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We just didn’t like Paizo’s Iomedae that much and so rewrote her as a different character we find more interesting. Concretely: Iomedae was born earlier and participated in the Shining Crusade for longer; she ascended at the age of 60, not at the age of 30, a...

(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.) Lastwall pledged neutrality in the Chelish Civil War during its early years, when it didn’t look like the Asmodean...

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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 himself. He holds himself and his priesthood to a fairly strict notion of fairness ...

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 effectively had much of Her higher level functioning irreparably damaged thereby;...

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 guidance of the gods towards the gods’ purposes. Very few beings know this. ...

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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 circle spell; to cast Haste you need to be fifth level, as it is a third circle spell...

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 include “Minor Creation”, “Fabricate”, almost everything from Occult Adventures, and o...

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-balancing alliances that were frequently a thing in Earth history. Borders are also les...

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 the Material Plane. Interventions are costly for gods; if your god has to send a m...

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 affected by magic, etc. I absolutely understand why many gaming groups wouldn’t want...

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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 genius general ruling as dictator over a population pretty scarred by the Terror....

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 succeed. (In this envisioning of the Andoren and Galtan revolutions, the wealthy an...

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 makes more sense when there was briefly an Asmodean government in power). Che...

The Nirmathas Border 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’ and Nirmathas mostly having control over the interior e...

The Molthune Border