A Pathfinder 2e table that swears at its dice.
MNmaxed Podcast is an actual play Pathfinder 2e show, and its recent episodes follow the Blood Lords campaign down beneath the city of Yled, where a lich, tomb giants and an undead dragon lie in wait. The mechanics stay audible, with to-hit totals, saves and hero points called out between crude, profane jokes.
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MNmaxed Podcast is a Minnesota-based actual play show built on Pathfinder 2e. It has a deep back catalog, and the recent stretch sits inside the Blood Lords campaign, with each episode numbered by session. The titles lean on wordplay, with entries such as 'Blood Lords 112 - What a Drag-on' and 'Blood Lords 111 - They Might Be Giants'. That playfulness sits on top of a grim setting. The party is working its way down beneath the city of Yled, and the excerpts from this run are crowded with undead: a lich named Kelganth, a heavily armored skeleton, and a dragon ravener described at the table as undead and shadow. Not every enemy fights to the end. In one excerpt a tomb giant called Greylar, flanked and battered, drops prone and offers to concede, and a later recap calls him the party's new tomb giant friend. Elsewhere a crowd of dwarves turns out to be refining shadow ash, and the narration wonders aloud whether a shadow phoenix is powering a bone wall before shrugging that it will all become clear. The show can paint a room when it matters, as with a chamber rising to a sharp point hundreds of feet overhead, veined with dim green light, its chains trailing into a mound of gray ash. The players, meanwhile, are loud. Combat is called in full, with attack totals, reflex and fortitude saves, hero points, haste, flanking and conditions like frightened and off-guard spoken out as they happen. Rules get settled mid-fight, as when a sustained implosion spell has to move to a new target and that target has to be corporeal. Bad dice draw groans and jokes; one damage roll is so feeble a player suggests the d6s were secretly d3s. Build talk surfaces as well, including the claim that one build only really turns on at 19th level. The humor is crude, profane and sometimes sexual. The narrated closings are a quiet highlight. They recap the session with a deflating edge, calling one dragon fun, silly and ultimately useless, or waving away a slain lich with a 'who cares?'. Then they tease what comes next and sign off with 'It's your turn,' the same words that hand over the spotlight in combat. Episodes open with thanks to patrons at the Lich level and above and an invitation to the show's Discord, sometimes followed by a recap of the previous session. One closing marks the completion of book five of the campaign. For a Pathfinder player who wants to hear a high-level party work through the system turn by turn, it keeps every number on the table.
Made for: Suits a listener who already speaks Pathfinder 2e, likes hearing saves, hero points and off-guard bonuses tallied out loud, and has no problem with crude, heavily profane table humor.
What sets it apart: It keeps the machinery in plain view, letting to-hit totals, mid-fight rulings and build talk run right alongside eerie room descriptions. The narrated wrap-ups add a dry, self-mocking edge and end on 'It's your turn,' the same line that passes the spotlight in a fight.
MNmaxed is an actualplay Pathfinder 2e podcast based in Minnesota. Our goal is to provide entertaining adventures, helpful insights, and to be tabletop RPG ambassadors.
A lich fight pauses for a rules correction; you get the spell and the table talk.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A chained shadow bird gives Blood Lords a grotesque set piece before book five closes on hard-won momentum.
Blood Lords turns a room in Lower Argoron into a nightmare engine. Chains draw a mound of gray ash up from a black pyramid until a huge bird-like shape forms, all shadow-wisp feathers and ten fixed eyes, framed by green sigils, invisible barriers, and a thick sense of absence…
The party's volatile fight with a lich brings Shara's betrayal to a dangerous breaking point.
Blood Lords 114 sends the party deeper into Lower Argaron, where revenge starts to look less clean and much more dangerous. After bringing down an undead dragon, they find a machine guarded by strange dwarves, press Frank the Dwarf for what he knows, and learn that a lich and a…
A dwarf-led tour of lower Argoron turns absurd, then lands at Kelganth the Lich's door.
Blood Lords sends the party through lower Argoron as a dungeon tour that keeps slipping into undead office culture, fungal chambers, bunks, and a dwarf workforce that raises more questions than it answers.
A dragon ravener, a critical hit, and a portable-hole argument keep the descent sharply comic.
The Blood Lords episode finds a clean comic shape in an undead dragon that can still be made to look foolish. After the party moves toward Lower Argaron and clashes with Tomb Giants and more dangerous undead giants, the dragon ravener arrives with an eerie, ghostly presence.
A tactical fight where brain-melting magic and questionable d12s leave the same mark.
Blood Lords keeps the fight moving as a running argument between tactical control and whatever the dice allow. Arius rattles the back-line caster, lands a 43 to hit, and deals 39 damage despite some suspect d12s.
Dice, divine mysteries, and the trouble with good intentions.
The episode begins with thank-yous to Patreon supporters before continuing a Bloodlords adventure in a Pathfinder 2e actual-play podcast.
This episode continues the Bloodlords campaign with a chase sequence after a wraith, featuring player characters using magic and luck.
This episode of MNmaxed Podcast continues the Bloodlords adventure path with a recap of session 85, where the party chases a wraith to a glass blowing facility.
A recap of session 102 of a Pathfinder 2e actual-play podcast, where the party regroups after a lead and prepares for a meeting.
This episode continues a Pathfinder 2e actual-play campaign called Bloodlords, with a recap of a recent battle and level-up.
MNmaxed Podcast's Blood Lords 115, "Grave Phoenix," opens with a recap of the Kelganth fight, Shara's death, and the argument over whether to hand out 42,000 gold.
MNmaxed Podcast's Blood Lords 114, "Bad Blood," centers on the party's assault on Kelganth the lich inside a crowded Lower Argaron laboratory.
Blood Lords 113, Buncha Angry Dwarves, opens after Urbulinex is dead, his skull-swarm ally failed, and the party has taken his treasure.
MNmaxed Podcast's Blood Lords 112, 'What a Drag-on,' follows the party into Lower Argaron and into a dragon encounter.
MNmaxed Podcast's Blood Lords 111, 'They Might Be Giants,' follows the party into Lower Argaron after Greylar the Tomb Giant points them toward the source of Shadow Ash.
MNmaxed Podcast's "Blood Lords 110 - To Tread Beneath Yled" begins after the party defeats Gyasi in a shadow-realm theater and reaches level 17.
MNmaxed Podcast's “Blood Lords 108 - Toccata and Fugue-It” follows a party investigating Gyasi's Playhouse after Acts 1 and 2, a split fight across the Shadow Realm and Material Realm, and Gyasi's disappearance.
MNmaxed Podcast's Blood Lords 105 follows the party from the Pallid Pinnacle to a confrontation with Pasebnet, a high priest researching Aeon Stones in undead creatures.