learning

[Jumbo Wizard]

So I happen to have a bunch of free time this week. I was hoping to find a game to play and learn. I've played 5e a bit, so I understand the idea behind pathfinder, even though there's like a lot more rules (or seems like it). Making characters in pathfinder seems really daunting and I seem to only talk to people that play it that think there's only 1 or 2 ways to play a class. Perhaps that's accurate, I don't know, but it's kinda put me off from the whole thing in the past. 

I do have the digital copy of the rulebook and stuff, I just can't find something friendly to newbs. I've looked around roll20 without much success with pathfinder.

[Jumbo Wizard]

I understand pfs has slightly different rules and such. I think I have a pfs character saved somewhere

[Morten F]

https://discordapp.com/channels/174387273415000065/197059235576676352

talk here!

[Ian S]

How you are expected to play a class partly depends on the group that you choose to play with, and what gaps they have in the current team (if you’re joining an established group).  But many would wonder why you don’t play to the strengths of whichever class you choose.  E.g. if you want to hang back and not be at the front engaged in melee combat, don’t pick something like warrior or paladin….  there may be ways to make it work, but probably not for the starter player or smaller group.

 

IME the rules are simpler than they look, once you get into a rhythm.  A lot of the feats and skills are situational.  When rolling up a new character, it may help to know what sort of campaign you’re walking into.  If you’re joining a combat-heavy campaign, perhaps focus on things which improve combat abilities; for a roleplay campaign, perhaps pick some which help you to negotiate, improve knowledge, or ply a trade.  If you’re going to be a land-locked cave-dweller, something like swimming may not be top of the list; yet for an ocean-faring campaign, you may want to either pick swimming  or heavily role-play a fear of water and trying to doggy-paddle.

 

It may help to start with a non-caster class (e.g. rogue or fighter), or maybe one that gets spells later (e.g. paladin or ranger).  IMO spells can be good fun, but need more time and attention to pick spells when rolling / levelling up.

 

Roll20 is system-neutral, not geared for or against PF.  There is a Roll20 community that works on things like the PF character-sheet, so there’s definitely a PF presence.

On Oct 24, 2016 7:18 PM, "Jumbo Wizard" <wirdsm...@gmail.com> wrote:

So I happen to have a bunch of free time this week. I was hoping to find a game to play and learn. I've played 5e a bit, so I understand the idea behind pathfinder, even though there's like a lot more rules (or seems like it). Making characters in pathfinder seems really daunting and I seem to only talk to people that play it that think there's only 1 or 2 ways to play a class. Perhaps that's accurate, I don't know, but it's kinda put me off from the whole thing in the past. 

I do have the digital copy of the rulebook and stuff, I just can't find something friendly to newbs. I've looked around roll20 without much success with pathfinder.

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[chris manning]

Hi

there is plenty of online pathfinder society

It may help if you let us know what timezone you are in (or what timezones you want to play in)

for instance i'm in the UK, I run a site called Tarracon and there are games most days, there are many US timezone games also

starting out is easy, you can download the pathfinder society guide (for free) here

or you can play one of the pregenerated characters to get a feel for it

look for a game in the Tier 1-5, and just let the GM know your a new player

Chris

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[Jumbo Wizard]

i ended up getting discord yesterday and did hop on

On Tuesday, October 25, 2016 at 6:00:35 AM UTC-7, Morten F wrote:

https://discordapp.com/channels/174387273415000065/197059235576676352

talk here!

[Helen Yau]

Fab ☺ welcome aboard

I run games on tarracon too. If you sign up for any of my games, drop me an email too. I'm happy to help run through things if it helps ☺

[Philippe Lam]

Being a bit of the Devil's Advocate : You can't control which players you team with in an organized play, and so if not lucky, some of these won't care about being patient . But I hope you'll find what you want, always nice to have new players in the fore

[Jumbo Wizard]

Thanks everyone. I was able to play my first pfs game the other day and it was awesome. Everyone was very helpful and patient. I also joined that terracon warhorn so hopefully I can game with some of you in the future. 

On Monday, October 24, 2016 at 4:18:45 PM UTC-7, Jumbo Wizard wrote: