Pathfinder 1E Pathfinder Basic: What should it be?

[Cor_Malek]

As a sidenote: going only with some basic classes, and without barbarian - means that there won't be need to add d12

 

[IronWolf]

Did anyne ever see the Two Worlds d20 game? It was a tiny little D&D variant, stripped down to the very essentials. The core game can get very small if you want it to be!

Check it out.

I hadn't see Two World before, but took a brief look through the PDF. Looks like a good start to trimming down a game system to its basics to make for a relatively quick start and intro to a game. Thanks for the link.

 

[Kaiyanwang]

As a sidenote: going only with some basic classes, and without barbarian - means that there won't be need to add d12

Greataxe disagrees with you.

 

[Wicht]

TBH Red Box looks to me like a silly waste of money. There are two possible outcomes from buying it:

• You will not like it, and you've wasted 20 bucks
• You will like it, and need to buy core book - you've wasted 20 bucks

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You are neglecting another possibility: You can buy the box as a gift and that person likes it and the money is not wasted.

I would like to be able to do this right now (or for Christmas).

My suggestion for a basic box set would include the following:
1) A slim-downed ruled book covering 5 levels of at least the four base classes (fighter, cleric, rogue, wizard) and four races (human, elf , dwarf, halfling).
2) A module akin to Crypt of the Everflame
3) A set of dice and (if possible) preprinted paper miniatures
4) A certificate good for the download of a Core Rulebook PDF
5) A $30 price tag