Which storyteller for a new player?

[Senior Citizen Gale]

Have not played the game in a while and just starting out so who should I start with.

[Stormsong]

Not Phoebe. You can make a case either way for the other two.

[KalkiKrosah]

Phoebe Chillax is definitely the friendliest storyteller. She lets you slowly flourish and waters down the difficulty a whole lot. It's good for the first and possibly second play through, but after that she becomes too easy. You have space to grow, explore and experiment but because her competency checks are so soft, she often let's you get away with your bad habits intact. In that respect she is bad.

Phoebe is the easy version of Cassandra. Cassandra is very straight with the player. When you're down Cassandra helps you up but when you're up she kicks you down. The higher and mightier you are, the stronger her competency checks are. She isn't as accomodating as Phoebe is but she likes to nurture you early on. She is the storyteller who most reflects what "normal difficulty" is and is the truest test for a player.

Randy Random lives up to his name. Randy, unlike the other two, disregards things like colony wealth and appears to be completely random with the events he gives. So early on Randy can seem like the hardest storyteller because when day 4 dawns Phoebe would send a mad rat after you, Cassandra would send a mad fox, and Randy would send a mad elephant your way. Sometimes Randy can be really nice and will send you drop pods with parkas in them just before winter hits and other times he will send you drop pods filled with corgiskin and have the drop pod land on top of your pet corgi. I find him to be hard early on and easy in the late game.

[Astasia]

Originally posted by KalkiKrosah:

Phoebe Chillax is definitely the friendliest storyteller. She lets you slowly flourish and waters down the difficulty a whole lot. It's good for the first and possibly second play through, but after that she becomes too easy. You have space to grow, explore and experiment but because her competency checks are so soft, she often let's you get away with your bad habits intact. In that respect she is bad.

Phoebe is identical to Casandra in every way except for minimum time between raids. The raids are the same size they would be for Casandra, but Phoebe will wait like 5 times as long between sending them, which is a nightmare for new players. If you don't understand how wealth works to increase the size of raids and don't know how to create a proper defense, Phoebe will destroy you with her sudden unexpected spikes in difficulty, and you wont have the equipment drops required to fight anything off.

Casandra gives a more consistant and gradual ramp up in difficulty that makes it easier to know when you need more defenses and allows you more chances to loot useful equipment from previous raids to defend against future ones.

[TSense]

When i started i hated Rimworld. Turns out Cassandra is a crazy ♥♥♥♥♥ who nukes naked tribesman when she is bored.

I went to Randy then and stayed forever. He is cool. Raids can be overpowerd (like cassandras), or on your level, or even totally helpless. I mean how do these people even know what i have? Why does Sickness wait until i have rifles? Randy makes much more sense. Animals, Sickness and Raider don't wait until you have this or that.

[MaGicBush]

I vote for phoebe as well. I'm new and have been doing a colony with her on some challenge. It's been a fun ride so far. Not sure why others say no, but I have not had a problem with difficulty spikes either. I had more trouble with Cassandra as I tried my first 3 colonies with her and got destroyed quickly on all of those.

[Rooty Tooty]

Now I like what TSense says in theroy. However He can easily send wave after wave of hard things after you withought warning. then never Raid you again for the rest of the year. I like Cassandra, she is more structured like a normal game. Giving you chalanges after a certan time. Rewarding you after a certain time. Randy Doesn't seem that random to me. He seems to send like things at you at the same time. Like 4 drop pods in a single day. Or 4 diffrent illnesses in a single day. But I could Of been unlucky. I have not played him enough to determan if he actualy has a pattern.

[Ulysses]

What TSense said. Just like if you were actually stuck in a colony somewhere, stuff is completely random and won't always be on par with you.

[Glerk]

Phobe