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Well, just a suggestion and I wanted to what people feels like.
I just got my copy of the Begginer Box, and I'm VERY happy I own this. I started roleplaying with a sistem by the name Anima: Beyond Fantasy... which is Beyond complex :) I still ade it to deal with it because of one thing: It's presentation made me still awake wile reading the rules, which were always easy to find.
Then I moved on to D&D 4E, which has been my favorite Role Playing Game so far; again, it's simplicity and design made it good for every sort of player and master, and the book was easy to digest, and was very well placed. It took you by the hand and guided you trough it to understan it's nature. I wanted something more fitting for an epic adventure, and I liked Pathfinder's classes and world.
So I got the core Book (dunno which printing), and the bestiary and weeeelll... I noticed it was CLEARLY written for previous 3.5 players and I don't think they had newcomers on mind. I mean, finding some guidelines for character creation beyond the glossary was a pain (like, how to properly calculate total hit points at first level... they made it clear BEYOND the classes section) and the spellcasting part was just overwhelming... a courtain of text, UNNECESARY courtain of text.
I was losing my faith when I got this amazing little pack of awesomeness, and I have to say I'm impressed at it's design and presentation. From the VERY moment you go on with the solo campaign, which as an awesome idea, to the spells, which were presented in colorful ways, explained WELL, and the art made it very attractive... More than the art was the fact that both books were wellcoming you and making you grow more and more extited.... they were leading thr reader step by step, trough some complex rules, but in the simplest way possible, without expecting you to dabble trough everything like if you HAD to know beforehand how to play.
I'm starting to understand the game little by little, and I hope I can master it soon enough... and make a Summoner to try it out later (yup, got Advanded Player's Guide). However I just open the books and I feel I just switched from my nice, understanding teacher, to the old geezer that will yell if I'm wrong and slap me with a ruller.