Dungeons and Dragons

Golarion is a world originally created by Paizo as a setting for the Pathfinder table top role playing game system. It has historical roots in and many similarities to the Dungeons...

We just didn’t like Paizo’s Iomedae that much and so rewrote her as a different character we find more interesting.

(Note the above map shows Lastwall as the Gravelands, since it is using 2e lore. It will be incorrect-for-our-purposes in other ways as well.)

Abadar is the god of contractualist ethics and creation-of-value-through-exchange. Being a very alien and inhuman god He’s done a moderately bad job of communicating this about him...

Paizo has Shizuru being devastated by the death of Tsukiyo and also Tsukiyo having come back and being completely fine. We have Tsukiyo dying and staying dead, and Shizuru having e...

Aroden was murdered by a Milani-led coalition of the Chaotic Good gods when they realized they could destroy prophecy thereby, and free mortals from the subtle and indirect guidanc...

We use the terminology ‘spell circle’ instead of ‘spell level’ to disambiguate from character level. A fifteen level wizard is a eighth circle caster; Mind Blank is an eighth circl...

Some canonical spells do not exist, or exist but are largely unknown (often this means they’re taken off the cleric list and only a few people have access to them). Examples includ...

Paizo tends to treat countries as basically doing their own thing; there are few geopolitical implications to regime change in one country, and none of the network of power-balanci...

Some of this is maybe implicit in Paizo and other D&D settings, some of it we made up, I don’t remember which is which. Gods are bound by treaty regarding their interventions in th...

So at a high level, we made Golarion more sexist because we like worldbuilding around patriarchy, how economic and social conditions produce gender roles, how gender roles are affe...

Galt’s revolution was more recent (10-15 years ago) and it is out of the revolutionary France stage and into the Napoleonic France stage. The Napoleon-like figure is Cyprian, a gen...

Andoran, unlike Galt, did make peace with Cheliax after their secession. That was under Infrexus, though, and Abrogail II intends to reclaim it once her army is in a state to succe...

Rahadoum, instead of having been an atheist state for thousands and thousands of years, is another recent breakaway state from Cheliax during the Chelish Civil War (the anti-theism...

The Molthune/Nirmathas border is both hotly disputed and in flux, with Molthune generally exercising power along the riverbanks and coast even well into what’s labelled ‘Nirmathas’...

It’s a bit unclear in canon what the Wardstones do, and they canonically don’t cover the whole area of the Wound. In our version, they project a forcefield that encloses the whole...

Kyonin is exactly the same as in Paizo’s canon, except that it does not appear on any maps. Like all large forests full of monsters (all large forests), it is considered by humans...

red tide at morning, heroes take warning: Actana!Areus is dropped on the Plane of Water