Sell me on Pathfinder.
"But you are a damned, dirty Hero lover!"
This is true. However, I wish to try an experiment. I want to try and empty my mind of preconceptions and my own previous experiences. I want to attempt to approach Pathfinder as someone who has never played an RPG before. I want to see it through someone else's eyes, through someone else's experiences.
What excites you about the game? What is your most memorable moment? What keeps you coming back? What inspires you.
Sell me on Pathfinder, but from a personal level. Show me through your eyes.
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It's nothing to sell Pathfinder specifically, but (spoiler warning for Master of the Fallen Fortress):
Playing an Alchemist in Master of the Fallen Fortress and encountering the giant frog. After the GM finished a suitably worrying description, winning initiative and saying "Lunch, froggy!" while tossing a bomb in the air before it. One startled look from the GM, a seconds thought, and the flick of a tongue later, froggy go boom!
Smelt like chicken.
I tried selling him on ebay, but I would have had to pay someone to take him.
~grins~
I love high fantasy--swords and sorcery, elves, dragons, and I love the storytelling surrounding this field. At the same time, I also love games where strategy and tactics are important, and I love the particular challenges that come from tactical combat games.
What I love about Pathfinder is that it allows me to engage in both my creative, fantasy loving, story telling side, as well as in my calculating tactical play side. AT THE SAME TIME. I mean, who thought that was possible, right? As a player, I really love to throw myself into building a background and personality for a fantasy character, and at the same time, Pathfinder provides rules that I can reflect my character's abilities in a detailed, quantified way and I can then apply that to making my character do amazing things in a combat system that is fast enough to keep from being boring, but detailed enough that I have a lot of choices and can "play the board" the way I want to.
You can also be a "Game Master" in this game--be the one who formulates the stories, plays the monsters, and mediates the rules for the other players. I love to tell stories, and I love to build worlds and I get to do this really well with Pathfinder. The game mechanics help me figure out how to shape my world, and vice versa. I can write pages and pages of world background, and I can learn to be a better game tactician by playing all these monsters at once and learning what they can do.
Now, I'll be honest with you, CourtFool. The game isn't the simplest I've played. If you're looking to get into roleplaying, there are a lot of different games to try. I can't absolutely promise that it will be the best game FOR YOU but if you like both fantasy and a complex (but not complicated) game system, then I bet you'll really like Pathfinder. I've demoed the game to people who've never played it at local cons, and everyone got into it really fast--even this guy whose only experience with fantasy games was World of Warcraft really liked it and got into playing his character the best of the whole group.
Also, I used to play this game called "Dungeons and Dragons"--you might have heard of it--that did all this stuff too, but there was always something that I didn't like the way the rules were written--and they've gotten worse, in my opinion, as they keep revising those rules. Pathfinder takes that "Dungeons and Dragons" concept but took the basis of the rules and put them in a direction that I'm extremely happy with. If you've ever heard of D&D and wanted to try it, I'd especially suggest Pathfinder on that point.
How much? It might be worth it.I tried selling him on ebay, but I would have had to pay someone to take him.
~grins~
Well, the first hurdle was that they wanted $50,000 to take him. The second hurdle was they wanted a return policy as well, with a non-refund policy on the money.
Sell me on Pathfinder.
If you like 3.X D&D, you might like Pathfinder.
Seriously, that's its selling point, pretty much.
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Well, the first hurdle was that they wanted $50,000 to take him. The second hurdle was they wanted a return policy as well, with a non-refund policy on the money.How much? It might be worth it.I tried selling him on ebay, but I would have had to pay someone to take him.
~grins~
Greedy bastards. I'll do it for £10,000 with a no-refund return policy.
Sell me on Pathfinder.
Because it's hard to get a group of folks together who want to play Hero?
Srsly, I gots nothing. You like what you like. I never understood why folks get all wrapped up on the math/rules anyhoo. I could have a fun time putting a game together with a few coins to flip and a few simple rules. Heck, we all did it as kids with Cops and Robbers. Play what you like CF! But if you want to learn to play Pathfinder, you're in the right place =)
Also, if you are looking for personal testimonials, I would have to say the writing is what keeps me coming back. That and the customer committment from the employees at Paizo. I don't have an issue with 4E as a system. I have a big issue with the direction the company that puts it out has gone. I'd rather not stir up bad cess in your thread so I'll leave it there. I like playing a game where I believe that the originators love the game as much as I do, if that makes any sense to you.
Mistah T piddy da foo hasta be sold on Pathfinda. Mistah T think poodle hafta play Pathfinda to be sold. Mistah T wishes good group drive up in van, jump out and kick poodle in the dicebag with their playin.
Sell me on Pathfinder.
"But you are a damned, dirty Hero lover!"
This is true. However, I wish to try an experiment. I want to try and empty my mind of preconceptions and my own previous experiences. I want to attempt to approach Pathfinder as someone who has never played an RPG before. I want to see it through someone else's eyes, through someone else's experiences.
What excites you about the game? What is your most memorable moment? What keeps you coming back? What inspires you.
Sell me on Pathfinder, but from a personal level. Show me through your eyes.
Hero: Complete Pathfinder? ;-)
Mistah T piddy da foo hasta be sold on Pathfinda. Mistah T think poodle hafta play Pathfinda to be sold. Mistah T wishes good group drive up in van, jump out and kick poodle in the dicebag with their playin.
Minus the dicebag kicking and you might be on to something there.