Pathfinder Tales: "In the Event of My Untimely Demise" [RPG]

NO SPOILERS

In the Event of My Untimely Demise is a four-part series of free Pathfinder web fiction available here.  Set in Magnimar, it features an "urban druid" in Magnimar named Luma.  Part of a family that hires themselves out as trouble-shooters, Luma is a really interesting character.  Author Robin Laws shows a real knowledge of the city and Pathfinder lore.  The story serves as a prequel to the excellent novel Blood of the City, and it's worth reading on that basis alone.

SPOILERS

Seen as too gauche for a job guarding a noble's party, Luma instead undertakes a solo mission to investigate an explorer's death.  The deceased, an adventurer, was involved in a mission that led to the acquisition of a valuable treasure; but he didn't share it with his companions and now, upon his death, they all want it back!  There's a few different suspects, with my favourite character being a cleric of Hanspur named Rieslan the Drowner.

I got a bit fuzzy on the plot and the story itself isn't fantastic.  But Luma is a well-drawn protagonist, and the way Laws describes her idiosyncratic magic is very cool.  This is one to recommend for readers interested in Magnimar, how to play a druid in an urban setting, or Blood of the City.