newbie roleplayer

Hi! I have just bought a copy of the Pathfinder Core Rules and I am just starting to get a feel for how deep the tabletop RPG experience is going to be. In the next week or so I am planning on trying to find a newbie friendly group in order to help me learn the game. So I am just putting some feelers out to see how many newbie runs there are available. Due to my work I am not always able to get to local gaming nights, in fact I don't know if there are any local gaming nights in my area, so a virtual table sound like the most practical choice. Especially as it gets me close to people that will have a better understanding of what happening and such. hope to see you guys around and enjoy some games.

If you go to the looking for group listing and do a search that welcomes new players, you will usually get about 2 to 3 pages before you start noticing regular games.

Welcome to the hobby! As a new player, you might like to read some of these links (some adult language in these for comedic effect): 11 Ways to Be a Better Roleplayer 10 Ways to Be a Better Online Gamer You Are Not Your Character What Roleplaying Is Get that stuff down and you will show yourself to be a cut above even many veterans, even if your rules knowledge isn't perfect at the outset. That'll help you get into some groups. Good luck!

Good luck and welcome to the community.

Hi and thanks for the replies. I am just finishing off a string of shifts at work. Sunday i play to see if I can at the very least drop into a game and sit in the background, if possible, and watch a game and how it evolves. Well if I find a group that doesn't mind someone doing a fly on the wall trick. ;) Then when I have a week off I am going to take the plunge and enter a game. one thing I am confused over is if i should generate a character now or is this done when a game starts. Also am I fine using real dice?

Whoever is the GM for your game should tell you if it's alright to bring a pre-made character or if you'll need to create it in-game. Same thing with the dice question. Every GM has different rules, they'll let you know what they are.

Ok. Thanks for the reply. Just looking through the pathfinder groups and so far came up with 1 page of results. Some are on days I can't make it but a lot are on days I can. So I am going to send some messages I think and see what comes from it :)

Good luck. Generally you want to either do a stripped core PC (also helps you to learn character gen), or get with the GM first before generating a PC. I prefer people contact me, especially, cause I don't want anything like jester dragonling kobldian griffonic half pixie fairy epic godmonster of vomitdom.

"cause I don't want anything like jester dragonling kobldian griffonic half pixie fairy epic godmonster of vomitdom" Yeah doubt that I will ever have a character named like that. I try my hardest to stick to racial naming conventions. Names like that just tend to annoy me.

yeah. Just saying people come up and present things like Jedi in Star Trek. A borg that fell into the D&D contiuum, whole bunches of people in various settings that have a treasure map to a buried anachronistic nuclear weapon. So I ask people to read what's there setting wise, first. Happy new year.