Intro to Golarion Lore

Are you new to Pathfinder or the Golarion setting? Don't know where to start with exploring the vast lore of Golarion. Let me be your guide with this short overview.

Be sure to check out my other videos for more details on people and places of Golarion.

[JacksonOwex]

On the note of "kitchen sink" I will say that it IS a little weird having automatons running around a world with shortswords and mages but Paizo found a way to make it work well together without feeling unbalanced!

[Direloc]

I find the kitchen sink approach great when you focus on a single part of the world. It allows the group/party to focus on that aspect and play what they like.

I find it to be a little distracting for a globetrotting campaign.
It’s like you don’t have enough time to get used to the culture of one place before you’re moving into another. You eventually get ‘used’ to it, and don’t take time to worry about culture or get excited about it because you’ll be moving on anyway.

Golarion isn’t my favorite campaign setting, but that doesn’t mean it’s bad and there’s lots of things I like.

I think less can be more though - if you’re a new GM talk to players and see what they like and focus on ONE region.

[Big_Sloppa]

1:07 Pfha! You'd think that map was project plan of game creators!

[AJBernard]

Love the content... but please look up a Jason Bulmahn video and listen to how he pronounces Golarion. =) There's an A in the middle of the word.

[davidmaxwell]

Ive always found it hilarious people call Golarion a kitchen sink setting like its a bad thing, when it literally just has the variety of cultures you'd expect to see on a populated world.

A monoculture is what's really ridiculous in my eyes, especially when it spans an entire planet. Its why I find it so hard to get into sci-fi, its immersion breaking for me. Regional cultures arent just a human thing, even cetaceans and other primates have them.

[Big_Sloppa]

Well at least a world you may explore for hundreds years and still unable to truly say you saw it all. If I was some mad-rad-lad-adventurer, I would probably roam around northern part of Avistan. Crashed spaceship with murder-bots and technocultists, infinite horde of demons, and worse of all - Russia? Exciting. Maybe also visit Nidal. After Warhammer Fantasy Golarion looks almost cozy.

[JacksonOwex]

Golarion doesn't really take place in a specific year, not as a whole at least! Each adventure(single module, Adventure path, Society adventures) takes places in the 4700 year of whatever 20-- year it was in the real world when it was first published! So Rise of the Runelords(first PF1 Adventure Path) takes place about a decade before the Age of Ashes(the first PF2 Adventure Path)!

[Unikatze]

The topics you covered are a kitchen sink of their own :p

[londonmatthews]

I saw you bookend those options with Dungeons.. and (you can fight) Dragons. I see you GID