There are still several continents and empires (Some of which haven't even been covered in any books yet) which leaves room to expand the setting further. And of course a crazy and colorful pantheon where one of the primary good deities gained divinity basically on a drunken bet.Īnd the best part is that all this? Its only the tip of the ice berg, this covers a very small part of the entire planet. It was a setting of just about every fantasy world mashed together into one wonderful area: Post revolution America sharing borders with a declining British empire and a Devil Worshiping evil empire, a Reign of terror era france using magic soul stealing guillotines, a land of primitive barbarians using alien super tech scavenged from crashed alien spaceships acting as a gateway to a kingdom fighting crusades against a hellmouth, Narnia as ruled by Baba Yaga sharing borders with a Skyrim analog where kingship goes to whoever can kill the most badass dragons around. Inner sea was, if not the spiritual successor of Mystara/known world, at very least was a love letter to that era of gaming. But nothing could prepare me for reading it. Anyways I had heard good things about the Golarion setting, both from word of mouth and from checking out its wikipedia. But I ended up enjoying it so much I began buying books (Mainly bestiaries) mainly cause I wanted to support Paizo. I actually had a copy of the pathfinder beta, and discovered that the entire rule SRD for Pathfinder was online. I really enjoyed that for a while, but then eventually fell back into DnD, as I am want to do with my obsessive nature. I have heard nothing but good things about Golarion for years, but after the end of third edition I switched primarily to Mutants and Masterminds and super hero settings. The Pathfinder primary setting, Golarion, was originally a 3.5 setting that was revamped into the new system with this book. When WOTC introduced fourth edition, Paizo decided to use the OGL to keep third edition alive by creating Pathfinder, a further revamp of the third edition rules, adding some new classes, revamping rules, and just further streamlining it. It was the peoples choice, and as the peoples champ, I am doing this.Ī bit of background: Pathfinder the game system was the creation of Paizo, a publishing company which had been writing dungeon and dragon magazines for wizards of the coast. And the votes were close, but in the end one book clawed its way to the top: The Pathfinder campaign setting Inner sea world guide.
Yep, when I was halfway through the Al Qadim compendium, I posted a poll asking which book I should do for my next lets read.