Go Questing With Paizo’s Pathfinder 2nd Edition Starter Box
November 12, 2020 by brennon
Paizo has offered up a chance for you to dive into a lifetime of Fantasy adventures at the tabletop with the Pathfinder Second Edition Beginner Box. Roleplaying has become bigger than ever during this period of lockdowns and isolation so maybe crack this out and give it a go?
Pathfinder 2nd Edition Beginner Box // Paizo
This new box has been designed as an entry point for new players and comes packed with all sorts of goodies that can get you started in this hefty Fantasy roleplaying game.
Pathfinder 2nd Edition Beginner Box Unboxing
Included within the box you'll find...
- A solo adventure for new players
- Four pre-generated character sheets, plus blank sheets for new hero creation.
- Four sets of action cards, ensuring players know what their options are on their turns
- A set of colour-coded dice
- Double-sided Flip-Mat, plus over 100 sturdy cardboard pawns with plastic bases to represent your heroes, friends, and foes.
- Menace Under Otari, an adventure for up to four players, introduces players to the town of Otari, located on the isle of Korthos near Absalom.
This all sounds like it hits the right spot for me when it comes to getting started with a roleplaying game. In a world where things are always busy, all the time, it's good to have avenues into tabletop games where a lot of the heavy lifting has been done for you, especially as a new player.
Pathfinder 2nd Edition Beginner Box Contents // Paizo
I like that the folks at Paizo have taken the time to consider what might be useful to beginners as they dive into a game. The reference cards should help the flow of the game more and the mat alongside that mass of pawns are a neat way to get you going beyond just the Beginner Box with your collection of "miniatures" for your games.
Are you tempted to give this a go?
"I like that the folks at Paizo have taken the time to consider what might be useful to beginners as they dive into a game..."
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I have the first edition starter and TPK’d the party playing through that which was fun… they usually survive.
The first edition pathfinder a bit crunchy and I’ve heard the second is too, so put off buying… but I do like starter sets and the production quality on 1e Starter was high, so I may indulge… and it has a solo adventure for me to try out.
Looks a good traditional game with a GM running the progress of the game environment.
That is about 1000x better than anything WotC has put out lately. WotC has basically become lazy and are to busy bending the knee to the SJW crowd and suing the Dragon Lance authors who in no small part made DnD popular.
Do not fool yourself for a moment… Paizo is just as bad if not worse then WotC when it comes to bowing down to the SJW mobs.
The only difference is that Pathfinder is no where near as “mainstream” as D&D is, so they have escaped most of the notice of those kinds of RPG “fans”.
However I do agree that Paizo puts out way more interesting rule sets that have actual real differences to ingame gameplay.
Yes and no. Paizo, as of now, still includes things like slavery, evil creatures, xenophobia, and other ‘darker’ themes; many of which are rapidly being polished out of D&D. They also tend to call less attention to their virtues than D&D, making it seem less like a flagrant attempt at credit. In the latest Adventure Path of theirs I’ve run, there’s definitely been a strange glut of disabled characters. In the first bit alone there’s been a blind, one-legged Ranger; a second one-legged ranger; and a three legged centaur (which is especially funny to anyone who knows anything about horses…).… Read more »
I’ve been playing RPG’s for almost 40 years and in the real world you have to be so careful what you say and do… people are so easily offended. I find it strange that authors project modern attitudes on games set in the past (mythical and otherwise) so as not to offend someone. The best advice I can give is… don’t buy adventures… write your own. I know… it takes time which can be a precious commodity, but if you’re locked down and stuck at home… write that adventure that you always wanted to write. Go on… be a devil…… Read more »