New GM - What do I need?

[Tiny Turtle]

Hello everyone!

I'm new to Fantasy Grounds and want to try running a Pathfinder game in it. I have a bunch of PDFs I got from an old Humble Bundle, but none of the handbooks. Which ones do I absolutely need and which ones do you recommend?

The things I'm most interested in is of course the basic ruleset and character creation. I'd also like the ability to either create or convert old into new monsters, since the setting does not take place in any official campaign setting. I'd like to have plenty of character classes & races options for my players. Magical items and loot stuff is not something I'm fussed with, since I intend to manually make every magical item in the game. I want the loot to feel like it belongs, not to have the adventurers kill some tough orcs only to find a +2 axe of killing adventurers that none of the orcs apparently felt like using.

Also, ease of use is super important. It's why I came to Fantasy Grounds. I have two VERY new players and the more automation I can get for the basic stuff, and the easier I can make learning the rules WITHOUT having to struggle with learning the UI as well, the better. Drag & drop classes, races, feats, etc.

Thanks so much in advance!

EDIT: Also, are there any Paizo book PDFs that get synced automatically with Fantasy Grounds for free? I have a bunch of Humble Bundle adventure modules but that's it.

[damned]

Welcome (back?) Tiny Turtle

You want this: https://www.fantasygrounds.com/store...ZOSMWPZO1110FG
And then everything else is up to you...

You also want this: https://www.fantasygrounds.com/store...izoAccount.xcp (before you do the one above) and that will discount the above (but it wont make it free).

And if you do it in the next few hours you will take advantage of the current $5 saving.

[dulux-oz]

Hi Tiny Turtle, and Welcome! to the Community,

To help out you and your new Players, if you haven't done so already, let me encourage you to take a look at some of the great Tutorial Videos available on the Fantasy Grounds Wiki (and on YouTube). Damn's are good, as are Xorn's, and people seem to like mine as well (mine are also available from the links in my sig, below).

Start with the ones on the CoreRPG, because the CoreRPG forms the foundation of just about all the RPGs we play with Fantasy Grounds - so by learning how to use FG with the CoreRPG you'll learn about 80% of what you'll need to know to play any RPG with Fantasy Grounds. Once you've gone through the CoreRPG Videos you can then go on to Videos about your chosen RPG.

When you get familiar with the basic Fantasy Grounds product the next step is to check out some of the Extensions (Plug-Ins) for FG, such as the DOE: Sound, DOE: Locations, DOE: Weather and DOE: Organisations Extensions (to name a but a few - and a Shameless™ Self Plug).

And keep on asking questions - we're a pretty friendly lot here, and we love answering questions.

Cheers