paizo.com Recent Reviews of Pathfinder Companion: Elves of Golarion (OGL)paizo.com Recent Reviews of Pathfinder Companion: Elves of Golarion (OGL)2023-07-13T19:11:55Z2023-07-13T19:11:55ZPathfinder Companion: Elves of Golarion (OGL): Want More (3 stars)ElvenDancerhttps://paizo.com/products/btpy85el?Pathfinder-Companion-Elves-of-Golarion2017-07-01T17:03:56Z<p><b>Pathfinder Companion: Elves of Golarion (OGL)</b></p><p>The price was a little high, I thought. I realize it was illustrated, but I can buy a 300 pg Kindle book for the same price. I would have liked more detail, especially about elven death and culture. It would be nice to have a full book about the elves of Golarion, at the very least like AD&D Complete Book of Elves.</p><p><b>Pathfinder Companion: Elves of Golarion (OGL)</b></p><p>The price was a little high, I thought. I realize it was illustrated, but I can buy a 300 pg Kindle book for the same price. I would have liked more detail, especially about elven death and culture. It would be nice to have a full book about the elves of Golarion, at the very least like AD&D Complete Book of Elves.</p>ElvenDancer2017-07-01T17:03:56ZPathfinder Companion: Elves of Golarion (OGL): Useful Supporting Details (5 stars)Dover Prohttps://paizo.com/products/btpy85el?Pathfinder-Companion-Elves-of-Golarion2016-04-06T15:17:47Z<p><b>Pathfinder Companion: Elves of Golarion (OGL)</b></p><p>This supplement is full of useful detail about Elves in the Golarion setting. It's important to my own campaign, for example, because of the player characters is an Elf and lives in Varisia. With this book, I am able to tell him about where his character comes from in Varisia.</p><p><b>Pathfinder Companion: Elves of Golarion (OGL)</b></p><p>This supplement is full of useful detail about Elves in the Golarion setting. It's important to my own campaign, for example, because of the player characters is an Elf and lives in Varisia. With this book, I am able to tell him about where his character comes from in Varisia.</p>Dover Pro2016-04-06T15:17:47ZPathfinder Companion: Elves of Golarion (OGL) PDF: Portuguese - Br (4 stars)Draco Bahamuthttps://paizo.com/products/btpy85el?Pathfinder-Companion-Elves-of-Golarion2011-11-05T19:21:57Z<p><b>Pathfinder Companion: Elves of Golarion (OGL) PDF</b></p><p>Totalmente valido, principalmente para os fãs de elfos e fãs de Golarion. Mesmo sendo 3.5E, a maior parte do material ou não foi muito afetado pela mudança de sistema ou é muito fácil encontrar uma atualização por ai na net. Mas definitivamente ainda é a grande fonte de referencias sobre os elfos de Golarion já que mesmo no Inner Sea World Guide fala-se muito pouco sobre eles. Infelizmente a curto e médio prazo não existem chances dele ser atualizado ou ampliado (e ele merece, já que linha Companion evoluiu muito e até o Goblins of Golarion acaba sendo um livro superior em certos aspectos de produção e consistência).</p><p><b>Pathfinder Companion: Elves of Golarion (OGL) PDF</b></p><p>Totalmente valido, principalmente para os fãs de elfos e fãs de Golarion. Mesmo sendo 3.5E, a maior parte do material ou não foi muito afetado pela mudança de sistema ou é muito fácil encontrar uma atualização por ai na net. Mas definitivamente ainda é a grande fonte de referencias sobre os elfos de Golarion já que mesmo no Inner Sea World Guide fala-se muito pouco sobre eles. Infelizmente a curto e médio prazo não existem chances dele ser atualizado ou ampliado (e ele merece, já que linha Companion evoluiu muito e até o Goblins of Golarion acaba sendo um livro superior em certos aspectos de produção e consistência).</p>Draco Bahamut2011-11-05T19:21:57ZPathfinder Companion: Elves of Golarion (OGL) (4 stars)spharhttps://paizo.com/products/btpy85el?Pathfinder-Companion-Elves-of-Golarion2011-06-23T20:13:48Z<p>@TheEqualizer:Look,I kinda've agree with you that it's not fair and a bit spotty on some parts,but I mean...dude.Are you seriously getting THAT uppity about this?</p>
<p>Anyways,I enjoy the alchemical arrows the most,and I love them for my ranger.I love all the companion books and all the details they give.Solid buy.</p><p>@TheEqualizer:Look,I kinda've agree with you that it's not fair and a bit spotty on some parts,but I mean...dude.Are you seriously getting THAT uppity about this?</p>
<p>Anyways,I enjoy the alchemical arrows the most,and I love them for my ranger.I love all the companion books and all the details they give.Solid buy.</p>sphar2011-06-23T20:13:48ZPathfinder Companion: Elves of Golarion (OGL) (4 stars)Steelfiredragonhttps://paizo.com/products/btpy85el?Pathfinder-Companion-Elves-of-Golarion2011-04-25T03:33:55Z<p>Well Okay I liked that it had more information on the elves that the original campaign setting and the personality and culture sections were well written.
