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There are currently no official methods for adjusting encounters, whether it's by adding extra foes or bumping up people's stats out of thin air. Until such time as rules are put in place to do so*, GMs are expected to continue running adventures as written. If that means that coordinators need to run more tables of fewer players in order to maintain a particular level of difficulty in a scenario, then that falls to those coordinators and the GMs who feel the need to make things harder.

*This is not to be construed as a promise that such rules are forthcoming, nor even that they have been considered.

If I wanted to purchase a specific type of armor (i.e. Banded Mail of Luck, etc.), but wanted it crafted out of Mithril, would the total cost be the armor's price (18,900, using the example) plus the normal cost of making an armor from Mithril (in this case, 9000 for a heavy armor)? Just curious how the rules for specific weapons and armor interact with the special material rules for PFS.

There is no item creation allowed in PFS, so you can't take banded mail of luck out of the Core Rulebook and have it crafted out of mithril. The exception is adding a quality such as energy resistance or fortification to an existing set of armor. But the 'named' armors you may only purchase as-is. If a named armor doesn't start off created from special materials then there's no changing them to include mithril, adamantine, etc.

We don't necessarily like the rule, but that's what is being enforced currently.

One thing I keep seeing every few months (and just yesterday most recently) is that apparently some GMs just can't understand that Dragonhide armor isn't totally verbotten, just not on the Always Available list. Even going so far as to say "It doesn't matter if the Campaign Manager 'clarifies' that, I won't let you have it" in the most recent thread.

....so, yeah. This needs to be singled out, since apparently nothing short of explicitly spelling it out will get through to some people.

Vic Wertz wrote:

Cosmo wrote:

However, the entity currently designated "Erik Mona" is actually an early draft of the program that would eventually become Microsoft Publisher.

Cosmo, on the other hand, was created by hacking Microsoft Bob to run on an Apple Newton.

OH DEAR GOD!!!! THE HORROR!!! ;)

Seriously. I mean, there's all in good fun, Mr. Wertz, and then there's crossing the line, and then there's just unnecessarily mean.

Ouch. Just... ouch.

Maybe we should offer employees a ten-dollar bonus for every typo they find and fix!

If we did that, I'd lower my standards of Pathfinder Society authors considerably to increase my own bottom line.

But that's what most companies do. They fire less productive people, give them no or small bonuses and reward better people with promotions and larger bonuses.

Aww shucks that's cute. Misguided, but cute.

This is probably a troll, but I'd still nominate it as a post of the year.

Or post of the month.

Regards,
Ruemere

My understanding from the seminar was that the Shadow Lodge would fit in as a viable faction by... (and I'll spoiler this in case anyone is still working through the metaplot involving the Shadow Lodge)