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I'll add my voice to the crowd saying that the Beginner's Box really seems to hit a sweet spot for me. Its take on the rules gives me everything that's awesome about the game with none of the needless extra complexity. It would be awesome if the folks at Paizo were to release more material for the BB.

You know what I would snap up like a shot? An "Expert" box containing:

The additional races and classes from the core book that didn't make it in--Half-elf, Half-orc, Halfling, Gnome, Druid, Bard, Monk, Sorcerer, Paladin and Ranger

Material to bring all the BB characters up to maybe level 8 or 10--"Name level," as it were.

Additional rules covering governing kingdoms/territories/guilds as a good "end game" activity. I haven't had a chance to look at Kingmaker yet, but maybe just incorporate the rules from there.

Extra monsters, items, spells etc.

I don't think Paizo would really be in danger of splitting their fan base over such a move, since the rules really aren't that different.

Awesome, thanks for the advice. And thanks for the character class writeups, Ed. I may offer those to my players as options.

So I'm planning on introducing a group of rabbinical students to roleplaying this Saturday night as part of my "Havdalah & Dragons" initiative :D

To do this I will be using the Pathfinder Beginner Box, which I am now totally in love with. That said, I have one player who has played some version of D&D in the distant past and might as a result of that want to play a druid. My question is, aside from the added complexity in terms of options at character creation, is there any reason why I couldn't use a character created with the standard rules in a Beginner Box game? I'm not much of a system wonk (which is part of the reason I'm using the simpler version to begin with), and I'm not really sure how to determine whether a druid created by the book would be overpowered in a party consisting mostly of Beginner Box fighters, clerics, wizards and rogues.

Anyone care to weigh in?