Golarion World!

[Driftbourne]

Golarion World sounds like fun. Great way to add some Pathfinder to Starfidner, even if it's a bit off due to info lost during the gap. Makes for a great vacation spot. I was glad it was included but wasn't something I was excited about. Until... I started thinking about what could go wrong... Now it might be one of my favorite locations in Starfinder.

I don't think anything will go wrong with Golarion World! in Ports of Call, but I think it will set it up just by being there. I could easily see an AP set there.

What excites you about Golarion World?
What plans do you have for using World?
What do you think could go wrong?

[BigNorseWolf]

It seems more like a one shot for laughs and facepalming. "Abrogail and the seven halfings" playing around with her cartoony demon sidekick has some potential adventure set up but would probably wear thin pretty quickly

[Davor Firetusk]

I could see it being a way to pull in some old 1E stuff as either a LARP type set-up, or go for the holodeck type experience. Both could be a lot of homebrew fun.

[Kishmo]

I don't think it's likely to happen, because it'd be a big Society thing crossing over into main-line Starfinder, but hey, it's happened before, so

Spoilers for Society Salvation's End storyline after and including 3-06:

Wouldn't it be bonkers if the Vault Lord, the contemplative wannabe re-born Runelord from Salvation's End, decided to take over the amusement park planet to have a base of operations that reminded them of 'home'? Would be absolutely hilarious, and kind of in-keeping with the Vault Lord's bizarro self-accepting psychosis. "Yes I know this isn't the real Golarion, and yes I know I'm not really a Runelord in the 'classical' sense, but this is as close as this century's going to get to either, so we're going to make it work, godsdamnit! New New Thassilon shall rise!"

[Driftbourne]

I think the ideas BigNorseWolf and Davor Firetusk have would be great to have in a repeatable standalone adventure that is just a fun adventure of spending a day in the park, a vacation adventure. That type of adventure should come before anything goes wrong, at least not anything on a big scale of goes wrong.

Kishmo's idea is in the same magnitude of what could go wrong that I was thinking, just in a very different way. Where Kishmo's idea would set the motive, mine might still fit in with the how and add another layer of what goes wrong with that plan. I'm thinking along the lines of

spoiler:

Golarion World goes Westworld rebellion after some of the park's attractions evolve to gain a soul. Perhaps a wannabe re-born Runelord somehow sparked the evolution, trying to turn them into an army.

For something like that, you could get at least a short AP out of it.

When that ends, we could return to running the repeatable vacation adventure for Golarion World.

[Elegos]

Kishmo wrote:

I don't think it's likely to happen, because it'd be a big Society thing crossing over into main-line Starfinder, but hey, it's happened before, so ** spoiler omitted **

Kishmo, that is hilarious. And I'm stealing it.

[BigNorseWolf]

Driftbourne wrote:

Kishmo's idea is in the same magnitude of what could go wrong that I was thinking, just in a very different way. Where Kishmo's idea would set the motive, mine might still fit in with the how and add another layer of what goes wrong with that plan. I'm thinking along the lines of ** spoiler omitted **

Bonus points if he starts by just walking in for a job interview.

"We were amazed by his ability to stay in character! And So what if he's not human. Half of the actors aren't the species they were historically.. "

[Davor Firetusk]

Well it is an open question the indeterminate amount of time, if any Starfinder species would still be capable of reproducing with physically similar, but ancestral populations. Evolution is funny that way.

[Driftbourne]

Who to say that Park hired actors vs. made them? There are at least three ways to do that in Starfinder, four if you're from Eox. The actors could be genetically engineered, androids or SROs, living holograms, or raised from the dead. Each with its own set of things that could go wrong.

[BigNorseWolf]

Driftbourne wrote:

Who to say that Park hired actors vs. made them? There are at least three ways to do that in Starfinder, four if you're from Eox. The actors could be genetically engineered, androids or SROs, living holograms, or raised from the dead. Each with its own set of things that could go wrong.

Why not use every method so that the park can only go a little wrong at a time everything can go bad all at once?

Like Epcot is cloned.

The magic kingdom is similacrums

The Universe around the really big lake is witchwarped alternate realities where they made one theme area but as you walk in circle you keep finding different ones

Frontierland is robots (as is tradition)

Main street Absolom is actors

[Driftbourne]

Sure, they could all go wrong at the same time. I was just saying how they go wrong could be different. Or each section of the park going wrong could be a different book of an AP. Guess it depends on how big the park is.

[Electromagni]

Anybody know the episode of Futurama where Fry took his friends to that old New York attraction? Where they had the gist of things but were silly and blatantly wrong about key details?

It's going to be like that and hopefully funny to my players, being so close but wrong with important Golarion lore.

[Driftbourne]

It should be fun to see what's intentionally wrong with Golarion lore, in the amusement park.

[Davor Firetusk]

Based on recovered notes, Golarion goblins were described as "funny creatures". Welcome to our Golarion nightclub were all the comics are goblins!

[Driftbourne]

And don't forget goblin rhyme karaoke night!

[BigNorseWolf]

Driftbourne wrote:

And don't forget goblin rhyme karaoke night!

Considered a crime against sentience on Apostae

[Archpaladin Zousha]

Can't wait to get my hands on Ports of Call and get all the ridiculous details on Golarion World's ridiculousness!

[Archpaladin Zousha]

I just got my PDF copy and I was absolutely NOT disappointed with Golarion World! It has JUST the right blend of being a fantastic set-piece with just enough potential sources of conflict and mystery that taking your PCs there doesn't feel like a filler episode. The fact that the parks' employees live in towns named Sandpoint and Whistledown is a LOVELY little touch of nostalgia too. 10/10, practically a centerpiece of the book! Can't wait to visit "the cheeriest place in the universe" in-game!

[Teearseeaich]

"Even in this modern age the Path--STARFinders find ways to thwart my evil plans poke their nose in where they are not needed."

[Fury Skullbert]

I've thought about how Golarion World would be advertised when it first opens. In a word, tastelessly.

I'm going to have my players receive a transmission flagged as urgent that opens like it could be a distress signal. A roughed-up looking person in what looks like a horribly damaged starship interior begins speaking, "I don't have much time. I was exploring The Vast with my crew, and the short of it is that we found Golarion... And it's super fun!"

The starship set is pulled away to reveal Golarion World in all its glory. From there it's pretty much a Disney resort commercial.

[blashimov]

Hopefully not to much necro but what book is Golarion World described in??

[John Mangrum]

blashimov wrote:

Hopefully not to much necro but what book is Golarion World described in??

Ports of Call.