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Well, i have seen it in PFS and it was an issue, but it was already quoted that the GM can limit the available free actions to a reasonable number.

So that is something that is creating table variation in organized play.

The rules clearly say you can throw it as a free action and since in PFS you are bound to RAW, you have to play it that way, but every GM can limit the number of free actions and that means all free actions.

So it would be absolutely RAW to allow throwing your shield and don´t allow to draw the quickdraw shield from your back (as a free action, still possible as a swift action as mentioned in the rules for quickdraw shields). Also here i already experienced table variation.

In total, a FAQ would be nice but i don´t think it is that urgent.

You are welcome.

To be honest, I did the ruling same as you for a long time until a player pointed out to me that I was wrong.

It was more or less the same situation and I let the group choose what to do. They opted for the pregen and played high tier, had a lot of fun and the pregen player could asign the chronicle five session later when his char reached level 7.

From the guide:

" If you play a non-1st-level pregenerated

character, you choose one of your characters to assign

the chronicle to at the end of adventure, and then apply

the credit to your character as soon as she reaches the

level of the pregenerated character played. You may not

assign a Chronicle sheet earned with a pregenerated

character to a character that was already at the level

of the pregenerated character or higher."

So the Pala is only level 5, there is nothing against playing a Level 7 pregen.

For all the advice of "don't run a 7 player table", I'll tell you what they aren't. 7 player tables happen. I've run tons of them because there wasn't another option. In this case .. if one of the other players steps up to run a 2nd table; you'll have a table of 4 and a table of 2 do you'd need someone outside the group to come in and run a table.

In this case, you have to follow the guide, and the paladin has to play his paladin as he has a character of the appropriate level. He actually cannot play a pregen.

Play the lower tier
Acknowledge to the players that because it's lower tier and a 7 player table that it's going to be easier, but according to PFS rules you cannot change the difficulty of the scenario.
Sit back .. have fun and have a good game.

Sorry but that is not correct. You can play a pregen, however, you are not allowed to apply the chronicle to a character which is in the right tier.

Bloodline spells cannot be changed.

They are part of your bloodline. Changing them would mean that you change the details of the bloodline, inventing your own bloodline.

However, in a homecampaign your GM could allow this. He is the GM, he makes the rules.

In organized play it would be impossible.

Normal Feint says your attack and means your attack.

Have a look at improved feint and greater feint feats, there you will find what you seek.

You are correct, my mistake.

The Problem is also how to detect someone with total concealment. While you can pinpoint an invisible creature, i cannot find a rule that you can do this also for creatures with total concealment.

Raw you need to hide and total concealment gives you +20 or +40 to your stealth. Everything else DM Blake already covered.

That is already implemented. Check "day job" in the guide to organized play. There are no other means of getting extra coin in PFS.

Exception: There are some Chronicles out there where you can trade coin for prestige.

GMed Mists of Mwangi some weeks ago and EVERY PC failed the save against the fog.

No fun for the wizard but the barbarian had the time of his life.

There are classes out there performing better in combat.......so what?

If we judge every new class by min-max potential, the power creep will go on and on and on.

The vigilante is a great class in my eyes. Why? Because of the RP options you have. Wanna play Batman? Do it! Spider Man? Here you go! Zorro? Yes, sir!

I always group up mosters of the same type. I never had problems in PFS.

I cannot recall any scenario, where this was an issue. Ran Scions of the Sky Key Part 1 on monday and agree that it would be annoying having all the critters split up.

Well, you can argue that it is not a big thing to use non-CORE GM credit for CORE.

However, also CORE needs GMs so if you don´t want to start from the scratch with just 150 gp, just GM a CORE session. You will get your CORE credit and players will have the opportunity to play CORE. Being able to gain a second GM chronicle for a szenario i have already GMed is at least for me motivation enough to start some CORE szenarios, which would be out of the game if you would allow the "leaking" of GM credit between the two campaigns.

I am happy to announce two new VL in Germany:

Christian Buchholz will cover the city of Dortmund and thus a big part of the Ruhrgebiet.

Harald Schlang will support the PFS in Düsseldorf and will have an eye on Cologne.

With now three VOs covering Düsseldorf and the surrounding area, "PFS Rhein-Ruhr" will hopefully keep on growing.

