We've worked through the first adventure path (Rise of the Runelords) and most of the third adventure path (Second Darkness). For one reason or another we never actually finished Second Darkness and went back to the second adventure path (Curse of the Crimson Throne) instead and made new characters with the new Pathfinder RPG rules. Pathfinder originally used the D&D 3.5 rules, but using the Open Gaming License they now have their own take on the rule system. Many dub the system "3.75" as it improves on 3.5 but doesn't go in the direction of fourth edition Dungeons and Dragons, which requires miniatures and grids to play.
Here's what goes on behind my DM screen setup:
And here's what the players see from their view:
Megan got me the Pathfinder GM screen you see on the left, and it's super sexy. Unlike most screens it isn't cardstock or even thin cardboard - its actually the sort of material that would be used as a board for a high quality game. The cover art has all of the "iconic" Pathfinder characters which are, in order from left to right, Kyra the Cleric of Saranrae (None of our players ever took her. Playing a good cleric who has to act altruistically is basically anathema to our group), Harsk the dwarven ranger (Changed by Glen into "Harsk the drunken monk," who believed it was his religious duty to start a bar fight in every town they encountered), Ezren the wizard, Valeros the fighter (Whom had many misadventures, including mistaken identity, drunken marriage, and an unfortunate fall off the goblin fortress into the sea), Seoni the Varisian sorceress (Whose constantly exposed cleavage caused dozens of rape attempts), Amiri the barbarian (Who, upon failing her sneak roll, began singing "the quiet song" at the top of her lungs), Seelah the Paladin (Hahahaha, a paladin? Not gonna happen.), Lini the gnome druid, and Seltyiel the Eldritch Knight (Serious daddy issues - Twice).
We are just about to finish up the "Escape From Old Korvosa" adventure and move onto the next entry, "A History of Ashes"
Our current group has thrown party balance into the wind, as it consists of four rogues and a sorcerer, with no access to a healer. Of course they've been involved in all sorts of misdeeds (that happens when one of the party worships Zon-Kuthon, the Hellraiser inspired lawful evil midnight lord of pain and suffering), from trafficking with devils, refining a more virulent form of the blood plague instead of stopping its spread, and slowly taking over the criminal underworld of the city of Korvosa.
Here's a picture of an earlier gaming session when we were playing a one-off Call of Cthulhu game:
My laptop is hooked up to the Xbox 360 through a wireless connection to stream music appropriate the scene. Since it was a Call of Cthulhu game I used lots of disturbing and weird stuff obviously, like the "Somnium" album by Thou Shalt Suffer (an earlier keyboard heavy outing from Ihsahn), and the "Obscuritatem Advoco Amplectere Me" album by the infamous Abruptum.
Here's Glen and Crystal during the gaming session:
Matt recently brought me home an industrial spinning D&D case from his job, as they were just going to throw it away when they were done with it. I've been using it to showcase my pretty hardcovers and put books within arm's reach of the bathroom for easy reading :)
Here's two of the four sides, showing off Forgotten Realms and World of Darkness:
I swap each side out periodically, but right now the other two have my Pathfinder books and my Star Wars books - first edition (d6 for the win!), second edition, and D20 edition.
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