Greetings to the messageboard. As it has been something that I have been curious about for some time, I thought I would put in a post concerning high fantasy settings produced by third party publishers for the Pathfinder RPG. I can only think of a small handful of these and, in fact, it seems like settings that reside in other genre's have been the more successful or, at least, abundant - settings such as "Shadows Over Vathak", "Pure Steam", "The World of Aden", "It Came from the Stars", and "Terah" come to mind.
As far as high fantasy settings these are the only ones that I can come up with: "Midgard", "The Lost Lands" (although I am hardpressed to find a world guide per se), "Freeport", "Sovereign Stone", "Shadowsfall" (not a fully realized world?), "Realms of Twilight" and I guess "The Scarred Lands" conversion to PFRPG is potentially in the offing.
As I have seen a number of efforts to produce high fantasy settings for Pathfinder fail on Kickstarter and there is at least one that is more than just struggling now, I was wondering what other high fantasy settings exist for the game, are reasonably fleshed out, and are relatively unabashed when it comes to the tropes of high fantasy with one such being humans are just one of many sentient races and do not predominate over the entire landscape.
Anyway, I would appreciate your thoughts on this matter and any recommendations as to other high fantasy settings that are not listed above. Thanks for any and all help with this.
Peace.
Dave N.
Well here is one that I would consider high fantasy: NeoExodus: A House Divided. The write up on the product page kind defines itself as high fantasy right off the bat.
I enjoyed Obsidian Apocalypse from Louis Porter Jr.
"Shadowsfall"
Thank you for thinking of us.
Hi Dave! that's because we haven't released the world guide yet. We've approached it by releasing a number of adventures and regional maps to let folks start piecing it (and their old Necromancer Games adventures) together into a cohesive whole while we reveal things a chunk at a time, showing connections between points A and B that they never knew existed or had only been hinted at in older products. The world guide is actually scheduled for 2015 with several products releasing more big chunks and the adventures set in them between now and then.
I'm glad you thought of us, though, and hope you'll stick around for when the world guide is released and the big picture is finally revealed.
Greg
P.S. Just as an FYI, we're not just trying to be coy and tease people along by doing it this way. It's just that we're not only releasing new products but tying together about 50 or so old Necromancer Games products into a cohesive whole. The rough stitching has been done (we know what everything looks like and how it all fits together) and much of the world guide is written or at least in note form, it just takes a lot of work to write up how all the pieces fit together and keep our new products moving at the same time. So we're just moving kinda' slow.
Greg, thanks so much for responding back to my post and in great detail. I really appreciate this. And I am very excited to hear that there is a world guide on the way. As far as I am concerned, this is just what the doctor ordered and should provide The Lost Lands with a synergy all its own.
In addition, I have been a fan of the Necromancer Games and now the Frog God Games products for a while. A standout for me is Bard's Gate for its intrepid nature at both having the city bear a chaotic good alignment and for courageously sporting the racial makeup that it does with humans simply being a single component of the wider palette of races and not the central hub of the cosmos with other races existing in scant, dwindling pockets here and there. As for me, one gets tired of the monolithic mandates of "This is the dwarf city! ... Here and nowhere else.", "This is the gnome nation. ... Here and nowhere else.", ad infinitum. ... There is something vivifying about the freewheeling, "open air" feeling of a certain kind of order allied with a fecund higgledy-piggledy. To me, this multifariousness is one of the prominent hallmarks of high fantasy (contrasting it with swords and sorcery) and one of the reasons as to it being such a powerful draw.
Thanks again for the response and I am really looking forward to picking up the world guide when it is released. All the best.
Dave
P.S. I have just put in for my pre-orders for the Necromancer Games 5th edition products and am anxious to see what you folks are doing with the new game.
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Thank you for thinking of us.
You are very welcome, Dale. I will be picking up most of the Shadowsfall products in a short bit and am anxious to experience them in full detail. All the best.
Dave
