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Crunchy Pathfinder chaos with courtly stakes.
Pathfinder 1e War For The Crown "DICE, Before Dishonor!" Podcast follows a Pathfinder table through War for the Crown, Crownfall, and the Echoes of Honor alternate-timeline turn. It mixes dense combat adjudication, cavalier-heavy party dynamics, political fantasy stakes, and loose pre-game chatter.
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Pathfinder 1e War For The Crown "DICE, Before Dishonor!" Podcast is a Pathfinder actual-play show centered on War for the Crown, Crownfall, and the Echoes of Honor branch of the campaign. It sounds like a table that keeps the whole machine visible. The players talk through rules, targeting, saves, cover, spell actions, equipment, character positioning, and the occasional technical tangent before a scene locks back onto the fiction. That openness is part of the texture. A door is not just a door; it becomes a question of Athletics rank, crowbars, penalties, blocked exits, smoke, and one more attempt because the roll was close enough to tempt disaster. The campaign material is courtly and strange. Recent excerpts move through Taldor, Lady Martella Lothied, a princess, cavaliers, a bard, a Lothied Wizard, a Pathfinder Society Knight of Adventure, shogunate imagery, samurai armor, a kitsune identity reveal, poisoned rooms, outsiders, undead or illusion-broken enemies, and battlefield visions with souls in the balance. The fantasy stakes are serious, but the table rarely stays solemn for long. Jokes about microphones, computers, couch hardness, disguises, and rules-lawyer confusion sit beside assassination danger and cliffhanger reversals. That contrast gives the show its shape. It is not edited into a sleek dramatic serial; it lets the audience hear the friction of play, including corrections, uncertainty, tactical second-guessing, and sudden laughter when a plan goes sideways. GM Jeff Ball is clearly present as host and game runner, steering the table through alternate timelines, book-one fallout, homebrew choices, and whether the group should continue in a changed version of the adventure. The show also keeps returning to the consequences of choice. A rescue can endanger a father. A disguise can create new suspicion. A character arriving with the wrong history in the wrong timeline can be read as an enemy. A battlefield triumph can become the reason vengeance descends. The result is crunchy, unruly fantasy role-play with enough rules talk for Pathfinder listeners who enjoy the system as part of the drama. Its strongest moments come when mechanics and story are impossible to separate: a failed save, a severed spine, a stunned condition, a surrendered weapon, or a silent signal becomes the hinge of the scene. The show suits patient actual-play fans who want the table, not just the tale.
Made for: Suits a listener who likes actual-play RPGs where the rules conversation remains part of the entertainment. Best fit for Pathfinder fans comfortable with table chatter, tactical combat, and cliffhanger-heavy campaign play.
What sets it apart: The show leaves the working parts of Pathfinder on the surface, so mechanics, jokes, rulings, and narrative consequence all arrive together. Its War for the Crown material is filtered through cavalier-party history, Echoes of Honor alternate-timeline turns, and a table that embraces messy decisions.
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A magical statue attacks the couch; you get to hear the table calculate its hit points.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A blocked door, an accidental battlefield shot, and two baffled outsiders give this rules-forward session a grim, unruly charge.
A stubborn door turns a simple obstruction into a full sequence of trouble: no crowbar, choking gas, and an attacker waiting above the choke point.
A critical shot breaks an illusion before a guarded surrender points the next move toward trouble.
Round eight keeps the Pathfinder fight tight around pressure, trust, and split-second reads. Lady Martella Lothied calls for a plan while the battle is still moving, and a critical shot lands hard enough to expose the disguised enemy for what it is.
A harm spell debate and a white-flag plea give this Pathfinder fight its crooked charm.
This Pathfinder episode lives between rulebook precision and live-table mess. A harm spell turns into the main tactical question as the group works through its one-, two-, and three-action versions, the 30-foot range on the two-action cast, and the basic Fortitude save.
