Forgive what is probably a very dumb question, and perhaps one that is well documented elsewhere, but how adaptable will the material in Pathfinder be to other campaign worlds?
As awesome as Golarion looks, I have been running all of the other adventure paths in my own homebrew world, and have a bit of a desire to maintain that continuity. The ammount of supporting detail Paizo is releasing for Golarion makes me a bit intimidated to try to make the jump with these new APs as well.
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If you've had little trouble adapting the other APs to your campaign, you should find Pathfinder an easy fit. At its heart Golarion is just good old D&D. We assume the same sort of baseline assumptions we've always assumed, which is that the only thing we can assume is that players have the three core books. Everything else flows from that. If your campaign is based on the three core books you should be fine.
I am looking forward to what the bones of my subscriptions in both Dungeon and Dragon hath wrougbt in the small subscription to Pathfinder I will now receive. I may even adjust a few things in the general world to fit my own custom world. From the free pdf I just downloaded I see some potential here. But I will wait and see the finished product until I weigh my full judgement.
I try to be fair in my assessments. Doesn't always work out that way. Heck, I'm someone that loved the giff in SJ. Would never play one but I like having the option. I should know about the third issue whether I will pursue it further or not. Especially if I can adapt to the weird little campaign setting that I'm developing(elves, dwarves and gnomes are PC fey; humans, halflings and the standard races replaced with furries to give a real alternative to Iron Claw for my fellow furry gamers).
Especially if I can adapt to the weird little campaign setting that I'm developing(elves, dwarves and gnomes are PC fey; humans, halflings and the standard races replaced with furries to give a real alternative to Iron Claw for my fellow furry gamers).
Boggards are like furries! Well... scalies. And you get your first hint of them in the Player's Guide (their language is in there), and full stats are coming in PF #2 along with notes on boggard characters. See, everybody gets some love.
Honestly, I think the Pathfinder adventures are going to be a little too dark for my personal tastes, but I can almost guarantee they'll be rife with plunderable gaming idea goodness (which is why I signed on, well, that and the buttery smooth printed goodness that is Paizo paper). Speaking of which, what are they doing over there in China that makes the paper so darn fantastic? Or does the paper come from elsewhere and they just print it there with magical scratch and sniff inks? I notice the large pictures seem more matte than glossy (it breaks up the smoothness in an appealing way. Ah shoot, I think I'm developing a Paizo-paper fetish. That's just great.
the standard races replaced with furries to give a real alternative to Iron Claw for my fellow furry gamers).
See, everybody gets some love.
Careful there, furry love getting a little too close to skirting the edge of yiffy!