Hello,
in some post of a paizo representative I read, that the adventure paths in their current form are the main cash cow of paizo and therefor will stay the way they are. Be that as it may, but if this is really the main way of distributing information about golarion aside from companions and chronicles it might really be a nice thing to have a sort of general index to see which information can be found where.
Take the gods for example. Where do you find information about them?
-The Campaign Setting
-The Gazetteer
-Gods and Magic
now comes the paradox:
An even more detailed description than that in Gods and Magic can be found in:
-The Adventure Paths
It gets worse:
Issue #23 tells us something about Rovagug
Issue #24 tells us something about Spawn of Rovagug
Are you catching my drift? How the hell am I to remember where which information is stored. Making knowledge checks in real life to find the information I need when standing in my Pathfinder-Library sounds like a funny thing, but believe me it is not. Opening every adventure path reading the table of contends and putting it back into the shelf gets bothersome since the number of volumes approaches 30 and there is going to be more.
Therefor I suggest and I hope this finds the backup of the community a online lore index, where I can have an alphabetical list of all topic regarding pathfinder combined with some kind of search funktion so that I click on or enter "rovagug" and it tells me:
"Information about the topic rovagug can be found in"
Campaing Setting pp. XX-YY
Gods and Magic pp. XX-YY
and so on.
Greetz
Ganzir
Director of Brand Strategy
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Hi there!
Have you visited PathfinderWiki?
While not official, we operate under Paizo's Community Use Policy, which allows us to chronicle all the canon from the various Pathfinder lines. Using your example, if you go to the Rovagug article, it combines information from the Campaign Setting, Gods & Magic, Pathfinder 23, and Pathfinder 24, as well as any other sources that might provide ancillary facts relevant to the Rough Beast.
We've currently got over 2,500 articles and get more every day. There are still a bunch of gaps, but you can generally at least find pointers from each article's "references" section for where to find more information in original sourcebooks. And anyone can edit it, so if making an index or hyperlinked encyclopedia of Pathfinder Chronicles lore is your thing, you can help make it a better resource for yourself and everyone else.
Stop on by and feel free to offer feedback here or on the wiki itself.
The Pathfinder wiki is a damn useful tool for a quick pass to look up article sources on something if it wasn't one that I'd already read up on in depth already. It's been helpful :)
