One of the areas of the greyhawk gazetteer where I gained most of my inspiration was not the description of the countries but the description of the forests or hills or deserts. Knowing that Keoland did x or y was fine but my adventurers spent 90% of their time in the Hool marshes or the Hellfurnaces. The information on what lived there or that there is an ancient ruin in the Suss forest was the pure adventuring gold.
But the Campaign book appears to me to be sadly lacking this information. (or if it is there where is it?)Is it going to be in the new one? Please.
If not could a companion or whatever be released with a few paragraphs about each of the Forests, Mountains, Hills, bays, lakes etc of the world. (ie what lives there, are their ancient ruins, undead? etc)
(PS I know there is a whole bunch of info on Varisia in one of the early AP's (3 I think) but this is a more general request)
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One of the areas of the greyhawk gazetteer where I gained most of my inspiration was not the description of the countries but the description of the forests or hills or deserts. Knowing that Keoland did x or y was fine but my adventurers spent 90% of their time in the Hool marshes or the Hellfurnaces. The information on what lived there or that there is an ancient ruin in the Suss forest was the pure adventuring gold.
But the Campaign book appears to me to be sadly lacking this information. (or if it is there where is it?)Is it going to be in the new one? Please.
If not could a companion or whatever be released with a few paragraphs about each of the Forests, Mountains, Hills, bays, lakes etc of the world. (ie what lives there, are their ancient ruins, undead? etc)
(PS I know there is a whole bunch of info on Varisia in one of the early AP's (3 I think) but this is a more general request)
For the most part, you'll find the information you're looking for inside of the various nation writeups. Note that some of those nations, like the Mwangi Expanse, ARE regions, not nations.
For the most part, you'll find the information you're looking for inside of the various nation writeups. Note that some of those nations, like the Mwangi Expanse, ARE regions, not nations.One of the areas of the greyhawk gazetteer where I gained most of my inspiration was not the description of the countries but the description of the forests or hills or deserts. Knowing that Keoland did x or y was fine but my adventurers spent 90% of their time in the Hool marshes or the Hellfurnaces. The information on what lived there or that there is an ancient ruin in the Suss forest was the pure adventuring gold.
But the Campaign book appears to me to be sadly lacking this information. (or if it is there where is it?)Is it going to be in the new one? Please.
If not could a companion or whatever be released with a few paragraphs about each of the Forests, Mountains, Hills, bays, lakes etc of the world. (ie what lives there, are their ancient ruins, undead? etc)
(PS I know there is a whole bunch of info on Varisia in one of the early AP's (3 I think) but this is a more general request)
I see there is some description of some forests and hills and the like in the nation write ups but often this appears fairly sparse (like the one line information on the Worlds edge mountains in Taldor or the one word description of the Bandu Hills in the Mwangi expanse) or non existant (like The Boarwood in Galt or the Fenwall and Mindspin Mountains in Varisia). Of course I may have missed some information, but that too is a problem IMO. For mine the information is not sufficient or not sufficiently easy to find.
I take it then that there is currently no plan to add this type of information to the Campaign book. In which case let me put in a vote for a supplement with just one to three paragraphs about each forest, mountain, desert, lake etc. I would buy it.
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I see there is some description of some forests and hills and the like in the nation write ups but often this appears fairly sparse (like the one line information on the Worlds edge mountains in Taldor or the one word description of the Bandu Hills in the Mwangi expanse) or non existant (like The Boarwood in Galt or the Fenwall and Mindspin Mountains in Varisia). Of course I may have missed some information, but that too is a problem IMO. For mine the information is not sufficient or not sufficiently easy to find.
The Pathfinder wiki can be good for this sort of thing - bringing together stuff from different sources.
I agree with you that a more information on some of the geographical features would be good, but I guess they can't cram everything in.
Also, perhaps they haven't had any ideas about the Boarwood yet!
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I take it then that there is currently no plan to add this type of information to the Campaign book. In which case let me put in a vote for a supplement with just one to three paragraphs about each forest, mountain, desert, lake etc. I would buy it.
Actaully... ALL of the regional entries are going to be 4 pages long in the revised setting. And a lot of the new material is going to be location entries. Expect to see the entries organized a bit better too... so for example, if you're looking at the entry for Varisia, you might see a paragraph about cities like Magnimar or Sandpoint, paragraphs about notable sites like the Mobhad-Leigh or Viperwall, or even regions like the Kodar Mountains or the Varisian Gulf.
So there'll be some geographical stuff in there, yup!
I take it then that there is currently no plan to add this type of information to the Campaign book. In which case let me put in a vote for a supplement with just one to three paragraphs about each forest, mountain, desert, lake etc. I would buy it.Actaully... ALL of the regional entries are going to be 4 pages long in the revised setting. And a lot of the new material is going to be location entries. Expect to see the entries organized a bit better too... so for example, if you're looking at the entry for Varisia, you might see a paragraph about cities like Magnimar or Sandpoint, paragraphs about notable sites like the Mobhad-Leigh or Viperwall, or even regions like the Kodar Mountains or the Varisian Gulf.
So there'll be some geographical stuff in there, yup!
Excellent