Spell / Formula books in PFS scenarios


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Silver Crusade 4/5

So a situation came up when I was GMing last night, and I want to know how I should have handled it.

In a low tier adventure, the PCs defeated a level 2 NPC alchemist, whose inventory included his formula book. Per the Advanced Players Guide, based on being level 2 and having a +3 int modifier, his book should have had a minimum of 6 spells/formulas in it (all level 1). But the adventure didn't say what formulas were in his book, other than the assumption that the 3 he had prepared would be in there.

Since I had an alchemist PC at the table, that player naturally wanted to copy his book.

Is there any sort of standard for how to handle these things when the scenario author forgets to include the spell/formula book list for an enemy NPC wizard/alchemist/magus?

In this case, I pulled out the APG, noticed that it lists 20 spells for 1st level alchemists, and rolled a d20 3 times to determine the additional formulas in his book, and let her copy those. That seemed like a fair way of dealing with it in this case. Given that we're supposed to stick to RAW in PFS, do you all think that counts as modifying the scenario too much to reward a PC?

Silver Crusade 3/5

Sometimes the modules say something like "has all the spells they've prepared plus x randoms spells/spells of your choosing of each level" I'd go with the random if there is are noticeably less spells in the stat block than the class minimum and nothing is specified. I mean, they were probably left out because of word limits or somesuch.

Or if you notice the problem beforehand, asking the author in the scenario thread might help give an "official answer", especially for recent scenarios.

5/5 5/55/55/5

I think you're stuck with the spellbook being only whats listed as memorized.

Remember you can always hit the library in absolom and pay the library fees to borrow a book

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