Pathfinder #9, #10

[stolisomancer]

Pathfinder is what happens when a bunch of fans of Dungeons & Dragons decide they aren't down with the new edition of the game and go off to do their own thing. The comic book series from Dynamite, by Jim Zub (Skullkickers) with art by Jake Bilbao and Sean Izaakse, is set early in the careers of the games' signature characters (a.k.a. the "iconics") as they deal with a number of problems in and around the city of Sandpoint.

Word from on high is that the iconic characters of Pathfinder should all be considered bisexual until further notice. Such appears to be the case here.


The adventurers went out to see what was making off with a farmer's sheep and ended up in a fight with a juvenile black dragon. A cave-in ended the fight prematurely, but not before it did some damage. Specifically, it bit Meri, a "Forlorn" elf and one of the party's front-line fighters. Kyra, a relatively new recruit and a cleric of Sarenrae, managed to keep Meri intact on the way back to town.






In the next issue, with no proof the dragon they fought is dead, the adventurers take on a new job dealing with a bandit camp outside town.

Comments

[drexer]

This is kind of an amazing timing because me and my friends just started playing last saturday Rise of the Runelords as our first campaign with me on the GM role. I'll have to look for those comics to see if I can better grasp the flavour of the world.

And maybe add enough options for cosmetically appealing scars as well.

[grazzt]

I would start with the TVTropes page for Pathfinder. However, from what I've seen, there's no one real flavour. Even amongst the official Adventure Paths, you have objectives as varied as settling/ruling a kingdom, escorting a caravan, and crewing a ship, each with its own little minigame (the kingdom one is especially popular). It can be massively bipolar. There's a god of pain inspired by Hellraiser (and an entire category of outsiders to take on the Cenobite role) on the one hand. On the other, there's a god of adventuring who was a mortal that attained godhood while drunk and can't remember how it happened. Still, it means there should be something for everyone, if you dig around enough.

[donnblake]

Also Revolutionary France, and a region best described as a UFO crashed into a Robert E Howard novel.

[crinos]

Yeah, the Cenobites demon are the Kytons, the chain wielding devils from DnD, who got expanded into an entire race on their own in Pathfinder.

[shadur]

On the other, there's a god of adventuring who was a mortal that attained godhood while drunk and can't remember how it happened.

Theoretically, everyone knows how it happened -- there's a city in the setting that holds something called the Starstone which is some kind of intricate, possible sentient, incredibly deadly labyrinth kind of deal.

Take (and survive) the Test of the Starstone, and presto - you're a god. Quite a number of people each year try their luck, but over a couple thousand years there have been less than a handful of people who have succeeded.

... And then Cayden Callian walked into the labyrinth on a drunken bet and when the smoke cleared the pantheon had a new, somewhat unkept and more than slightly hung over, member.

Reactions were understandably mixed. Especially from the female deities he started hitting on.

[dewinged]

The early issues of this comic take place in and around Sandpoint, actually.

The tag here: http://paizo.com/paizo/blog/tags/pathfinderComic has posts to view the first issue at no charge.