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I've been a fan of Golarion from its very first breaths. However, with a 7-year old and 3-year old, and a teaching job that's become my hobby as well as my professional work, there's unfortunately been no time for regular tabletop gaming.
When I recently started researching gamification and thinking about how I'd bring those concepts and procedures into our 5th grade classroom, I decided to include some maps in our class game. That turned my thoughts to the four-panel poster map of The Stolen Lands. In short order, I was digging out my old Adventure Paths.
Wow... I had not really forgotten how richly detailed and inspiring these adventures were, but it was sure fun to be reminded.
I am in the process of creating pared-down mechanics for our class game, and things are moving along well! That journey will be posted at a Facebook page if you care to check it out. Your feedback there or here is welcome, too. I'm also blogging about the process at talkED.tv under my name, Kyle Anderson. In the weeks ahead before school starts in September, our class website will be rebooted and include the game rules and information about the game's story, which will very closely follow the AP, minus the gods, demons, and sorts of things that tend to get conservative folk in our community all frothy at the mouth.
Here are some pictures of what I did with my maps of The Stolen Lands several years ago. I'll be using them again as the students' characters explore, discover, and settle.
Laminated hexes with sticky tack, which this time will be numbered for easier reference as students have potential to explore one (more with special abilities and items) hex each day
Just for fun before covering the maps
The finished product, with the yellow areas being off-limits-for-settling land of Brevoy... until the game's story might lead to a revolution when we study the same in U.S. history later in the year
Thank you, Paizo, for providing the beating heart to what's going to be an incredibly fun experience for this year's students and those in the years to come! Thanks also to the community here who helped bring the world to life before it took on its own as one of the premiere tabletop role-playing worlds and game systems.
I am not sure what you are asking us here?
I think he's just proud of a job well done :-)
Looks great! Have fun:-)
Since this isn't a question sub forum, I'm also of the feeling that this is "look at the awesome!"
And this is, indeed, awesome!
Good luck, Kyle, and keep us updated!
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Thanks for the kind words; yes, just "look at the awesome", hahah! All credit to Paizo for the specific structure for our game, especially the story, and for lots of inspiration over the years.
I made a post earlier today to the Facebook page linked above that details more about how I'll be using the maps, and how I'll involve the two other sections of 5th grade Social Studies I'll be teaching. It'll be interesting to see how they develop Varnhold and Fort Drelev, and really cool to see the work of all the 5th graders come together later in the year.