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It may be just me, but I feel like there's been a strange reluctance to discuss the mysterious First World. So, I'm gonna list all my educated guesses based on published material.

1)The First World of the Fey was originally a beautiful world, but a mysterious event mirroring Golarion's Earthfall inflicted catastrophic damage that the fey were unable to recover from.

2)The First World is now a desolate place devoid of even color.

3)Most fey are no longer able to live in the First World and have evacuated to Golarion. As a consequence they have weakened and lost their immortality.

4)Creatures that spend too much time in the First World become undead.

From what I've seen so far, it seems that the First World of the Pathfinder Chronicles setting is the polar opposite of DnD4E's Feywild. Whereas the Feywild is a place of beauty and untamed nature, the First World seems to be another Plane of Shadow or Negative Energy Plane. Was this intentional?

I know there are DMs who enjoy statting up NPCs, but unless I have a particularly fun concept in mind I personally find it a chore. I'm sure there are others who feel the same way, so I thought I would throw this out here:

The Plug n' Play Project's goal is to amass an archive of NPCs whose stats can be saved and stored for later use by DMs. If you would like to contribute, post PRPG compatible statblocks for NPCs here. If the NPC uses materials from sources other than the SRD or the PRPG Alpha 3 document, please make a note of which features are from other sources and where they can be found.

With that said, I'll post several of the NPCs that I have created shortly. I and others like myself would appreciate any further input greatly!

1) What do the golems produced at the Magnimar Golemworks do? Would it be common-place in Magnimar to see a golem helping construction workers or being used to load supplies on a ship? Does Magnimar export golems to other cities?

2) What exactly is the First World like? All I know is that it used to be where the fey lived, there's a rift to the First World in the Lands of the Linnorm Kings, and that for some reason people who go there are turned into undead. Is it a Negative Energy plane now or what?

3) In the issue of Pathfinder detailing dragons, it states that the dragons have lived on many different planets throughout time. Is this the same for related monsters like the Tatzlwyrm and the Wyvern, or are they specific to Golarion? And if so, how did they come about?

I remember reading that the creators of Pathfinder hope to have a lot of extra space for their monster book. While new monsters and monsters from other OGL sources would be great, I think a lot of people would appreciate it if the book provided premade monsters with levels in the classes most often associated with them, such as a few orcs with various levels of barbarian.

Would this be possible at all?

I thought a neat idea for the Pathfinder RPG would be special classes for villains. For example, the thaumaturge class that has been featured twice already in Pathfinder would be an interesting addition. I don't know if the publishers of the book that the thaumaturge debuted in would allow it, though.

Oh, an anti-paladin class would be good, too. I thought it strange that there was a "champion of good" base class, but that the "champion of evil" was a prestige class.

I thought I had already posted this, but I can't find it. So here I go again...

What does the name Pathfinder Chronicles refer to? I thought that was the official name, but so far the adventure paths and the new RPG are simply "Pathfinder".

Personally, I feel that a name like "Pathfinder RPG" is a bit underwhelming and not as likely to make someone interested in looking to see what it's all about. Also, whenever I think "Pathfinder" I think of that viking movie from a few years ago, even though I never even saw it. In fact, one of the people I told about the Pathfinder adventure paths immediately asked me if Pathfinder was a DnD adaptation of said viking movie.

So my point is this: How about naming the rpg "Pathfinder Chronicles RPG", or even simply "The Pathfinder Chronicles"? It's a more appealing name in my opinion, and this one is less likely to make people think of vikings.

Well okay, vikings are cool and all, and the people of the Lands of the Linnorm Kings are viking-like, but a title that makes people think that the product is largely related to vikings could turn off those who are less enthusiastic about vikings.

I've seen several people asking for info about Pathfinder's gods that they can use for clerics and paladins. Since there is still a lot we don't know, and since the Pathfinder staff can't possibly answer every question we ask (although they are very informative and have dropped some tantalizing info), I thought it may be a good idea for us to write up some fluff to use for deities until the official info is revealed.

Here are some of my ideas on the beliefs and practices of worshipers of Urgathoa and Rovagug.

Urgathoa: Worshipers of Urgathoa believe that the world is theirs' for the taking, and those who lack the ambition to take what they want deserve to be taken advantage of. Because the average person's only plan is to live from day to day, followers of Urgathoa use disease to eliminate the weak and passion-less common folk. Those with necromantic ability animate the corpses of their victims, creating undead servants to take care of the work while they enjoy the fruits of their victories. Some of Urgathoa's most faithful willingly become carriers of disease themselves; though they themselves cannot die from their afflictions, those they come into contact with can.

Rovagug: The deity of destruction's worshipers are nihilists who hate the world with a passion. Their hatred of mortal life is so great that instead of merely killing themselves, they would rather go out in a blaze of chaotic violence, aiming to take as much down with them as possible. Followers of Rovagug only create things that are used to destroy; the creation of anything not intended to take lives or otherwise wreak destruction is taboo, even the creation of items intended to glorify Rovagug. Temples are never built to honor the god of wrath. Quite the contrary: Rovagug's worshipers destroy the temples of other gods, desecrating broken altars for his glorication. The faithful avoid comforts and go out of their way to make things more difficult for themselves to ensure that they never become apathetic to the negative aspects of the world. Some followers of Rovagug become anti-paladins, unholy champions of chaos and evil who bring death in their wake. Unless worshipers are acting together in a greater plan (which is an incredibly rare occurrence) they usually fight to the death. Rovagug's warriors who flee from battle become disgusted and ashamed of themselves, often opting to end their lives in the form of suicidal rampage through a town or city until they are finally killed.

I'm wondering if any background information, stats, or even the names of the magazines' iconic characters were ever revealed. Several of them were pretty cool looking, and I thought I'd ask if there were any issues of either magazine with their info.