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I'm still fairly new to the game and am rabidly purchasing most of the core books. I'm also a completionist and generally like to get all the sourcebooks for my RPGs.
I've read on Amazon and other places that the Inner Sea World Guide is the third edition of the campaign setting, and was preceded by the Gazetteer and the Pathfinder Chronicles Campaign Setting books. Is it practical for me to try to track down all three? Or if I get the ISWG, are the first two unnecessary?
Thanks!
It's not really the third edition of the setting, it's the third release of a general setting-type book. The Inner Sea World Guide uses the Pathfinder RPG rules and replaces the Campaign Setting, which utilized the D&D 3.5 rule set. The Gazetteer really isn't a setting book; it contains supplementary material for Golarion, much of which is contained within both the ISWG and Campaign Setting.
I'd recommend getting only the Inner Sea World Guide. It's really the only book of the three that you need in order to plan and run a game in Golarion. This is especially true if you use it alongside the PathfinderWiki, a great online resource for everything setting-specific.
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Thank you for the advice. I would consider getting them if they had info that for some reason didn't make it into the Inner Sea World Guide. But if that's not the case, I guess there's not much point. :)
If you ever waanted a copy of the original Campaign Setting Book, I was one I'd be willing to part with.