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If you like elves you might like the book,
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my only complaint is that I did not really care for the brightness seeker prc.</p>
<p>overall I give the book a 4 stars our of 5.</p><p>Well Okay I liked that it had more information on the elves that the original campaign setting and the personality and culture sections were well written.
<br />
If you like elves you might like the book,
<br />
my only complaint is that I did not really care for the brightness seeker prc.</p>
<p>overall I give the book a 4 stars our of 5.</p>Steelfiredragon2011-04-25T03:33:55ZPathfinder Companion: Elves of Golarion (OGL): The fabled fabulous elves (part one) (1 star)The equalizerhttps://paizo.com/products/btpy85el?Pathfinder-Companion-Elves-of-Golarion2011-04-22T05:33:24Z<p><b>Pathfinder Companion: Elves of Golarion (OGL)</b></p><p>I have read a fair amount of pathfinder stuff and I have been impressed by the effort and quality of products. Then I read the book on elves and it was amazing.
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Straight from the beginning, the condescension starts. Elves do not think less of the short-lived races since they’re lifetimes come and go in the blink of an eye and they won’t live long enough to truly master any discipline. Its nothing personal, just bad luck on the part of the other races. Really? What about certain key figures like the wizard king and lich king Nex and Geb. The runelords or Lord Belkzen who united the orcs. Cavalry of Lastwall which managed to route 2000 orcs with 17 cavalry members? None of those were elves, yet all of them were very prominent historical figures in their own way. (I’d like to see 17 elves route 2000 orcs)Stranget thing is, don’t hear any mention of famous elven figures anywhere. Yes, very odd indeed for a race which has “mastered” their disciplines.
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Under brief history, it mentions that humans rapidly multiplied and vile things clawed at the edges of their lands. The elves fought but despite being worth 10 humans for each elf, they clearly could not win. They left before the starstone struck for their beloved original plane of existence. Watching in frustration as their homes were looted by vandals. Duh! If you abandon your home, it doesn’t take a genius to realise you’re turning over whatever is left to whoever passes through. You are so wise and yet didn’t see this coming?
<br />
Furthermore, they just upped and left the forests? Yet they are able to return with no direct repercussions. The god of nature Erastil welcomes them back with open arms for abandoning his beloved gardens and creatures. The fey get along famously with them having being abandoned. Decades pass and they trust the elves again. Really? There are no drawbacks? I’d hate to think the wrath of a god is a few showers in the early morning and afternoon with the next day’s forecast as mildly cloudy. The fey get back to trusting them again so easily? Gaps in logic and consistency here.
<br />
The non-elves wonder why elves are not all master swordsmen or powerful wizards. There it states they measure success differently, wealth and reputation are but distractions to the more important things like honour and seeking enlightenment. Well, that’s all good and dandy but is it not common sense to ensure your wizards can hold their own in combat, your soldiers can stand toe to toe with invaders coming to take your lands? If not, you won’t live to attain enlightenment and honour.
