warriors, is clearly an homage to Creator/EdgarRiceBurroughs's ''Literature/JohnCarterOfMars'' novels.
** On the other hand, the "Green Planet", Castrovel, is based on Venus as portrayed by another 1920s sci-fi writer, [[http://www.erbzine.com/mag15/1514.html Ralph Milne Farley]], in ''The Radio Man'' and its sequels. The Lashunta (psychic humanoids with antennae) are inspired by Farley's "Cupians", while the Formians (a race of giant telepathic ant-people) are lifted wholesale.[[note]]The Formians already had a history in ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' going back to ''TabletopGame/{{Planescape}}'', but Creator/{{TSR}}[=/=]Creator/{{Wizards|OfTheCoast}} only borrowed the name and basic appearance of Farley's Formians, not the connection to Venus.[[/note]]
* [[http://pathfinderwiki.com/wiki/File:Antipaladin.jpg The antipaladin]] appears to be wielding [[VideoGame/{{Warcraft}} Frostmourne]].
** Rougarous, a playable race of shapeshifting wolf-people who [[IAmNotWeasel are not werewolves]], strongly resemble [[VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft worgen]] in their default form.
* The "thin man" from ''Inner Sea Bestiary''--a ghostly creature that always stays just beyond the reach of light--was inspired by [[Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos the Slender Man]]. The end result (a fanged monster) came out very different from Slendy, but it functions basically the same.
* Sorshen, the Runelord of Lust, was named after Sorsha from ''Film/{{Willow}}''.
* ''Bestiary 2'' has stats for the [[Literature/AliceInWonderland Jabberwock]], and ''Bestiary 3'' includes the Bandersnatch (which can be Frumious) and Jubjub Bird.
* The Kytons, previously just a species of chain wrapped devil, have been expanded into a whole fiendish faction of [[Franchise/{{Hellraiser}} Cenobites]].
* A spell in the ''Dungeoneer's Handbook'' lets you conjure a [[VideoGame/SuperMarioBros3 Thwomp]]
* The first part of the ''Serpent's Skull'' Adventure Path is prefaced with "[[Series/GilligansIsland A Tale of a Fateful Trip]]". Naturally, it begins with the [=PCs=] becoming castaways.
* One of the Wondrous Items in the Ultimate Equipment book is a [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog Chaos Emerald]].
* [[http://paizo.com/image/product/secondary/Pathfinder/Pathfinder1_Fighter.jpg Valeros]] has more than a little in common with {{Film/Willow}}'s [[http://24.media.tumblr.com/337de4cd735080ed0319c3dc321e6903/tumblr_mksfzglAxK1s3bfv5o1_500.jpg Madmartigan]].
* The nation of Brevoy is one big ShoutOut to A Song of Ice and Fire.
* The Azruverda, a bizarre human-faced beetle from ''Bestiary 3'', was inspired by the "Arthroverta", a similar monster from ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaOrderOfEcclesia''.
* The Xenopterids, human-imitating predatory insects from ''Bestiary 4'', share more than a little in common with the Judas Breed from ''Film/{{Mimic}}''.
* The Clockwork Mage from ''Bestiary 4'' looks virtually identical to the Evil Wizard Construct of the Modrons from ''VideoGame/PlanescapeTorment''.
* The demon lord Pazuzu, already based on a real world Babylonian demon, is given an additional nod to his role in ''Film/TheExorcist''; of all demons, he is the most fond of DemonicPossession.
* ''Classic Treasures Revisited'' has a chapter on the Sphere of Annihilation. It features an illustration of one...inside the mouth of a statue depicting a green devil. Anyone who has ever played TabletopGame/TombOfHorrors no doubt suffered a nasty flashback upon seeing that.
* The performance of an undine-specific bard archetype "[[MakingASplash controls]] [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender water, bending]] and shaping it to his desire."
* The background text for the froghemoth in the ''Bestiary'' describes it as seemingly uncomfortable wherever it finds itself, as if nowhere in the world was its true home. This refers to the monster's origins as an alien life form inside the gigantic spaceship at the heart of the classic ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' module S3, ''Expedition To The Barrier Peaks''.
