Runelords in Uganda

Friday, March 20, 2015

We first featured the Butterfly Project last April in the Paizo Blog, and are excited to present this update from the director of the project, Ben Parkinson, about this Ugandan Pathfinder group.



When I first picked up Pathfinder Adventure Card Game—Rise of the Runelords I was extremely unsure that the kids would like it. We played 3 straight games and failed the first time on the Poison Pill scenario, then immediately replayed it and won quite easily. They are looking forward to the last scenario and then moving onto the next adventure shortly after.

Obviously these are our more experienced kids, though they are still young (aged 13, 13, and 15, respectively), but they grasped the issue of developing their decks to improve their chances in the game, making their character more versatile and mitigating character weaknesses. Also, it was good to see the way each character had a role to play in the game and prompted them to work as a team.

We started the Reign of Winter Adventure Path last Thursday with a slightly new group of kids, some of whom are straight out of the village in Northern Uganda. Putting them into a snow scenario was quite interesting and the session was quite enjoyable.

I am continuing my blog on the forums and more people are following it these days. Also, we have had a generous number of Pathfinder Modules and other hardback materials donated by one of Paizo's writers, which we are shipping by container in May to Uganda.

Very best wishes,

Ben Parkinson
Butterfly Project Director, Uganda

Jenny Bendel
Marketing Director

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This is fantastic! Spreading gaming goodness around the world. It's like Mormon missionaries, but with gaming.

Grand Lodge

I have to say, this is quite nice!

Pathfinder Adventure Card Game Designer

So awesome.


"We started the Reign of Winter Adventure Path last Thursday with a slightly new group of kids, some of whom are straight out of the village in Northern Uganda. Putting them into a snow scenario was quite interesting and the session was quite enjoyable."

Reign of Winter? For the RPG or the PACG?


Pretty cool. Nice to see the enjoyment of PACG spreading around the globe.

FYI: The photo on the actual blog page appears broken to me.

Paizo Employee Developer

It delights me to see our games being played across the world. Thanks for your work, Ben. I'm glad those young men and women are still having fun. This is the kinda stuff that makes stressful weeks melt away a bit. Thank you!


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This is "Reign of Winter" for the RPG that we are running on Thursdays. We are working our way gradually through the ROTR PACG and have have managed all the adventures up to Blackfang the next one, which we played 5-player, we ran out of time for and thus failed.

We are also continuing Kingmaker monthly and may well run this tomorrow, if there is time.

One of the younger kids, Smith, has just started running his own campaign, so there is quite a lot of gaming going on right now, especially as our new village kids are all enjoying learning how to play things like "Ticket to Ride" and "Agricola".

Anyway, thanks for your messages of support. The roleplaying has taken off so much here and I'm so pleased to see the kids running it independently these days, thanks to support from Paizo with books and others sending adventures and dice:)


I wonder how the Ugandans in that village will react the the Wrath of the Righteous Adventure Path?


This is amazing. I was already planning a team Uncle's trip to Uganda, maybe it should be a team Paizo/Uncle's trip. Fun to tour some mzungu's around.

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