Pathfinder 1E which setting do you use in your pathfinder games?

[Ezequielramone]

I'm curious about the settings you guys are playing in
are you using some dnd published world? Golarion or some of your own creation? If it is your own world tell me about it.
I'm gming in golarion and in Forgotten Realms (3rd ed era)

 

[Dog Moon]

My group used to play in Forgotten Realms all the time. However, with all the changes we couldn't really keep up with during 4th Edition and the switching to Pathfinder, we ended up just going with Golarion. And now, because there's so much setting stuff in Paizo's books and Adventure Paths, we pretty much stay completely in Golarion.

Even when we run non-Paizo books, we tend to convert it into Golarion terms. For example, I'm running Razor Coast right now IN Golarion. The Razor Coast is instead a large island in the Pirate Isles and Quell has been replaced with Besmara. When I ran a Ptolus campaign, Ptolus became Absalom. It's just easier going with a Pantheon and setting we're already familiar with than trying to learn something new.

 

[DaveMage]

I use The Lost Lands (Frog God Games world).

 

[gamerprinter]

I primarily play homebrewed worlds only, but at least in one case so far, a part of my homebrewed campaign world has been published - the Kaidan setting of Japanese horror (PFRPG), which is very much a cross between Oriental Adventures and Ravenloft. Of course it has a different flavor of horror, and uniquely horrific subsystems which are unique to Kaidan, and not found in any domain of dread (so its not truly Ravenloft). If anything, Kaidan is closer to an authentic fantasy Japan, than Kara-Tur, Rokugan, or any previously published "oriental setting". It is an archipelago of islands. Unlike many previously published fantasy Japans where Shinto gets converted to D&D styled pantheons and Buddhism is only hand-waved, Kaidan is a very spiritual place, viewing spirits much closer to the views of Shinto, while the afterlife is entirely dependant on Zaoism (Kaidan's version of Buddhism) relying on the Buddhist Wheel of Life and Death and a twisted version of reincarnation.

 

[Elf Witch]

When we run Pathfinder we tend to run it in Golarion. The DMs that run it usually run adventure paths and since the bulk are already set there it is just easier.

 

[KirayaTiDrekan]

I have done Pathfinder campaigns in Golarian and Dragonlance but I primarily use my homebrew Paths of Legend setting. Basic premise - A setting where a peasant can become a hero, a hero can become a king, and a king can become a god.

 

[exile]

Golarion. At this point, when I play Pathfinder, I play Pathfinder Society.

 

[BigVanVader]

I basically run an alternate history situation. Basically, the setting is exactly earth, but where fantasy races have existed here. So the Roman Empire had to deal with strong Elven resistance when they went into northern Europe, England and other places had to deal with vikings and Orcs simultaneously, things like that.

In my particular campaign, things are set in the Wild West, so the characters are basically drifters who are trying to survive in a post Civil War America. I've gutted the hitpoint system to ensure that gunfights remain deadly and a last resort no matter what level they are, and I've toned down magic a little.

Also, as an aside: American Dwarves are different from the Scottish variety, in that they value and take pride in their mustaches and not their beards. It's way awesome.

 

[Ezequielramone]

I never thought i could get such awesome answers. Thanks. I like how you create your own settings.
I like the thing about the pride in their mustaches.

 

[Lord Mhoram]

Homebrew, but I take elements of settings I like. I loved Waterdeep and undermountain - so that city (with modifications) is in my world. I tend to like the Golorian deities, and some of their countries. I use Nyambe for my Africa Stand in. And a lot of original stuff too. The setting has been congealing like that for over 20 years.