**But frankly, the creative solutions, I believe, is a clause in there to not take away treasure from the characters should they find a creative way to avoid a combat encounter. I don't believe the creative solutions clause has anything to do with faction missions.**
Creativity has nothing to do with faction missions? Really? Not like this is a roleplaying game or anything where creativity is the main driving factor, right? Sorry, but I'm a bit miffed at this line of logic from one of the higher ups. One of the biggest things about table top is that players find ways to work around whatever is thrown at them, with the skills and resources they have at hand. To say otherwise is to defeat the whole reason of playing. There is a similar thread here on the board from a long while back addressing a similar issue. Some folks on there applied some very creative methods to work around this whole crap of "Sorry, yer effed cuz you don't have a rank in EVERY skill". Some of these solutions required the purchase of MW tools, access to a library, hirelings, and (most importantly) help from your fellow PCs.
Everything in PFS should be subject to creative solutions. Otherwise we would not need DM's, right? We could convert the whole system into a choose your own adventure book or a video game. "Ok, you see the hellhounds. If you try to sketch them, please turn to page 37 for your failure text."
