Pathfinder Chronicles: "3e"-ey or "4e"-ey?


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A campaign world can't help but reflect its birthing version somewhat - are specific races, classes, monsters, cosmology, etc. accounted for. So is the plan for the Pathfinder Chronicles world to reflect the 3e worldview or the 4e worldview?

By the way, props on PC, I'm looking forward to it. It could only be better if it became the canonical location for Freeport!!!

Sczarni

Ernest Mueller wrote:


A campaign world can't help but reflect its birthing version somewhat - are specific races, classes, monsters, cosmology, etc. accounted for. So is the plan for the Pathfinder Chronicles world to reflect the 3e worldview or the 4e worldview?

By the way, props on PC, I'm looking forward to it. It could only be better if it became the canonical location for Freeport!!!

Its been said before that pathfinder and related products are going to support the pathfinder world view... the real question here is what crunch is going to be included in this, which the crew can't decide until they get rules for 4.0 (last i heard they didn't have them)


As of this time Paizo Publishing has not recieved the 4.0 rules of D&D from WoTC, nor the new OGL. Keep in mind Paizo Publishing can only use that which is OGL.

Paizo Employee Creative Director

Pathfinder Chronicles will reflect the classic D&D style worldview. At this point, that means it's going to continue to be what it is; it's not going to transform into a Points of Light type setting. Golarion is very much a world inspired by 1st, 2nd, and 3rd edition traditions; we here at Paizo have been, in some cases, playing the game for well over two decades, and in that time we've developed a pretty good idea of what makes for an iconic and cool setting, with inspiration from Greyhawk, Forgotten Realms, Dark Sun, Spelljammer, Ravenloft, 1st edition, 2nd edition, and 3rd edition.

No one here at Paizo has seen the 4th edition rules yet, so they haven't had any real influence on the world we're designing. If we DO switch to 4th edition, we won't be making drastic changes to Golarion to fit the new rules... the new rules will have to adapt to support the version of the game that we're interested in publishing.


James Jacobs wrote:
Pathfinder Chronicles will reflect the classic D&D style worldview. At this point, that means it's going to continue to be what it is; it's not going to transform into a Points of Light type setting. Golarion is very much a world inspired by 1st, 2nd, and 3rd edition traditions; we here at Paizo have been, in some cases, playing the game for well over two decades, and in that time we've developed a pretty good idea of what makes for an iconic and cool setting, with inspiration from Greyhawk, Forgotten Realms, Dark Sun, Spelljammer, Ravenloft, 1st edition, 2nd edition, and 3rd edition.

There's a discussion right now at EN World about what a PoL setting is, and Dark Sun, Spelljammer, Ravenloft, Dragonlance, Mystara and even Greyhawk at times (the Sargent years) were PoL settings. So while it's certainly not, "stroll across the Faerunian countryside with your baby carriage," it's really not a new concept, either.

While I'm not yet sold on 4E, per se, I was hoping to at least make parts of Golarion PoL-ish (as opposed to Polish, lol). I like the "you're in danger everywhere but the city" over "you're safe everywhere but the dungeon", there's more drama inherent in such a setting.

That said, I kinda thought that Darkmoon Vale was a point of light, no?

Paizo Employee Chief Creative Officer, Publisher

There are huge stretches of Golarion that would work as a points of light setting. The point was to create a world that will allow you to play whatever sort of campaign you want to play.


Erik Mona wrote:
There are huge stretches of Golarion that would work as a points of light setting. The point was to create a world that will allow you to play whatever sort of campaign you want to play.

That's what I thought. I likey a lot.


James Jacobs wrote:
we've developed a pretty good idea of what makes for an iconic and cool setting

Seems true so far.

James Jacobs wrote:
If we DO switch to 4th edition, we won't be making drastic changes to Golarion to fit the new rules... the new rules will have to adapt to support the version of the game that we're interested in publishing.

Can't hear that often enough.

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