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<blockquote data-quote="James Jacobs" data-source="post: 4848211" data-attributes="member: 23937">These are concerns for me as well. For the Adventure Paths, we've been taking care so that even if one takes place in the same area as another (as in the case of the first three APs), the actual locations don't cross over. And while we throw in easter eggs now and then, we also try to keep each Adventure Path relatively self-contained. It's not good business to set them up so you can only really play them in order, or so that in order to understand AP #54 you have to be familiar with the 53 that come before. As a result, any of the APs can be played in any order with minimal or no adjusting between them. Eventually, we might do an AP that takes place after a previous one, but if we do we'll make sure that AP will have everything someone needs to run it without assuming they have run or read the previous AP.As for novels... we'll likely be doing Golarion novels eventually, but the goal there is for the novels and the game lines to not really interact. At least, not like they do for Dragonlance and FR. Novels and game products are different creatures with different needs, after all.As for canon... here at Paizo we do take pains to adhere to it, but at the same point we try to keep shifting our focus around so that we don't get bogged down by it. Campaign canon is good for continuity, but bad for it as well. Keeping it detailed but manageable is something we're constantly working on.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="James Jacobs, post: 4848211, member: 23937"] These are concerns for me as well. For the Adventure Paths, we've been taking care so that even if one takes place in the same area as another (as in the case of the first three APs), the actual locations don't cross over. And while we throw in easter eggs now and then, we also try to keep each Adventure Path relatively self-contained. It's not good business to set them up so you can only really play them in order, or so that in order to understand AP #54 you have to be familiar with the 53 that come before. As a result, any of the APs can be played in any order with minimal or no adjusting between them. Eventually, we might do an AP that takes place after a previous one, but if we do we'll make sure that AP will have everything someone needs to run it without assuming they have run or read the previous AP. As for novels... we'll likely be doing Golarion novels eventually, but the goal there is for the novels and the game lines to not really interact. At least, not like they do for Dragonlance and FR. Novels and game products are different creatures with different needs, after all. As for canon... here at Paizo we do take pains to adhere to it, but at the same point we try to keep shifting our focus around so that we don't get bogged down by it. Campaign canon is good for continuity, but bad for it as well. Keeping it detailed but manageable is something we're constantly working on. [/QUOTE]

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