As someone who is adopting 4th Ed, I'm curious as to how much of the material will be useful to me.
It is extremely light in actual truth. There is just one feat, two stats writeup and a page of class breakdown for certain NPCs as the only reach game rules content for it. The rest is just pure description and detail on the city and its people.
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What Sephzero said.
With the approaching edition change we were mindful to make the guides as edition neutral as possible. That is a design goal we decided to continue with Guide to Darkmoon Vale and is one of the design goals of the forthcoming Guide to Abasalom. It is our current thinking that any Pathfinder Chronicles book with "Guide to" in the title will have as little game mechanics as possible, making all of them not only edition neutral, but even GAME neutral. :)
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With the approaching edition change we were mindful to make the guides as edition neutral as possible. That is a design goal we decided to continue with Guide to Darkmoon Vale and is one of the design goals of the forthcoming Guide to Abasalom. It is our current thinking that any Pathfinder Chronicles book with "Guide to" in the title will have as little game mechanics as possible, making all of them not only edition neutral, but even GAME neutral. :)
This is very good news indeed.
I'm nearly done reading Guide to Korvosa, and one thing that continually strikes me is how much more interesting it is to read than many other D&D supplements, which, I believe, is primarily due to the lack of crunch to interrupt the flow of the writing.
If the other guides are to be written in this manner, I will anxiously be awaiting their arrival.
Again, excellent work, Paizo!
With the approaching edition change we were mindful to make the guides as edition neutral as possible.
Awesome. Excuse me for a moment as I add a few books to my want list...
Will the same be true of the Gazetteer and/or Campaign Setting?
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I'm nearly done reading Guide to Korvosa, and one thing that continually strikes me is how much more interesting it is to read than many other D&D supplements, which, I believe, is primarily due to the lack of crunch to interrupt the flow of the writing.
And also because the writer of that book is full of awesome. ;)
Will the same be true of the Gazetteer and/or Campaign Setting?
Nope. Only the "Guide to" books are mechanics-light. Everything else is a regular 3.5/PRGP supplement or module.