Pathfinder 1E How to Get Started

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Pathfinder 1E is a major passion for D6Damage, so I’ve brought you this guide for beginners on how to get started on Pathfinder 1E. I’ll be breaking down what you’ll need to dive into the dungeons of this exemplary descendent of DND 3.5.
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[LarvalGhoul]

Thank you for helping keep the community alive.

[jessatlife]

I’m playing my first 1e game tonight through PFS at my local game store. :) I’m so excited! Thanks for putting together all this content.

[cptkrank]

Someone new to Pathfinder 1e probably doesn't understand how the game came to be in the first place. When Dungeons and Dragons entered it's 3rd edition, they created something called the Open Gaming License, which basically let 3rd party content exist for D&D3.0 without paying fees to WoTC. This created a massive amount of content for the game without Wizards of the Coast having to do any work (more content = more sales of the base game and 'official' product). One of those 3PP makers was Paizo, who created Golarion as a setting for D&D3.0, along with a bunch of well received adventures. D&D3.0 was so successful that instead of going straight to a 4.0, they tweaked the game a little, creating 3.5, which was highly backwards compatible with 3.0 content, so gamers could keep using their huge library of content. This was VERY good for the consumer!

Then WoTC decided to completely change the game, releasing D&D4, which was very much an attempt to cash in on MMORPGs, making a lot of classes mechanically simpler and dumbing down a ton of rules, making the game basically a simple dungeon crawler. The community (with their HUGE content library from 3rd edition) didn't receive that very well at all, but the OGL was still in effect, so Paizo basically made D&D3.75 and called it Pathfinder, with some simple rules tweaks and rebalancing, and basically Pathfinder was the only D&D for a lot of people until D&D5 came out. Pathfinder was 'close enough' to 3.5 that people could still use a lot of 3.0/3.5 content in the game with a minimum of tweaking. And Paizo's Pathfinder was still OGL, so people could make content for that, and boy did they ever make content.

But by the time D&D5 was released Pathfinder had its own loyal following, and eventually Pathfinder2.0 was released, but a lot of people are still playing first edition, because it's a game that was refined over 10 years and basically three editions (D&D3, 3.5 and Path1e) into an incredibly solid RPG. And thanks to digital content, nothing truly goes out of print anymore and Paizo is still selling print copies of the Core Rulebook and Bestiary, though these are now in 'pocket edition' formats (softcover, smaller than standard hardcover RPGs). Though second hand original hardcovers aren't too hard to find either.

[rfc]

Fantastic help, much appreciated Damage.

[thetoweroftomes]

Just found this channel! Great to see the love for PF 1e!

[mittensindisguise]

I started out playing 5e as a player. Pathfinder 1 seemed so intimidating at the time, especially when I started looking at how many character options there are. The more I learned about both systems, though, the more appealing Pathfinder became.

This became especially true as I started looking at the possibility of GMing. While both systems have their flaws, I definitely prefer Pathfinder as a core ruleset overall, especially because porting content from D&D 3 or 3.5 is easy and there are plenty of alternate rulesets to keep things fresh.

[Dhyfis]

Pathfinder 1e is probably one of my favorite systems. When 2e came out I didn't bother to switch because there are still many things that I want to do. I could probably run for decades and never get close to running out of material

[isoinisolation]

i love pathfinder 1e. wish i could play. covid killed my irl group back in 2020

[alexplaysgames_]

Thinking of running a Pathfinder 1E campaign and record it for YouTube. However it’ll be set in my own fictional campaign setting. :)

[mitchell]

Thank you dude I hope your channel does good

[almitrahopkins]

The PFSRD makes the books a non-essential luxury. Everything in the books is in it except the game world.

The Golarian wiki is thorough if you want to play in the Pathfinder game world. I don’t like it because they shoe-horned every possible setting into it, but it’s easy enough to take out the bits that don’t fit your play style or just avoid that part of the map. The same complaint about Golarian applies to the Forgotten Realms over the 30+ years that it has been in existence.

All you really need is a handful of dice, something to write with, something to write on and an internet access. Once you have all of those, you’re ready to go.

[-Titania]

This didnt explain what the heck is the deal with archetypes

[nolanevans]

One of the best aspects of 1e is that every piece of material is available as a pdf and quick google search. As a perpetually brokw guy, i appreicate Piazo for that