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GMing my first campaign, so far so good. PCs are level 4 and just arrived at the first town in the story. It's a large town with a generic marketplace stat block. I'm a little unsure on how to generate the magic items available. Should I be rolling items completely at random, or catering to the parties needs, or a little of both? Also, should I make a couple things out of their price range to entice them to come back to that market later with more cash, or just make everything affordable to them? I've never been on this side of the table before, help/suggestions appreciated!

I was looking at the nethys archive's treasure generator. Can that be used?

I would love to browse these message boards as a time killer, but it's just so slow. I know it can't just be me, it's the same at work or at home, wired or wi-fi. Any message board link takes at LEAST 30 seconds to load, after my 3rd or 4th thread I try to read I usually get frustrated and give up. I can't be the only one that experiences these super slow load times... can I?

Hello!
Me and my group are still fairly new to Pathfinder, and this is our first adventure with a ranger. Our ranger just hit 4th level, and as such has gained zero 1st level spells/day. Can someone please clarify what the zero means? Is that for a character who multiclasses into ranger? Can he do anything with it now as a level 4 ranger?

Quick question, the following string is taken from Koruvus' stat block (Rise of the Runelords - p36 in the anny edition):

Melee +1 longsword +4 (1d8+4/19-20), silver dagger +3 (1d4+1/19-20) mwk handaxe +3 (1d6+1/x3)

Why is the longsword italicized and what does the +1 before longsword mean?

Also, this is a mutated goblin with three arms wielding three weapons. Would he be able to use a full round action to attack an adjacent character with all three weapons?

In this example:

CN human male commoner 5

What does the 5 mean? Help is appreciated as always!

I have a gaming group that gets together 3 times a week mostly for Euro-style board games and some Ameritrash mixed in here and there. About a year ago we picked up Descent and dedicated Wednesday nights to exclusively playing Descent. We've gone through a couple campaigns and have been yearning for something less restrictive and linear. After some research and discussion, we decided to try out Pathfinder (over D&D). There's 6 of us in total, and out of the group only two people have ever played any form of D&D and this was well over 10 years ago. I was the "overlord" for our Descent campaigns and love the idea of GMing, so naturally I was elected to run Pathfinder. I have ZERO experience. They have ZERO experience. I bought the CRB two months ago and have been reading it religiously since. I've gone from cover to cover at least twice, watch Twitch streams regularly, and have gone through countless YouTube How To's. I also invested in Bestiarys, the APG, the Strategy Guide, Ultimates, and a few other books (mostly unnecessary). I've seen a lot of these "first time GM" threads where people suggest the Beginner Box or some light small Modules. I ran this by the guys but they didnt seem interested, they want something that will last us months and have them grow to levels in the teens. Fine. I compromised, and this is what I came up with.

We're going to run Rise of the Runelords. I've restricted them to Races and Classes from the CRB only, but have allowed them to expand on those classes throught the APG and other books like Ultimate Magic/Combat.

I'm fairly comfortable with the rules of the game, and understand how combat works. They too have a pretty good understanding of the game at this point (its been two months). We did character creation last week, and though they mostly used sourced characters builds from these message boards, everything seemed to go pretty smoothly and the PCs seem to have a decent understanding of their characters.

I guess what I'm asking is do we seem prepared enough? Or are we going to try and start next week, run into a bunch of descrepencies, and say "screw this"? Do you think RotRL will be too tough for me to run as a first time GM?