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Anyone know what year PFO is suppose to be in relation to the Pathfinder Tabletop Lore time period?

Scarab Sages Goblin Squad Member

Roughly the same, I would assume. Most of the Adventure Paths aren't fixed in a particular year. A couple of paths assume that previous paths have already occurred, but most don't have any clues about when they happen relative to each other. The Pathfinder Society campaign is now in its sixth in-game year. It might actually be the best way to gauge when PFO occurs. Is that Pathfinder Agent a member of the Osirion faction or the Scarab Sage faction?

I certainly haven't seen anything suggesting that PFO happens hundreds of years before or after the Adventure Paths and the Pathfinder Society campaign.

PFO might very well be labelled as a parallel dimension to tabletop Golarion, if either side introduces something that seems out of place on the other side

Goblinworks Game Designer

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Adventure paths tend to assume Earth year of release + 2700 is the Golarion start date (e.g., APs from this year start in 4714). But it's highly flexible to when the individual GMs want to say they're set, and there aren't a lot of back references to "X event in Y adventure definitely happened in Z year."

So you're probably safe to assume that the PFO date is whatever Earth date it is + 2700 years if you want to write in-character stuff, and you're unlikely to have a lot of hard supports for or negations against in other materials.

Goblin Squad Member

Stephen Cheney wrote:
Adventure paths tend to assume Earth year of release + 2700 is the Golarion start date (e.g., APs from this year start in 5714).

Can you verify whether it's supposed to be "+ 3700" or "4714"?

Goblin Squad Member

4714

Goblinworks Game Designer

Derp. Fixed.


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