Opening, purpose, introduction

Opening:
The purpose of this blog is to track and discuss my weekly pathfinder campaign as it continues to develop.

First I should broadly discuss my world. The kingdom our heroes are in is called Proveria. It is a traditional mideval style country with French and English architectural influence.  It was crippled around 200 years ago by an event I refer to as "The Calamity". It's not discussed much in my game what it was, I know but I have kept it hushed so I can drop it on my players. The capital of Proveria is New Proveria, the original capital was wrecked during the Calamity, so this is a relatively young city.

To the south of Proveria is an empire modeled after Rome, called the Talendian Empire. They are aggressive and always looking for a chance to pick up some new turf. The sea is to the east, the dwarven mountains to the north, and a friendly Germanic style country called Bondoria to the west.

I dont get crazy with renaming the months or days of the week, it just adds to confusion at the table and it's mostly not worth it. I will eventually add more detail but this is just the baseline info just to give you context.

Cast of Characters (PC's).

Sam the Salesman- Sam is from our world. He was attacked in an alley and got sucked into Proveria, he was an insurance salesman but is somehow now a sorcerer. He has a one eyed raven familiar named Whoden, smarter than the average familiar.

Durn Brewhammer- Durn is a dwarf Cleric of Dania (travel and liberation). He left home when he found out his dad was involved in the slave trade with the stout fellow clan- a group of mean mountain dwarves.

Kong Stonesmith- Kong is a dwarf Fighter of the Mountain Dwarf warrior clans, professional soldier runs in their blood, rival clan to the Stoutfellows

Lina Griswold- Lina is a gnome rogue with purple hair.   She grew up in New Proveria where her father, a kind gnome, was killed.  She decide to go off on her own at that point and is now adventuring leaving the city behind, she had some trouble with the law there anyway.

Urz Goatskull- Urz is a 1/2 Orc Barbarian.  He is the oldest son of the chief of the 3rd largest tribe in the Goatskull clan.  He is expected to eventually run the clan.  The Goatskulls rival the other clan in the area, the Red Tusks Orcs.  By comparison the Goatskulls are pretty nice, they trade with people and only raid and kill sometimes.

Damone Desmond- Damone is a halfling bard who was raised by the elves and worships Sonara, the Elven Goddess of song.  He has ties with the elven culture and is friends with Durn, they met while Durn was fleeing from the Stoutfellows.


Setting:
So the setting of this campaign is we start in  small town called Durrisburg.  A few hundred people live here, there is a low level cleric who runs the chapel, there is a town wizard and adviser to the local lord Named Collins, the local lord himself Lord Durris, and the bartended/ex-adventurer named Anders who is the go to guy for information for most of the PC's.

There is a swamp to the south, orc tribes to the north and south, and a large city named Pastan farther to the north.

The players I am running this with are a diverse group.  All of us are adults, some of us have children (I happen to have 2).  Of the players I have 4 guys and 2 girls.  The girls are both married to other people in the game.  1 of the guys is the father of another player and he is who taught me how to play.

Experience is also a factor here, neither of the girls have ever played before, and the older guy has not played at all since 1st edition ADnD.  So this should be fun.


Well that is about all for this Blog now.  Next entry will be on the first weeks game.

-Ubercroz