<br />
Elves who interact with “transient” races are already on the outliers of society. Just by that reason alone they are outliers of their society. A learned and wise race which closes itself off from the other races is blinded by its own “wisdom”. Isolationism breeds stagnation, not development not the furthering of disciplines. They can maintain their standards but sooner or later they will be surpassed as everyone who is learning from everyone else.
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The part on where an elf will still be around when the last monument crumbles.
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Highly doubtful there. Dwarves forge item and buildings which last a long time. The Thassilonians had monuments, some of which still stand in golarion and that was 10,000 years ago. An elf doesn’t live to be even 1000 years old. Complete contradiction and b%+#+&#+ there.
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It states that the most powerful wizards can sense the presence of magical auras without even looking. The only class which can do that is the warlock which can cast detect magic at will. Elves are not magical, they are not nishrus. They frown upon the channelling of innate mystical power like the sorcerer and warlock. Since wizards will know thousands of spells by the time the sorcerer knows dozens. Complete stigmatization of two spell casting disciplines which have their place. You may have variety but they can cast more times per day than you. Variety is pointless if one cannot implement it. Keep in mind this is the decision of a highly intellectual and superiorly wise race.
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Under the description of rangers and wizards, rangers are the frontiersmen
<br />
and all that. Wizards however are highly respected since arcane magic is the pinnacle of study and concentration. That’s fine but you sure you want favour mystical librarians so highly over your own soldiers. Not realising that being a ranger has its place in their society and not below wizards screams ignorance and blind arrogance.
<br />
Elven elders which tend to be wizards and give advice which is highly respected. They speak cryptically and their younger members aren’t sure they’ve gotten the message. Lets think about this. 20,000 orcs storm Kyonin. The younger wizards ask the elders for advice. They say something like:”if it is destined to happen as failure is the mother of success.” Then teleport away goodness knows where. This could be interpreted a number of different ways. What if one of them decided to let the orcs advance a bit more. Let the rangers fight them out. A lot will die but perhaps a weakness in the orcish lines could be found. They’re just rangers after all, not wizards right?
<br />
Then the book speaks of honour as being highly emphasized. Its apparently all about friendship and keeping one’s word. However, when elves get into feuds they don’t desire a one on one duel. This is frowned upon. They instead prefer to take apart the other persons life piece by piece and thoroughly destroy them. So let me get this straight. A show of mutual elven respect and honour through duelling is laughed at as opposed to trickery and slow excruciating pain. Does this not scream sadism on a severe scale? A dodgy rogue would do something like this while a knight would scoff in disgust. What part of that is honourable?
<br />
The elves are supposedly consummate craftsmen. They import raw minerals but look on with disdain when it comes to smelting. That’s all good to get past the mining. However, without smelting there is no crafting. I suppose one could get around this with spells but spells are not permanent. Adding the cost of permanency on an item regardless of whether it is magical would be ridiculous. Not even their own people would buy from them since permanency spells cost thousands of gold pieces.
<br />
From there it moves on to relations. Elves hate orcs and vice-versa. A half-orc holds dim hopes of being close to an elf. If he conducts himself with dignity and honour, he may win grudging respect. Elves do not differentiate them from their full-blooded kin. After a half-orc saves an elf a dozen times from the brink of death, braves the blistering elements of the desert and the blistering cold of the frozen tundra, the best he can hope for is grudging respect? Sorry to say that sounds like pure ungrateful selfishness and arrogance there. “Regardless of what you do I will never truly treat you as an equal” is what it is saying. Furthermore, deliberately not making the differentiation and just lumping them in with their hated foes sounds like simply lazy convenience. To not realise that there are exceptions in every race is an error born through lack of knowing and information. Hardly wise or learned.
