Adjusting the Setting

Parent page What Does My Character Know?

Feel free to make Golarion your own! If something we write in our books gets in the way of a concept you want to play, ask your group and your GM if you can change it. What's important isn't that you agree with the “official” material that we publish, but that the people you play with facilitate communal storytelling.

In fact, you don't have to use this setting! While the Pathfinder RPG rules do make some assumptions about the world, many of these assumptions are common within the fantasy genre. Elements that are more specific to Golarion are often confined to certain feats and archetypes, which you can change and remove as you see fit. You can easily use the rules of Pathfinder to run a different setting, or a world of your own creation.