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Hi all. I just wanted to take a quick minute to let you know I have added both the Beginner Box Introduction and a Kid's Track using the Beginner Box into this year's Gen Con Schedule.
For the Beginner Box Introduction, players will get to experience the Beginner Box first hand over 5 hours. A one-hour intro to the rules, including an experienced GM that will answer all of your rules questions and review the provided pre-generated characters, is followed by playing the four, one-hour demo adventures that will be run back-to-back. We plan to have 4 tables of each in 9 of the 10 slots over the course of the four days. It will require the purchase of a ticket as it is a scheduled, five hour event. At the end of the five hours, each player will be provided a copy of the Beginner Box Pathfinder Society Character Creation Guide if they want to move from the Beginner Box straight into Pathfinder Society and give it a try during the convention.
For the Kid's Track, we will have a different session each day, using one of the demo adventures each day (Relics on Thursday, Ruins on Friday, Terrors on Saturday and Tomes on Sunday). These specific sessions will be geared towards players ages 6-12 only. Tables will be limited to four children. A parent or guardian must be on sight to supervise their child at all times. The first hour teaches roleplay & rules with provided characters found in the Pathfinder Beginner Box and explained at a child's attention level. In the second hour of the day, the four children get to play the one hour adventure for the day. If they play all four adventures (1/day), they will receive a custom certificate. Also, each child will be able to use one of the iconic minis that matches the pre gen they are playing. After the session is over, the child gets to keep the mini. I've also been very selective in who I have chosen to GM these Kid's track sessions. Each GM is a teacher or works with children as a part of their career (forensic interviewers, counselors, and the like). Finally, I have several people who work at the University level, drafting up a lesson plan of sorts, with suggestions for the GMs on how they should approach explaining the rules to children in two different age categories (6-8 and 8-12). One ticket will cover the child playing the game and for the parent to sit with their child during the two hours. We will be running 8 tables of each Kid's Track session each day.
Both the Kid's Track and Beginner Box Introductions will be hosted at dedicated tables in the Pathfinder Society Gaming Hall. I wanted to make sure kids got the full con experience of mustering for a slot, being assigned to a table, and playing with all the other tables, instead of them being singled out.
All in all, I am very excited for both of these programs and hope that some of you coming to Gen Con will seek out to add one or both of these to your Gen Con experience. If you have been curious about whether you should pick up a copy of the Beginner Box, this is a perfect opportunity to test drive it and see what it is all about.
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More cons should do this.