'Elves of golarion' is a must have for anyone planning to run an elf-involving campaign on golarion, and a great roleplay-resource and background information crate of treasures for anyone who wants to start an elf in this new amazing world.
It may contain information already known to some older players who date back to 2nd ed, but there is far more in these 32 pages of awesome.
I am slightly disappointed at the prestige class though. Some may disagree, but the path given in this book is sort of NPCey. I don't imagine many players in my campaign would be charmed into playing it. It does not fit any spellcaster classes as it does not add any caster levels and the low attack bonus will probably disorient fighter-types from picking it.
I suppose I was hoping towards something like the return of a worthy bladesinger class to the game, which I've not seen since 2nd edition,or a mordant spire inspired one, perhaps even something from the winter council.
The elven queen's stat block seems a bit sub-par to me. I like the 2nd ed feeling these not-too-high-level-but-still-epic-npc give, but she could use some extra omph.
After a quick breakdown, her original unmodified by race or items statblock comes out at a total cost of 24 points in creation, which is 1 less from the 'epic fantasy' point selection. This is awesome for an NPC of this magnitude, but her crown which disables her from wearing a headband of intellect is a bit of a kick in the groin. She could still come out large and in-charge by researching a permanency spell on a maximized fox cunning spell, and with the PF rules she also gets a +2 racial int buff and 2 extra hps per level according to the conversion rules which puts her in a good place. 27 int sounds much better for a queen of elves rather than 20, which will likely be outmatched by an elf PC by level 8 or 12. I might go make my own version of her on the forums just for kicks later, using the same good logic of non-munchkinism.
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