I started running this for my wife tonight. We normally game one-on-one because it can take a lot to get our regular gaming group together, and we jones pretty hard for game in between sessions. However, we know each other so well that sometimes it's hard to surprise one another.
So the Dungeon APs, and now Pathfinder, have been our saviors. I ran Shackled City and Savage Tides, she ran Age of Worms, and now I'm running Rise of the Runelords (I tend to run more for some reason...).
She started making a character while I read up on Burnt Offerings and -loved- it. Since she's a single character in a 4-person setting, she's playing a Gestalt Paladin of Freedom/Warlock. Her main theme is to overcome the inherent darkness in her character (a male, incidentally). His parents (Cheliaxian nobles) made a deal with a Devil to make sure he acquired the powers of a Warlock, and hired an assassin to force him to use them.
He survived, thanks to his trusty holy symbol (after the crossbow bolt, it's a holey symbol), and became quite devoted to Desna, goddess of luck.
All of this happened BEFORE she -OR- I knew about the temple, the priest of Desna, or Nualia.
The absolute mirror of the two (Nualia wanting to purge her 'divine' taint, him wanting to purge his infernal taint, her killing her father, his parents trying to kill him) have made me -extremely- excited for this campaign.
Also, the goblin song was amazing, I -loved- singing it in goblin-voice. And when our Paladin got cornered by the Shopkeeper's Daughter and got punched in the nose by a level 7 commoner father (and suffered several points of nonlethal damage before escaping), it was a truly epic moment that we'll always remember.
I just want to say: Thank you, Paizo. If your APs continue to be as truly excellent as Savage Tides, Age of Worms, and Rise of the Runelords, you'll -never- have a lack of fans.
I'm doing the same with my wife. She's playing all four pre-generated characters. We don't have much time, so we stopped just after the battle with the last goblin invaders. That horse slicer was brutal and fun. Her characters were having an absolute cake walk until then. I just managed to roleplay Alden Foxglove's gratitude, and that feels like it will go as intended. So far he comes across as sincere with just a touch more attention given to the ladies. I can't wait to run the Red Dragon Inn and boar hunt.
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Outstanding - I'm running this for my son and five guys from my gaming group who can play on weeknights.
So far we have:
Human (Varisian), Crusader of Sarenrae (from the Tome of Battle - Book of Nine Swords)
Human, Shoanti, Barbarian
Human, (Varisian), Rogue
Three have yet to make PC's yet so it'll be interesting to see what they make.
Later,
Greg Volz