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chris i am pretty sure i had the pdf in my phone but between it loading up and scrolling through it or having to dig out the book and figure out where it was in there when we already had the simple answer in front of us it would have just detracted from the game and the enjoyment of all.

As for the fun bit it's not an excuse for playing forbidden races or not having chronicles just kind of trying to bring things in to perspective at the end the party has killed a bunch of shit and gets a chronicle and we had fun. checking my id against the watermark on the pdf to make sure i paid for it is just sort of absurd.

norse wolf taking a glance at my sheet or asking me what kind of character im playing or even asking how my wizard has a +87 attack is not really what i would consider auditing nitpicking through it and asking for a source on everything just seems like a waste of time. Ok so you are unfamiliar with x feat we can pull that up.

You guys seem like good gms and thanks for taking the time to do it just trying to make the point to keep it light. Notice those who have chimed in to say yet another reason they won't do pfs just try to keep that in mind sometimes instead of bogging down a game. Again the point of the rule is to ensure there is a reference for the rules in case there is some question about them not to ensure they were paid for. and yes it is dishonest thievery to play without having paid for the sources.

I don't think he's making any really horrible decisions

the -2 strength is pretty much canceled out in to hit from the size modifier and his ac will improve as well.

I've seen plenty of barbarians do just fine with a greataxe sure it does slightly less average damage and crits less often but when he does get a crit it will be x3

dodge and toughness kind of fall in to his choice as a gnome as well he's optimizing for ac and hps I don't see anything wrong with that, there are plenty of other character options which have far more damage dealing potential than a fighter. He very well can build a video game tank, add mobility and he can use up opponents attacks of opportunity throw in some spring attack and he can be that annoying little gnome that runs through and hacks up the giants ankles and distracts them while the wizard blasts them.

You can definitely suggest some things that would work well for him but let him make his own choices. he's not going to be seriously outshined anyway just fill a different role.

↑ sounds like someone has something to hide...

I only have one pfs character and do have all the books/pdfs that went in to making it but i don't make sure to bring them all with me to a game.

I have had cats pee on a book and it goes in the trash some pdfs are on my home computer but haven't been transferred to my phone as well. I have had my phone die and thus i wouldn't have the pdf with me. if there was only one open seat and i had a jerk for a gm i'd probably just play a pregen but that doesn't change the fact that the gm is being a jerk and might turn some people off to the game.

I don't use HL I make a paper and pencil character sheet on a printed paizo sheet.

I would probably walk away from a table where a gm wanted to audit my character sheet without first having started play and then having a +87 to attack with my lvl 1 wizard or a bunch of other glaringly obvious errors.

I think i have most of my pdfs loaded in to my phone but a gm checking my watermark or even requiring to see them is a jerk move. If you are gming you are not paizos copyright police. Your job is to officiate a game. I understand the need to have a legitimate source of the rules should any questions come up about it but generally we can look all those things up if needed. The point of society play is to promote the game. Try to make it fun for all involved. If you don't like herolabs you should inform the player that they need to have printouts hard-copies or watermarked pdfs for legal pfs play but really you should let them play their character as long as it is using legal pfs material.
Someone who has a good time playing will help further promote the game and drive sales.

I see a lot of people trashing d20pfsrd on here but frankly i have seen it be more accurate, up to date and easy to use than anyone that totes around 87 lbs of books or searching through tons of different pdfs. I have had people point out things that were "wrong" on d20pfsrd because their book says so and it's official then we go look up the errata and guess what the book was wrong the whole time.

Out of the pfs games I've played i think i had only 1 gm ever question an ability i had. I pulled it up on d20pfsrd and he said that isn't a legitimate source but read it on there anyway and we were able to see the source book for it which someone else had on them and we didn't even bother to double check the book with the website info we just needed the full description to figure out wtf it did in x situation which was answered just fine with d20pfsrd.

players definitely should take the time to figure out how their characters work, if you take strength damage you should know what that will effect. The purpose of this rule to organized play is so that gms have access to a correct source of rules if a question arises not checking to make sure people bought the books.

We just fought some bone golems.
My cleric channeled positive energy to heal the party and the bone golems were inside the area of effect.

Bone golems have the special descriptor that magical effects that heal living creatures slow them for 1d4 rounds.

Our Gm determined that I would have to choose to target them to affect them or heal the party.

I think it would both heal the party and slow the bone golems. as choosing to harm undead would not do anything as it does not heal living creatures.

what do you guys think?

Interesting.

Are you going with cold or electricity for your Elemental Fist? Considering you already have Earth and Fire (or firewater, at least ;-P), are you going for Air or Water for the third element?

elemental fist allows you to choose the element when u use the feat.

I would love to see a clarification on this one.
My personal ruling would be to allow the person with the weapon cord attached to make a disarm attempt on the monk holding their weapon as a swift action.
Disarming the weapon does not imply that any damge is done to the weapon coord and the weapon coord requires an attack to cut it.
I would burn a flurry of blows attack with my temple sword just to cut the dang coord and avoid the discussion with the dm lol.