<br />
There it goes to religion and it just gets better. It says elves pay homage to any god but most shun evil or corrupt deities. Calistria is the most widely worshipped of elven gods. What? Do the elves know what Calistria stands for? She may not be evil herself but she could swing towards it easily. No solid allegiance on any set beliefs or commitment. Beauty and cold vengeance are all that matter. Vengeance and justice are not always on the same page and the fact that she is widely worshipped contradicts this. </p>
<p>link to part 2: look to the comments section.</p><p><b>Pathfinder Companion: Elves of Golarion (OGL)</b></p><p>I have read a fair amount of pathfinder stuff and I have been impressed by the effort and quality of products. Then I read the book on elves and it was amazing.
<br />
Straight from the beginning, the condescension starts. Elves do not think less of the short-lived races since they’re lifetimes come and go in the blink of an eye and they won’t live long enough to truly master any discipline. Its nothing personal, just bad luck on the part of the other races. Really? What about certain key figures like the wizard king and lich king Nex and Geb. The runelords or Lord Belkzen who united the orcs. Cavalry of Lastwall which managed to route 2000 orcs with 17 cavalry members? None of those were elves, yet all of them were very prominent historical figures in their own way. (I’d like to see 17 elves route 2000 orcs)Stranget thing is, don’t hear any mention of famous elven figures anywhere. Yes, very odd indeed for a race which has “mastered” their disciplines.
<br />
Under brief history, it mentions that humans rapidly multiplied and vile things clawed at the edges of their lands. The elves fought but despite being worth 10 humans for each elf, they clearly could not win. They left before the starstone struck for their beloved original plane of existence. Watching in frustration as their homes were looted by vandals. Duh! If you abandon your home, it doesn’t take a genius to realise you’re turning over whatever is left to whoever passes through. You are so wise and yet didn’t see this coming?
<br />
Furthermore, they just upped and left the forests? Yet they are able to return with no direct repercussions. The god of nature Erastil welcomes them back with open arms for abandoning his beloved gardens and creatures. The fey get along famously with them having being abandoned. Decades pass and they trust the elves again. Really? There are no drawbacks? I’d hate to think the wrath of a god is a few showers in the early morning and afternoon with the next day’s forecast as mildly cloudy. The fey get back to trusting them again so easily? Gaps in logic and consistency here.
<br />
The non-elves wonder why elves are not all master swordsmen or powerful wizards. There it states they measure success differently, wealth and reputation are but distractions to the more important things like honour and seeking enlightenment. Well, that’s all good and dandy but is it not common sense to ensure your wizards can hold their own in combat, your soldiers can stand toe to toe with invaders coming to take your lands? If not, you won’t live to attain enlightenment and honour.
<br />
Elves who interact with “transient” races are already on the outliers of society. Just by that reason alone they are outliers of their society. A learned and wise race which closes itself off from the other races is blinded by its own “wisdom”. Isolationism breeds stagnation, not development not the furthering of disciplines. They can maintain their standards but sooner or later they will be surpassed as everyone who is learning from everyone else.
<br />
The part on where an elf will still be around when the last monument crumbles.
<br />
Highly doubtful there. Dwarves forge item and buildings which last a long time. The Thassilonians had monuments, some of which still stand in golarion and that was 10,000 years ago. An elf doesn’t live to be even 1000 years old. Complete contradiction and b%+#+&#+ there.
<br />
It states that the most powerful wizards can sense the presence of magical auras without even looking. The only class which can do that is the warlock which can cast detect magic at will. Elves are not magical, they are not nishrus. They frown upon the channelling of innate mystical power like the sorcerer and warlock. Since wizards will know thousands of spells by the time the sorcerer knows dozens. Complete stigmatization of two spell casting disciplines which have their place. You may have variety but they can cast more times per day than you. Variety is pointless if one cannot implement it. Keep in mind this is the decision of a highly intellectual and superiorly wise race.
<br />
Under the description of rangers and wizards, rangers are the frontiersmen
<br />
and all that. Wizards however are highly respected since arcane magic is the pinnacle of study and concentration. That’s fine but you sure you want favour mystical librarians so highly over your own soldiers. Not realising that being a ranger has its place in their society and not below wizards screams ignorance and blind arrogance.
