Parade Armor - best country for bonus (PFS)


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http://www.d20pfsrd.com/equipment---final/armor/parade-armor

Armor's benefit: If you’re wearing a country’s parade armor, you gain a +2 circumstance bonus to Diplomacy and Intimidate checks to influence a person from that country.

Which country in PFS setting would benefit from this the most?


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Duncan7291 wrote:

http://www.d20pfsrd.com/equipment---final/armor/parade-armor

Armor's benefit: If you’re wearing a country’s parade armor, you gain a +2 circumstance bonus to Diplomacy and Intimidate checks to influence a person from that country.

Which country in PFS setting would benefit from this the most?

Probably whichever one you are in at the time.


Thanks captain obvious. I was looking more in terms of most common PFS country settings.


You really do travel all over. I would think Cheliax and Andoran would be big ones, but not so much Osirian or Qadiran. Really could vary a lot based on the scenarios you play though.

Might be easier to ask in the PFS forum. PFS specific things usually get faster and accurate responses there.

A circumstance bonus could also be gained from a masterwork tool, so that's an option that might be less country dependent.


Duncan7291 wrote:
Thanks captain obvious. I was looking more in terms of most common PFS country settings.

You're welcome. Glad I could be so helpful to you.

Really though, why don't you go look through season 5's scenarios and decide what you think is best. But, the groups you're dealing with wont always or even generally be from the country you're in. There is no "best" country to choose to have your parade armor from. Frankly, I wouldn't be worrying about the parade armor's bonus to diplomacy as it's scope is honestly too limited to matter much.

Liberty's Edge

Don't forget the drawbacks of Parade Armor, as well: you might not wanna wear Andoran's armor while running around Cheliax, for example.


Sorry for being snippy. I need to work on that. Thanks for advice.


JRutterbush wrote:
Don't forget the drawbacks of Parade Armor, as well: you might not wanna wear Andoran's armor while running around Cheliax, for example.

Yeah! It has that text about giving a negative to your diplomacy around... Oh wait, no it doesn't.

Grand Lodge

MrSin wrote:
JRutterbush wrote:
Don't forget the drawbacks of Parade Armor, as well: you might not wanna wear Andoran's armor while running around Cheliax, for example.
Yeah! It has that text about giving a negative to your diplomacy around... Oh wait, no it doesn't.

GMs can apply circumstance modifiers... at will.


Helaman wrote:
MrSin wrote:
JRutterbush wrote:
Don't forget the drawbacks of Parade Armor, as well: you might not wanna wear Andoran's armor while running around Cheliax, for example.
Yeah! It has that text about giving a negative to your diplomacy around... Oh wait, no it doesn't.
GMs can apply circumstance modifiers... at will.

Right, but that's not something written. Its one thing to say "Your GM might" and its another to say its a drawback. PFS being more RAW they should stray from it and won't recognize you have it all the time probably.

Liberty's Edge

MrSin wrote:
Helaman wrote:
MrSin wrote:
JRutterbush wrote:
Don't forget the drawbacks of Parade Armor, as well: you might not wanna wear Andoran's armor while running around Cheliax, for example.
Yeah! It has that text about giving a negative to your diplomacy around... Oh wait, no it doesn't.
GMs can apply circumstance modifiers... at will.
Right, but that's not something written. Its one thing to say "Your GM might" and its another to say its a drawback. PFS being more RAW they should stray from it and won't recognize you have it all the time probably.

You're right, in that PFS does have strict rules regarding how to run certain aspects of the game. But none of those rules remove the GM's basic ability to impose circumstantial modifiers to checks. Pathfinder Society does want GM's to run things by the book, yes... and the book says that GM's should grant bonuses or impose penalties when it makes sense. Your GM should not turn into a console RPG computer just because it's a Society game.


JRutterbush wrote:
Your GM should not turn into a console RPG computer just because it's a Society game.

Good news! No ones advocating that.

Scarab Sages

If you read the source material, Isgir is basically a puppet state of Chillax, so the parade armor might work in both countries.

Of course wearing the Cillaxian national flag anywhere OTHER than Chillax might get you in trouble so . . . y'know, take that for what you will.

Liberty's Edge

MrSin wrote:
JRutterbush wrote:
Your GM should not turn into a console RPG computer just because it's a Society game.
Good news! No ones advocating that.

It's called exaggeration for effect. Nice job deflecting, by the way.

Shadow Lodge

I'd advise either carrying a bunch of different sets of Parade Armor[which would be rather expensive], or just 1 set of Parade Armor of you character's favorite country/country of origin and having a Masterwork Diplomacy tool to always get the bonus. Because from my experience, PFS has you all over the place.


Necro post!

Would glamored Parade Armor be able to shift nationality at will?


JRutterbush wrote:
It's called exaggeration for effect. Nice job deflecting, by the way.

I hope the desired effect was distraction and obfuscation of original issues.

There's a big difference between "what might happen" "what will probably happen" and "how Pathfinder works without GM intervention".

My experience with PFS, for better or ill, lines up a lot more closely with MrSin's expectations.


Duncan7291 wrote:
Thanks captain obvious. I was looking more in terms of most common PFS country settings.

There isn't one. The Society sends you all over the world and beyond!


Adventure Path Charter Subscriber; Starfinder Charter Superscriber

I think I need to ban parade armor in our KM game. :D


Parade armor is fun and especially thematic for my Lamplighter Investigator. It may be simpler to choose a country that doesn't basically take sides, which would eliminate at least Cheliax/Andoran. Go Ustalav instead?

Scarab Sages

You really don't want Andoran parade armor when you're trying to infiltrate a group of slavers. Just saying...


Absalom would be a good one.

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