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The first post around this ruling

Thanks so much Caderyn! I completely overlooked that post. I guess the ruling for "Racial Heritage" currently only allows for archetypes/spells/feats/traits from books before the ARG. I understand the necessity for a clarification of this feat now.

The note in the additional resources entry for the ARG means that only humans can take stuff in the human section, elves from the elves section, etc with very few exceptions for some equipment.

Mike Brock has made numerous posts, creating a PFS house rule, saying that feats/traits such as scions of humanity or racial heritage do not allow you to bypass that restriction for material in the ARG.

Campaign staff has not yet revisited this house rule restriction in light of the new halfblood FAQ.

Thanks for the clarification Brian, its much appreciated. However, I was wondering if you could link Mike's PFS rule regarding feat/traits that allow you to be considered as other races ("Scion of Humanity" and "Racial Heritage")? It's just for my own references (I tried searching it, but all I found was his ruling regarding half-elves taking elven feats; which is not the same thing).

Exitius wrote:

Please forgive me if I'm off base here, but I believe that "Racial Heritage" still technically works under PFS rules. With "Racial Heritage", it states that "You count as both human and that race for any effects related to race"; thus I believe that you are technically considered to be a character of that race for all effects and purposes. If that's true, then the ARG errata should have no effect on the feat. "Only available for characters of the associated race" aspect of the errata would not come into play because your character is considered to be of that race.

Also this FAQ may be a bit old, but racial heritage was stated to work for archetypes of a specific race. link: http://paizo.com/paizo/faq/v5748nruor1fn#v5748eaic9pka
However, the FAQ and additional resources may not necessarily contradict each other due my reasoning behind the first paragraph.

The problem is if not to prevent racial heritage, half humans and scion of humanity aasimars from taking other things, why even include the note in the additional resources?

I was assuming that the note in the additional resources is meant for characters that accidentally took spells/feats meant for other races without a qualifying feat. The ARG errata includes everything released after the book; therefore someone could for example, mistakenly take "Chameleon Scales" in "Kobolds of Golarion" since it has no racial prerequisites stated in the spell. However, with the note in the additional resources, that cannot happen.

Of course this is just my interpretation and I could be gravely wrong.

Please forgive me if I'm off base here, but I believe that "Racial Heritage" still technically works under PFS rules. With "Racial Heritage", it states that "You count as both human and that race for any effects related to race"; thus I believe that you are technically considered to be a character of that race for all effects and purposes. If that's true, then the ARG errata should have no effect on the feat. "Only available for characters of the associated race" aspect of the errata would not come into play because your character is considered to be of that race.

Also this FAQ may be a bit old, but racial heritage was stated to work for archetypes of a specific race. link: http://paizo.com/paizo/faq/v5748nruor1fn#v5748eaic9pka
However, the FAQ and additional resources may not necessarily contradict each other due my reasoning behind the first paragraph.