If you are interested, you can find two events covering our local gamedays on the event list.

Or just contact me.

Cheers

In light of Johns post in the other thread, I now have no choice but to implement the feat. Little confused on items granted on the chronicle for 6-01 though. Can they be used without the technologist feat?

It depends!

If the use of that item is connected to a skill check, than you need the feat IMO.

If there is no skill check involved, you can use the item, since the RAW feat applies only to skill checks, not to the use of technological items in general.

So e-pick no (since you are using disable device), but med lance yes (no skill check involved).

Does it make sense? Well, that is another story.

Well, at least 6-01 and 6-03 i will run as written which means:

6-01
Trial By Machine makes use of the Pathfinder RPG Core
Rulebook, Pathfinder RPG Bestiary, Pathfinder RPG Bestiary
2, Pathfinder RPG GameMastery Guide, and Pathfinder
RPG Ultimate Equipment.

6-03
This adventure makes use of the following Pathfinder
Roleplaying Game products: the Pathfinder RPG Core
Rulebook, Pathfinder RPG Advanced Class Guide (ACG),
Pathfinder RPG Advanced Player’s Guide (APG), Pathfinder
RPG Advanced Race Guide (ARG), Pathfinder RPG Bestiary
(B1), Pathfinder RPG Bestiary 2 (B2), Pathfinder RPG
Ultimate Combat (UC), Pathfinder RPG Ultimate Equipment
(UE), and Pathfinder RPG Ultimate Magic (UM).

No technology guide mentioned, which you can interpret that you don´t need it.

It is also kind of proof that Andrew is right and it is a problem of parallel development which will be solved soon, i guess.

Doesn't matter if its core assumption or not. Technology isn't core assumption either.

True enough, but obviously it is a big part of the season so most szenarios will deal with rules not covered by the core, which is not special, i admit, but while it was more a flavor thing in last seasons, it feels more important this time, at least what i got from the first szenarios.

Owning the technology guide should be helpful, not mandatory, which it is if the feat would be required to make knowledge checks higher DC 10.

I have to admit i was happy about the season 6 main theme in the beginning. Bringing in some technology seemed quite nice and exciting.

But all this rules questions coming up because the rules are not clear or even missing made me change my mind.
Not sure of i will give season 6 szenarios so many slots in my events with all these missing clarifications about the rules.

Well, we will see what comes up in the FAQ.

The feat must be ignored IMHO! The technology guide is not core assumption, so you cannot expect the players to have it which would make knowledge skills against technology creatures and found items impossible.

Well, searching is not looking......wtf!

That is the kind of stuff that would make me never play again with a GM.

But in this special case i think i would have ruled similar.

Well, i think the GM was right there.

A short "I take a closer look at the trap, what do i see?" is not slowing down the game.

It is not the GMs job to play the game for the PCs. if they don´t search a room, they don´t get the treasure.

If a GM rules it otherwise, assuming the PCs search every room automatically, that is also totally fine with the rules. Different GM, different styles.

And concerning coming back and summoning monster all the traps:

Not every Szenario gives you that amount of time and IMO should not. Finding the treasure is one major aspect of the game and if this becomes more or less something you do automatically, it will IMO spoil the fun.

I totally agree that a GM can be too picky about it, like rolling perception for every 5 ft. square to find a trap. This is of course not what i mean.

But again: as a GM you have to find a way between these two extremes and every GM has his own way to do it.

I had a discussion about something related:

How realistic is it to assume that a PC does not know about the DR of a skeleton?

Well, it might be true, but it is not about punishing the PC who has no skillpoints in knowledge religion, it is more about rewarding the PC who has skillpoints in knowledge religion.

If you are not sure, wether some of these boons are cheated or not, just take some photos from the corresponding chronicle and mail to a VO.

We can look up wether the chronicles are right or manipulated.
It will take some time and you cannot check live at the table but if he is cheating, we will get him.

Well, since you cannot earn sczarni boons from season 5 anymore, at least sczarni is retired for sure.

I see it this way.

It is stated that you qualify for season 5 boons from andoran with liberty's edge and so on.

Where is it stated? Under the retired factions topic.

