Pathfinder 1E Now that Pathfinder is out, is anyone giving their setting a try?

[Shemeska]

Obviously I'm biased here since I've written for it. But that said, I adore it and it's going to be the setting for my next campaign (probably bouncing between Golarion and its planes, nominally set in Galisemni the City of the Celestial and the Damned, drifting through the Maelstrom borderlands - the city hasn't been detailed in published material, and for the moment it's just a name on a map there).

The level of depth in the setting material, and the care, attention, and setting support would have hooked me like a great white shark on chum, even had I not been freelancing on bits of it. It has replaced FR as my favorite non-planar setting (I feel sick at the state of FR in 4e), and on par with classical Planescape for planar stuff.

Would love to run something in the World Wound, the Mwangi Expanse, or the Osirion/Katapesh/Geb/Nex region.

 

[Admiral Caine]

Out of fairness to the original question, I have actually been using the setting all this time- ever since it came out.

Just as Shemeska and others have said, I love the care and attention to detail. It offers something for everyone, and yet somehow avoids a contrived 'kitchen sink' feel to it. The more distinct parts of the setting exist logically, not arbitrarily.

And here's another consideration: I guess I'm a grognard, because the majority of my time spent with a 'traditional' fantasy RPG were first edition. I got married, had a kid- got a lot of pressure to give the hobby up, finally got divorced (for various reasons). I missed all of 2nd edition and only started playing in the early autumn of 2007.

I missed most of Forgotten Realms and didn't have any of the books or materials.

Golarion is great setting, and it gives someone new or coming back to the hobby a great place to start.. without 20 + years of legacy. That's not a sleight to FR at all, but a practical consideration I had to make and for which I've never been disappointed.

 

[Elodan]

As much as I love the pre-Spell Plague Realms, I felt my group needed a fresh start with my campaigns.

When we start my new campaign in a few weeks, it's going to be based in Golarion and we're using the Pathfinder RPG.

 

[Papa-DRB]

For Osirion/Katapesh/Geb/Nex -- Legacy of Fire AP.....

-- david
Papa.DRB

Would love to run something in the World Wound, the Mwangi Expanse, or the Osirion/Katapesh/Geb/Nex region.

 

[DaveMage]

The number of world-changing Forgotten Realms novels was the biggest problem with the setting, IMO.

Fortuantely, Golarion isn't expected to ever suffer that fate.

I have no doubt that we'll see fiction set there in the future, but IIRC, the Paizo folks are well aware of the dangers to a setting that have earth-shattering-event novels.

 

[kitsune9]

The number of world-changing Forgotten Realms novels was the biggest problem with the setting, IMO.

Fortuantely, Golarion isn't expected to ever suffer that fate.

I have no doubt that we'll see fiction set there in the future, but IIRC, the Paizo folks are well aware of the dangers to a setting that have earth-shattering-event novels.

Actually, I'm going to start wondering aloud if Paizo will now to novel support for Golarion. It would make sense from my standpoint, but if they don't, that's okay too.

 

[Tezrak]

I'm currently in the midst of running a True20 Freeport campaign (it just started, really), but I have the Golarion setting book, and I'd like to someday run a campaign in that setting. I have to say though, I will probably stick to only that book, and create original stories. There's such a glut of Pathfinder products (those AP module books, at almost $20 a pop? WTF?), and I can't keep up with it all. I know there's the subscription, and that offers reduced prices and/or bonus products, but I just can't be bothered, especially with all the settings and systems I have my fingers in.

 

[Wicht]

(those AP module books, at almost $20 a pop? WTF

To each their own. As far as I'm concerned those APs are some of the best RPG books I've ever bought.

 

[kitsune9]

I'm currently in the midst of running a True20 Freeport campaign (it just started, really), but I have the Golarion setting book, and I'd like to someday run a campaign in that setting. I have to say though, I will probably stick to only that book, and create original stories. There's such a glut of Pathfinder products (those AP module books, at almost $20 a pop? WTF?), and I can't keep up with it all. I know there's the subscription, and that offers reduced prices and/or bonus products, but I just can't be bothered, especially with all the settings and systems I have my fingers in.

I totally understand the pricetag thing. Have you considered their Pathfinder Society mods? They are smaller modules designed for their organized play and go for about $4 I think. They got about 20 of them now I think.

Freeport is a cool setting too. I'm a major fan of just about anything that Green Ronin writes.

 

[Anguish]

We've been playing RotR-AP in Golarion and we played some SD-AP in Golarion. We're about to start CoT-AP and it's going to be... you guessed it... in Golarion. My group really likes Eberron but conversion is too much of a pain. Personally I'm not at all married to the setting, but it's what's there.