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A setting exposed to the audience (players and GM alike) in an old school way where bits and pieces are learned through adventuring in those locations, against those factions and antaginists, etc instead of via hundreds of pages of setting exposition text would be cool!
I hope you structure the reveal of the setting this way.
Also, will the Pathfinder series be in the same setting, or will each Pathfinder be a sort stand alone setting/mega adventure. I'm fine with either, though the latter would give you guys the opportunity to do themed settings that GMs can keep alive or move on from after each path.
Netigy, from reading the Pathfinder blog, it appears there will be at least some GameMastery products set in the Pathfinder campaign setting.
It's my hope that Paizo uses this opportunity to make its own world a la Greyhawk or Forgotten Realms. It would be nice (for me) if each AP further expanded on this new setting, with "one-shots" coming from the GameMastery line.
That is exactly the plan. The broad strokes of the campaign setting are already in place, and we are starting to polish up the details. For the time being the setting will be explored through Pathfinder and the GameMastery Module series. Each volume of Pathfinder will add detail to a specific region, as is the case with Varisia in the Rise of the Runelords Adventure Path. Every GameMastery Module will include a short appendix containing information on the adventure's setting, which in many cases will include cities, geographic oddities, and regions of repute. You'll get a scatter-shot of the setting as a whole, perhaps with very small peeks at the greater whole. Each issue of Pathfinder will include such a peek in the form of the "Pathfinder's Journal," an ongoing column that will transcend Adventure Paths.
Soon thereafter, we'll bring the focus on the campaign setting as a whole.
--Erik
Personally, while I sorrow for the loss of my favorite magazines, I'm also very excited by Pathfinder. My largest question is will the Pathfinder setting take into account such things as Raptorans and Swordsages?
No, because those are Wizards of the Coast IP. You're certainly welcome to add them to your campaign at home, but we cannot touch them. In the same vein, you won't see beholders, mind flayers, umber hulks, yuan-ti, or any other creature, class, feat, or spell that isn't in the SRD.
Skeld
(Pathfinder Adventure Path Charter Subscriber; Roleplaying Game, Campaign Setting, Companion, Modules, Battles Case Subscriber)
No, because those are Wizards of the Coast IP. You're certainly welcome to add them to your campaign at home, but we cannot touch them. In the same vein, you won't see beholders, mind flayers, umber hulks, yuan-ti, or any other creature, class, feat, or spell that isn't in the SRD.
On the other hand, Pathfinder won't be encumbered by WotC material that has "power-creeped" over the past couple years, or by weighty setting specific histories/organizations (ie, Harpers, Red Wizards, Chosen, etc.) that clog the framework.
Personally, I'm looking forward to a fresh, clean setting with enough "empty space" that I can add what I want to it without having to shoehorn things in sideways. For those that don't have the time or inclination to generate their own setting, this is appealing.
-Skeld
Personally, while I sorrow for the loss of my favorite magazines, I'm also very excited by Pathfinder. My largest question is will the Pathfinder setting take into account such things as Raptorans and Swordsages?No, because those are Wizards of the Coast IP. You're certainly welcome to add them to your campaign at home, but we cannot touch them. In the same vein, you won't see beholders, mind flayers, umber hulks, yuan-ti, or any other creature, class, feat, or spell that isn't in the SRD.
Understood, and sorry for the bad phrasing. What I should have said was, will there be the supporting areas and cultures that would make such additions from the non-core WOTC books easy to "plug-in"?