I've recently started playing this myself - due to a Christmas gift of the box. I'm seeing a lot of "Newbie questions" like some of mine were. How many of you new players got the game for a holiday gift?
Just curious.
I got mine for Christmas and haven't stopped playing since
Welcome to all the new players! (I got my set at the end of August, but its always nice to see more people enjoying the game!)
Welcome, New Dreamers!!!! :)
Yes, one of my brothers is already irritating me because he doesn't like this game as much as he should. ;)
I love the fact my wife is really into it. It's a way for us to sort of do RPGs without either of us having to GM. :D
Welcome to the fun guys.
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I've been playing since the end of October, so it wasn't a Christmas gift for me.
But to answer the question of how I got my wife to play, I just asked her to give it a try and she said yes. I suggested she play Merisiel so she wouldn't have to deal with any negative encounters she didn't want to (I think playing a simple character is really helpful for some to whom the game is very foreign). We played it a few times and she liked it more an more. We've been Sajan and Merisiel, but just decided to each play double characters. So I'm now Sajan and Ezren and she's Merisiel and Amiri.
I asked my wife what you should say to convince your wife to play. She said you could offer to do all the laundry for a week. (She actually said you should lie and say you'd do the laundry, but I don't think deceiving your significant other is a good way to convince them to try something you are interested in but they aren't.)
Laundry may not be the thing for your wife (we have 3 boys, so that is a big deal for mine) but offer to do the thing you wife hates having to do if she'll try the game a few times (it sometimes take more than once to get into it). Give her a simple, enjoyable character and hopefully she'll have fun.
We actually have another couple that are our friends that also play, and we've been talking about a Pathfinder Adventure Card Game Dinner and Scenario Double Date Night. What's more fun than that?
I also received this for Christmas. I can't get my wife to consider playing it (I'd love to know how some of you got your SO to play with you) but my 10 y.o. son and I are having a blast with it.
I met my wife because she was the GM of a group I joined when I was 19 - Champions (HERO system). Getting her to do RPG or card stuff doesn't take convincing. :D
She's a better Magic Player than I am, but I build better decks. Her playing a deck I've built is scary.
I haven't played as much as I want, I ordered a bunch of sleeves and should get them today. I don't want to play much without them. And all the game shops in the area were out of the kind I wanted after Christmas, so I had to go online. We did Brigadoom! twice - once as we learned (and really messed stuff up) - then we did it again with fresh character decks, and played it right. We are planning to just go through straight on through with those two.We are playing Kyra and Ezren - I'm the cleric.
To add to what Hawk said, my wife loves stategy type games so getting her to play wasn't that difficult. For about a year now we've been playing various games at a weekly game night we have with some friends. Board games and card games. She is far from a RPG gamer, but I think the fact that it was a co-op stategy game got her interested and since I know the RPG and stories I can point out a few of the cool background things about it, like the story behind the Shopkeepers Daughter.
Whether your wife plays or not, she's cool in my book for accepting your desire to play. I know a few guys whose wives (or various SO's) berate them about their hobbies. My wife knew I was a gamer when we met and has never said anything about the time or money I spend on games. One of the biggest reasons I married her.
As for convincing your wife to play, the key is probably your son. If he asked she would most likely try it. I wouldn't recommend pushing it though.
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Welcome new players :)
For my wife, I made playing the Pathfinder game a prerequisite for us to play Dominion (which I like less and less due to the fact that a) my wife always wins, and b) it's not as interesting as PACG). My wife enjoys it...probably as much as Dominion, at this point, since it's not fun for her to always win, either.
You could buy the anniversary edition of the Rise of the Runelords Adventure Path. I do not own but I've been tempted to purchase it.
There is also a free download of a players guide. Its only a few pages, but its got a nice map of Sand Point.
There is also a book about the Pathfinder campaign setting the might prove helpful.
My friend had the Bestiary which he let me borrow to look through. That gave a bit more feel to some of the monsters for me.
And there is a free download of a Bonus Bestiary available.
To answer the poll: I did! Oh, and fancy meeting you here, Lord M.
My wife and I put a bunch of games on our Christmas list this year. Mostly Euro-games, dungeon crawlers and card games. My wife hadn't expressed much interest in PACG, but got it for me for Christmas.
Turns out she loves it. We've played through the complete starter box with a pairing of Kyra/Seoni and a quartet of Seoni, Valeros, Kyra and Merisiel. We're getting the Character Addon Pack and decks two and three tomorrow (if tracking is accurate...). I suspect we'll be finishing all of the new stuff before we get to any more of the new games, including making a new four character group with some of the new classes (thinking Barbarian, Hunter, Paladin and Druid for that group).
Rulebook shenanigans aside, my wife had little trouble picking up the game. She's played a lot of CCGs with me in the past, and a simple "would this be cheesy?" test solved most of our rules questions in play time, without having to resort to the FAQ or errata.
Our verdict: The game's great, just needs better editing and the quality of the cards could be stepped up just a notch. We plan to consume the whole thing. At least twice. And do the same for Skull and Shackles.