| Gigglestomp |
I was listening to my favorite author Jim Butcher talk about entroducing his son to pathfinder. And it got me thinking that my family would probably love this sort of thing. I talked to them and everyone is willing to give it a try.
None of us have any tabletop RPG experience. I'm fact, pretty much the only thing we have is lots of polyhedral dice (From mtg) and the willingness to try.
Since we are new and no one knows if we will be long term players or not we really don't want to spend too much money out the door. I found a few free modules to try like We Be Goblins and I found all the rules online.
The problem is I guess I would need to learn to GM and I'm trying to figure out where to start.
I was watching YouTube videos of people playing We Be Goblins and everything just sort of happened in the background. It was hard to see how everything worked. Like the story was roughly close to the module story, but all the calculations and movement were hard to follow. Items and feats were listed on the sheets but never really were used.
Also we were hoping we could print some pawns to use and were wondering what the best way to get some simple but effective DIY pawns out of things around the house or with a printer.
We have 3 players ( including the GM - me?) that are more interested in playing regularily then others. But we have 5 other players who could play sometimes.
Any thing we can do to ave a sucessful first game? How can I get ready as a GM? Keep in mind noones played before, including the GM. And we are trying to play the first few games without spending money to make sure we will all be interested in playing regularly. If we play regularily we would spring for books and figures.