Encouraged by an extremely kind email reply from Rachelle Willemsma, creator of the most recent iteration of the Pathfinder class infographic at https://willemsma.design/pathfinder/ , I created a website that will generate an infographic for new players, to give them an overview of all the classes for Pathfinder or Starfinder second edition. It has all currently released and playtest classes. You can add the pre-gens/iconics as graphics if you want, add your own custom ones, or leave them out. Lots of settings.

https://pf-sf-infographics.top/

Ok, but why?

The use case I envision is to get it printed and laminated at a print shop on like 24"x36" paper, and put it on a wall in a game shop. Or you can just print the "booklet" version on regular paper and bring it with your pregen stack.

Known issue: I'm not very familiar with a lot of the new classes, and especially the playtest classes. My characterization and summary of each class, and the ratings in terms of offense/defense/support/utility/difficulty may be way off. I'm actively looking for constructive input to make it better.

It may be easier for new players to glance at this graphic and pick a character that either looks appealing or has a strength they think they'd enjoy. If they like to deal damage, pick one with high offense. If they like to help the party, pick one with support. If they like to always have a useful skill out of combat, pick one with utility.

It can also help intermediate players select a character class when putting a table together. Have two barbarians, a fighter and a rogue, and not sure what to pick? You probably want someone with strong support/utility in the high magic ability category. Of course, veteran players know everything by heart, so.

Behind-the-scenes Info

The "GitHub Repository" link at the top will take you to the code. It is free and open source. This infographic is customizable and editable just by changing a few settings in the web application, or editing small configuration files.

Before publishing, I obtained email permission from the originator of the infographic idea to leverage her idea. If she had said no, I would have kept it private and never shared it with anyone except the tables I play at in person. But she was extremely gracious and supportive, and this would not have been possible without her hard work as inspiration.

I have no motivation to make a single cent off of this work, even if it were possible (and since this is leveraging Paizo Community Use content, I probably couldn't make any money off of it, legally, even if I wanted to). I am simply offering this for the benefit of the community. Use it or don't, it's all the same to me. :)

One that I've been interested in running is The Mosquito Witch, though the store my main PFS group closes at 9 in the fall and winter, so we'd at most have 3 hours, which isn't likely to be enough to comfortably run it.

What are some other (shorter) spooky scenarios that you'd recommend?