Court intrigue with tabletop warmth.
Find the Path Podcast follows Pathfinder campaigns such as War for the Crown, where noble titles, councils, secret libraries, and party logistics all become playable drama. The table moves easily from in-character tension to jokes about pronunciation, spreadsheets, gear, comfort, and fantasy bureaucracy.
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Find the Path Podcast is a Pathfinder actual-play show where fantasy politics, table banter, and campaign bookkeeping all share the microphone. The recent War for the Crown episodes center on movement through Taldor, Yonmas, the Mercantile Council, noble introductions, suspicious leads, and the problem of who can be trusted. It is not only a sequence of encounters. It is a story about leverage, reputation, alliances, public performance, and the cost of trying to change a country from inside its systems. That makes the show feel unusually comfortable with talk-heavy play. A carriage ride, an inn, a council chamber, or a secret library can become the place where the actual game happens. The players argue priorities, compare notes, ask what titles should matter, and work through the consequences of earlier choices. Then the table undercuts itself with jokes about etymology, spreadsheets, fantasy shopping, comfortable beds, old internet horror, or a weapon that badly needs improvement. The tonal balance is important. Serious character scenes about betrayal, inheritance, war, and responsibility are allowed to breathe, but the show never loses the practical rhythm of friends managing a complicated campaign together. The Sovereign Court side story brings another flavor: secret doors, a secret library beneath a bardic college, and institutional tests that reward curiosity and rule-bending. After Party LIVE! episodes step outside the main fiction without leaving the hobby behind. Those conversations range from character concepts shaped by dwarven family culture to horror games, technical difficulties, patron prompts, and the creative usefulness of a long drive. The show’s world is dense with proper nouns, social ranks, and Pathfinder lore, yet the table often makes that density approachable by talking through what matters in the moment. It is especially strong when the drama comes from negotiation rather than combat. It also has a clear affection for campaign craft: why a room exists, how a culture shapes a character, what a party knows, and what a group forgot to bring. Find the Path Podcast suits someone who enjoys the machinery of a role-playing campaign as much as the finished story. The appeal is not polish alone. It is the feeling of a long-running table thinking, joking, and building momentum in real time.
Made for: Suits a listener who enjoys Pathfinder actual play with complications, character conversation, and table banter woven through the campaign. Best fit for someone who likes tracking names, factions, clues, and social stakes.
What sets it apart: The show stands out by making councils, titles, libraries, travel plans, and party logistics feel like active fantasy material. Its companion After Party LIVE! conversations also show how the table thinks about characters, themes, and campaign craft.
An actual play of Paizo’s Mummy’s Mask and War for the Crown Adventure Paths.
Nineteen council members? You reach for a spreadsheet before you reach for a sword.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A conspiracy hunt gets tangled in provincial travel, expensive comfort, missing weapons, and the return of the circles.
Conspiracy works best as a road-bound investigation, not a tidy unveiling. The party is still working from uncertain leads about Tavis, so the push toward Washfield and the woodland stays caught up in distance, trust, and the limited usefulness of Cornelius's family ties when…
A relaxed live discussion turns dwarven family expectations, belonging, and travel-fed creativity into character-building material.
Family, ancestry, and the practical work of shaping a character give Find the Path Ventures After Party Live number 34 its center. Ross Scoggin and Rick Sandage build from patron Katrin's Discord suggestion into a relaxed discussion of dwarven family expectations, inherited…
A council audience turns noble theater into a sincere case for serving Yonmas.
The party enters the council with reputations to protect, titles to inhabit, and a pitch built around service rather than coin. Count Oliver Darhan, Countess Felix Zespire, Baroness Verity Corsina, Baron Cornelius Marisette, and Viscountess Gwynwevar Hester all become part of a…
A city arrival becomes a social-investigation puzzle of merchants, council politics, and lively table-side detours.
Yon-Mas begins with a joke about a destination that may also be a warning, then settles into an inn crowded with merchants, overlapping languages, and the practical work of finding a useful lead.
A crown, a father's betrayal, and civilians caught between ambition and war.
War for the Crown turns a Taldoran succession fight toward its human cost, then lets the table's lighter instincts keep breaking the tension. A conversation about a father's betrayal and the deaths of three children of House Hescalar opens into tougher questions about what a…
Messy monster hunts with table-side sparks.
Sci-fi actual play with a long memory.
Actual play with jokes, care, and table noise.
Scrappy D&D, sharp banter, real table chaos.
Chaotic dice, big fantasy fallout.
Waterdeep adventures with earned emotional fallout.
The cast of Find the Path podcast discusses their actual play of the Sovereign Court side story, referencing the movie Pagemaster and other pop culture.
In this actual play podcast episode, the party explores a secret library under a bardic college, which serves as a practical exam for ambitious students to gain access by convincing a lion to give them a key.
Host Jordan and co-host Heather, joined by special guest Eric, discuss horror and spooky season with technical difficulties.
The Find the Path podcast begins Book 3 of the War for the Crown Adventure Path with a brief apology and banter about actor Carl Urban's nationality.
The Knights of Summer spend this episode inside Yonmas’s Mercantile Council politics, where Lord Rudig Atum, Lady Amber Gubel, Lady Carmelio Rawls, Chief Enumerator Abrun Pelator, and Lady Halina Kubin all point toward different city problems.
Find the Path Podcast’s After Party Live 34 is a discussion of themed character creation, with Ross Scoggin and Rick Sandage using Pathfinder examples like Skull and Shackles, Strength of Thousands, Fist of the Ruby Phoenix, and War for the Crown.
Find the Path Podcast's War for the Crown Episode 129, "The Mercantile Council," follows the party's carriage ride into Yon-Mos and their formal arrival at the Commerce Hall.
The Knights of Summer arrive in Yonmas after traveling from the County of Merit through Tandak Prefecture and the Curus Prefecture, with Countess Martella Lothied sending them to investigate Sir Mayor DeTavis.
Find the Path Podcast’s "War for the Crown Episode 127: The Road to Yanmass" opens with a recap of Pytherius’s control of most southern Taldor and Eutropia’s hold on northern Oparis and parts of Avon.
Martella Lotheed sends Cornelius and his companions from Birdsong Palace to Yanmass to win the Taldane Horse and merchant support for Eutropia.
Find the Path Podcast's “Winter in Meratt” returns the Knights of Summer to the Palace of Birdsong after Bartleby Lotheed steps down.
Rick Sandage and Jordan Jenkins use Find the Path’s recurring listener question about improving at game mastering and role-play to frame the episode.
The Knights of Summer entertain Lady Martella Lothied after her mission to secure an alliance with the Grand Duchess of the Tandak Prefecture, discussing the loophole-ridden legal system of Taldor.