I get lost in the wiki.
I'm sorry; are you asking where to begin a campaign in Golarion, where to begin searching for info within the wiki, or something else? I'm sort of at a loss determining what kind of advice you are requesting . . .
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I get lost in the wiki.I'm sorry; are you asking where to begin a campaign in Golarion, where to begin searching for info within the wiki, or something else? I'm sort of at a loss determining what kind of advice you are requesting . . .
Sorry, that was very vague.
I am about to start a campaign set in Golarion as a player. I want to immerse myself into the setting to achieve as much verisimilitude as possible. It turns out there is more info already then I realized. What is the current year, what info is cannon, ect. I went to the wiki, which is put together very well but I became lost and overwhelmed. Thanks in advance
I get lost in the wiki.I'm sorry; are you asking where to begin a campaign in Golarion, where to begin searching for info within the wiki, or something else? I'm sort of at a loss determining what kind of advice you are requesting . . .Sorry, that was very vague.
I am about to start a campaign set in Golarion as a player. I want to immerse myself into the setting to achieve as much verisimilitude as possible. It turns out there is more info already then I realized. What is the current year, what info is cannon, ect. I went to the wiki, which is put together very well but I became lost and overwhelmed. Thanks in advance
Let's see . . . the game year is equal to our current year +2700, so the Golarion year would be 4710. The developers wanted it this way as not to make older APs/modules irrelevant, and so people could play them pretty much in any order.
It is my understanding that the Pathfinder wiki is derived from official Pathfinder Chronicles/Companion/Modules/Adventure Path/etc. sources, and--to my knowledge--is canon. Usually, the wiki posts sources used in the articles.
There will be a Pathfinder Chronicles World Book: The Inner Sea Region coming out fairly soon; it is a PFRPG-specific revision/expansion of the old OGL/3.5 book.
Does this help at all?
One thing you might try is to read the god section and /or pick regions to read from the map. Pick your home area, then which direction ya wish to travel on the map. Clicking on that area on the map will take you to that area.
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Actually, the player-oriented book that you should after is HERE
An updated edition is coming in October, but until then the Gazzeteer is the best concise source of info on Golarion.
Over in the campaign setting area, there is a thread about which modern cultures are relfected in which areas. This may give you an idea which areas you may want to read up on based off of your character concept.
Heh, I was (and still am, in fact) in the same situation as you. When we started, I didn't to get myself immesrsed too much in the world, since we were just trying out Pathfinder. Now we play both 3.5 and PF equally, and when it bugged me that I don't know much about world I started reading.
I think you should start from the world as a whole and then work your way to specifics. So, start with books about Cosmology (Great Beyond, Gods and Magic, Book of the Damned), then Golarion as a whole (Campaign Setting, Races of Golarion) and then the specific regions (Guide to Absalom/Katapesh etc). That's my plan. :)
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I've actually been thinking of creating a "Player's Portal" at the wiki for a while. A one-stop-shopping kind of place where people unfamiliar with Golarion could find relevant info to help them flesh-out their charcters.
Is this something that other folks would be interested in seeing, and think would be useful?
BrOp
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Is this something that other folks would be interested in seeing, and think would be useful?
YES.
Even in the short time I've been following the boards, this is a question I've seen pop up repeatedly, and it's something that I'd have found tremendously useful myself as a starting point. Just a list of regions and topics with one- or two-sentence summaries and links to the relevant pages would've been great.
So yeah, that would've been awesome.