Pathfinder 2E Is it time for a new Pathfinder Setting?

[teitan]

Ah hell, I always forget Ravnica. I shouldn't have forgotten Wildemount, either.

Right? best 5e book in my opinion

 

[teitan]

I hope not because I just started getting into Golarion with the Lost Omens books and like that it literally has everything without feeling like a kitchen sink setting or trying to be weird or "different". The gimmick is the quality. I don't like that they are thin hardcovers when the first two and the second two could have been two $50 hardcovers but them's the breaks and with Amazon it amounts to $50 anyway. Our FLGS doesn't carry Pathfinder, being a miniatures, Magic & second hand Video Game store they just have the core book and bestiary. ALso have a Books A Million membership and have gotten some of them super, duper cheap.

 

[MaskedGuy]

Paizo's core philosophy seems to be really focused on belief that one of reasons TSR went bankrupt was that they competed with themselves with different settings.

So I don't really seem them introducing completely new setting and they don't really need to either since Golarion is kitchen sink "you can run any sort of game" setting. Only thing they really need to do is to introduce new country on another continent and they add another genre to the mix.

 

[willrali]

I'm excited about Abomination Vaults, but I hope in general they continue making shorter adventure paths so they can reach more playstyles and interests.

Playing through Abomination Vaults right now. It's very good.

 

[TiwazTyrsfist]

I wouldn't want a fully separate additional setting for Pathfinder (as Greyhawk, Forgotten Realms, and Eberron are Separate), but I WOULD enjoy more regional settings like they're doing with Mwangi Expanse, and even a more thorough and full setting guide for some of the other planets that have made appearances in PF1.

Honestly, I REALLY REALLY wish that PF2 and Starfinder were fully compatible systems. But oh well.

 

[Retreater]

Playing through Abomination Vaults right now. It's very good.

I'm hand crafting it into Roll20 as an exercise in trying to learn the system and challenge myself. Looks like a good one though I don't know when I'd realistically get a chance to run it.
That's me. Just doing a bunch of unnecessary prep. Haha

 

[Thomas Shey]

The one issue I can see is the mechanical support come across as sub-standard compared to Golarian because of all the support for various cultural structures in both Backgrounds and Archetypes, unless they did some considerable heavy lifting there.

 

[Staffan]

So is FR, but some people still want something different.

FR is significantly more... I guess "coherent" is as good a word as any. Forgotten Realms has a core region that's pretty much "standard D&D", basically the north-west corner of Faerûn (the Vast, Cormyr, Sembia, the Dalelands, the Moonsea, the Dragon Coast, and the Sword Coast (previously known as the Western Heartlands and the Savage North)). Beyond that, you have some outlying regions that do different things, like Mulhorand. But each country in Golarion is basically its own little sub-genre — gothic horror in Ustalav, vikings in the Land of the Linnorm Kings, wild eternal revolution in Galt, and so on. That's pretty different from the Forgotten Realms.

I don't think Golarion is Paizo's equivalent of the Forgotten Realms. It's their equivalent of Mystara.

 

[Zardnaar]

FR is significantly more... I guess "coherent" is as good a word as any. Forgotten Realms has a core region that's pretty much "standard D&D", basically the north-west corner of Faerûn (the Vast, Cormyr, Sembia, the Dalelands, the Moonsea, the Dragon Coast, and the Sword Coast (previously known as the Western Heartlands and the Savage North)). Beyond that, you have some outlying regions that do different things, like Mulhorand. But each country in Golarion is basically its own little sub-genre — gothic horror in Ustalav, vikings in the Land of the Linnorm Kings, wild eternal revolution in Galt, and so on. That's pretty different from the Forgotten Realms.

I don't think Golarion is Paizo's equivalent of the Forgotten Realms. It's their equivalent of Mystara.

Goodwayof putting it.

 

[Aldarc]

FR is significantly more... I guess "coherent" is as good a word as any. Forgotten Realms has a core region that's pretty much "standard D&D", basically the north-west corner of Faerûn (the Vast, Cormyr, Sembia, the Dalelands, the Moonsea, the Dragon Coast, and the Sword Coast (previously known as the Western Heartlands and the Savage North)). Beyond that, you have some outlying regions that do different things, like Mulhorand. But each country in Golarion is basically its own little sub-genre — gothic horror in Ustalav, vikings in the Land of the Linnorm Kings, wild eternal revolution in Galt, and so on. That's pretty different from the Forgotten Realms.

I don't think Golarion is Paizo's equivalent of the Forgotten Realms. It's their equivalent of Mystara.

I think that this cohesion has been added as part of Pathfinder 2, particularly the Lost Omens Guide. So much like FR, Golarion has been thematically grouped into regions: e.g., Saga Lands, Eye of Dread, Old Cheliax, Shining Kingdoms, Broken Lands, etc.