<br />
Elven elders which tend to be wizards and give advice which is highly respected. They speak cryptically and their younger members aren’t sure they’ve gotten the message. Lets think about this. 20,000 orcs storm Kyonin. The younger wizards ask the elders for advice. They say something like:”if it is destined to happen as failure is the mother of success.” Then teleport away goodness knows where. This could be interpreted a number of different ways. What if one of them decided to let the orcs advance a bit more. Let the rangers fight them out. A lot will die but perhaps a weakness in the orcish lines could be found. They’re just rangers after all, not wizards right?
<br />
Then the book speaks of honour as being highly emphasized. Its apparently all about friendship and keeping one’s word. However, when elves get into feuds they don’t desire a one on one duel. This is frowned upon. They instead prefer to take apart the other persons life piece by piece and thoroughly destroy them. So let me get this straight. A show of mutual elven respect and honour through duelling is laughed at as opposed to trickery and slow excruciating pain. Does this not scream sadism on a severe scale? A dodgy rogue would do something like this while a knight would scoff in disgust. What part of that is honourable?
<br />
The elves are supposedly consummate craftsmen. They import raw minerals but look on with disdain when it comes to smelting. That’s all good to get past the mining. However, without smelting there is no crafting. I suppose one could get around this with spells but spells are not permanent. Adding the cost of permanency on an item regardless of whether it is magical would be ridiculous. Not even their own people would buy from them since permanency spells cost thousands of gold pieces.
<br />
From there it moves on to relations. Elves hate orcs and vice-versa. A half-orc holds dim hopes of being close to an elf. If he conducts himself with dignity and honour, he may win grudging respect. Elves do not differentiate them from their full-blooded kin. After a half-orc saves an elf a dozen times from the brink of death, braves the blistering elements of the desert and the blistering cold of the frozen tundra, the best he can hope for is grudging respect? Sorry to say that sounds like pure ungrateful selfishness and arrogance there. “Regardless of what you do I will never truly treat you as an equal” is what it is saying. Furthermore, deliberately not making the differentiation and just lumping them in with their hated foes sounds like simply lazy convenience. To not realise that there are exceptions in every race is an error born through lack of knowing and information. Hardly wise or learned.
<br />
There it goes to religion and it just gets better. It says elves pay homage to any god but most shun evil or corrupt deities. Calistria is the most widely worshipped of elven gods. What? Do the elves know what Calistria stands for? She may not be evil herself but she could swing towards it easily. No solid allegiance on any set beliefs or commitment. Beauty and cold vengeance are all that matter. Vengeance and justice are not always on the same page and the fact that she is widely worshipped contradicts this. </p>
<p>link to part 2: look to the comments section.</p>The equalizer2011-04-22T05:33:24ZPathfinder Companion: Elves of Golarion (OGL): Worshipful (1 star)3.5 Loyalisthttps://paizo.com/products/btpy85el?Pathfinder-Companion-Elves-of-Golarion2011-04-22T03:39:07Z<p><b>Pathfinder Companion: Elves of Golarion (OGL)</b></p><p>This was neither balanced nor objective. It reads like a pro-elf propaganda book. They can do so much, they have such potential, they are lazy and have a philosophy of inaction but can easily become experts in anything and masters of magic and the bow. I find it all a little unbelievable that the isolationists who distrust and look down upon outsiders (and even look down upon the elves that encounter outsiders) could truly be so proficient, widely-skilled, wise and all-knowing. That the gods are desperate for the attentions of the fence-sitters was laughable, even more so that the average elf can bargain and make pacts with the gods if in trouble. Don't they have quite the powerful position, aren't the elves in such a great spot as the gods wait on their every word? The prestige class was an over-powered joke, allowing a pick and choose of some truly powerful abilities, and for elves to get around their weak hp with a nice boost to natural ac.</p>