** ''Expedition to the Barrier Peaks'' is also referenced by one of the early adventures in the Iron Gods adventure path, which consists of dungeon-crawling through a spaceship and fighting vegepygmies and deadly mould.
* The Shield Champion Brawler archetype in the Advanced Class Guide pretty much is there for everyone who ever wanted to make [[ComicBook/CaptainAmerica Captain Andora- er, America]].
* One blog post on the website gets recursive: The article, talking about gaming minis, has a link in the title leading to another announcement about a the release of a large Blue Dragon mini. The title? "[[Webcomic/PennyArcade To Saaaaand!]]"
* Everything about the Swashbuckler class.
** The Inspired Blade focuses entirely on the Rapier, the preferred weapon of every character [[Creator/ErrolFlynn portrayed by the actor on whom the entire Swashbuckler class is based]].
** The Mysterious Avenger archetype is the ''Literature/TheScarletPimpernel''
** The Mouser would look [[Literature/FafhrdAndTheGrayMouser best in grey]]
** The [[Literature/TheThreeMusketeers Musketeer]]... yeah, it's just obvious.
* The Investigator Class has an ability called [[AwesomenessByAnalysis Studied Combat]]. You spend a Move Action to analyze your enemy, and get bonus on Attack and Damage rolls equal to your Intelligence modifier against that enemy. [[Film/SherlockHolmes2009 Sounds a bit familiar, doesn't it]]?
* Two of the guns statted in the The Technology Guide are light and heavy variations of the [[VideoGame/HalfLife2 Gravity Gun]].
** In addition, on page 30 of The Technology Guide, there are stats for an [[VideoGame/HalfLife HEV Suit]].
* The Gunslinger class has an archetype for a gambling gunslinger called Series/{{Maverick}}.
* The Ninja class from Ultimate Combat has a ninja trick called [[{{Anime/Naruto}} Shadow Clone]]
* ''Advanced Class Origins'' features a magical hat that boosts the abilities of the [[GreatDetective Investigator]] class. Naturally, it is a [[Franchise/SherlockHolmes deerstalker]].
* ''Bestiary 2'' has a stat block for the [[Literature/MobyDick great white whale]]
* The armored centaurs on the cover of ''Cheliax: Empire of Devils'' and in the ''Advanced Race Guide'' are nods to the first boss of ''VideoGame/{{Actraiser}}'', which editor-in-chief F. Wesley Schneider is a fan of.
* ''Bestiary 4's'' rukh is clearly inspired by the [[GiantFlyer roc]] in {{Creator/Ray Harryhausen}}'s ''Film/The7thVoyageOfSinbad''. The same book also has the bodythief, a giant intelligent plant alien that creates emotionless beings as replacements to humans. [[Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers Sounds familiar?]]
* One of the ''Occult Adventures'' iconics is Meligaster, Mel for short, who is the [[Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick evil brother of the iconic bard, Lem.]]
* The Kineticist was already dancing close to this, but the Elemental Ascetic archetype completely crosses the line: it's a non-spellcaster who uses elemental spell-like abilities, based on one of the 4 classical elements (Water, Earth, Fire, and Air), [[Franchise/AvatarTheLastAirbender by doing kung-fu]] [[WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra at their opponent]] (complete with gaining Improved Unarmed Strike and Flurry of Blows). Double points for potentially learning to use all 4 elements together by lv20.
** Another Archetype is the Blood Kineticist, which manipulates the enemy's blood, causing them extreme pain, up to and including using the opponent's blood to actually pick them up and throw them! The kicker: [[{{Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderThePuppetmaster}} You have to be a Water Kineticist to be this archetype]].
* Several Artifacts and Cursed Items in the Occult Adventures book are taken from Sci-Fi and Horror works:
** The Primordial Symbol is the [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Elder Sign]], almost identical to how Lovecraft drew it.
