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How many monsters are in the beginners box, and how many hours of play, approximately, are in the box?
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How many monsters are in the beginners box, and how many hours of play, approximately, are in the box?
I count 45 monsters in the box. There are another four monsters in the free GM Kit you can download from paizo.com.
Hours of play is a lot more difficult to answer, because it really depends on the group you play with. But it's safe to say that you can play for many, many hours given all of the adventuring from 1st to 5th level!
According to the experience chart in the book, it takes 20 encounters of a difficulty matching the level of the player characters to gain a level. However, there will be some harder encounters in a typical game, such as "boss monsters" or big, climactic fights. So if you figure on about 15 encounters per level, times five levels, that's 75 encounters. If each one takes 1/2 an hour, that's nearly 40 hours of gameplay just from the combats! Of course, a lot of time will be spent exploring, solving puzzles, talking with other characters (such as townsfolk) and the like. So I would think you could easily spend 50 or 60 hours of gameplay to play up through level five. Some groups will be far faster, and others will be far slower, but I think that's a reasonable ballpark estimate.
And once you've done that, you can easily roll up new first-level characters and play new adventures with them!
Honestly, the limitations of the box are mainly that your group will eventually become a bit tired of the options available in the beginner box and will be ready to start incorporating some of the additional player options from the Core Rulebook and fighting monsters from the various Bestiaries.
Does that help answer your question?
How many monsters are in the beginners box, and how many hours of play, approximately, are in the box?I count 45 monsters in the box. There are another four monsters in the free GM Kit you can download from paizo.com.
Hours of play is a lot more difficult to answer, because it really depends on the group you play with. But it's safe to say that you can play for many, many hours given all of the adventuring from 1st to 5th level!
According to the experience chart in the book, it takes 20 encounters of a difficulty matching the level of the player characters to gain a level. However, there will be some harder encounters in a typical game, such as "boss monsters" or big, climactic fights. So if you figure on about 15 encounters per level, times five levels, that's 75 encounters. If each one takes 1/2 an hour, that's nearly 40 hours of gameplay just from the combats! Of course, a lot of time will be spent exploring, solving puzzles, talking with other characters (such as townsfolk) and the like. So I would think you could easily spend 50 or 60 hours of gameplay to play up through level five. Some groups will be far faster, and others will be far slower, but I think that's a reasonable ballpark estimate.
And once you've done that, you can easily roll up new first-level characters and play new adventures with them!
Honestly, the limitations of the box are mainly that your group will eventually become a bit tired of the options available in the beginner box and will be ready to start incorporating some of the additional player options from the Core Rulebook and fighting monsters from the various Bestiaries.
Does that help answer your question?
Yes It does. Thanks a lot. I will for sure pick this up. And I just downloaded the Player kit and GM kit, I should get a couple more hours out of these.