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Goblins of Golarion is a wonderful collection of background, rules, and flavor. In combination with classic monsters revisited, We Be Goblins, and the various goblin encounters in APs and modules I am much better equipped to create flavorful goblin encounters and now thanks to this book make better goblin PCs and villains.
My favorite chapter of the book is the tribes; for a campaign I am running I had thrown some goblins in and I was really curious if it worked with existing tribe locations; thanks to this book I can pick a specific tribe and use that to play the encounters accordingly.
Thanks Richard, James, and Hal for writing such an amazing supplement.

This book is monstrously epic. The ooos and awws never stopped as I flipped through its pages (in the PDF). It is 10 times more then I ever hoped for. I can't wait for my print copy to arrive. The Frog Gods rock in a way that it is so epic it makes all other rocks seem like pebbles. Keep doing what you are doing! I can't wait to see what your next epic pathfinder masterpiece is.

Looking at Faiths of Balance, and Faith of Purity as individual books might make you think they deserve lower ratings but looking at them as a greater whole gives us an awesome collection of resources for roleplaying, world building, and character background. Good job Paizo and thank you Colin for another flavorful book.

As a lover of murder mystery adventures I understand the difficulty of pulling them off without frustrating the heck out of the players and this adventure does it in spades. Colorful characters, creative settings, and interesting encounters tie up a module with an amazing amount of role playing content. Thanks Mark for writing a fantastic scenario.

I had a lot of fun playing this adventure but found it very straight forward and uncreative. After the lead up in part 1 I was expecting something epic and I got a fun little stand alone adventure with a neat little hook at the end. This is a fun one to walk through but it would have been better as a stand alone not a sequel to the epic part 1.

I love books about any of the planar realms and societies and this book does not disappoint. I have already been inspired by this book several times to create stories and threats in my campaign and I know I will come up with even more from this book as I seem to come up with something every time I read it. I thoroughly enjoy this book and wholeheartedly look forward to Vol. 3.

This book has some really good content for background material on the different races of human and historical information on the human kingdoms. While this book is rules light, it is not light in flavorful information that would help roleplaying humans and setting up background for humancentric settings.
I enjoy the companion line as supplements for player information and npc building guidelines. The drawback to the line is that they are very text heavy and have to be read to really be useful. I assume that the majority of bad reviews for a book like this has to do with its lack of rules crunch, its focus on flavor over rules, and the textheavy nature of the book. This book doesn't appear to be a quick reference but is very useful if read.
If you like books with lots of rich background and history, and lots of flavor to help roleplaying human characters and human npcs this book is worth purchasing. If you are just looking for rules, feats, traits, spells, and things to add to character builds, take a pass on this book.

If I could give 5 stars to each page of this book I would. Paizo did good in choosing the illustrious Colin McComb as author. Colin not only wrote some of my favorite Planescape books (Including the fabled rarity - Hellbound: the Blood War), he wrote my favorite rpg book of all time, The Complete Book of Elves.

Colin did not dissatisfy as this book is amazing to read, useful for players and DMS, and beautiful. It is the first piece of a 3 book series I am guaranteed to value in my collection for years to come.

I enjoyed reading the flavor for each faith, giving me the inspiration to run clerics the way they are meant to be, as members of a greater organization. It also gave me the ability to incorporate faith into my non-clergy characters. The idea of a barbarian saluting Cayden Cailean with a drink before a battle with slavers was totally inspired by this tome.

The concept of a greater body behind each cleric is not lost on me; I am inspired by this book to add this kind of flavor every time faith is represented in my games. This book breaks it down by perspective of adventurers, classes, goals, identifiers, devotion, other faiths, taboos, traits and the church itself. I can look in this book (and the other 2 that are yet to come) when creating clerics, deities, and churches.

I haven't even scraped the surface of what this little 31 page book gives as there are minor deities including nonhuman racial deities, and Empyreal Lords (Which I have been looking for content on), more organizations (because I never want paizo to stop giving us factions), and religious holidays (the calendar plays a huge part in my game, I really needed this).

This books isn't all flavor as it gives combat feats, traits (under each faith), and spells. I bought this book for the flavor and yet I still got some crunch I can apply to my religious characters. The feats aren't exclusive to faiths so we there are a few options for everyone.

Buy this book if you are interested in role playing your characters with more depth, running your campaigns with more religion, and interested in learning more about Golarion. I truly enjoy this book and consider it one of the most valuable that I have; it truly speaks to how I play and gm.

The Inner Sea World Guide is one of my favorite game books and my absolute top favorite Golarion book for overall content, new content, design, and flat out beauty.

The book is masterpiece of content as each race, region, religion, and detail of the world is covered in decent enough detail that this book is the only truly essential book needed to run a campaign in Golarion. This book does not only give a starting place to place a game in this world, it gives a truly solid foundation.

New content includes fantastic artwork, new detail in maps, new, updated information in regions including previously unseen adventure hooks, a lot more detail on Gods, and updated pathfinder stats for firearms, prestige classes, feats, equipment, spells, and magic items. The book even had room for a bestiary!.
As far as the art, I was afraid this new world guide would just use previously used artwork; I was wrong as their is tons of artwork peppering the book including awesome images giving a glimpse at the feel of each region. Just being able to see the fashions of a certain region is worth the cost of the book.
To sum it up the Inner Sea world guide isn't just an update to the pathfinder system, it is an upgrade from an existing high quality book to one that puts every other campaign book I have ever read to complete shame. Paizo has raised the bar with the inner sea world guide; a bar that I know that their awesome team will be able to lift higher and higher. The sky is the limit!

This scenario was creative and challenging with opportunities to test roleplaying, creative skill and equipment use, and combat tactics.

Pros - I enjoyed this book a lot because I was able to form an image in my mind of a nontraditional party and was inspired by it's use of social skills against creatures that I normally see most parties just fighting. I enjoyed the story, the surprises, and the characters.
Cons - I didn't give this book 5 stars because the use of third person was a bit distracting, the surprises were cool but not very new or unique, and some of the modern language (kicked in the nuts was actually used) was a little distracting and unnecessary.
I enjoyed this book a lot and would recommend it. I was able to overlook it's flaws and enjoy the book but I know a lot of people who wouldn't be able to get past them as emphasized by other reviews here.

I had to drive an hour out of town to find a participating shop and I am so happy I did as I not only found a new shop but found this amazing book that goes above and beyond as a free product. The characters, concept, and ease of play sell me on this completely, I have never run a module before (we always do home brew) and am happy to be running this as my first. Thanks Paizo, this book is awesome and it really shows how awesome you are to release an amazing free product like this (which blew all the other free products out of the water!)

Prince of Wolves was an amazing novel due to it's presentation, characters, presentation of setting and plot. I enjoyed the story and feel inspired to run not only an Ustalavic campaign but campaigns with less traditional party structure for story purposes.

I enjoyed the split perspective between the two characters. I found it a bit confusing at first, as I read further it added anticipation and engagement to the character's point of view. I also found it added a bit of mystery to the story through discovery of what early events meant later in the book.

I felt the character's were unique and felt that they were presented thoroughly. I became so engaged with them that I shouted out loud for joy when I found out that there is web fiction including them and Master of Devils will be based around the same characters.

The setting of Ustalav was well represented and I feel a lot more comfortable running a campaign based there. Reading prince of Wolves cemented my purchase of Carrion Crown, Rule of Fear, and anything else based in Ustalav. I look forward to more books from Dave and am now hooked on the Pathfinder tales novels.