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Videmus wrote:

A PFS GM should be advising players and introducing them to the rules, not ruining their fun.

Since in this case everyone apparently had fun, that seems a bit harsh.

Posting is acting up here...

The GM and players can't assume that player was having fun. He may have been upset and just didn't say anything. As a PFS GM, you should still advise the player what will happen and let the player decide. If you want to let players be jerks in homebrew games, that's perfectly acceptable...the players can choose to play or leave the game. At PFS, it's supposed to be regulated for a reason.

Players shouldn't be allowed to work against each other, as I said before, it's not in the Society's interests.

Well, I run a lot of Pathfinder Beginner Box sessions. As a matter of fact, that is mostly all that I GM.

So, in my experience running Beginner Box sessions, it's much easier to use a search command in a pdf than to wait while someone tries to remember whether the point they're trying to make was discussed in Hero's Handbook or in the Game Master's Guide. And even when they remember which book it is in, it's still painful as they go through trying to find the sentence.

What you imagine about how "people" act when they are learning to play RPGs may be true for you, but has not been borne out by my experience. There is an occasional player who prefers print while playing, but not many. Mostly they're on their phones looking everything up on the fly.

So, then you're saying you run a lot of sessions with players who have Beginner's Boxes?

The reason I ask is, the thread is about the value of a Beginner's Box being created for Starfinder. Your quoted post seems to suggest immense value to a Beginner's Box, because that's nearly all the games you run.

Reference rules however you would like of course, but obviously the players are getting great value out of the boxes and the boxes are selling quite well if you get that much Beginner Box exposure.

Starfinder could use that, which is the point of the thread.

You're speaking from the position of a veteran gamer and a GM, and seem to confirm the disconnect I'm suggesting exists between seasoned players and beginners. Beginner Boxes are for beginners.

You can learn anything by having all the information dumped on you (full core rulebook and AA) and figuring it out yourself, but it's certainly not the most comfortable way of learning things. When you're trying to get new players you want them to be comfortable with what's going on or...they'll get frustrated and perhaps quit.