I'd compare it more to Greyhawk than Forgotten Realms... But I also wouldn't say Greyhawk and Forgotten Realms are super alike.
D&D General Kitchen sink setting or narrow genre focus for long-running campaigns (2,5,10+ years)
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Zardnaar
Legend
Well the key difference is GH gas a NG sun god named Pelor. From has a NG sun god named Lathander while Golarion has a NG sun god erm nevermind.
GH death god is NE Named Nerull while FR original one was Myrkul who is NE and ... erm nevermind.
Golarion does lean a bit more towards GH.
payn
Glory to Marik
The APs are like a slice of the Golarion pie. If you want the whole thing you need to go PFS.
You think the primary difference is the names of the gods? I mean, that's a difference but it's a difference that every string has.. I really wouldn't call those the key differences
Tonguez
A suffusion of yellow
I'd say Golarion is Modernized Greyhawk (low magic grit) with FR uber-kitchen sink style (and a dash of pulp horror)
Nothing, its a spiritual successor to 3.5 Living Greyhawk by design
Paul Farquhar
Legend
Names of gods, countries, towns, cities, geographical features, important personages etc.You think the primary difference is the names of the gods? I mean, that's a difference but it's a difference that every string has.. I really wouldn't call those the key differences
But it’s not different at a fundamental level to FR and GH that it was based on.
Zardnaar
Legend
Pretty much. It has some advantages.
1. Its executed well.
2. Its available and Greyhawk has been more or less dead for decades.
3. Hasn't been blown up as much as FR (not sure about PF2).
EzekielRaiden
Follower of the Way
In my experience, whether a campaign is breadth-first or depth-first is not super important for campaign longevity. Instead, the two things that are the most important, by a country mile, are GM investment in the premise, and GM desire to cooperate with and riff off of their players. An invested, excited GM can make many things work that seem like they shouldn't, while a GM who is only casually engaged may struggle to make something work even if it seems like it should be easy. Enthusiasm matters a ton. And, again IME, desire to cooperate with and riff off of players is the single most important thing for building and maintaining player enthusiasm.
EzekielRaiden
Follower of the Way
The irony is that Starfinder straight up erased the planet. Completely. Golarion is gone, and nobody knows what happened, where it went, or whether it could potentially be restored. (Indeed, nobody remembers anything for a period of several centuries surrounding Golarion's disappearance.) Anything at the level of gods--meaning, those who should be able to resist memory-erasure effects--refuses to give any information at all, other than that Golarion still exists, somewhere.
For all the blowing-up the Realms have gotten, they've never been outright deleted.
Zardnaar
Legend
Never played Starfinder.
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