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Go to a local gameday or con, just introduce yourself around and mention its your first foray into Society play. 98% of gamers are overjoyed to convert...er explain how things go along. Your first DM and table of players will help as well. Ready the Pathfinder Society Guide, make a 1st level character or two (healers are always welcome) and don't worry too much about how you start, you can redo your character up until you play as a 2nd leveler.
Amric- I have a goblin boon, and play Slugtooth, the goblin Kneejob (Ninja)... in PFS. He's a lot of RP fun, even once impressed a team of Paladin and Knights types. Four of us won goblins at GC 2012 with me but we're scattered across the country, so the team doesn't get together much. Slug is crazy cracked out on Stealth (successfully eavesdropped on a mod plot with a die roll of 1), and has been intermittently terrifying (Slug and the Rogue Goblin craved through the second half of We Been Goblins 3) and comical (Paladin: "Is the goblin gnawing on the living furiture?") The best moment has to be when two of us where part of a two rounder with an Alchemist and his donkey loaded down with Alchemist Fire... That said: the feat: Roll With It! (Adv Race Guide) is both a life saver and hilariously funny...
I think the Highfolk T-shirt summed up adventurers in a nutshell (paraphrasing a bit, mine died awhile ago): DM: Before you stands the Vesve forest, its about 100 miles by 250 miles and contains about 100,000 orcs, what do you do? Players: We ATTACK! DM (nodding knowingly): Roll for initiative.
Update: Human 3 (Wizard, Paladin, Cleric)
In the hopper: Undine 1 (Sorcerer or Bard)
"The reason we were thinking a rogue level or two was mostly to get the trapfinding ability to disarm magical traps. Is that not a big worry for PFS? I think going straight Barbarian is probably better from the combat point of view, and the wife would prefer that if we don't need a magical trap finder. I suppose I can always have the Skald learn a low level summon spell as well for limited trap triggering or the like." As an experienced half-orc player, if you have a half-orc barbarian - you have a magic trap finder. Party Wizard: " The door detects as magic."
So every 4th of July weekend we do two things, go to a local parade/picnic and grill out at a friends place where among other things we throw axes at watermelons. When you hit the watermelon everyone yells "eat the blood of your enemies!" and you have to take a bite outta your kill. So one year the axe throwing was the night before the parade. My friend had his 4 year old daughter on his shoulders after the parade, as we're all walking over to the picnic. She leans over, sticks her face in her dad's face and loudly asks "Dad, are they going to have blood of our enemies?"
Human 2 (Wizard, Paladin) Half-orc 7 (Bard, Druid, Sorcerer, Cavalier, Barbarian + two deceased: Inquisitor, Fighter)Half-orc for CORE 1 (Fighter) Halfling 2 (Sorcerer, Inquisitor) Dwarf 1 (Sorcerer) Goblin 1 (Ninja) Oread 1 (Cleric) In the hopper: Undine 1 (Sorcerer or Bard)
Can't believe I didn't post this earlier... I love half-orcs.... How do you make a Druid better, give it a great axe, bite attack and darkvision! How do you make a Bard better, give it a great axe, bite attack and darkvision! How do you make a Sorcerer better, give it a great axe, bite attack and darkvision! How do you make a Wizard better, give it a great axe, bite attack and darkvision! How do you make a cleric better, give it a great axe, bite attack and darkvision! How do you make a Inquisistor better, give it a great axe, bite attack and darkvision! etc
So we're taking my friend's 9 year old to Gencon this year and we had a few sessions of PFS, to teach him at home. His 6year old younger brother really wanted to try it to so he played a Druid. The next day he jump out in front of dad pointing a finger at him: "Hands up I'm a spell caster!"
I just built a Oread cleric and gave him tower shield proficiency at 1st... Took the natural armor alt race trait and have the defense sub domain.... Starting AC 21 decent saves, once a day my and those near me AC by 2 and can drop tower shield and get AC back once a day with shield domain spell. Plus will rack that first level cleric spell that makes an attack go against you instead of adjacent allies.
GC my 5 CHA dwarf did all the talking because the bard and 3 paladin's wouldn't say anything. I feel ya.
You travel three states and keep pulling a GM who changes things so he can kill PCs, including vs our lvl 1-2 table... 1) having the troll fast heal infinite
(Also actually happened)
You about to play a low tier with 3 friends, with no front line when two higher levels get added to the table bumping you up. The two new players are a bard with no weapons and a rogue who won't flank with our rogue but fires a short bow with no STR mod 19 times for 20 points of damage against the first encounter... 2 polar bears. ( actually happened)
{Facepalm} "Donkey Detonation" gotta stop posting on the ipad.
I've heard said that when LG was rolled out they re-did the Village of Hommlet moathouse... supposedly in my friend's party as they snuck across the courtyard a wind kicked up... the Paladin went to go look. DM pulled him aside, as said you see a Blue Dragon hovering there... when we get back to the table you get one word then we roll init. They go back and the paladin utters..... "NNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!" Personally can't remember them all... (playing since '80) but went on a date with a Red Dragon once.... that was kinda weird considering the character (a widowed Cleric). Most recent was the 2nd round of 2012 GenCon Special... Mike Brock was running us... I died... badly.
Course even worse is just printing the things out. Remember early Living Greyhawk, were every item had a cert? There was a great item in the Wisconsin Region (one per table), a certain current Paizo employee, who ran the Wisconsin region at the time and wrote the mod ended up running a table at a UK con where all 6 players seated at the table had this item somehow. None of them could remember a thing about the mod. The item was banned shortly there after.
Marathon LG two rounder, we'd found an item that let you speak with dead and a list of questions someone had been asking something dead along with it. Hours pass, we kill BBEG and use item on him. Player 1:So what do we ask him? Player 2: oh the list, (whips out list, reads first question) who killed you? DM: You did, dumbass.
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