First session last night - a session 0 with character creation and about 90-mins of play.
Character creation (there were three of us) was super quick. Admittedly, we're all old-hands at this sort of thing, but as our first PF2 characters, it took us about 45 minutes (including a lot of chatter, joking, and stuff). Very, very smooth and easy to do. More so than I expected. I lve life-path systems, and I love that PF2 has a sort of lite pseudo-life-path system.
I made a razortooth goblin wizard (tinker) with a clockwork owl famliar and a terrible French accent. Now all goblins are French. Other players had a half-orc champion and a halfling rogue.
First bit of actual play, honestly, it just felt exactly like PF1 or 5E or whatever. Minor details, but these games all have a similar default universe and gameplay. We didn't use minis, so it was all theatre of the mind, but we were on a ship which was attacked by some goblins in a rowboat. Easy fight. I magic missiled one, one got a javelin in the face, then the rowboat was sunk by throwing the body of our treacherous first mate (a dwarf) onto it.
Overall - smooth, easy, we all pretty much instinctively knew how to play it anyway (so I can't speak for those new to RPGs). It felt "lighter" than PF1.
Next session next Thursday.
Character creation (there were three of us) was super quick. Admittedly, we're all old-hands at this sort of thing, but as our first PF2 characters, it took us about 45 minutes (including a lot of chatter, joking, and stuff). Very, very smooth and easy to do. More so than I expected. I lve life-path systems, and I love that PF2 has a sort of lite pseudo-life-path system.
I made a razortooth goblin wizard (tinker) with a clockwork owl famliar and a terrible French accent. Now all goblins are French. Other players had a half-orc champion and a halfling rogue.
First bit of actual play, honestly, it just felt exactly like PF1 or 5E or whatever. Minor details, but these games all have a similar default universe and gameplay. We didn't use minis, so it was all theatre of the mind, but we were on a ship which was attacked by some goblins in a rowboat. Easy fight. I magic missiled one, one got a javelin in the face, then the rowboat was sunk by throwing the body of our treacherous first mate (a dwarf) onto it.
Overall - smooth, easy, we all pretty much instinctively knew how to play it anyway (so I can't speak for those new to RPGs). It felt "lighter" than PF1.
Next session next Thursday.