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The kind of information pico is talking about is the same kind of "brief" you get in the Pathfinder Society Guide about the factions, where you can get pages of information summarised to a column or two of information, summarised to a couple of lines of the most important info.

This is great for me as well, because I only want the 25-words-or-less summary when I'm reading about these kinds of things. If it's a book or a few pages, I'll either avoid it or forget what it said after I read it.

Thanks, that was exactly my point, and I was starting to be afraid that my idea was not stated in comprehensible enough way.

The Rise of the Runelords Players Guide was the first one and was designed as an introduction to the world, using Varisia as a gateway. It has many of the things you are looking for.

Find the free pdf here.

Not sure if print is still available.

Thanks, the religion bits are practically spot on, I could use them almost verbatim.

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Andoran
The birthplace of liberty
Andoran is a democratic nation governed by the principles of freedom, choice, and personal development.
The country citizens revolted in 4669 AR against Cheliax diabolic domination. Since then Andoran actively opposes slavery in all the Inner Sea region with its corp of elite soldiers, the Eagle Knights.
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And in case of Varisia and Absalom, the descriptions of the cities that are the starting point of the adventure path would be probably the most useful thing to add.
Actually, that could be expanded to a short description of all the starting point of the APs.

PS: Feel free to correct my english. :)

Another capsule description:

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Geb
Domain of the Dead
Geb is a land of undead ruled by the ghost king Geb and his lich queen Arazni. The land became an undead kingdom as a way to quicly rebuild an army during the war with the wizard-king Nex, more than 4000 years ago.
Part of the population of Geb is composed by living people enjoying free citizenship, but another part of the human populace is kept as slaves and cattle for the sentient undeads.
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I already have some write-ups of the nature you're asking for, that I distributed to new players looking to write their backstories for a one-shot we ran. However, they're written as my perspective on them, not necesarily how the book writers intended. Also, they're meant as character building blurbs, not GM info blurbs. They're definately not polished for publication. That said:

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Thank you, this is the kind of thing I had in mind.

I could use the deities section as it is, the timeline is minimal but, who's gonna actually remember more than that anyway? :)
I would expand the nation profiles like this:
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Andoran
The birthplace of liberty
Andoran is a democratic nation governed by the principles of freedom, choice, and personal development.
The country citizens revolted in 4669 AR against Cheliax diabolic domination. Since then Andoran actively opposes slavery in all the Inner Sea region with its corp of elite soldiers, the Eagle Knights.
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And in case of Varisia and Absalom, the descriptions of the cities that are the starting point of the adventure path would be probably the most useful thing to add.
Actually, that could be expanded to a short description of all the starting point of the APs.

PS: Feel free to correct my english. :)

I don't think there's anything that will fit that bill.

Why just Absalom and Varisia?

Not just, but 5 AP start in Varisia, and lots of scenarios of the Pathfinder Society are set imn Absalom, so that would be a good starting point.

If you're just looking for something to familiarize players, I'd recommend focusing on the country where you're going to be playing and just using its entry out of the Inner Sea Primer. (Each country entry is about a half-page. They're each a single column in a two-column layout.) You might also cherry-pick a few notable additional countries (either neighboring or just very worthwhile) to also provide them.

For deities, that's a bit harder, I think. The major deities' basic portfolios, alignments, domains, and favored weapons are listed in the Core Rulebook on page 43, but there's nowhere in print with super-short descriptions of them really, most of the descriptions tend toward longer descriptions of at least a couple pages.

I was thinking about something organized more or less like this:

1 page for the races;
1 page for the deities and the religions;
2 pages for all the the countries of the inner sea, with the ones farther from the sea less detailed;
2 pages for Varisia with details on the cities;
2 pages for Absalom;
1 page for a short history, and a calendar;
maps of inner sea, Varisia, Absalom.
11 pages total, leaving 1 face for a cover. :)
My suggestion of Varisia and Absalom is mostly due to the greater amount of short adventures produced (also PF society) for those areas (by cursory measurement), that would probably be the first choice for intro adventures.
This kind of booklet would also be a perfect complement with the Beginner box, showing the "world outside" the dungeon to new players.

If your native tongue is french, or if you understand the language there is a site in France with lot's of stuff. Even a module or two in the langue de Molière.

http://www.pathfinder-fr.org/Wiki/Pathfinder-RPG.Aides%20de%20jeu.ashx

Thanks, I am not a native speaker, but I can read french. The site is very interesting, there is also a 115 (!) page Golarion starter guide.

The Pathfinder Comic issues have small 2-4 page descriptions of Varisia and the Sandpoint area, if you're interested in those.

Thanks, I will have to try to find them on some EU bookshop, tough.

are you looking for yourself of for others? If you are GMing and want your players to have some knowledge, maybe print the pages you want them to know about from www.pathfinderwiki.com? If you copy/paste from there you can even removed things you don't want them to know

I am looking for something to give to others, I am an old FR dm, so I am used to (metric) tons of supplements.

I was hoping to find something ready, since I should additionally translate it from english to my native tongue. Well, maybe I will find some spare time to do this and post it somewhere.

Anyway, a wiki is not a solution for an handout to give to new players before playing a demo. It is dispersive, and not everyone would have a laptop or a device of a reasonable size to read many pages.

did you meen somthing like this?

http://paizo.com/products/btpy82t7?Pathfinder-Chronicles-Gazetteer

The Inner Sea Primer is probably what you're after.

Thanks but that was not my idea, probably the Inner Sea Primer is closer in size to what I was thinking, but it's still too big. The Gazetteer is waaay too long.

I was thinking something of a size that could be read before starting a demo game, whence the page limit. Actually, it doesn't even need to have every country described, it could also be Varisia or Absolom centric.

Hello, I was wondering if there is available a small quickstarter (8-12 pages) for Golarion setting, with two sentence descriptions of deities, places, etc., without Pathfinder stats.
I have tried some search but maybe my choice of keywords is bad.
That would be great as a reading for new players that have to start a game and do not have the time/desire/inclination to read dozen of pages.

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