I tried to do something similar to this a while ago and couldn't get enough interest, although it seems other people have had more success with similar things so maybe there's enough pen and paper gamers around to try again. This time I'll offer PFS credit.
For those not familiar with Pathfinder Society, it's the Pathfinder living campaign. If you have a legal pathfinder society character you can bring them to any sanctioned pathfinder society table and play them, so it's like a giant worldwide campaign that shares players. You have to sign up and register your character, but that literally takes like three seconds. I'm happy to walk anyone through the steps of making a PFS character (which is just like making a normal first level Pathfinder character with certain restrictions on what extra books you can use) and registering.
What I want to run is the First Steps series, which is three linked rather short modules that are meant to introduce people to the Pathfinder rules, Pathfinder Society organized play, and the setting of Golarion. It's only available to first level freshly created Pathfinder Society characters (since it's explicitly your first assignment). If you play through all three you will gain enough experience to hit level 2, so you'll be nicely positioned if you want to continue to use that character in PFS. You could take that same character to a local game night and play them in a live game and be a lot more survivable with that extra hit die.
Edit: First steps may sound like a boring training wheels adventure, but it's actually a really solid module designed to show off the Pathfinder system rather than play nursemaid.
I'd run the game in a thread, here, which for those unfamiliar with it works like a normal game only played slowly over an extended period rather than all at once. It tends to be more conducive to roleplaying but combat takes longer (and becomes more chess-like and tactical as a result rather than barely restrained chaos).
If anyone has never played Pathfinder or a P&P roleplaying game before and is interested to learn, this is a great opportunity and leaves you in a nice position to continue playing if you decide it sparks your interest, since there are society games you can join at most local game stores. Like all grognards, I like to talk about how long I've been gaming and in my case it's ALMOST 15 YEARS. I've been playing this shit since I was in elementary school back when it was called AD&D and all the math was backwards.
So if this is something you'd be interesting in participating in, let me know. I need four people but I could swing 5.
For those not familiar with Pathfinder Society, it's the Pathfinder living campaign. If you have a legal pathfinder society character you can bring them to any sanctioned pathfinder society table and play them, so it's like a giant worldwide campaign that shares players. You have to sign up and register your character, but that literally takes like three seconds. I'm happy to walk anyone through the steps of making a PFS character (which is just like making a normal first level Pathfinder character with certain restrictions on what extra books you can use) and registering.
What I want to run is the First Steps series, which is three linked rather short modules that are meant to introduce people to the Pathfinder rules, Pathfinder Society organized play, and the setting of Golarion. It's only available to first level freshly created Pathfinder Society characters (since it's explicitly your first assignment). If you play through all three you will gain enough experience to hit level 2, so you'll be nicely positioned if you want to continue to use that character in PFS. You could take that same character to a local game night and play them in a live game and be a lot more survivable with that extra hit die.
Edit: First steps may sound like a boring training wheels adventure, but it's actually a really solid module designed to show off the Pathfinder system rather than play nursemaid.
I'd run the game in a thread, here, which for those unfamiliar with it works like a normal game only played slowly over an extended period rather than all at once. It tends to be more conducive to roleplaying but combat takes longer (and becomes more chess-like and tactical as a result rather than barely restrained chaos).
If anyone has never played Pathfinder or a P&P roleplaying game before and is interested to learn, this is a great opportunity and leaves you in a nice position to continue playing if you decide it sparks your interest, since there are society games you can join at most local game stores. Like all grognards, I like to talk about how long I've been gaming and in my case it's ALMOST 15 YEARS. I've been playing this shit since I was in elementary school back when it was called AD&D and all the math was backwards.
So if this is something you'd be interesting in participating in, let me know. I need four people but I could swing 5.
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