Addition of Cohorts & Companions rules to PFS


Pathfinder Society

Liberty's Edge 1/5

Hello,

I recently won the Cohorts & Companions book and wanted to know when I can expect the rules in it to be added (or excluded) to/from PFS?

Now before everyone goes nuts about the word "cohorts" I don't care about Leadership or any of the disallowed things in the book, I am interested in the cool stuff for animal companions. There are also some nice traits.

Thanks,

Shawn

Scarab Sages

My guess is after convention season, they'll look at options that haven't been added to the Additional Resources yet. With Gencon approaching, I'm guessing they'll be busy with new hard covers first, but in the post convention slowdown, they'll get to the other books if they feel any of it has a place in Society.

Liberty's Edge 1/5

Thank you for the quick and helpful response. :)

4/5 Designer

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Indeed, given the number of scenarios that they have to churn out between now and about two months from now (7 scenarios, with one being a super-length 1-11 special, and 6 quests), anything else that Mike, John, and Linda manage is a huge bonus, likely due to extensive unpaid overtime. Now, that very well could happen anyway, but just keep that in mind!

Grand Lodge 4/5 Global Organized Play Coordinator

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I update Additional Resources every month. I will get this added within the next month, along with the other new releases, just like I do every month. The next update may be delayed a week or two due to PaizoCon and Origins back to back, but it will get done. Most likely timeframe will be a week or two after I get back from Origins.

2/5

Michael Brock wrote:
I update Additional Resources every month.

Thanks for doing that!

Cohorts and Companions is one that I'm eagerly looking forward too as well. Patience is hard sometimes. Cheers!

Grand Lodge 2/5

Rory wrote:
Michael Brock wrote:
I update Additional Resources every month.

Thanks for doing that!

Cohorts and Companions is one that I'm eagerly looking forward too as well. Patience is hard sometimes. Cheers!

It's already been updated this month, its update included We Be Goblins Free.

2/5

claudekennilol wrote:
It's already been updated this month, its update included We Be Goblins Free.

Cohorts and Companions didn't make it into June's update? Or is it that it wasn't allowed?

Mark did say they were busy, so I'm hoping it's simply the former.

Grand Lodge 5/5

More likely it didn't make it in. (Books (even the softcovers) are more complicated to review, there is significantly more material and a process for review for inclusion in PFS, the free rpg day scenarios tend to be rather short and even with boons more simple, at least that is my guess/understanding)

Grand Lodge 2/5

Rory wrote:
claudekennilol wrote:
It's already been updated this month, its update included We Be Goblins Free.

Cohorts and Companions didn't make it into June's update? Or is it that it wasn't allowed?

Mark did say they were busy, so I'm hoping it's simply the former.

It's the former. There is no mention of it so it is currently not allowed because it isn't mentioned--if it were intended to be not allowed it would say so. So since it doesn't explicitly say "this is not allowed", it just hasn't been gotten to yet. I'm sure Mike was just too busy for it with his recent announcement and the busy part of the con year.

2/5

claudekennilol wrote:
There is no mention of it so it is currently not allowed because it isn't mentioned--if it were intended to be not allowed it would say so. So since it doesn't explicitly say "this is not allowed", it just hasn't been gotten to yet. I'm sure Mike was just too busy for it with his recent announcement and the busy part of the con year.

I thought they only included allowed sources. I never noticed that they stated a book was banned as well. That's good to know.

I just read about Mike's departure right after I posted this morning. That was a shock for sure. I wish him well.

Liberty's Edge 1/5

If you checkout Mike's Facebook page as Coordinator here A couple of posts down, 4 or 5 at the time of this post, he previews what will be allowed out of this book at the next update.


graywulfe wrote:
If you checkout Mike's Facebook page as Coordinator here A couple of posts down, 4 or 5 at the time of this post, he previews what will be allowed out of this book at the next update.

Thanks for that link. It looks like the Spell Knowledge alchemy discovery will be legal. Yay! I'm interested in the Construct Rider alchemist archetype. Can someone with this book tell me what pages it is on?

Silver Crusade 1/5 Contributor

Hold, please.

Silver Crusade 1/5 Contributor

Page 12 - not legal. Sorry.

Silver Crusade 1/5 Contributor

Also, a more direct link for ease of use.


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Kalindlara wrote:
Page 12 - not legal. Sorry.

That's too bad. Thanks for the info, though. Neat job on the direct link. I couldn't figure out how to do that. Now I see that you used the link from the date of posting rather than the title. Cool. :)

2/5

Cohorts and Companions has officially been added to the Additional Resources page. Hurrah!

Life Oracle (APG)
- Spirit Guide archetype (UCG)
- Ancestors Spirit (Player Companion: Cohorts and Companions)

Spiritual Weapon is gained as a class feature (via Ancestors Spirit), which causes the spell to use CHA instead of WIS per John Compton.

Does this build work to use CHA for Spiritual Weapon for an oracle?

Grand Lodge 2/5

Additional Resources wrote:


Pathfinder Player Companion:

Cohorts and Companions Archetypes: the archetypes on pages 12, 14, 24, 30, and 31 are not legal for play. The archetypes on pages 17 and 23 are legal for play;

Discoveries: the discoveries on page 13 are legal for play, except material mastery;

Evolution: the evolution on page 9 is legal for play;

Equipment: on page 17, rust repellent is legal for play. Mending kit is not legal for play;

Feats: all feats on pages 6-7, 15, and 23 are legal for play, except Charnel (typo?) Soldiers.

The Monstrous Companion feat on page 9 is not legal for play.

Grow Plant and Train Plants feats on page 20 are not legal for play;

Magic Items: the magic items on pages 11 and 29 are legal for play.

All of page 16 is not legal for play;

Misc.: Ancestors (Shaman Spirit) is legal for play;

Rogue Talents: all rogue talents on page 27 are legal for play, except demand attention;

Spells: the spell on pages 15 and 21 are legal for play;

Traits: the traits on page 18 are not legal for play.

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