Hi!
This thread is in response to Wesley Schneider's request over at ENWorld
http://www.enworld.org/forum/general-rpg-discussion/273397-paizo-re-invents -hexcrawling-5.html#post5122872
Background:
I'm going to be DMing Curse of the Crimson Throne for a group of friends, and this will be our first major campaign in Golarion. In order to create an introduction to the world of Golarion, and to the campaign, I started to toy around with the idea of creating a slide deck (PowerPoint, or similar).
What I've done, basically, is to use text from Pathfinder books, images that I've extracted from my PDFs, and put them together in order to both tell the story and visualize the story. It's not 100% finished, but even in it's current state I've been able to send it to my players and thus created a little excitement and anticipation before we start playing :).
For the record, the image on slide 33 is not from a Paizo product. It is from Primal Power by WotC, and was downloaded from their art gallery.
First, an overview of the slide deck.
Slides 1-21 contains the text on page 53 in the Pathfinder Chronicles Campaign Setting, but I expanded upon the Spawn of Rovagug by using the images, and a few quotes, from Clinton Boomers article in Pathfinder #24.
Slides 22-26 is the introduction to Edge of Anarchy in Pathfinder #7, pg 6.
The remaining slides contain the mysterious message that each player has received, and a presentation of the characters.
A few sample slides
Aroden founds Absalom.
Xotani the Firebringer, one of the spawn of Rovagug.
And finally, one of the PCs. With a quote by the famous Taldan poet, and Gorumian zealot, Shakespeare.
