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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Krensky" data-source="post: 4847976" data-attributes="member: 30936">I'd say one of the defining differences is the sense of otherness in Golarion.Golarion elves have less to do with Tolkien and more to do with the old tales. They're mercurial, they can be petty, their primary deity is the goddess of lust and revenge. Drow aren't a subrace but more a external manifestation of going to the dark side (not just being evil, but comppletely and totally embracing evil). Gnomes are more tied ot the world, goblins are crazy, ogres are terrifying, oger-kin are sickening (and part of why ogres are terrifying). The red and green planets have been pulled from Barsoom and Venus. The underdark is the begining of the dangerous scary places under the workd (there's two more below that, each weirder and more dangerous).Paizo takes lots of old and worn creatures and stock settings and makes them fresh and new in their products. It's a setting that's consiopusly made for gaming, but manages to work and not seem stale or cliched.</blockquote>