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Pathfinder Compendium - Bestiary: What is the difference once I own the Pathfinder RPG Bestiary?

With the recent changes to the official Pathfinder Character Sheet I'm loving it and I want to get the most out of it. I'm the DM in my group so I noticed that you can drag and drop most stuff from the Compendium which is nice. I tried drag & dropping Monsters from the Bestiary which for me is an awesome feature, but it seems that the Bestiary is somewhat locked unless you buy the Pathfinder RPG Bestiary. When I drag a monster to the table it has the default blank token, it's bars don't get filled with any values, special attacks, spelllike abilities and spells aren't clickable but melee and ranged attacks are. I'm guessing that this is how it should be after searching through the Forums, reddits and wikis. It's not officially stated anywhere(at least I didn't find it) that some of the features like tokens for the monsters, clickable special abilites or the auto filling of the HP Bar(which you seemingly can set in the game settings) aren't enabled in the free version(or maybe implemented, I don't know). So my big question is: What would change if I bought the Bestiary? I would love if someone could highlight the differences (if possible with gifs) and add it to the official pathfinder sheet wiki.
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DarkDeer
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Hi K.G. While I don't have any gifs for you, I can show you an example of a Bestiary monster: Lamia For starters, this is what you see on the Bestiary version when you first pull out the token A token and an image are nice, but here's where it gets very good: All attacks, spells, and anything else that needs a roll gets a roll ready to go in the sheet.  I like to think about it as a time saver for GM's. You can go do all of this yourself, but if you'd like it done for you each time, the product is there to purchase.  Happy gaming! :)
Thanks a lot, this was exactly the info I was looking for. This looks like a huge time saver.