Haha. Not much response huh? I played Forgotten Realms for a long time before I switched to doing a homebrew world. I love my homebrew world but Golarion is the first actual world that has interested me enough to deviate from that.
Kaer Maga is a really cool, dark and flavorful place, though high fantasy.
Katapesh has a really cool arabic feel.
Thuvia is a nation who's entire economy is centered around the creation of Sun Orchid Elixirs which is a sort of bottled fountain of youth. The only alchemist who knows how to make it gets one, but otherwise only 5 or 6 are put up for sale a year in a bidding process where the highest bidder gets the elixir but everybody gives up the money they bid on it.
The shackles is great for piratey adventures, plus it easily ties into a sort of jungley, south american/african type vibe with tribal cultures and blood sacrifices and the like.
I'm running a blended Red Hand of Doom / Age of Worms in the Darkmoon area of Andoran. Falcons hollow mulish a spiritual successor to diamond lake.
