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Just to be clear, its the same thing for all four main NPCs. They will talking to someone and you'll need to "distract" their conversation partner to receive your mission. There is a bonus for succeeding well enough at distracting them.
Also, I mistakenly put that only one of you can distract the NPC, but I was supposed to put each person can only Attempt once or Aid as long as one PC remains open to speak with the main NPC. So up to five of you could roll to distract OR aid to keep the side NPC busy.
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Alldo,
On this page of the guide under Pathfinder Training is how you can get free items. When you make you character you get to assign points to schools (or be field commission).
http://www.organizedplayfoundation.org/encyclopedia/pfs2edplayer-basics/#pa thfinder-training
Then you get free consumables for your missions or in my case I get extra downtime (and eventually lower leveled consumables).
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"All of the consumable items granted by the Spells school take the form of magical scrolls (Pathfinder Core Rulebook page 564), and the item options below simply list the spells that can appear on these scrolls. When selecting a scroll, you can heighten its spell level to the Scroll Level listed below. For example, a 7th-level character could select a scroll of heal heightened to 4th level."
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There are several methods of resolving skill-based encounters in 2e that I've seen. The optimal strategies for overcoming them usually involve a bit of metagaming. In my experience metagaming tends to be more accepted in PFS compared to home campaigns. You are likely playing with a unique group of PCs each time so you don't know who is good at what compared to others.
1. Only one person can try. Once the first person has rolled no one else can. It this case your best strategy is to metagame and figure out who has the best bonus.
2. You have a limited amount of attempts. (Seems to be the case here.) In that case, the best strategy is to again metagame skill modifiers having the person who is best at a skill try during round 1. Based on the condition of the challenge at the start of each round you shuffle the PCs as needed.
3. Each person can try and contributes based on degree of success. Crit Success = 2 successes, Crit Failure = -1 success. In this case you should try unless your skill modifier is so low that you might crit fail on a roll that is not a natural 1. If I assume the DC is somewhere in the 14-16 range, then once my modifier gets below +3, attempting the skill is iffy.
4. Each person can try and only the best result counts. In this case everyone should roll everything because you might just get a natural 20 despite having a poor modifier.
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Yep, what Squash said all sounds good. I love your reasoning for metagaming being a bit more accepted in PFS than in a home game. After all, you might have never played those characters together before and really have no idea what your skills are.
On that note though, if you do a game with introductions, describing your skills that you are good at is a good thing to include.
Introduction Checklist:
Character Name
A little bit of background or why you joined the society
Skills you're good at
What you do in a combat
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Primary: Accomplished
The PCs meet their primary objective if they successfully complete the four missions assigned to them by the faction leaders. If they do, they each earn 2 Fame and 2 Reputation for any faction associated with their currently slotted faction boon
Secondary: Accomplished
1) Nonviolently pacify the fleshforge creature on the boat.
2) Disable the ritual in encounter B5 without Tavvar or any of her assistants perishing.
3) Learn the original owners’ illicit actions in the haunted house. The
4) Disperse the crowd in encounter D without resorting to violence.
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You can get Chronicle Sheets here.
I really like 2e, and I played PbP heavily in 1e, but something about 2e and PbP just don't mix well for me even after trying it a couple times.
