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This has been super helpful. Also my wife and I are both brand new to RPGs and we are going to our play our first time at an event on thursday but we both have crazy social anxiety (how we started dating I'll never know) any advice to make sure it all goes smoothly Many of us in this hobby have varying degrees of social anxiety. Hopefully it will help to understand that other people at the event are probably feeling the same way as you. Advice:
2. Find the organizer. 3. Introduce yourselves as new players. 4. Ask to have your characters looked over to make sure they are legal. 5. Ask if there are any recommendations for your characters or their equipment that you might not have thought of. 6. Be comfortable with the idea of playing a pregen character for just one game if the changes you might need to make to your own character are substantial (arriving early can help obviate this). 7. Introduce yourselves to the GM and other players at the table. 8. Ask the other players questions about their characters (this is the best way to get RPG players to like you). 9. Listen carefully to the GM during the scenario introduction. Take notes if you need to. 10. Ask questions. 11. Smile. 12. Have fun! Explore, Report, Cooperate!
Congratulations! 1. Yes, you get a chronicle as if your character played the scenario. The big difference is that you don't get a Day Job roll as GM. If this had been a scenario with different subtiers, your character would use the subtier that is appropriate for a character of his or her level—regardless of which subtier the players played! If your character is between subtiers, they get out-of-subtier gold. 2. You get full access to gold, items, and boons. 3. The website is incorrect. You earn 1 Prestige for GMing this scenario. (The bug is a known problem, but the fix is not worth the trouble, so we've been told.) Again, congratulations on running your first PFS game! :) Explore, Report, Cooperate!
If you are looking for a Play By Post game, go here. Read through the Campaign Info thread. Post in the the Gameplay thread your interest in a game. Then click on your name at the top of the page. Click on the [CAMPAIGNS] tab. You should see the Flaxseed Lodge listed. Welcome and good luck. Explore, Report, Cooperate!
Try to contact any of the following people. They should be able to help. Jonathon Ayres (VL)Jeff Way (VL) Tom Martin (VC) If PMs don't work, you can look up their email here.
GMing a Scenario or Module for the first time just gives the person another step towards earning stars, or are their other things one gets for running a game? The first time your GM a scenario or module, you get a chronicle sheet just like the players do (I outlined above how you can apply the chronicle). Every time you GM a scenario or module—including the first time—you get table credit toward your GM stars. Each scenario is worth 1 table credit, each module 2 table credits. When you get to 10 tables of credit, you earn your first star. At 30 tables, you get your second star. 60 tables is your third star, and 100 tables is your fourth star. Your fifth star is 150 tables and some other requirements which we don't need to go into here and now. Hopefully you also have a good time while GMing tables, so there is that bonus too. :)
Welcome to PFS! 1. The only scenarios that don't give a chronicle are the retired scenarios. If you go to this page you will see that there is a link in there to all of the retired scenarios. Just avoid that link and you will be fine. Each season represents a metaplot that winds through those scenarios (some metaplots cross over between seasons) and features a different set of goals for the Pathfinder Society (in-game). You can play old seasons at any time. You still get credit (chronicle). 2. Small corrections. For most scenarios, you can play the scenario for credit once, and you can GM it for credit once. You can GM any scenario many times over and not take a chronicle for it (GMing for no credit). You can play a scenario and not take a chronicle, but if doing so would make an otherwise illegal table a legal one (i.e., if you are the third player required to make the table run). On top of that, some scenarios are infinitely replayable and credit may be applied each time you play the scenario, albeit to a different 1st-level character every time (most of these also allow you to apply credit to a 2nd-level character as well). Then, on top of that, as you GM more games, you earn GM stars. Each star allows you to play any one scenario a second time for credit. This is a one-time benefit and for all intents and purposes does not refresh. Then, all those same rules apply to the Core campaign. 3. Any chronicle you earn as a player goes to the character who played the scenario. If you played a pregen character, you can assign the chronicle to any character whose level is the level of the pregen you played (except a 1st-level pregen chronicle can be applied to any 1st-level character). The character to whom you assign the chronicle gains the benefit of the chronicle when they reach the level of the pregen you played. Or you may assign a pregen chronicle to a brand-new 1st-level character. The gold amount is reduced to 500 gp (1,398 gp for a module), and you don't get access to the boons until the character reaches the level of the pregen you played. When you GM, you can apply the chronicle to any character you have in tier for the scenario, or you can apply the chronicle as if you had played a pre-gen (using all the same options outlined above).
So I just joined the Pathfinder Society and I have a few ideas for characters, I searched for what I could with what's allowed but still have some questions. Would any of these seem legal with their given classes, archetypes, or weapon choice? Welcome to Pathfinder Society. To find out what is or is not legal for play in Pathfinder Society, you should visit the Additional Resources page. Everything is listed by book and page number, so you need to know both of those things. There is unofficial documentation at Archives of Nethys. Anything listed with the Glyph of the Open Road next to it should be legal in PFS. Be warned that some of the stuff that is listed as legal is only legal if you have the appropriate GM boons. Also, you should be sure to double-check the Additional Resources page because there are also a few mistakes on the Archives of Nethys. Also, you need to own the books that these options come from. As to your specific questions... Human Paladin with Divine hunter archetype Totally legal. Half-Orc Monk with the Monk of the four winds or the Zen Archer Archetype Either archetype is legal. Human/Half-Elf Fighter with TWF Kukri Legal. Dwarf Samurai Legal. Dhamphir Rouge/Sorcerer/Arcane Trickster Dhampir requires a GM boon. Everything else is legal. I'd appreciate the help as I'd like to show to the first meeting prepared. I hope that helps. Explore, Report, Cooperate!
I think you can get customer service to merge your PFS numbers for you. Contact them at customer.service@paizo.com. Give them some time to get back to you, especially with GenCon this week. As long as you have the chronicle sheets for the sessions you have played, you have credit. The chronicles are the primary record; think of the online reporting system as a backup. If you know your venture officers, you can ask them to help you also. If you don't know your venture officers, you can look them up here. Explore, Report, Cooperate!
Welcome to Pathfinder Society! Here's some homework for you.
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Welcome to PFS. A lot of questions here. 1. You can buy gear between sessions. Record the gear on your ITS, and have the GM at your next session sign off on the purchases. 2. Yes, that includes acid flasks and crossbows. 3. You can sell the saddle. If your character is 1st level, you can sell it back at full price (along with any other gear you want to get rid of). If you are higher than 1st level, you sell it back at half price. In either case, you should enter that on your ITS. Note: You can also just store the saddle for now. You don't need to carry it with you everywhere you go. All Pathfinders are assumed to have a residence somewhere. You can leave any items you want at home. 4. You can carry your wealth in the form of gold, platinum, gems, jewelry, or letters of credit. All of this is hand-waived for simplicity in PFS. Moreover, even though you are correct to diligently track encumbrance, the weight of your coins is ignored in that calculation (again, for simplicity). Also, as mentioned above, you need not carry all of your wealth with you wherever you go. You can leave stuff at home while you are adventuring (though it is generally a good idea to carry some "walking around money"). 5. I don't use HeroLab, so I'm not entirely sure about this, but I believe there is a check box to turn off the tracking of the weight of your coinage.
Lastly, be sure to download and read the Guide to Pathfinder Society Organized Play. Explore! Report! Cooperate! :)
This is the General Discussion for Pathfinder Society Organized Play. What is Pathfinder Society Organized Play? Well, I'm glad you asked!
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