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Well in Society games you need to be 1 step away from your deity's alignment regardless of class. As for the good and evil part it seems that people aren't looking at the ends justifying the means, but rather the intent. Wanting to kill for the fun of it is considered evil in Pathfinder, so your character would be evil. By joining the Society to do that it seems that your character would be closer to Lawful Evil, as you are going through appropriate channels to kill.

edit: If I am running a cleric of Asmodaus, can I put down as my day job: Profession: Orphanage Day Care Worker? (working for the Cheliaxian goverment in their outreach program) or am I going to have some judge revoke my cleric status for doing "Good Deeds" if I get a "35" on my day job?

Best. Quote. Ever.

I agree. You can't really apply real world ethics to Pathfinder. Real world ethics have a lot of grey area and Golorian ethics are rigid and defined.

Guess I can try to get in touch with my VC and hope he responds to see if he has access to posters/fliers. What else can I do? Has anybody else had good experiences as a player doing things to get game days better attended? Share your stories, please.

Good call getting in touch with your VC. Not only is it helpful to you, but also to your community as a whole.

My partner and I hosted a weekly game in SoCal for about a year, had many good experiances and made a lot of good friends. I think we were one of, if not the first weekly week-day PFS games in SoCal. I learned over the year that the majority of our draw was from out of town and eventually those people started PFS games in their own town. After losing my job our weekly game eventually died, but now there are 3 or 4 weekly week-day games in SoCal, so it worked out for the best for the community.

Still have all those friends we made. =)

I use to try to optimize a lot, but found I ended up with a really strong combat character that had no soul.

Now when starting a new PFS Character I like to:

1) Come up with a concept that is fun to play
2) Make a build that is fun, works with the concept, yet is still useful to the party.
3) Write a background, doesn't have to be long, but it is nice to have something to say when someone asks you.
4) Write a journal from my character's perspective on thoughts of religion, different factions, why they joined PFS, etc.
5) Not worry about what table I'm sitting at, only worry about making the most of it.

I feel that I have finally come full circle with Role playing and PFS.

When I made my first character for society I had a lot of ideas of how it would be and expectations, yet I had never played a game within an organized setting. I developed a background, a story, motivation, and calculated everything down to the last stone of weight. Then I played my first game and was rather disappointed to find out that a lot of the role playing I was expecting simply wasn't there. I'm not the type that can RP at a table with other that don't RP, though I'm working on it.

When it came time to develop my second character I went to straight min-max soulless character. Though he was strong, he was also completely dry and boring on the occasions that RP was a possibility.

The next couple characters I made were based around a theme. They were easy to RP and usually got some laughs and were a good addition to any party. A lot of the most memorable characters in PFS I know are kind of like this and it is always a pleasure to play with any of them.

At the last convention in LA I went to someone said, not directed at me, "why does your character do what he does?" I got to thinking about this question and it is so much more in depth when though of from the character's perspective. The actual why do you get out of bed and join with a group of fellow pathfinders and risk your life. Why see terrible things from monsters, ruthless killing on both sides, to tragedies when our fellow pathfinders die. Why do you do it?

I felt a little embarrassed, even though the question was not directed at me. With the exception of my first character I had no answer to that question or indeed any of the other questions that were raised.

I've finally come back to understand and see how important that information is. Not only for self satisfaction, but for me to properly RP a character I need to be able to think like that character and for that I will need to know why he does what he does. How he came to be, thoughts on other factions, religion, the society as a whole, and goals for himself.

I'm really trying to go over on board on this new character, that way I can answer any question from his view point. Hopefully to add some more fun into society as well. I think Gygax's book would give me some valuable insight, thanks for pointing it out, perhaps I can pull it up on my old dusty kindle.

Get off my lawn! Don't make me hit you with this newpaper!

I wouldn't make it illegal, but would strongly recommend against it.

Same here.

Bah, play what you enjoy playing. Let the people who like buffing buff and the people that like blasting blast. Whats the point of taking the best option if your bored doing it?

To further support what Tim said I'd like to add that just because you provoke an AoO, it does not always mean you can take it, unless you have not already took one or have combat reflexes.