Is anyone playing or interested in doing something with Pathfinder in the Dallas/Fort Worth area? I just moved here in July and want to game in some capacity.
Will definitely check out the available stores in the area as well.
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After playing around with designing my own campaign world and comparing it to Earth and Golarion, it seems to me that Golarion itself is a pretty small planet. The southern edge of the Mwangi Expanse to The Crown of the World is roughly 2800 miles and encompasses climates from deep tropical jungle to arctic wasteland. By comparison the Equator to the North Pole is 6000 miles. This also made me think about realistic travel times between cities in Golarion. As far as I know from just reading the Inner Sea World Guide and a few other reference books, there are no established transit systems like air ships, locomotives, gryphons, etc. So assuming steady horse travel, just to get from Almas in Adnoran to Egorian in Cheliax (as the crow flies) would take around 19 days using the map on page 7 of the ISWG and 48 miles/day for light horse movement. That's two cities relatively on the same latitude. Take Katheer in Qadira to New Stetven in Brevoy (two cities on the same longitude). Easily a month. On the one hand, this makes the isolated genres of each nation a little bit more believable, but it's hard not to imagine some enterprising wizards/engineers coming up with a more efficient way of travel between civilized areas. That's one of the coolest things about World of Warcraft (disregarding the many, many things to dislike about it): the somewhat believable systems of rapid transit whether it be gryphons, zeppelins, or underground gnomish trams.
I know this is probably at the bottom of your "I give a crap"-list, but I just thought I would point it out. Viewing Paizo PDFs on a Mac (using Preview or any app that uses Core services) is a little quirky. The most common problem I've come across is missing letters (usually capital "A"), but it's remedied by opening the PDF in an Adobe product (bleh). |