So my gaming group is finally getting together and we decided to do Pathfinder as opposed to D&D 3.5 or any other edition. I already own all the core rulebooks and everything for Pathfinder, but have none of the setting specific stuff because I typically have made homebrew settings.
This time I wanted to run something straight out of Golarion so I want to order the Inner Sea World Guide, but we're making characters tomorrow so I don't really have time to learn about all the different regions of the setting yet. I need to figure out where in the Inner Sea I'm going to begin my characters. We are all hardcore fans of classic Heartlands Forgotten Realms stuff.
Does Golarion have a quaint pastoral type farming/woodland temperate region that has that charming flavor of the Dales in Forgotten Realms? That's the type of place I want to begin my players and that's a type of place that I know that they'll appreciate. I already have the ideas for the first couple plot hooks that would fit into such a place, but I just need somebody that knows more of the setting to direct me to the right country. I have the Inner Sea Primer but haven't really been able to find something with that flavor yet? Thank you!
Andoran, Nirmathas, or Varisia would to me seem to fit what you are looking for.
I'm thinking that you want Nirmathas. You can take or leave the Molthune plot.
Andoran is great - especially around Falcon's Hollow. Tons of fey mystery in Darkmoon Wood and bad guys working for the Lumber Consortium.
Great location to add lots of forest ruins and dungeon caves. Also, I put Candlestone Caverns right beneath Falcon's Hollow - a Golarion Megadungeon leading down to a place called the Midnight Mountains.
Check it out.
EDIT: Also, check the "Crown of the Kobold King" module set there, great adventure!
Thank you, folks! Those are the three countries I thought were the best. We'll probably do Andoran! Thanks again!