Deinfusing Golarion

[CorvusMask]

I do think that people who are allergic to any flavor at all are probably too niche market to base core books around <_< I mean, there is no fantasy that doesn't make some assumption about what races are like and some people seem too strict about what they consider acceptable

[Captain Morgan]

Milo v3 wrote:

MMCJawa wrote:

I mean, looking at Milo's concerns, the Ancestry system might actually be easier than if they just straight up continued using old Pathfinder races. Potentially, a lot of Golarion world flavor would be in ancestry feats. Disallowing feats versus whole races seems easier, and hopefully enough third party folks are going to come in add feats reflective of their own settings, some of which you can sub in.

This is very true when it comes to the Core Races, not so much the other races in the game. The big question will be whether or not I will need to ban 90% of the racial feats for the Core races.

Honestly, I don't see why you'd have to ban them at all. Just shift the paradigm around them. "You may have learned stone masonry from your father. Dwarves aren't usually stone masons, but yours was." Unless it is impossible for dwarves to be stone masons in your setting that should be fine. That's the nice thing about calling it an ancestry, it literally refers to your family.

[Hurká]

[Been away for two days, so I'm coming back to this thread after it's evolved quite a bit.]

Reading the latest blog post makes me hopeful that Golarion is there for no/minor flavor and is easily separable from the mechanics on 2E.

Paizo, if you're listening, hopefully you keep things this way for the Playtest and for "Official" 2E.

[Sam Phelan]

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