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Pathfinder RPG resources for a beginner
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My girlfriend has expressed great interest in "D&D" though I suggested Pathfinder as from what I have been told from friends and read around the net, it's basically the same but better ruleset, and it seems very popular. Sooo....
I ordered in the big hardcover Core Rulebook off Amazon, and am picking up the Beginners Box from my local shop. We are starting from scratch, we have no resources (Except a ton of mini's from Talisman I guess?). My question is, what are some good resources for someone who doesn't have any of the stuff and is totally new? Things like maybe some free ( or paid.) low level module's or mini (the cardboard pawns are my preference since they are cheap/easy for NPC's.) character gen software? Good web sites? Must-have supplies or items for regular play? We are going to be a group but all of us are basically new to this. I will be DMing mostly since I love to write so once I learn it a bit i expect that i'll be writing a few adventure modules myself, but I am not above buying some official ones or whatever if they are a good buy.
Any advice or suggestions greatly appreciated !
I ordered in the big hardcover Core Rulebook off Amazon, and am picking up the Beginners Box from my local shop. We are starting from scratch, we have no resources (Except a ton of mini's from Talisman I guess?). My question is, what are some good resources for someone who doesn't have any of the stuff and is totally new? Things like maybe some free ( or paid.) low level module's or mini (the cardboard pawns are my preference since they are cheap/easy for NPC's.) character gen software? Good web sites? Must-have supplies or items for regular play? We are going to be a group but all of us are basically new to this. I will be DMing mostly since I love to write so once I learn it a bit i expect that i'll be writing a few adventure modules myself, but I am not above buying some official ones or whatever if they are a good buy.
Any advice or suggestions greatly appreciated !
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http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/prd/gettingStarted.html
Bestiary, as many volumes as you can afford. These may be $40 each, but they're full of wonderful creatures and the like, from the common to the obscure. I doubt you'd need the Bestiary Box, which is just minis of the monsters, but they're $40 each and you already have a lot of minis.
If you've got at least three players, you may as well just form a group under the Paizo Organized Play campaign, better known as the Pathfinder Society. Adventures are tailored to level tiers and only cost four bucks each online, but there are some free ones out there, too. In other words, if you game twice a month, and you drop forty bucks on adventures, you're good to go for maybe six, seven months with all the free stuff out there- not to mention you can take your characters on the road to conventions and the like and use them there.
I can has cheezburger, yes?
The most commonly recognized monsters are in Beastiary 1 (your dragons, devils, demons, skeletons, werewolves, your standard fantasy monsters), in Beastiary 2 they branch out into less quickly recognized or specialized beasts (dullahans, poltergeists, bunyips, Jabberwoki), Beastiary 3 has losts of general monsters and more cultural specific monsters (Oni, Asura, Div, Rakshasha, Imperial Dragons), and Beastiary 4 has general monsters and Lovecraftian horros (Cthlulhu, Dagon, Color Out Of Space, Xi-go, Elder Things).
Really if you are just starting out, you only need the Core Rulebook to play, and maybe Beastiary 1 if you are going to GM. Modules and all other books are optional. But they are FUN to look through.
If you check http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/prd/ as mentioned above you will find the content of almost every rulebook (the most recent aren't up yet) that you can look through at your leisure.
Honestly, the Beginner Box has enough content to keep you going for several sessions on its own. My group started out with just it and got in a good six sessions of play before we started incorporating more resources into our game. You might want to tear into that before you buy too much else.
http://www.d20pfsrd.com/ - An excellent reference site
http://charactersheets.minotaur.cc/ - The best character sheets I found
Those character sheets look great !
Those character sheets look great !
In addition to what you've already got, I can't recommend this enough.
www.wolflair.com/hero_lab
It's got a free trial and it's only $30 for the paid version. You can purchase modules for additional games but Pathfinder is one of the ones that's included with it. It takes all the paperwork out of character creation and lets you print off perfect character sheets that list all your skills and attributes so there's no confusion at the table.
I love that software.
Our group is scattered across the country though, so even with skype it's not quite the same as a table in the kitchen. Still, take a look.