Last saturday I played Pathfinder with my friends for the first time and it was awesome! I was the only one with a roleplaying background so I stepped in as the game master.
Having played D&D 3.5 before, it was very easy to me to understand and teach my friends how to play. They used the pregenerated fighter and rogue and make another 3 characters from scracth, an elf fighter (an archer), a dwarf barbarian (from the player pack) and a half-elf cleric (stats for the half-elf taken from the PRD). The construction of this characters was fast and easy (contrary to the more time consuming D&D 3.5).
Unfortunaly, we had to stop before finishing the sample adventure but one thing is for sure, we had a blast playing with the Beginner Box! I'm sure that will be playing again to end this adventure very soon and I bet that they will be eager to finish Black Fang once and for all. :D
Thank you very much for this amazing product, Paizo. Even without being english our primary lenguage, we had no problem following the well written rules (though, we all are english speakers I must say). All of us loved the pawns and the girls (3 of our players, the cleric, the archer and the rogue) fell in love with the goblins, they think that they are very cute (I think that those three are crazy!).
Thanks again and I will be looking forward for more Paizo and Pathfinder products. You have gained a costumer! (a satisfied one).
Greetings from Mexico! ¡Saludos! =)