Would anyone else like to see a hard cover Pathfinder Basic book?
I'm not talking about another line of products . . .
( D & D vs. A D & D )
Just one book with stream lined rules and less options.
Something fast and easy. For people who want something less complex.
A book for people with busy lives or who want to run a game for children.
I'm aware of the Beginner Box and have read glowing reviews.
I just prefer books, character sheets, maps and dice kind of play.
Let me know what you think . . .
( or if I'm just crazy for thinking this would be a good idea. )
Thanks.
Sounds good. I just picked up the BB after taking a short break from playing (30 years...) I understand how you can make the game as simple or as complex as you like (after seeing all the archetype discussions...eegh) But for flexible play, and roleplaying a character rather than a set of stats, I think that basic or rules-lite has its benefits.
The small group I play with uses the Beginner Box to start off. We use the Corebook, mainly just for extra spells, gear, feats etc. But for the most part I think the BB is as basic as you need. There are a lot of questions and I have a good amount of the books I've purchased as PDFs so I can quickly look up information on my ipad which works well for us.
But ultimately it allows us to get up and running pretty quickly from nothing at all as we have about 3 different games going because it depends on who shows up. The regulars don't want to get to far ahead of our less regular players.
It also has allowed us to all "start fresh" as we are coming from D&D from years ago.
I've looked at a few other games.
Games that have a reputations for being less complex.
- Advanced Fighting Fantasy 2 E
- Savage Worlds / Hellfrost Setting
Both look / seem fast and easy to play.
The only problem is finding players.
Everyone only wants to play D & D or Pathfinder.
I'll order a Pathfinder Beginner Box and see what I think . . .
Still would like to see a Pathfinder Basic Rule book.
I would recommend getting the basic box as a PDF on here first as a cheap alternative. If you like it actually by the physical set. That's what I did mainly for the map and pawns. But you can print off the pawns from the PDF if you need extras.
The basic box comes with two books one mainly walks you through how to create your PCs stripping down most of the spells and feats to a few basic ones to keep generation time quick and keep the rules less complicated than needing to know how various spells work.
The second book is your adventure book/dm guide that teaches you how or run an adventure and gives you the start one one. Plus you can pick up some freebies on here to expand on it a little.
The PDF doesn't have the dice of course. And the character sheets are a simplified version but for just getting to know RPGs or to start a quick game I think it's worth the cost. We've moved to using full character sheets but for the most part use the basic rules as we don't have a lot of time for the core rule book which I have. We just pull extra feats and spells from it usually.
yup - 150 pages combined in the two books with good starter fare. I'm doing the same thing- BB plus cribbing from the Core book for race/class/etc. plus a bit of homebrewing. Like Phillip said, try it out and then use the Core or PRD to round things out.