John Compton wrote:
The Advanced Class Guide errata is out, as is the updated Pathfinder Society Roleplaying Guild Guide, which contains expanded guidelines for rebuilding one’s character when the campaign bans an previously permitted character option or errata revises a rule. I think the Guide covers a lot of the changes pretty well, including how to handle re-priced items, the Charisma-based limit on an arcanist’s Consume Magic Items ability (this is a Charisma-based class ability, after all), the spell level change for contingent action, and many others. There are other situations for which these guidelines don’t present a reasonable fix, and perhaps the general guidelines are worth revisiting further soon after Gen Con.
In the meantime, there are many characters for which retraining a feat chain is insufficient, and it’s clear that the collective breadth of the errata requires greater flexibility to resolve properly—especially with Gen Con just about to begin.
Characters that relied on Slashing Grace qualify for a rebuild as though an ability-score-dependent class feature had changed. Sell back any weapons, armor, and equipment associated with the character’s fighting style (e.g. something improving two-weapon fighting or the like—be a fair judge of what makes sense) at their full price.
Characters that have levels in a class archetype—or another class option such as a magus arcana—that granted the opportune parry and riposte deed can freely retrain any levels in a class that grants those features. They may also sell back any equipment that no long functions properly based on retraining (e.g. a monk weapon if you retrained levels in kata master).
John, I have been using the Sacred huntsmaster archetype for the inquisitor and they lost the solo tactics class ability. This drastically affects all of the teamwork feats that he has taken and renders them practically useless without retraining multiple feats.
I would like to just change back to being a normal inquisitor but to retrain the class features would cost 20 prestige. Is there any chance that characters that lost access to a class feature that impacts the effectiveness of their feats can get some kind of limited rebuild?
