Eastern Standard Blog

At the beginning of September I started doing something that I had not done in many, many years. I started role playing again. A large part of my youth was dedicated to role playing games. Almost always I was the Dungeon Master, in charge of the adventure. There are some times where I was a player and someone else was the Dungeon Master, but it was a rare thing indeed. One of my co-workers is a big gamer and we had been talking off and on about getting some kind of role playing group started. He knew a bunch of other guys, and we started playing under the Pathfinder Role Playing Game, which is some kind of offshoot of 3.5 Dungeons and Dragons rules. More specifically we started playing Pathfinder Society Organized Play events. These are a more strictly controlled set of adventures where in theory characters from different play groups should be easily exchangeable as they all follow the same base line rules about experience gaining and treasure, magical items etc. It was fun and interesting and of course awoke the old Dungeon Master in me.

I have thought about starting to run Organized Play events myself, but I believe ultimately that I will find the rails as a DM too much of a hindrance rather than a boon. So instead I started doing my research for creating my own homebrew game. I have laid out the story arc in my mind’s eye and started thinking about the individual adventures which will comprise it. I have also been thinking about running the games at a local game shop and making it slightly more ‘open’ to outside players. This seems like a nice space to share information about the genesis of this game as well as details from the adventures themselves.

Without further preamble I present…

Slaves of the Mwangi

The Mwangi Expanse is a relatively misunderstood and uncharted area within Golarion. Filled with jungles, mountains, beasts of all kinds and the tribes of Mwangi, there is little in the way of organized government or society as most from the Inner Sea region would understand it. The players will begin their journey in Kalabuto in Sargava, a former colony of the Empire of Cheliax. Kalabuto is a town on the verge of a full rebellion from Baron Utilinus. The underclass of Kalabuto is almost entirely made up of the Mwangi tribesmen and under the sway of Mzali and it’s Child-God ruler Walkena they will soon cast off their oppressors. This is the backdrop for a meeting of Chelish Binders known as the Sons of Dziak.

Christopher James Garringer – Rest In Peace my brother. It’s been 12 years and I still cannot get through a day without thinking about you. Wondering what your life would be like, what you would be doing at this exact moment. I miss you. I love you. I failed you. I am sorry.