<p>1 star. With their weaknesses and lack of specialisation (they all farm, they all fence, they all are beautiful dandies) it stands as one of those illogical situations in Golarion that they haven't been invaded and scattered. They are unjustly too proud, and it comes across very clearly in the writing.</p><p><b>Pathfinder Companion: Elves of Golarion (OGL)</b></p><p>This was neither balanced nor objective. It reads like a pro-elf propaganda book. They can do so much, they have such potential, they are lazy and have a philosophy of inaction but can easily become experts in anything and masters of magic and the bow. I find it all a little unbelievable that the isolationists who distrust and look down upon outsiders (and even look down upon the elves that encounter outsiders) could truly be so proficient, widely-skilled, wise and all-knowing. That the gods are desperate for the attentions of the fence-sitters was laughable, even more so that the average elf can bargain and make pacts with the gods if in trouble. Don't they have quite the powerful position, aren't the elves in such a great spot as the gods wait on their every word? The prestige class was an over-powered joke, allowing a pick and choose of some truly powerful abilities, and for elves to get around their weak hp with a nice boost to natural ac.</p>
<p>1 star. With their weaknesses and lack of specialisation (they all farm, they all fence, they all are beautiful dandies) it stands as one of those illogical situations in Golarion that they haven't been invaded and scattered. They are unjustly too proud, and it comes across very clearly in the writing.</p>3.5 Loyalist2011-04-22T03:39:07ZPathfinder Companion: Elves of Golarion (OGL): 32 content-rich pages... (5 stars)Edward Kirchgessnerhttps://paizo.com/products/btpy85el?Pathfinder-Companion-Elves-of-Golarion2009-09-10T18:01:25Z<p><b>Pathfinder Companion: Elves of Golarion (OGL)</b></p><p>At first, I was a bit taken aback by the asking price for this product: $10 for 32 pages? Really? Having received my copy, I've officially been swayed.</p>
<p>In just 32 pages, you've succeeded in presenting more content than the competition could hope to get out in two or three hardbound tomes. This book isn't filled with new rules or tables - this is all rich material which a GM can use to help in fleshing out any campaign world. Keep these racial expansions coming! And while you're at it, some "Companion" publications on the various base character classes would be awesome ;)</p><p><b>Pathfinder Companion: Elves of Golarion (OGL)</b></p><p>At first, I was a bit taken aback by the asking price for this product: $10 for 32 pages? Really? Having received my copy, I've officially been swayed.</p>
<p>In just 32 pages, you've succeeded in presenting more content than the competition could hope to get out in two or three hardbound tomes. This book isn't filled with new rules or tables - this is all rich material which a GM can use to help in fleshing out any campaign world. Keep these racial expansions coming! And while you're at it, some "Companion" publications on the various base character classes would be awesome ;)</p>Edward Kirchgessner2009-09-10T18:01:25ZPathfinder Companion: Elves of Golarion (OGL): A good book , but it feels like it could have had more . . . (3 stars)KnightErrantJRhttps://paizo.com/products/btpy85el?Pathfinder-Companion-Elves-of-Golarion2009-08-10T04:17:15Z<p><b>Pathfinder Companion: Elves of Golarion (OGL)</b></p><p>I can't quite put my finger on it, but while I like this book, and I certainly think its worth the money, and there are even some nice RP hooks and elven eccentricities, like magical food, in the book, I think it felt more like fine tuning elves a little to fit in Golarion than really grabbing me and hitting a home run.</p>
<p>I wouldn't not have wanted a radically different approach to elves, but at the same time, I'm not sure what its missing, but its not quite "there."</p>
<p>Still, its a good book, worth the money, and gives you some nice RP "flair" to hang on a Golarion elf to personalize it to the setting, and I can't fault that.</p><p><b>Pathfinder Companion: Elves of Golarion (OGL)</b></p><p>I can't quite put my finger on it, but while I like this book, and I certainly think its worth the money, and there are even some nice RP hooks and elven eccentricities, like magical food, in the book, I think it felt more like fine tuning elves a little to fit in Golarion than really grabbing me and hitting a home run.</p>
<p>I wouldn't not have wanted a radically different approach to elves, but at the same time, I'm not sure what its missing, but its not quite "there."</p>
