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I'll begin at the beginning. When I first got the game pathfinder, the man in the gaming store told me that the beginner's box was the easiest way to begin, so I bought that. I was only getting started as a GM, so the only adventure I ever really played was Black Fang's Dungeon, a shitty attempt at an easy adventure, involving a mayor who is willing to give a bunch of 1st level noobs 1,000 gp in addition to the treasure they found in the dungeon (HINT: completely unbalanced scroll of resurrection, multiple magic items such as a +1 Dragonbane sword to combat the dragon, and whiny goblins whose greatest treasure is a wooden dragon toy, but the only goblin who happens to own this gets herself killed) | I'll begin at the beginning. When I first got the game pathfinder, the man in the gaming store told me that the beginner's box was the easiest way to begin, so I bought that. I was only getting started as a GM, so the only adventure I ever really played was Black Fang's Dungeon, a shitty attempt at an easy adventure, involving a mayor who is willing to give a bunch of 1st level noobs 1,000 gp in addition to the treasure they found in the dungeon (HINT: completely unbalanced scroll of resurrection, multiple magic items such as a +1 Dragonbane sword to combat the dragon, and whiny goblins whose greatest treasure is a wooden dragon toy, but the only goblin who happens to own this gets herself killed) | ||
The beginners box gave me no alternative to this madness, so in order to instruct my friends on the inner workings of the game, I was forced to play this same adventure over and over and over. | |||
In one instance, two of my friends were playing as Kyra (the pregenerated cleric) and Merisiel (the pregenerated rogue). Both of them had the worst stats imaginable. For example, Kyra had a dexterity of 8. All in all, not a bad score. However, to make this worse, she had a strength of 13, making her easily the worst combat character. So she should make an ideal healer, right? It was not so. The only spells she was capable of casting were bless and protection from evil. The friend playing Kyra made the wise decision and decided not to use these spells, as the buffs were negligible, considering that the main foe was goblin mooks. | |||
Revision as of 19:01, 4 November 2015
The Beginning
I'll begin at the beginning. When I first got the game pathfinder, the man in the gaming store told me that the beginner's box was the easiest way to begin, so I bought that. I was only getting started as a GM, so the only adventure I ever really played was Black Fang's Dungeon, a shitty attempt at an easy adventure, involving a mayor who is willing to give a bunch of 1st level noobs 1,000 gp in addition to the treasure they found in the dungeon (HINT: completely unbalanced scroll of resurrection, multiple magic items such as a +1 Dragonbane sword to combat the dragon, and whiny goblins whose greatest treasure is a wooden dragon toy, but the only goblin who happens to own this gets herself killed)
The beginners box gave me no alternative to this madness, so in order to instruct my friends on the inner workings of the game, I was forced to play this same adventure over and over and over.
In one instance, two of my friends were playing as Kyra (the pregenerated cleric) and Merisiel (the pregenerated rogue). Both of them had the worst stats imaginable. For example, Kyra had a dexterity of 8. All in all, not a bad score. However, to make this worse, she had a strength of 13, making her easily the worst combat character. So she should make an ideal healer, right? It was not so. The only spells she was capable of casting were bless and protection from evil. The friend playing Kyra made the wise decision and decided not to use these spells, as the buffs were negligible, considering that the main foe was goblin mooks.