I can't find where the events of the Gamemastery D0 adventure take place on the map of Varisia in the "Rise of the Runelords" Players Guide.
I thought all of these products were set in the same world...
It's been stated that D0 and D1 are set in a different part of Golarion (the world), not in Varisia (the region). I'm fairly sure, but don't quote me, that they're on the same continent. We just need to hang on for the Gazetteer!
There's a little tag in the bottom right corner of the Player's Guide map that says "Bloodsworn Vale -->". Earlier comments on these boards suggest it's about 3,000 miles away.
I'm still not convinced that you can't put the Bloodsworn Vale, Falcon's Hollow and Sandpoint all in the same place, though. They don't seem incompatible in any way.
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There's a little tag in the bottom right corner of the Player's Guide map that says "Bloodsworn Vale -->". Earlier comments on these boards suggest it's about 3,000 miles away.
I'm still not convinced that you can't put the Bloodsworn Vale, Falcon's Hollow and Sandpoint all in the same place, though. They don't seem incompatible in any way.
I think you're slightly confused. Bloodsworn Vale (from W1) has always been connected to Varisia.
Darkmoon Vale (from D0 and D1) is thousands of miles away.
It's the quick succession of vales, I think, that cause these sorts of misunderstandings.
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There's a little tag in the bottom right corner of the Player's Guide map that says "Bloodsworn Vale -->". Earlier comments on these boards suggest it's about 3,000 miles away.
I'm still not convinced that you can't put the Bloodsworn Vale, Falcon's Hollow and Sandpoint all in the same place, though. They don't seem incompatible in any way.
I think you're slightly confused. Bloodsworn Vale (from W1) has always been connected to Varisia.
Darkmoon Vale (from D0 and D1) is thousands of miles away.
It's the quick succession of vales, I think, that cause these sorts of misunderstandings.
According to what James said in the Introduction to Pathfinder Seminar, Bloodsworn Vale is just off the bottom corner of the Varisia Map from the Players Guide.
I think you're slightly confused. Bloodsworn Vale (from W1) has always been connected to Varisia.
Darkmoon Vale (from D0 and D1) is thousands of miles away.
It's the quick succession of vales, I think, that cause these sorts of misunderstandings.
That's it, I'm making my own map. Remind me again why you aren't letting any of your GameMastery adventures tie together?
Seriously, though, I wonder how long I would've gone on thinking Darkmoon and Bloodsworn were the same place?
We're doing an in-depth overview of Varisia in Pathfinder #3, in which every tag on that map in the Player's Guide will be detailed.
Also, GameMastery Modules can certainly be tied together, and will be to varying degrees in the future - the world's just so large that it'll take some time before you start noticing the various references and easter eggs. Trust me, they're there. :)
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Seriously, though, I wonder how long I would've gone on thinking Darkmoon and Bloodsworn were the same place?
I'm not going to name any names, because a single-letter pronoun would suffice, but there's a certain editor here at Paizo R&D who can't remember Darkmoon Vale. He's called it Darkwood, Moonwood, Bloodmoon, and all sorts of other compound words that, ultimately, are wrong.
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I guess I got confused because D2 is The Seven Swords of Sin, which definitely sounds like it is connected to The Rise of the Runelords!
D2 is connected to Rise of the Runelords, just not in a way that directly affects the plot of the AP. Both are set in Varisia, both deal with things dating back to ancient Thassilon, and indeed, you could easily run D2 in between Pathfinders 2 and 3 if you felt like it. Someone else on the boards actually suggested running an evil party through D2, then having them face off against a good party playing the Adventure Path, which I think is pretty neat....
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We're doing an in-depth overview of Varisia in Pathfinder #3, in which every tag on that map in the Player's Guide will be detailed.
GAH! you're going to take ALL of my free time! as it is I'm Copying the town information into HTML files with the known history, as well as links to the buildings and what they have in them, doing to same for encounter locations, typing a list of all monsters found in adventures there (retyping the stats for gamemastery monsters (or copy/paste from the PDFs I havn't started them yet) and linked it the d20srd website for the monsters that have stats there) do you know how much more work this is going to make me do to keep it up to date? I'm going to have to start it when it ships instead of when i get the paper version!
PS:I'm only using this for personal use on my laptop on the game table, as my PCs love to go off on tangents. That and I like to be able to answer question about places histories on these boards easily
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I think you're slightly confused. Bloodsworn Vale (from W1) has always been connected to Varisia.
Darkmoon Vale (from D0 and D1) is thousands of miles away.
It's the quick succession of vales, I think, that cause these sorts of misunderstandings.
I think this brings up an interesting idea concerning locations, their names, the confusion that may arise.
Imagine if you were an adventurer and you were told that the Crypt of Lotsaloot was located in the Vale of Blood. Now you go to a sage and he tells you where the Vale of Blood is. You set out on your perilous journey and arrive only to find out that the sage gave you directions to the Bloodsworn Vale.
After all, information can get easily confused in a society that has passed info down via word of mouth via bard songs, and recorded by sages, historians, etc that may not verify the information that has been given to them.
Just some thoughts,
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Just to clarify in my own mind. Are all the Pathfinder™ Modules set in Golarion?
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