Someday I want to try running Pathfinder (2e) but I’ve never really run anything before so it’s a bit intimidating. Right now my group is playing 5e but I’m hoping they’ll humor me and let me do a one shot sometime.
I don’t think you need to worry. Consensus is that pf2e is actually easier to run than 5e. There might be more rules, but they work and you don’t need to make shit up to make it work.
Right? It’s just nice to have rules in place for all common scenarios. And most of them really good too. You can always not use them if you don’t like them.
It’s way easier to ignore a rule that is there in case someone needs it, than it is to make up a rule that is missing imo.
Was a lot of fun, and is specifically geared at learning the rules.
We messed it up and botched a few things here and there trying to push the rules, but went in with the zero consequences mindset and had a blast.
Hope you get to run it soon!
Edit: I also highly recommend this character builder if you’re going to use R20 to run Pathfinder — R20s charactermancer was a bit limiting, at least when we played ~3-4 months ago.
Someday I want to try running Pathfinder (2e) but I’ve never really run anything before so it’s a bit intimidating. Right now my group is playing 5e but I’m hoping they’ll humor me and let me do a one shot sometime.
I don’t think you need to worry. Consensus is that pf2e is actually easier to run than 5e. There might be more rules, but they work and you don’t need to make shit up to make it work.
Right? It’s just nice to have rules in place for all common scenarios. And most of them really good too. You can always not use them if you don’t like them.
It’s way easier to ignore a rule that is there in case someone needs it, than it is to make up a rule that is missing imo.
My DM recently ran the Beginner Box for our group.
Was a lot of fun, and is specifically geared at learning the rules.
We messed it up and botched a few things here and there trying to push the rules, but went in with the zero consequences mindset and had a blast.
Hope you get to run it soon!
Edit: I also highly recommend this character builder if you’re going to use R20 to run Pathfinder — R20s charactermancer was a bit limiting, at least when we played ~3-4 months ago.