A princess rescue turns into a couch-smashing rules fight before a move against the Shogun's high priest throws loyalties into doubt.
The rescue keeps mutating into a vote on the party's worst available options. One character is supposed to sprint for Princess Stavian while everyone else weighs a Tal'Din artifact, a certain crossbow, and the risk that taking it could drag Matt into this timeline.
A paranoid guard detail turns timeline confusion into a sudden, brutally reasoned gunshot.
A guard detail around the shogun turns tense fast, with spellcasting, a shimmer, and uncertainty over who belongs on which side making routine protection feel like a test of loyalty.
Dice, divine mysteries, and the trouble with good intentions.
["Five episodes into one Pathfinder Second Edition battle, Dice Before Dishonor keeps Lady Martella Lothied, Princess Stavian, Lord Anders, and Sir Winston pinned at a locked door.", "Ryan opens with a new PC build joke, and the table says a 2,000-to-3,000 dollar machine can stay relevant for five to seven years while they keep tracking initiative and hero points.", "Leon uses Deception and hunted strike against a guard holding his father at knifepoint, while Donald Dagon sustains a spell that throws furniture, embers, and pocket change at the line.", "The episode ends by shifting into Sir Winston's relic-crossbow vision, where a battlefield standoff, one shot, and the souls attached to the weapon redefine the fight's stakes."]
GM Jeff Ball opens an Echoes of Honor installment of War for the Crown as an alternate-timeline homebrew built around an all-free-archetype cavalier party and a decision about book two.
Dice Before Dishonor: Echoes of Honor centers this Pathfinder combat on an alternate-timeline Tal'Dor power struggle, with Princess Stavian, Grand Prince Davian's dead legacy, and Maxilar Pytherius all named in the setup.
Dice Before Dishonor turns into a crowded PVP fight where Princess Stavian, Lady Lothied, and Sir Winston keep trading actions in a ceremonial room.
["Pathfinder 2E \"DICE, B4 Dishonor!\" opens with the table tracking an invisible kitsune, a terracotta statue that reacts to magic, and a couch used like cover.", "Doug, Joe Gibson, and Matt spend the round parsing invisible versus undetected, Deceptive Casting, Seek, and the invisibility spell text while Ryan Messina's theme music and Alan J.
Echoes of Honor opens by recapping a Pathfinder War for the Crown campaign that has shifted into an alternate Taldor after the party crossed a jade veil.
Dice Before Dishonor episode 49 opens by asking whether it is a season finale or a bridge into the next arc, then immediately checks the party's damage after the dungeon fight.
Dice Before Dishonor S1 Ep.
["Jeff opens by saying the show is back while explaining that four campaigns now rotate through five slots and that 2021 scheduling has been disrupted by COVID.", "The recap centers on a jade mist that pulled key party members into a wall crack, plus Fafal's decision to keep the ring after a Tengu told him to wear it.", "Leon's armor has been restyled with muted pauldrons and a subdued cloak, and the party moves through sealed rooms and a stone hallway while checking for traps and loot.", "A singing child in a dining room turns out to be a porcelain shell hiding an arachnid creature, and the scene flips into a doorway fight with rapier stabs, claw hits, and a failed Will save that leaves Winston calling the enemy his 'new best friend.'"]
Episode 45 of the Pathfinder 1e War for the Crown campaign opens with a bourbon barrel Scottish ale called "Innocent Gun" before returning to the boss fight against Whiskers, a war priestess of Thalmor Gix.
A group plays a Pathfinder 1e War for the Crown campaign, with banter and a crossover from a Pathfinder Society adventure.
An actual play podcast of the Pathfinder 1e War For The Crown adventure, featuring a group of players navigating political intrigue in the city of Opara.
A group plays a Pathfinder 1e campaign called War For The Crown, with the episode starting with a description of the fantasy nation's resources.
An actual play podcast episode of the Pathfinder 1e War For The Crown adventure, featuring a group of players roleplaying in the fantasy nation of Taldor.