** The Soul Portrait is ''Literature/ThePictureOfDorianGray'', down to the method of how Gray destroyed the painting.
** Literature/TheMonkeysPaw is... [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin exactly that]].
** Portal Gates are [[Franchise/StargateVerse Stargates]]
** The Maniac Hand is pretty much exactly the possessed hand from IdleHands.
* In ''Bestiary 4'', they introduced a monster called the Yaoguai. The creature is described as MixAndMatchCritters made through evil wizardry [[note]] Yaoguai is actually the Chinese word for demon with {{Yokai}} being its Japanese derivative and many appearing in ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest''.[[/note]]. The illustration shows [[VideoGame/FallOut3 a bear-like mutant]]
* ''Bestiary 4'' also has the Immortal Ichor, the blood of an evil deity bound into a capsule, known to occasionally leak out and possess humanoids in an effort to break the seals binding it in place. Sounds a hell of a lot like ''Film/PrinceOfDarkness''.
* ''Bestiary 4'' has a section on {{Kaiju}}, including an obvious Franchise/{{Godzilla}} {{Expy}} and a GiantFlyer that's a cross between Film/{{Rodan}} and [[Film/GhidorahTheThreeHeadedMonster King Ghidorah]].
* Lazzero Dalvera, the Iconic Evil Cleric from the ''Hell's Vengeance Adventure Path'' has a mace that looks exactly like the [[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion Oblivion steel mace]], only black and spikier.
* Occult Bestiary introduces the mnemor devil, a [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E1TheImpossibleAstronaut pale-faced horror that can slip out of your frame of reference if you lose eye contact with it.]]
* ''Blood of Shadows'' includes an item called the "Rod of Delumination" which functions exactly like Albus Dumbledore's Deluminator from Literature/HarryPotter.
* The [[RatMen Ratfolk]] Sage, listed as an NPC in the Monster Codex, looks an awful lot like [[WesternAnimation/TheSecretOfNIMH Nicodemus]] in the illustration.
* The Vigilante class introduced in ''Ultimate Intrigue'' takes obvious cues from Franchise/{{Batman}} and his progenitor Franchise/{{Zorro}}, but there are also archetypes that ape ComicBook/SpiderMan, ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk, and even Franchise/SailorMoon. [[https://www.deviantart.com/konstantin-vavilov/art/Magical-Girl-602949524 The example art]] for the [[MagicalGirl Magical Child]] archetype specifically bears a resemblance to [[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica Homura Akemi]].
* Larsa, a Ustalav dhampir vampire hunter, bears a striking resemblance to another well known [[Literature/VampireHunterD Vampire Hunter dressed all in black, wielding a longsword]]. The only difference is that this one is female and probably doesn't have a talking hand.
* ''Horror Adventures'' has a hazard called "Sour Ground" that more or less perfectly imitates the undead producing burial ground seen in ''Literature/PetSematary''. That book even described the cause of the reanimation as "The ground is sour."
* The outsiders known as Proteans are thematically related to the slaadi from ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', as the voices of chaos, but their serpentine appearance is connected to the "Chaoskampf" motif in mythology, in which serpent/dragon monsters serve as a symbolic force of Chaos for the order-affiliated hero to destroy - Illuyanka, Azhi Dahaka, the Yamato no Orochi, Typhon and Jormungandr, for example.
* Rovagug's alternate title, [[RedBaron The Rough Beast]], is a direct reference to Literature/TheSecondComing.
* The ''Book of the Damned'' supplemental book released a new Oni Daimyo named Akuma, whose favored is the unarmed fist and focuses on honor and martial arts. [[Characters/StreetFighterIIUpdatedVersions Sound familiar?]]
** Additionally, Folca is essentially Pathfinder's version of [[Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos the Slender Man]], complete with child kidnapping.
* ''Planar Adventures'' features a rogue archetype known as the Dreamthief, which gets a phantom equivalent instead of sneak attack and has the ability to sneak into people's dreamscapes, stealing dreamers' deepest emotions in ways that can change them radically. [[VideoGame/Persona5 You'll never see them coming...]]
* Some spells and their materials components contain shout outs in their own:
** The text for Snapdragon Fireworks states they're [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings very popular at halfling's midsummer festivals]].
** Conjure Carriage requires [[{{WesternAnimation/Cinderella}} a gourd]]
** The Focus needed for Detect Thoughts is a copper piece. A literal penny for your thoughts.
*** That one goes back to 1e [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons AD&D]], however.
** The material component for Passwall is sesame seeds. [[Literature/AliBabaAndTheFortyThieves Open sesame!]]
** The spell Deflection, which can bounce attacks back to the attacker, has a material component of a piece of rubber and some glue. ''I am rubber, you are glue.''