<p>Still, its a good book, worth the money, and gives you some nice RP "flair" to hang on a Golarion elf to personalize it to the setting, and I can't fault that.</p>KnightErrantJR2009-08-10T04:17:15ZPathfinder Companion: Elves of Golarion (OGL): Elves of Golarion Lite! (3 stars)Chubbs McGeehttps://paizo.com/products/btpy85el?Pathfinder-Companion-Elves-of-Golarion2009-07-16T04:30:14Z<p><b>Pathfinder Companion: Elves of Golarion (OGL)</b></p><p>I paid AUD$18.00 for this sourcebook and was not disappointed for the price. However, I would have paid three times as much for half again the pages that could have provided more depth and insight into my favourite player race.</p>
<p>Elves of Golarion just lacked depth and in some instances provided little difference between the supplements created by TSR or WotC. I was expecting to find something new within the pages of this depiction of Golarion's elves, instead it went only a short way to fleshing out the elven race for this new world.</p>
<p>I hope to see more depth in the future and I will be glad to pay for it!</p><p><b>Pathfinder Companion: Elves of Golarion (OGL)</b></p><p>I paid AUD$18.00 for this sourcebook and was not disappointed for the price. However, I would have paid three times as much for half again the pages that could have provided more depth and insight into my favourite player race.</p>
<p>Elves of Golarion just lacked depth and in some instances provided little difference between the supplements created by TSR or WotC. I was expecting to find something new within the pages of this depiction of Golarion's elves, instead it went only a short way to fleshing out the elven race for this new world.</p>
<p>I hope to see more depth in the future and I will be glad to pay for it!</p>Chubbs McGee2009-07-16T04:30:14ZPathfinder Companion: Elves of Golarion (OGL) (4 stars)Belardahttps://paizo.com/products/btpy85el?Pathfinder-Companion-Elves-of-Golarion2009-05-17T12:17:59Z<p>This booklet give good insight to elven but lack more indepts on difrent societys.</p><p>This booklet give good insight to elven but lack more indepts on difrent societys.</p>Belarda2009-05-17T12:17:59ZPathfinder Companion: Elves of Golarion (OGL): Elven resource (4 stars)Dyvynarthhttps://paizo.com/products/btpy85el?Pathfinder-Companion-Elves-of-Golarion2009-04-22T14:46:37Z<p><b>Pathfinder Companion: Elves of Golarion (OGL)</b></p><p>An excellent resource on elves in the world of Golarion. My only complaint is that I feel some of the nonstandard elven societies could have been fleshed out a bit more. In other words, a sourcebook detailing the ruins of Azlant, the Aboleths, and the elves of Mordant Spire would be greatly welcome.</p><p><b>Pathfinder Companion: Elves of Golarion (OGL)</b></p><p>An excellent resource on elves in the world of Golarion. My only complaint is that I feel some of the nonstandard elven societies could have been fleshed out a bit more. In other words, a sourcebook detailing the ruins of Azlant, the Aboleths, and the elves of Mordant Spire would be greatly welcome.</p>Dyvynarth2009-04-22T14:46:37ZPathfinder Companion: Elves of Golarion (OGL): Elves with soul and flavor (5 stars)Montalvehttps://paizo.com/products/btpy85el?Pathfinder-Companion-Elves-of-Golarion2009-01-12T23:00:41Z<p><b>Pathfinder Companion: Elves of Golarion (OGL)</b></p><p>An excellent sourcebook that shows us the different sides of being an elf: physically, mentally and spiritually.</p>
<p>New options for the elven players, new equipment and the examples of how deeply is the connection between elves and the magic or the use of the bow.</p>
<p>An excellent sourcebook for those who love the elves or plan them as antagonist, the only thing it lacks is more information on the the other elven races (its mostly the high elves of Kyoningthe ones mentioned, with the Forlorns in the mix)</p><p><b>Pathfinder Companion: Elves of Golarion (OGL)</b></p><p>An excellent sourcebook that shows us the different sides of being an elf: physically, mentally and spiritually.</p>
<p>New options for the elven players, new equipment and the examples of how deeply is the connection between elves and the magic or the use of the bow.</p>
<p>An excellent sourcebook for those who love the elves or plan them as antagonist, the only thing it lacks is more information on the the other elven races (its mostly the high elves of Kyoningthe ones mentioned, with the Forlorns in the mix)</p>Montalve2009-01-12T23:00:41ZPathfinder Companion: Elves of Golarion (OGL): Crate of epic treasure for those who plan to use elves in their campaigns. (4 stars)Vakhttps://paizo.com/products/btpy85el?Pathfinder-Companion-Elves-of-Golarion2008-12-15T23:04:09Z<p><b>Pathfinder Companion: Elves of Golarion (OGL)</b></p><p>'Elves of golarion' is a must have for anyone planning to run an elf-involving campaign on golarion, and a great roleplay-resource and background information crate of treasures for anyone who wants to start an elf in this new amazing world.
