How do you get "Affinity" in Pathfinder Society play?

I noticed that the next feat I want to get requires "Lastwall Affinity" and as best as I can tell it means you have to have at least some sort of affiliation with Lastwall.

What does this mean, specifically, for Pathfinder Society? Does this mean you need to spend prestige or have fame to get it? Do you need to just "claim" you went to Lastwall to train? Is it a boon you can only get on some specific chronicle sheet?

Thank you.

It is essentially a roleplaying choice. There is no way to ensure you have an "affinity" in PFS.

But to make sense, I would suggest saying your home region for your character (where he was born, grew up, whatever) is Lastwall. Perhaps even take a trait from Lastwall.

A local feat can only be selected for a nation in which the character grew up or for which he otherwise possesses local affinity. To gain local affinity, a character must live in a nation for at least a year and gain at least 2 ranks in Knowledge (local) while there.

So you can start with affinity for one nation and gain affinity with another nation every second level.

edit: What feat requires Lastwall affinity? If it's in the Campaign Setting, you can't take it from there:

As of 3/7/11, the Pathfinder Chronicles Campaign Setting has been replaced by the Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Inner Sea World Guide. Equipment, feats, and prestige classes already in play remain legal, but no further equipment may be purchased from this book, nor may a character take a feat or the first level in a prestige class from this source when gaining a new level.

edit (2): Archives of Nethys tells me that there are some in Cities of Golarion, but I don't have the source to see if the above definition has been reprinted or updated there.

Wheeling Charge from Cities of Golarion is the Lastwall feat I'm guessing...

Wheeling Charge from Cities of Golarion is the Lastwall feat I'm guessing...

It is indeed, for my halfling paladin shining knight riding his dog into battle.

Pirate Rob wrote:

Wheeling Charge from Cities of Golarion is the Lastwall feat I'm guessing...

It is indeed, for my halfling paladin shining knight riding his dog into battle.

Thread necro, but I've been thinking about affinities and PFS lately.

Hypothetically, if a halfling paladin shining knight riding a dog has no background in or with Lastwall (or no background at all) is a PFS GM forced to ignore the Lastwall affinity requirement for the feat?

Additional question, one step removed:

Assuming the character has any background at all, is there no threshhold for what constitues affinity? For example, is "I stayed there one night while travelling somewhere" or "I met a Knight of Ozem once and he taught me the trick" all it takes to satisfy Lastwall Affinity?

I'd assume the nature of PFS OP requires that the answer to the 2nd question be "yes". And if that's the case, the first question is probably also "yes".

I'm curious about PFS and affinities. They're not FAQ'd nor called out as being ignored in the Additional Resources. If they're effectively ignored but not officially ignored, does their relevance for PFS need to be revisited?

Affinity sounds like a role playing requirement, which is waived.

Here is an answer from back when wheels were square from the then current campaign coordinator.

A little lite thread necromancy. As I would like a more official response, even if it is to say that Josh's ruling stands, I have pressed the FAQ button and lets see if we can get an answer to this added to the FAQ.

:)

About whether roleplaying requirements are waived in PFS?

Or about Wheeling Charge specifically?

I'd say rulings made by former PFS leaders during their term stand until actively changed by current leadership. Otherwise you get maddening uncertainty about everything.

Is Regional Affinity a RolePlaying requirement or not?

AFAIK RolePlay requirements are only waived for Prestige Classes from the guide. Is there another source for waiving them?

Is Regional Affinity a RolePlaying requirement or not?

In Cities of Golarion, "affinity" is a roleplaying detail.

There is nothing that mechanically grants one "affinity".

graywulfe wrote:

Is Regional Affinity a RolePlaying requirement or not?

In Cities of Golarion, "affinity" is a roleplaying detail.

There is nothing that mechanically grants one "affinity".

I would tend to agree, but I would like to get an official response to eliminate table variation. Yeah I know, unlikely.

The other option I suppose is for characters not to declare where they're from until they find an affinity feat they may want...

graywulfe wrote:

Is Regional Affinity a RolePlaying requirement or not?

In Cities of Golarion, "affinity" is a roleplaying detail.

There is nothing that mechanically grants one "affinity".

Not quite. The old Campaign Setting book says that you get affinity to a region by either growing up there, or spending 1 year there and investing 2 ranks in Knowledge (local) during that time.

I don't think that is required for PFS, but it is a mechanic that grants affinity.