The Pathfinder Roleplaying Game is a fantasy role-playing game (RPG). It extends and modifies the Revised 3rd edition Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) game rules published by Wizards of the Coast under the Open Game License. Pathfinder RPG is intended to be backward-compatible with D&D version 3.5. If you’d like a more in-depth explanation, Wikipedia pretty much sums it up.
But what is Way of the Wicked? Well, Fire Mountain Games (the company that was gracious enough to produce this fine product) sums up the campaign fairly well:
“Way of the Wicked” is a 7-book adventure path for evil PCs featuring 20 levels of irredeemable villainy compatible with The Pathfinder RPG.
That’s right; it’s a campaign designed for evil characters. We get to be the bad guys, the stuff of nightmares, we get to be the things that go bump in the night. If you play Pathfinder (or any edition of D&D as you can get to one edition from another if you go about it intelligently enough) I highly encourage that you talk to your Game Master and show them this awesome resource. It’s definitely an experience you won’t get from many other RPG products.
But what is this blog? Well, I have a bit of an over-active imagination when it comes to things like this. If I play any game that requires some effort on my part to define the hero (or in this case, the villain) then I develop an attachment to them. I start seeing the game and my character as one big novel full of chapters of adventures and experiences. For Way of the Wicked, my simple backstory has spiraled irrevocably out of control into a mass of short stories that I’ve jotted down over time and forced on my poor fellow players. I wanted my character’s rich history and experiences to be known to them but the virtual tabletop that we used was a little less than able to handle the vast and intricate story I wanted to create. I now have an outlet where the sole design is to make stories like this available to the public. I now have a way to introduce you to Axion “Old Man” Jenkins and his sad, twisted decent into destruction-riddled madness.
Way of the Wicked 