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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Perram" data-source="post: 4995054" data-attributes="member: 84740">The Companion books are player focused books, and they are all generally 32 page soft covers.  Sometimes they focus on a region corresponding with a Pathfinder Society faction, and sometimes a race, etc... but they are meant to books to help you as a player.  GMs will find them useful, of course, as well.Not so much, the companion books are pretty setting specific, while you could probably plug the topics into a home brew world, it would only work as well as plugging any other campaign specific element into it.They assume the use of the Golarion setting.  While you would certainly find more info int he Hard Back than the Gazetteer, I don't think its required if you are happily using the Gazetteer.  However, as a poster above me pointed out, these are meant to give you even MORE detail than the hardback, so I'm not sure you would be happy with it.The Chronicles setting is the main 'campaign setting' line.  It comes out much more frequently than the Companion products, they are larger books, and are meant to expand the campaign setting, whereas the companion books are meant to provide information for players.This varies from book to book, but as a general rule, no, they are not very crunch heavy at all, especially the chronicles line.I hope that helps.</blockquote>