* The Psychometabolic Corruption, which grants PsychicPowers at the cost of SanitySlippage and eventual BodyHorror meltdown, is a shout-out to ''Manga/{{AKIRA}}''.
* While every BlobMonster in tabletop gaming history no doubt owes something to [[{{Film/TheBlob1958}} The Blob]], the Carnivorous Blob in particular is a clear reference, with its pinkish coloration and vulnerability to cold.
* The seaweed siren - a bulbous crab-like thing with three human heads on serpentine necks - may seem like [[OurMonstersAreWeird another case of bored game designers running out of ideas]] unless you've watched [[WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987 a certain classic Disney cartoon]]...
-->'''[[https://wesschneider.tumblr.com/post/77622797995/mordicaifeed-open-your-eyes-me-hearties-and F. Wesley Schneider.]]''' When I ordered this art for the Skull & Shackles AP. I TOTALLY wasn’t...“inspired” by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fvmzc5siEpk a monster from DuckTales.]] NOPE! Not At All. :D
* Bestiary 6 has a monster called a conqueror worm (a high level monster which is a really big sentient worm that can [[ScamReligion grant spells like a god and usually has a cult following.)]] The name comes from a poem by ''Creator/EdgarAllanPoe'', but in the poem it's meant more as a metaphor than a real creature.
** Speaking of Poe, the special abilities of the Psychopomp Usher [[https://aonprd.com/MonsterDisplay.aspx?ItemName=Barzahk Barzahk]] all reference Literature/TheRaven.
* Bestiary 5 includes stats for an undead GrimReaper. The lore accompanying the bestiary entry suggests that while the exact number of Grim Reapers in the multiverse is unknown, [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings there may be as many as nine.]]
* Beat of Newt Prevention does what it says on the tin. Very much a Shout Out to ''Film/MontyPythonandTheHolyGrail''.
* The 2E gamemastery guide includes as sample cursed items the Singing Sword and Boots of Dancing. While they have [[Creator/HansChristianAndersen some precedent]], the presence of both is likely a nod to the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' shorts "WesternAnimation/KnightyKnightBugs'' and "The Wearing of the Grin", respectively.
* The 2E supplement ''Guns and Gears'' features an item called a Clockwork Castle which can walk around on a bunch of spider legs. While they're not actually that big, the FlavorText mentions that [[Anime/HowlsMovingCastle there might be a much more massive one out there, and that it might be an artifact in its own right]].
* The city of Halgrim in the Land of the Linnorm Kings is linked together by seven bridges. It's said that anyone who can find a walking path through the city that crosses each bridge only once will be granted a position of great power by the ruler. This is a reference to the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Bridges_of_K%C3%B6nigsberg Seven Bridges of Konigsberg]] and famed mathematician Leonhard Euler. A careful analysis shows that Euler's solution to the bridges in Konigsberg applies to Halgrim as well.
* The states of Nirmathas and Molthune are essentially going through the Vietnam War. After the collapse of the imperial power they controlled them they suffered an acrimonious split along sociopolitical lines. The conflict is now an intractable quagmire fought mainly in thick forest with experienced but underequipped guerillas on one side and well supplied but inexperienced soldiers on the other. Meanwhile both are quietly supported by other more powerful nations.
* One of the Investigator's new feats, letting them retry a failed social skill check once per day per target, is called Just One More Thing after [[Series/{{Columbo}} Lieutenant Columbo's catchphrase]]. Its actual, mechanical effect is even identical to how Columbo uses it - catching a suspect off-guard with a piece of information or a quip to get more out of them.
* The 2E ''Bestiary 2'' entry on Grendel says that he attacks out of [[StrawNihilist a nihilistic desire]] to prove that the works of mortals will fail and all things will pass away. This wasn't a trait he had in ''Literature/{{Beowulf}}'', but it's the basis of his philosophy in ''Literature/{{Grendel}}'' by John Gardner.
* In 2E's ''GM Core'', the entry on the Firebrands faction describes them engaging in [[VideoGame/DarkSouls jolly cooperation]] with like-minded heroes.
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