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<blockquote data-quote="touc" data-source="post: 8162455" data-attributes="member: 19270">Sounds like my current Kingmaker campaign: set in a particular area of the Golarian world using 5E rules and a Celtic pantheon and calendar. The rest of the world might exist in reference (e.g. many escaped slaves from the demon-pact nation of Cheliax settle in the area you're now in), but I don't need the rest of the world right now or perhaps ever. The PCs have a lot of liberty to create NPCs during character creation.Good question. For my group, the setting is largely meaningless. No one is an avid reader of the Realms, Greyhawk, Dragonlance, or even Dark Sun. Not one person has ever heard of the Golarian setting, and I'm not familiar with it beyond a few years playing Pathfinder games. So, we're not using the setting to visualize a familiar place or trigger nostalgia.So, the &quot;use&quot; is for me, the DM, to save time. I use published materials because the day-to-day NPCs, maps, and histories are already worked up, letting me focus my time and energy on the story plot and adventure rather than the background color. Because no one has a clue about the setting, I'm free to make it however we want (e.g. the Celtic pantheon, new NPCs, rework the government of Brevoy, and so on).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="touc, post: 8162455, member: 19270"] Sounds like my current Kingmaker campaign: set in a particular area of the Golarian world using 5E rules and a Celtic pantheon and calendar. The rest of the world might exist in reference (e.g. many escaped slaves from the demon-pact nation of Cheliax settle in the area you're now in), but I don't need the rest of the world right now or perhaps ever. The PCs have a lot of liberty to create NPCs during character creation. Good question. For my group, the setting is largely meaningless. No one is an avid reader of the Realms, Greyhawk, Dragonlance, or even Dark Sun. Not one person has ever heard of the Golarian setting, and I'm not familiar with it beyond a few years playing Pathfinder games. So, we're not using the setting to visualize a familiar place or trigger nostalgia. So, the "use" is for me, the DM, to save time. I use published materials because the day-to-day NPCs, maps, and histories are already worked up, letting me focus my time and energy on the story plot and adventure rather than the background color. Because no one has a clue about the setting, I'm free to make it however we want (e.g. the Celtic pantheon, new NPCs, rework the government of Brevoy, and so on). [/QUOTE]

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