And the survey says!

[brent norton]

Elder scrolls has the questionaire at the beginning of the game gives a hint for what you should play. HAs anyone put one together for Pathinder? My wife is a noob and I don't want to pusher her into something; race, class,etc? If She gets over whelmed she tends to stop what she is doing.

[Blueluck]

I used to run games of D&D 3/3.5 for kids at a game store, and I'd do this informally. I generally approached it by role, class, race, and specialty.

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What would you rather do?

• Fight in combat
  
• Cast spells
  
• A little of both

Would you rather be?

• Strong
  
• Quick
  
• Tough
  
• Intelligent
  
• Wise
  
• Charismatic

Next, narrow it down a bit. for example:
Fight in combat + Quick = Would you rather fight with swords or bows?

At this point, you've narrowed down class to just a few choices. Next I would present the top 2-3 classes with one-sentence descriptions. For example, if she says "Swords" you know you want a melee DEX build, so offer Rogue and Ranger.

Once she's chosen a class (and basic build) only offer the races that are good at that role.

There's my 2 cents. I've always been a bit annoyed that the books are set up with [i]race[i] before [i]class[i] because I find it much more important to decide "What do I want to do?" before anything else.