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Treebore · Post by **Treebore** » Sun Nov 22, 2009 8:03 pm

Then may I recommend this:
http://paizo.com/paizo/messageboards/pa ... &page=last

Which will soon be supplemented with this:
http://paizo.com/store/byCompany/p/paiz ... 48btpy87d6

I haven't been this excited since Bards Gate came out!

Edit: You gotta admit theses are some cool sounding adventure areas:

# Cassomir: The most significant port of the eastern Inner Sea region

# Corentyn: A city perched on the edge of two seas and at the heart of every major trade route

# Ilizmagorti: A tropical city of pirates and criminals ruled by the Red Mantis assassins

# Nisroch: A stark place of shadows and cruelty where every citizen lives in fear

# Vigil: A city-fortress and bastion against the ravening orc hordes of Belkzen

# Whitethrone: A frozen metropolis of monsters founded by the witch queen Baba Yaga

Plus if you have a nice geographically varied setting, such as Airhde or GH, they will be easy to insert. Golarian itself is a pretty cool setting, but I doubt people will be willing to buy into all of those products if you haven't already been on board for it.
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LordSeurek · Post by **LordSeurek** » Sun Nov 22, 2009 11:25 pm

Looks interesting Tree, thanks for sharing!

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DangerDwarf · Post by **DangerDwarf** » Mon Nov 23, 2009 12:49 am

Treebore wrote:
Golarian itself is a pretty cool setting

Agreed. Leaning towards making it my "standard" setting for C&C.

Lord Dynel · Post by **Lord Dynel** » Mon Nov 23, 2009 2:12 am

DangerDwarf wrote:
Agreed. Leaning towards making it my "standard" setting for C&C.

If you do, DD, let me know how that goes.

As for the supplement, it looks damn cool. Thanks for the heads up, Tree.
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DangerDwarf · Post by **DangerDwarf** » Mon Nov 23, 2009 4:20 am

Right now it's looking good for it LD. I was running the Rise of the Runelord Path before using C&C and the group enjoyed the setting. Right now I'm running their Council of Thieves and the group is enjoying the setting. Given my enjoyment of the setting so far too, it seems like a lock for my default game setting for C&C.

I'm currently even looking at picking up the PF GM screen and laminating C&C inserts for the inside panels.

Omote · Post by **Omote** » Mon Nov 23, 2009 4:01 pm

Someone has to be the negative nancy here, so I'll jump in for just a second. I can't be the only one that thinks that Golarion is crap, can I? I admit I have not read much about it in detail, OTHER than when I picked up about a year or two ago that big hardbound Golarion setting book. YES, Paizo has nice looking books, and pretty pictures, but is there one bit of originality in Golarion at all?

Sorry folks, normally If I don't have anything nice to say... yada, yada, yada, but the Pathfinder setting is BOOORRRRing garbage.

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Treebore · Post by **Treebore** » Mon Nov 23, 2009 5:39 pm

I think you may want to read it in more detail. Is it completely original in content? No. Does it give nice fresh twists to repeated concepts? Heck yeah.

Take Airhde, for an example. Is it new and original ideas? No, far from it, especially if you have read a good amount of european lore. It does give nice new spins on a lot of old concepts and ideas and combines them in a fairly original way.

Same can be said for Greyhawk, Faerun, Kalamar, and many other settings.

So despite not being "original", what makes them enjoyable is how the campaign designers rewrote the concepts and ideas in a fresh new way.

Golarian does that in spades.
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Omote · Post by **Omote** » Mon Nov 23, 2009 6:09 pm

I guess I kind of said that poorly. What I meant to express is that I was quite dissappointed on how vanilla and bland the setting seemed. I guess I expected more from Erik Mona and company than just a bunch of ethnic stereotypes, and nothing new or exciting. I even think the naming conventions used in that setting are so bland that it it grates on me.

I give a pass to Oerth because of it's history in the game. Faerun I'm not a fan of, but for high fantasy I think the setting is not all that vanilla. Kalamar, yeah they started out good back in the mid 90s, but fell off too. Aihrde, while not completely original did use European flavor at times to make the setting anything else BUT vanilla. Of course, it's all a matter of taste and opinion. And admittadly, I don't have anything else to go by than the Golarian (for some reason I thought it was spelled Golorion. Eh, *shrugs*) setting book, which IMO was extremely boring.

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Treebore · Post by **Treebore** » Mon Nov 23, 2009 6:31 pm

Golarion, actually. Still, if you didn't thoroughly read it you may want to give it another try. There is a lot of flavor to it, but then again I may see more to it since I have also extensively bought the PF adventures and Chronicles and adventures. Which adds a lot to several key areas.
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Treebore · Post by **Treebore** » Mon Nov 23, 2009 6:53 pm

BTW, I just got notification that this has shipped to me, so I should be able to DL the PDF soon. Meaning within a few hours.
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Christina Stiles · Post by **Christina Stiles** » Mon Nov 23, 2009 7:25 pm

I've got a subscription to much of the Paizo stuff, but I haven't had a chance to thoroughly look through everything, so I can't comment on how good or bad the world is. However, I'd likely never use Paizo's overall setting, as SpirosBlaak and the surrounding world are my gaming setting--but you never know. However, I can certainly plop some cities from the book into my world. So, this lastest supplement should prove to be useful.
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Treebore · Post by **Treebore** » Mon Nov 23, 2009 7:56 pm

Here is an excerpt, for review purposes, to show the kinds of ideas contained in this product can spur all kinds of adventures:

"Cassomir is an excellent place to start a Darklands campaign;

the PCs can use the city as a base of operations for repeat

ventures below the surface, striking out at the derro settlement,

exploring farther afield to the duergar capital city of Hagegraf,

or delving deeper into the realm of Sekamina. Unethical PCs

may forge a trade agreement with the duergar (for lumber) or

the derros (for slaves). For more information on these Darklands

locations, see Pathfinder Chronicles: Into the Darklands."

-Page 13, Cities of Golarion

This alone has given me 6 ideas, and counting.
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serleran · Post by **serleran** » Mon Nov 23, 2009 8:58 pm

I agree with Omote that the names are not that evocative, with the single exception of Vigil, which is not that impressive. Of course, names are the hardest thing to "get right" and I always struggle with them, myself, and never really like the ones I come up with either... so, if I were to buy it (which is a big if), I would be tempted to rename everything. But, I do tend to like a more "real sound" to fantasy names. Or puns.
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Treebore · Post by **Treebore** » Mon Nov 23, 2009 9:13 pm

serleran wrote:
I agree with Omote that the names are not that evocative, with the single exception of Vigil, which is not that impressive. Of course, names are the hardest thing to "get right" and I always struggle with them, myself, and never really like the ones I come up with either... so, if I were to buy it (which is a big if), I would be tempted to rename everything. But, I do tend to like a more "real sound" to fantasy names. Or puns.

When I am stumped I just Google maps of foreign countries.
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DangerDwarf · Post by **DangerDwarf** » Tue Nov 24, 2009 1:01 am

Omote wrote:
I was quite dissappointed on how vanilla and bland the setting seemed.

The vanilla nature of a lot of places in Golarion is the exact reason I dig it. It's a rarity any more.

Everywhere you look, settings almost seem required to have some shtick or gimmick in an effort to make them "cool". Damn can I get some plain ol' fantasy somewhere? Do I really need all these hip settings?

Vanilla IS the new exotic.

I don't know how many more shtick settings I can take.

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