Pathfinder Campaign Setting World Guide: The Inner Sea (Revised Edition)

Pretty much a must-read for adventures in Golarion

lots and lots of info on the world, as you would expect, maps, all sorts of inner sea world goodness

excellent book everything you need to know about the world all in one book very handy for any pathfinder campaign

I bought this to get a better understanding of the game world for Pathfinder Society Organized Play. There's more than enough lore here to make great character backgrounds.

A great read and great condition

With Pathfinder, there are two major reasons for buying a book like this: One is to find background information and in-depth detail to add to existing adventure paths or design your own adventures as either side-shows or main events for your pathfinders. The other is to help you provide background information on your characters in the Pathfinder world. This book does admirably well in both functions: there is a wealth of information on each race, nation and culture, and a gazetteer overview of the points of interest in a geographical area.In addition, the last third of the book goes beyond the 'current era' and examines - albeit briefly - the area outside the Inner Sea, the pre-history of the area (I mean, what fantasy world is complete without ancient ruins and relics of lost civilisations?), deities, religions, philosophies, cosmology, calenders, celebrations, organisations and ecology. This is less important to character development but great for DMs wanting extra information on the world to work it in.As with most D&D based supplements there are extra rules - but in line with Paizo's philosophy, this section is actually very small: a few items of equipment not included in the core rulebook, a few prestige classes specific to the setting, rules on firearms, a couple of items and a few monsters making maybe 25 pages out of nearly 320 pages, much of it updated material from earlier adventure paths - in short, very little rules bloat. The index is adequate and the writing is good quality throughout. Like most of Paizo's books, I suspect some buyers will get it just for a good read.Overall, if you have some of Paizo's pre-Pathfinder RPG modules, this book will help you update them to the Pathfinder RPG standard. It's not an 'invaluable' book, you can do without it, but if you get it you won't regret it.

The Inner Sea World Guide is 320 pages of gloriously written overview and background info. With great colour illustrations and beautiful maps of each kingdom, along with a fold out poster map of the Inner Sea region.It's very light on additional rules (which is a good thing). Containing mostly background and location details with just a small section at the rear of the book devoted to additional game mechanics. This book is a great source of adventure ideas, and really helps to flesh out the main adventuring region of Golarion.Recommended for all Golarion GM's.

If you have any interest in the Pathfinder setting, thus book is a must buy. It's full of detailed descriptions of the different countries and peoples, packed with little ideas and inspirations and the quality of the book is fantastic.I've read it cover to cover and off the back of how well this was written, will be seeking to get other setting books.