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It may contain information already known to some older players who date back to 2nd ed, but there is far more in these 32 pages of awesome.</p>
<p>I am slightly disappointed at the prestige class though. Some may disagree, but the path given in this book is sort of NPCey. I don't imagine many players in my campaign would be charmed into playing it. It does not fit any spellcaster classes as it does not add any caster levels and the low attack bonus will probably disorient fighter-types from picking it.
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I suppose I was hoping towards something like the return of a worthy bladesinger class to the game, which I've not seen since 2nd edition,or a mordant spire inspired one, perhaps even something from the winter council.</p>
<p>The elven queen's stat block seems a bit sub-par to me. I like the 2nd ed feeling these not-too-high-level-but-still-epic-npc give, but she could use some extra omph.</p>
<p>After a quick breakdown, her original unmodified by race or items statblock comes out at a total cost of 24 points in creation, which is 1 less from the 'epic fantasy' point selection. This is awesome for an NPC of this magnitude, but her crown which disables her from wearing a headband of intellect is a bit of a kick in the groin. She could still come out large and in-charge by researching a permanency spell on a maximized fox cunning spell, and with the PF rules she also gets a +2 racial int buff and 2 extra hps per level according to the conversion rules which puts her in a good place. 27 int sounds much better for a queen of elves rather than 20, which will likely be outmatched by an elf PC by level 8 or 12. I might go make my own version of her on the forums just for kicks later, using the same good logic of non-munchkinism.</p><p><b>Pathfinder Companion: Elves of Golarion (OGL)</b></p><p>'Elves of golarion' is a must have for anyone planning to run an elf-involving campaign on golarion, and a great roleplay-resource and background information crate of treasures for anyone who wants to start an elf in this new amazing world.
<br />
It may contain information already known to some older players who date back to 2nd ed, but there is far more in these 32 pages of awesome.</p>
<p>I am slightly disappointed at the prestige class though. Some may disagree, but the path given in this book is sort of NPCey. I don't imagine many players in my campaign would be charmed into playing it. It does not fit any spellcaster classes as it does not add any caster levels and the low attack bonus will probably disorient fighter-types from picking it.
<br />
I suppose I was hoping towards something like the return of a worthy bladesinger class to the game, which I've not seen since 2nd edition,or a mordant spire inspired one, perhaps even something from the winter council.</p>
<p>The elven queen's stat block seems a bit sub-par to me. I like the 2nd ed feeling these not-too-high-level-but-still-epic-npc give, but she could use some extra omph.</p>
<p>After a quick breakdown, her original unmodified by race or items statblock comes out at a total cost of 24 points in creation, which is 1 less from the 'epic fantasy' point selection. This is awesome for an NPC of this magnitude, but her crown which disables her from wearing a headband of intellect is a bit of a kick in the groin. She could still come out large and in-charge by researching a permanency spell on a maximized fox cunning spell, and with the PF rules she also gets a +2 racial int buff and 2 extra hps per level according to the conversion rules which puts her in a good place. 27 int sounds much better for a queen of elves rather than 20, which will likely be outmatched by an elf PC by level 8 or 12. I might go make my own version of her on the forums just for kicks later, using the same good logic of non-munchkinism.</p>Vak2008-12-15T23:04:09Z