Pathfinder 1E Golarion - A Gamer's World

[EATherrian]

To me, Eberron was fresh. Pathfinder, while good and I will be using it for a new game I am starting, is the same old same old.

I see Eberron as an interesting setting, but it doesn't seem that the DM can really do much with it. At least with Golarion there are enough different types of areas that I feel I can do my own thing.

 

[EATherrian]

You know, i don´t have a horse in this race, but... isn´t "contains references to the Realms, to Greyhawk, to classic modules" pretty much the counterpoint to "fresh"?

Just saying.

Maybe it's fresh in that it is moving past the deconstructing phase that Eberron was representing. Golarion is distilling the essence of many classical settings into one, and I think that it's needed now more than ever.

 

[sckeener]

It seems like it's been well-received so far but I wonder how much people are going to buy into the setting. Paizo seems to be releasing things at a break-neck pace.

I am liking Golarion. It some how captured my youth and sold it to me.

When I look at it I remember reading about TSR's Greyhawk for the first time. Later I remember taking little stickers, labeling them with module ititials, and then putting them on the maps where the modules were. I remember searching the map for out of the way spots and rereading Greyhawk to find what was said or not said.

Golarion and Pathfinder APs have made me hungry! They wet my gaming appetite and it'll only slatted when I am running Pathfinder Society adventures and converting a whole new generation to the glory that is gaming.

Praise Paizo.

 

[Kvantum]

When I look at it I remember reading about TSR's Greyhawk for the first time. Later I remember taking little stickers, labeling them with module ititials, and then putting them on the maps where the modules were.

Funnily enough, Paizo themselves did that for their own modules too, right in the hardback Campaign Setting. Page 244-245.

 

[JeffB]

This thread has piqued my interest. Is it edition neutral? i.e. could I use it with say C&C ,or 4E , or is there alot of PF/3.x crunch in the book? I've no use for the PF RPG or any PF/3.x materials, but this sounds like a good setting for my tastes.

 

[Khuxan]

This thread has piqued my interest. Is it edition neutral? i.e. could I use it with say C&C ,or 4E , or is there alot of PF/3.x crunch in the book? I've no use for the PF RPG or any PF/3.x materials, but this sounds like a good setting for my tastes.

There's only a little bit of crunch - mainly prestige classes and equipment. You'll find 90% of it usable, at least, I think.

 

[questing gm]

This thread has piqued my interest. Is it edition neutral? i.e. could I use it with say C&C ,or 4E , or is there alot of PF/3.x crunch in the book? I've no use for the PF RPG or any PF/3.x materials, but this sounds like a good setting for my tastes.

The PF Gazetteer is also fluffy

 

[Keefe the Thief]

Maybe it's fresh in that it is moving past the deconstructing phase that Eberron was representing. Golarion is distilling the essence of many classical settings into one, and I think that it's needed now more than ever.

See, and i believe that distilling the core of different settings into one is the least interesting thing one can do. Because every of those settings has something that makes it unique, and shucking it together is just... beyond weird. But if it works in Golarion, more power to you (or Paizo, in this case).