I started a campaign in the D&D 4E world (a big mistake, I know) using the pre-made campaign series starting with H1, Keep on the Shadowfell (another big mistake...). While the campaign itself was flawed, I've found some great resources to make it better.
Now that I have seen the light and decided to do Pathfinder instead of D&D, I am going to attempt to use the basic premise and plot points of H1 and those that follow to make a new campaign arc set in the Pathfinder universe. However, I am still fairly new to Pathfinder and I'd like some ideas to get me started.
I would generally like to keep the idea that an over-arching malevolent power (Orcus, demon prince of undeath in H1) seeks dominion over the powers of another power (The Raven Queen, goddess of death). Or something along those lines. Which big players in Pathfinder would be best used as analogues? Asmodeus I saw is also in the PF world, and I would probably find a good use for him in a place or few.
Throw me your thoughts and I'll gladly use them well.
Oh, and for those of you unfamiliar with H1, you can get it here for free (just to bone up on the basic ideas laid out): http://www.wizards.com/dnd/files/h1.pdf
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Well, it would be fairly simple to transition to Golarion if you so desired. But if you started out in not-Golarion, why bother? You can use the Pathfinder system without using the Golarion setting.
One of my pet hates is when someone says "How can I do X?", and people respond with "Why don't you do Y instead?".
Orcus is present in the Pathfinder universe, so he can stand in for himself, as it were.
The goddess of death is Pharasma, who is true neutral. I think she'd work fairly well as a replacement for the Raven Queen.
The Pathfinder wiki is a good (if sometimes erratic) source of information.
Orcus does not have much of a presence in Golarion; replacing Pharasma would be an incrediby effective way of increasing his "brand recognition" there so I can see why he might want to give it a go.
In Golarion, the Nentir Vale could be part of the River Kingdoms, or possibly you could replace it with Darkmoon Vale, which is more civilised, but has the advantage of a lot of published material being set there.
Thank you very much Amethal. That was exactly what I was looking for. I really appreciate your input.
And in respect to Kthulhu response, I intended to do a more home-brew design for my campaign universe, so it won't strictly be Golarion. Maybe as a template that I can pick and choose what to include.
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One of my pet hates is when someone says "How can I do X?", and people respond with "Why don't you do Y instead?".
Well, I've seen quite a few people on here that seem to think that if they use the Pathfinder system, they HAVE to set whatever they want to do on Golarion. Sometimes it's a lot less work to simply let something that's set in Greyhawk play out in Greyhawk.
Anyhow, yeah, Orcus does exist in Golarion's lore, although he's not really show much interest in Golarion itself (he seems to have more focus on The Lost Lands and the WotC settings).
Yea at the risk of the being the use Y guy.... I normally create all my own worlds, by ripping parts off of other DND universes. The rules of your version, i.e. pathfinder, are what set the basis. The WORLD is yours. I personally LOVE mask and Mystra, so they are in EVERY world i make, even if no one worships them, they come across someone in the play that does. So my recommendation is, you already have the story, take your Proper Nouns, and make em what you want! If someone picks an unsupported deity, the deity you chose can always "evelop" that domain/property for which they worship. I have a member in my current campaign that worships the "raven queen" currently mask is her stand in as the pantheon was severely damaged in the prologue to our setting.