Golarion is a pretty groovy world so I thought that I would start a thread where people could brain storm cool campaign, or campaign arc, ideas.
Personally I would love to run or play in a great Viking traveling/questing campaign that took the party through the lands of the savage north: Irrisen, the Realm of the Mammoth Lords, the Holds of Belken, the Cinderlands, the Worldwound, and maybe Numeria and Ustalav.
I also like the seedy decadence of Taldor as a setting for a campaign of redemption. The general sense of eventual oblivion is a great mood setter, and the extravagant finery and pomp decadence of the nobles could really be used well to both contrast with, and draw similarities to, some pretty outwardly grotesque evils. Jaded and drugged out devotees of Zon-Kuthon seeded into the aristocracy pulling the strings towards a doomsday, pseodo-Narnian centaur/gnome/awakened animals cult of Lamashtu/Jubilex festering in Verduran Forest, Sahuagin invasion from the sea, righteous heroes turned terrorists after being wronged by noble houses...yeah.
Feel free to share your ideas.
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I'm a huge fan of Mesoamerican civilization and I would love to have Arcadia explored further. The book 1491, by Charles C. Mann has some great insights into how advanced Indians really were (earthworks-pyramids on the Mississippi bigger than the ones at Giza, evidence that the Amazon rainforest is at least partially if not almost entirely human-cultivated, and so on) and could provide some great inspiration for "lost" civilizations unknown to Avistan. There's no need to make them the carbon-copies of Maztica, but there is definitely room for some cool Indian super-civilizations in Arcadia.
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I'm a huge fan of Mesoamerican civilization and I would love to have Arcadia explored further. The book 1491, by Charles C. Mann has some great insights into how advanced Indians really were (earthworks-pyramids on the Mississippi bigger than the ones at Giza, evidence that the Amazon rainforest is at least partially if not almost entirely human-cultivated, and so on) and could provide some great inspiration for "lost" civilizations unknown to Avistan. There's no need to make them the carbon-copies of Maztica, but there is definitely room for some cool Indian super-civilizations in Arcadia.
From archaeological evidence along the eastern American seabord, the Native Americans there llived in huge cities with suburban areas. They say that most of the east coast was cultivated and "urban." The St Louis area had a huge city with many suburban cities around it. Central America had an extensive infrastucture for trade and cultivation.
The Native Americans were no savages. They had a very developed culture. Damn shame most of it was wiped out.
I want to do a high level game after the RORL is over where the PCs must deal with the World Wound and who is behind it and trying to stop it