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Running Pathfinder for the first time.

orpheusorpheus Registered User regular
edited January 2012 in Critical Failures
My friends and I were discussing what to start playing regularly, and decided on Descent as I own most of it. However I later realized we will often have 5 players and Descent seems to just not allow that. So I suggested that I could run Pathfinder using the tiles and figures from Descent to capture that feel. Since I've never run a D20 type game before I'm planning on starting it as a pure dungeon crawl and hopefully take on more as I become more comfortable.

Can anyone suggest a good campaign to use to get it started? Any other tips for a game using miniatures and grid maps? Before I invest any more into it I want to make sure this thing will keep going, but after that I'd like to get more map pieces and definitely some of those status effect stickers like Gabe uses.

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  • vertrouevertroue I am Female Totes Not a SithRegistered User regular
    If you can get it The Kingmaker premade campaign was amazing.

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  • TIFunkaliciousTIFunkalicious Kicking back in NebraskaRegistered User regular
    edited January 2012
    If you have the chance to buy dice individually it will often be cheaper, beginning PF characters rarely need more than 2 or 3 (the d20 and their primary damage dice), the only dice used in large quantities is 6 sided and any household usually has a healthy supply

    Many of my miniatures are raided from other games. I am one of the few I've met to have a full heroquest set on hand with only a couple broken weapons so I have a good supply of orcs/skeletons

    you can find a ton of creative ideas on the internet for saving money on minis. One of my favorites is printing 4 images of a monster side by side, printing out a sheet of those, cutting out the groups of 4 and folding/taping them into rectangles that show the image of the monster from all angles, or you can take 2 double sided images and make a cut halfway bottom to top on one, halfway top to bottom on the other and have a cross that A) achieves the same effect and B) lets you tell what a bunch of things standing next to each other actually are. You can then tape/glue these constructions to a surface made of cardstock or some such

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