So, I was kinda inspired by the PF to 4e thread here and I'm curious if anyone on the community (or beyond) has converted Points of Light/World Axis/Nentir Vale/4e setting into the Pathfinder rule set. When I first came over to PF, I wasn't into the Vale to say the least (I'll leave details for another discussion.) It wasn't until 5e was announced that PoL interested me as an option/alternative for games, universes, and beyond. So, with that, does anyone have any converted material from the setting (well, pseudo setting of sorts), cosmology, etc? The most I found are some race conversions over on the piazza.
*bump* (No Nentir Vale/Points of Light fans on these boards, I take it?)
As a fan if both 4E and PF (crazy, huh?), I can say that having a PoL setting in Pathfinder, or indeed any RPG, isn't difficult. The PoL setting isn't so much a specific set of continents and cities as it is a setting tone; the tone being "the world sucks, civilization is on the verge of disappearing, what are you gonna do about it?"
That said, World axis cosmology isn't too difficult to replicate. The astral plane is the astral sea, which contains a bunch of demiplanes like Celestia and Hell. All the elemental planes are sort of blended into the Elemental Chaos, which also contains the Abyss (in the World Axis, the Abyss is a part of the elemental planes that got warped by a shard of pure evil). In the middle of these two planes is the Material World, and it's two reflections, the Feywild (the first world), and the Shadowfell (the Plane of Shadow). Figuring out where creatures come from shouldn't be too difficult.
I personally like the World Axis over the Great Wheel, but then again, I've never really had much contact with Planescape stuff either.
Points of Light is a concept, not a setting. I don't really understand the question. You can make Pathfinder Points of Light by not running the game in Golarion. It's really easy and takes zero conversion.
I have been running games Points of Light style for the past 20 years, way before it was defined in 4e. It is my preferred tone and feel.
As a fan if both 4E and PF (crazy, huh?), I can say that having a PoL setting in Pathfinder, or indeed any RPG, isn't difficult. The PoL setting isn't so much a specific set of continents and cities as it is a setting tone; the tone being "the world sucks, civilization is on the verge of disappearing, what are you gonna do about it?"
That said, World axis cosmology isn't too difficult to replicate. The astral plane is the astral sea, which contains a bunch of demiplanes like Celestia and Hell. All the elemental planes are sort of blended into the Elemental Chaos, which also contains the Abyss (in the World Axis, the Abyss is a part of the elemental planes that got warped by a shard of pure evil). In the middle of these two planes is the Material World, and it's two reflections, the Feywild (the first world), and the Shadowfell (the Plane of Shadow). Figuring out where creatures come from shouldn't be too difficult.
I personally like the World Axis over the Great Wheel, but then again, I've never really had much contact with Planescape stuff either.
Points of Light is a concept, not a setting. I don't really understand the question. You can make Pathfinder Points of Light by not running the game in Golarion. It's really easy and takes zero conversion.
I have been running games Points of Light style for the past 20 years, way before it was defined in 4e. It is my preferred tone and feel.
True enough. I guess what I was asking was incorporating stuff like planar traits of The Feywild, The Shadowfell, Elemental Chaos, etc as well as any crunchy specifics that fit in the Vale. As for Vale specific monsters, nothing quick kitbashing can't tackle. But yeah, it wouldn't be too hard to just tinker with the fluff at hand (as well as the many D&D Encounters modules I have left over!) So, maybe the answer was a lot more simple than I thought. Well, it took me a while to realize it.
Still, I consider crafting some crunchy stuff related to certain parts of World Axis/Nentir Vale/4e PoL.