I was browsing through the available products to choose which ones I want to buy in December, and a few things have me a bit stumped.
This concerns the following products:
1. Pathfinder Campaign Setting: World Guide—The Inner Sea
2. Pathfinder Player Companion: Inner Sea Primer
3. Pathfinder Player companion various city guides.
Would the information in each guide just reiterate or obsolete stuff from each other? How do they fit together?
The best I can figure out, the World guide is for GM's, the Primer for players, and the various city guides for both.
Any help would be appreciated! :)
The best I can figure out, the World guide is for GM's, the Primer for players, and the various city guides for both.
I think you're right here
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The Primer is a 32 page world tour. It is light on detail. It is mostly an introduction so players understand the world.
The World Guide - Inner Sea is a 200+ page hardback book that is for GMs and has much more detail.
The City Guides are 32 (Companion) or 64 (Chronicles) page books that give a much deeper coverage of the cities in question.
Thanks for the answers so far - it really does help narrow things down.
Does the primer contain information that's not in the World Guide - Inner Sea and vice-versa?
If there isn't, no need for me to buy the primer. I'll just wait for the World Guide and save my bucks for something else.
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Thanks for the answers so far - it really does help narrow things down.
Does the primer contain information that's not in the World Guide - Inner Sea and vice-versa?
If there isn't, no need for me to buy the primer. I'll just wait for the World Guide and save my bucks for something else.
*shakes crystal ball*
Since the World Guide isn't out, I don't know if the crunchy parts (fighting styles, traits, schools) that are in the Primer are in it. That said... If you're looking for 'all about Golarion' then I'd say pass on the Primer and go for the full guide.
If you're a player in someone else's campaign, then go for the primer.
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RPG Superstar 2009 Top 32, 2010 Top 8
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Thanks for the answers so far - it really does help narrow things down.
Does the primer contain information that's not in the World Guide - Inner Sea and vice-versa?
If there isn't, no need for me to buy the primer. I'll just wait for the World Guide and save my bucks for something else.
*shakes crystal ball*
Since the World Guide isn't out, I don't know if the crunchy parts (fighting styles, traits, schools) that are in the Primer are in it. That said... If you're looking for 'all about Golarion' then I'd say pass on the Primer and go for the full guide.
If you're a player in someone else's campaign, then go for the primer.
Thanks, Matthew. :)
Hopefully, one of the Paizo guys will drop in with their input on the info sharing between the World Guide and the Primer.
Got an answer from James Jacob in the World Guide - Inner Sea discussion thread:
The Inner Sea World Guide will have some crossover between the other books, yes. That's more or less inevitable. Also, we don't want to get into a situation where, say, you HAVE to own the Inner Sea Primer to make heads or tails out of the hardcover Inner Sea World Guide.
The Inner Sea World Guide will be the foundation of Golarion. As such, it has to stand on its own.
It'll also have more room to talk about pretty much every topic, though, so there'll be a LOT more information. In the Inner Sea Primer, for example, each nation gets a half of a page of info, and not all the nations are covered. In the hardcover, each nation gets four pages of info, and ALL of them are covered.
What will NOT be reprinted in the Hardcover from the Inner Sea Primer, though, will be all of the traits and most of the Combat/Faith/Magic/Social information.