Why is it stated there? Because you normally don't qualify for retired faction boons.

So they are officialy retired IMO.

Does it make sense to you?

Why then a free change for all players?

To give grand lodge and silver players the chance to change as well into the new factions.

Regarding factions:

You are allowed one faction change anytime during season six, so you are not stuck on your first pick.

Hi there,

Anyone interested in online play using roll20 and speaking german is invited to join my reoccuring event.

Two to four szenarios are played each month at the moment. Limited by the participating GMs, i hope the event will grow with more players and GMs joining us.

It is german language only, just to be clear!

Join us via warhorn:
https://warhorn.net/events/maggus-roll20-onlinerunden

Cheers

Maggus

Damn it!
These two i have but i hoped there would be something like owning your own circus in one of the varisian sourcebooks.

Thanks for the quick answers!

Hi there,

does anyone has a list of all prestige vanities and in what book each appears?

I'm searching for a vanity to use acrobatics as a day job, but such a list would be helpfull to get an overview too.

Morning,

has anyone run it already using the secondary success condition of season 5?

If i´m reading it right, by rushing to the final encounter and ignoring the other rooms, the player can end up with both prestige points (primary for rescueing the girls, secondary for deactivating the Wightir Conjunction) but zero XP since they have only two encounters done?

Actually, i can imagine that some players would be pretty happy with two cheap prestige points despite the loss of XP and some gold.

See your point Eric, but i see items on a chronicle more like a reward.

If a player got half a dozen items via chronicle he participated in at least half a dozen szenarios (likely a lot more) and deserves it (my point of view).
Again, PRD gives you the official wording, so in combination with the chronicle to proof your access to the item, and only in combination with it, it is simple to bring the proper rules.
And since a chronicle is bound to a character and not player based, it is not like unlocking items. It is limited to the specific character. If the character dies or retires, item access is gone.

The ruling now is clear to me, but i don't have to like it.

I hope i could at least explain my point of view to you guys.

So Matthew, you got it right from the beginning.

Thanks again guys.

Well it sounds a bit brusque, but i don't mind.

Problem is, i don't get your point.

Paizo needs to make money, agreed.
Playing the game needs you to spent money, agreed.

The items on the chronicle are single items. No one pays for single items. Forcing the players to pay for single items means you will loose players. Giving the players one single item will not make additional ressources obsolete, it would even encourage people to buy the stuff if they see it has some cool content. But thats just my oppinion anyway.

And i don't want to make the PRD a sufficient sourcebook for players, don't get me wrong.

But i guess my question is answered. Thank you guys for your help.

Well, as i agree to the fact that sometimes items are described in full, these items are usually unique items (for example piecemailarmor in "you have what you hold").

Without PRD, i could not GM most of the Szenarios, since i don't own every book, but for that it is written in the introduction of at least all season 5 Szenarios, that you can find all rules in the prd.

But back to topic:

I unterstand the items as a reward for finishing a Szenario. What sense is in a reward, you can not use in some cases?

It makes it even more motivating for players to play a szenario with the perspective to get access to items they usually cannot use (Diablo style loot).
I hope you get my idea.
I never thought about it until a relatively new player complained about it.

Has anyone a link to some "official" ruling?

Than PRD should be sufficient.

Morning,

searching for nearly one hour but not getting what i want, so hopefully you can help me:

Every Item you get on a chronicle sheet is available for purchase at once, that is clear. In Addition, all "always available items" are available.
On top you can buy an item when you have enough fame to get it from your faction.

If you want to buy an item from an additional source, you have to own a hardcopy or (a print out of) a legal pdf.

But what about the stuff on the chronciles, which becomes available at once to you, that is coming from an additional source?

If it is available at once, it should be available whether you own the book or not. Giving players items they have to pay for (because they need to own the source) would be quite greedy from paizo.

This was maybe the most fun i had so far as GM.
Really nice, especially because you can go without any combat.

All players would give it a high ranking too, but:

The cipher is broken, sorry.

I see how it is working, but it is too complicated to be solved reliably even with the right cipher found.

Think about all the non native english speaker around the world next time please.

If you want to give the player a riddle to spent some time on,combining two independent cipher out of three or four total ones seems to me the better way.