Pathfinder and Game Mastery

[Datdude]

Forgive me for my ignorance, but are the Pathfinder Adventure Path and the Game Mastery Modules set in the same campaign setting?

[WormysQueue]

Yes, they are. Modules mostly cover other regions, so they are independent information-wise. But the world's the same.

[Grindor]

Yep. Both are set in the Pathfinder Chronicles campaign setting, in the world of Golarion.

[Datdude]

I downloaded the Falcon's Hallow Module, and I liked it and was considering buying the Kolbold King adventure, but then I decided to go with the Pathfinder Adventure Path. Now I know that they are both set in the same world, I think I shall follow both paths.

[Franz Lunzer]

Keep in mind, that Falcon's Hollow nowhere near Varisia is.

The world's name is "Golarion", if you wonder.

[Datdude]

Is the Game Mastery Adventure Path as good as Pathfinders?

[Franz Lunzer]

Datdude wrote:

Is the Game Mastery Adventure Path as good as Pathfinders?

Game Mastery adventures follow no distinct AP. Though some link together, not all of them do. All of them are designed to be seperate adventures.

The adventures themselves are really good, as far as I had a read through them, and I think Paizo's staff will keep up the good work in the next adventures.

[Djoc]

Some of the Modules share the Varisia region. Seven Swords of Sin happens in Kaer Maga (on the edge of the cliff South of the Cinderlands) and Conquest of Bloodsworn Vale happens in Bloodsworn Vale, right off the South-East corner of the map of Varisia.

I might be running Seven Swords of Sin between PF#3 and #4, since it also shares the "Runelords" theme.

[SirUrza]

Officially the two are in the same setting but are on opposite ends of the planet.

However, being that it's your campaign and you can do whatever you want, I've suggested to people that there's no reason that the Hollow Mountains on the island on the western edge of the Varisian Gulf (see the map on the last page of players guide) can't be the Falcon's Hollow Environs found north of Falcon's Hollow (see map inside cover of Hollow's Last Hope.)

That's if you want to incorporate the two. Nothing stopping you from ferrying the players to and from there. And if the players gain too many levels playing Hollow's Last Hope and the loot is too yummy for Pathfinder 1, there's no reason their ship can't be attacked and their loot sunk to the bottom of the Gulf by some nasty water monster. :)