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Hi all,

How does being a member of the Pathfinder Society affect one's ability to inherit lands, titles, and manors (or be granted the former by potential liege lords, as say a reward for service in battle or bringing a treacherous vassal to justice)?

Does a recruit to the Pathfinders forfeit potential claims on initiation? If not, assuming they accept their inheritance, are they required to leave the Society when they accept, or are they allowed to retain their membership?

Can a landed lord join the Pathfinders?

tl;dr Potential and/or current Barons/Counts/Dukes as Pathfinders. Yay or nay? What does the cannon say?

I've heard in passing that the Pathfinders had troubles in the past with geopolitical factions within the organisation causing some Bad Stuff™ to happen. I'd imagine that that would make them sceptical of allowing landed lords and nobility into their ranks (although I recall them having plenty of dispossed nobles among them).

If anyone has any examples of characters I can look up on the wiki, or books (1st ed is welcome) that I could read about anything/anyone that might be relevant to the topic, let me know!

Any speculations y'all might have are also welcome.

Thanks!

Hi all,

I'm new to Pathfinder. I'd like to play Pathfinder.

Gasp

But I've never played it as a player. This hasn't stopped me with systems I've run in the past, but when it comes to Society Play (the thing that's catching my attention), things feel different, probably because I haven't run public "convention style" games before, where you could have a whole table full of players who you haven't interacted with before and who you have to run for "rules as written".

My question(s) to y'all: How much knowledge of the game system is expected of a Society GM, and are new players even welcome to jump straight into GMing?

(Feel free to just answer what questions you feel like, I'm mainly interested in that first one above me. The rest are just details.)

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How many of you that have GM'd for Society games did so before playing in one? How about before playing a PC in Pathfinder period?

How many of you had prior GMing experience in Pathfinder? What was the biggest change you had to make in how you approach Society games from your regular games?

What turns a new player into someone who's ready to GM a Society game?

Face to face and play by post, does one style lend itself better to a new GM?

And, lastly, how did y'all fare running your first Society game?

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Bit wordy this, sorry, but I'm interested in hearing people's thoughts.

Sincerely yours,
Some guy who just wants a star