First of all, Pathfinder totally pwnz me. In every way. I haven't felt this excited about a core rules system and campaign setting in a long, long time. I'm constantly thinking of new / better ways to use the stuff I have, and I now understand when people on these message board moan about taking another hit in the pocketbook (Seriously, the Gamemastery Guide? Advanced Players Guide? Yeah,that's 80 bucks already spent.....)
But I do have one comment to share about the PFRPG core rulebook.
A few weeks ago I introduced my brother-in-law and his 13-year-old son to the game. My brother-in-law is a lapsed 2e player (hadn't played in over 20 years), and my nephew had never played.
And even though I'm fairly conversant with the 3.x / Pathfinder rules, I had a tough time moving them productively through character creation without a lot of stopping and starting. I was constantly going back and forth between sections--"Should we do skills first, or what about feats? Or, oh crap, I forgot about their racial modifiers and skill bonuses....."
Obviously we got through it okay, but I know the process would have gone much more smoothly if there was a short side-table/paragraph somewhere in the first 10 pages of the core rulebook with a numbered list of the best way to go through character creation.
Just a suggestion! :)
First of all, Pathfinder totally pwnz me. In every way. I haven't felt this excited about a core rules system and campaign setting in a long, long time. I'm constantly thinking of new / better ways to use the stuff I have, and I now understand when people on these message board moan about taking another hit in the pocketbook (Seriously, the Gamemastery Guide? Advanced Players Guide? Yeah,that's 80 bucks already spent.....)
But I do have one comment to share about the PFRPG core rulebook.
A few weeks ago I introduced my brother-in-law and his 13-year-old son to the game. My brother-in-law is a lapsed 2e player (hadn't played in over 20 years), and my nephew had never played.
And even though I'm fairly conversant with the 3.x / Pathfinder rules, I had a tough time moving them productively through character creation without a lot of stopping and starting. I was constantly going back and forth between sections--"Should we do skills first, or what about feats? Or, oh crap, I forgot about their racial modifiers and skill bonuses....."
Obviously we got through it okay, but I know the process would have gone much more smoothly if there was a short side-table/paragraph somewhere in the first 10 pages of the core rulebook with a numbered list of the best way to go through character creation.
Just a suggestion! :)
Not sure if this will help you at all, but I thought I'd offer it.
This is on page 14 and 15 in the Core Rulebook, but the above web doc could be easily copied and pasted into either a text document or an Excel type worksheet, and if you added in some check boxes at appropriate places you've just made yourself a nice character creation checklist.
Also don't forget that there are some nice character creation tools already available to you.
Check out PCGen on Sourceforge.net, or you can try Erian's Excel Sheet listed on these forums. I've used both and after only a bit of playing around they both become very user friendly. I even used Erian's to create and level up one of the advanced classes, the Cavalier.
Hope this helps!
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Not sure if this will help you at all, but I thought I'd offer it.This is on page 14 and 15 in the Core Rulebook,
Although hit points at 1st level are ONLY mentioned on page 12, under the glossary definition of Hit Points. Steps 4 and 5 are one step in the Rulebook, step 6 is not even in the Rulebook checklist, and steps 8 and 9 are one step in the Rulebook.
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First of all, Pathfinder totally pwnz me. In every way. I haven't felt this excited about a core rules system and campaign setting in a long, long time. I'm constantly thinking of new / better ways to use the stuff I have, and I now understand when people on these message board moan about taking another hit in the pocketbook (Seriously, the Gamemastery Guide? Advanced Players Guide? Yeah,that's 80 bucks already spent.....)
But I do have one comment to share about the PFRPG core rulebook.
A few weeks ago I introduced my brother-in-law and his 13-year-old son to the game. My brother-in-law is a lapsed 2e player (hadn't played in over 20 years), and my nephew had never played.
And even though I'm fairly conversant with the 3.x / Pathfinder rules, I had a tough time moving them productively through character creation without a lot of stopping and starting. I was constantly going back and forth between sections--"Should we do skills first, or what about feats? Or, oh crap, I forgot about their racial modifiers and skill bonuses....."
Obviously we got through it okay, but I know the process would have gone much more smoothly if there was a short side-table/paragraph somewhere in the first 10 pages of the core rulebook with a numbered list of the best way to go through character creation.
Just a suggestion! :)
I think the rulebooks cover everything you need but a check list would be an invaluable aid.
But you might want to use PCGen a free software product that does all the calculations behind the scenes and is compliant with PF, you can download the addon for the software. When you're finished it prints out a nice shiny new character sheet. Plus, its free!What I've always wanted is a checklist for keeping track of PF battle times, rounds, etc. With all the free, swift standard, move, actions it can all be a sod to keep track of.