Rules about joining an Organisation


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Hey all,

I can't seem to find the source anymore but can't you join a Hunters lodge for 2PP to get to use a survive roll for your Job roll?

Or do you need to get Fame 20 and join one as an initiate? and if so any useful organizations for a Half orc Barbarian?

Sczarni 5/5 5/55/5 ***

The rules for Vanities, Prestige Awards, Businesses, etc. are presented in the Pathfinder Society Field Guide. IIRC, it is only 2PP to join a Hunter's Lodge, with no other requirements.

You have to own the book, of course, though.

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Ah thx but does the lodge count as an organisation? Or are those two things entirely different?

Sczarni 5/5 5/55/5 ***

Depends on what your definition of "organization" is.

Page 61 of the Pathfinder Society Field Guide, Memberships wrote:
In addition to membership in one's faction and the Pathfinder Society as a whole, there are many organizations, cults, clubs, and societies to which Pathfinders may belong. All of these memberships are available in Absalom automatically - whether or not memberships are available in other cities depends on the GM.

It's technically a Membership, I suppose, under the bigger header of Vanities.

Sczarni 5/5 5/55/5 ***

The sub-categories of Vanities are: Businesses, Followers, Memberships, and Property (Edit: and "Wayfinder Enhancements", technically)

"Organization" is not one of them.

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The hunters lodge works however you want it to. You can say that you're a member of the Trophy Wall consortium that owns a giant sprawling vacation villia in mawangi and you arrange tours out of there or you can be one person standing on an absolom street corner holding a sign that says "will guide you to big game for food"

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thx, what confuses me is that to get a membership you need 20 fame and 1PP. But for the Hunters Lodge (with the book) it is just 2PP but no fame restriction.

So if I understand this correctly I could get a membership at the HL either by paying the 2PP now or wait until I have 20Fame and then pay 1PP ?

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Where is this 20fame requirement 1pp for membership coming from?

Pg 62 of the field guide has memberships and a listed pp cost with no minimum fame.

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http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/prd/ultimateCampaign/campaignSystems/reputat ionAndFame.html

Fame 20

This is the typical Fame of an adventurer who has completed several adventures and whom the public is starting to take notice of.

Initiate (Title, 1 PP): A powerful organization accepts you into its ranks. This could be a knighthood, a sagacious cabal of mages, or an order of monks. One skill appropriate to that organization becomes a class skill for you. You may select this title multiple times; each time you select it, you choose an appropriate organization to join and another skill that becomes a class skill. The GM determines whether an organization is available and what skills are appropriate choices for it.

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AH! PFS isn't using that subsystem. PFS has its own.

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Ah well that would explain the trouble I was having in bringing those sources together.

So if just playing PFS I can go by the Guide. So when would one use the Ultimate Campaign rules?

Sczarni 5/5 5/55/5 ***

Yanick Goossens wrote:
So when would one use the Ultimate Campaign rules?
Additional Resources wrote:

Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Ultimate Campaign

Refer to page 10 in the Guide to Pathfinder Society Organized Play for rules on utilizing character retraining.
Note: Race traits are only available for characters of the associated race. Religion traits are only available for characters of the associated religion.
Traits: all traits listed on pages 51-64 are legal for play except corpse cannibal, hedge magician, natural-born leader, rich parents, and unblemished barrel.

Nothing about Prestige or Fame from Ultimate Campaign is legal for play in PFS.

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Yanick Goossens wrote:

Ah well that would explain the trouble I was having in bringing those sources together.

So if just playing PFS I can go by the Guide. So when would one use the Ultimate Campaign rules?

Those particular rules could be used in any non-PFS game where they are allowed by the GM, like any other optional rule set.

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