“The intelligence of that creature known as a crowd is the square root of the number of people in it.”

GNU PTERRY

For a quick one-shot to test out the system, most of my players will just skim the rules, and that’ll be enough. But if I run a long-term campaign I expect my players to have a basic grasp of the rules, but most importantly know how their characters rules works.

I will happily explain and help players get started. But if they ask me for 100th time which die to roll; don’t know how their character works; or similar basic things, I will get pissed at some point and ask them to please learn the game we’re playing.

You don’t need to know every single rule, but a basic grasp of them is just the bare minimum or I will kick them out of the game at some point. This hasn’t happened to me yet, all my players are very good at picking up new systems.

FLGS = Friendly locals game store

Normally I’m the forever GM and ran 2 and a bit 1E APs; but I’m playing in a Kingmaker game atm. We barely started and just leveled up to L2, but it’s already great fun. Last combat encounter, a small bandit camp, my Swashbuckler/Wrestler just had the most incredible luck and basically 1-hit killed everything he touched. Sentry up a tree? Just athletics up the tree and dropkick the bandits sternum through his spine. Another 3 bandits met similarly brutal demises.

You could give it some slashing/piercing resistance. But I’d argue that is too much. Hardness 7 will make destroying the thing already pretty difficult. And unless this happens during a combat encounter/ some kind of time crunch, it really doesn’t matter at all. It will just take longer. I wouldn’t even let the players make the rolls, just decide it takes X minutes and move on.