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I would not like to see this in any way, shape, or form. I’m not overly fond of convention exclusive scenarios so seeing something that goes much further would be an unwelcome change.

Just because it's core doesn't mean it will be legal for a pc in PFS2.

While I agree with you and I’m not sure I want to see goblin PC’s in PSF2 either, it would be very curious to see a core race not be legal for PC’s.

I think we owe it to the players to give them the benefit of the doubt regarding goblins as PC. If leadership treats players like they can’t be trusted with the responsibilty it reinforces problematic behavior. If there are goblin PC’s, they will still have to uphold the tenets of the Pathfinder Society and if they don’t, it will fall to GM’s then (as it does now) to curb any behavior detrimental to the table.

Not many goblin pcs are there?

Seeing as how this is in the PFS2 playtest forum, and goblins are going to be core in PF2, the OP’s question is fair.

Another thing I would like to see is a certain J. Dacilane make another appearance before the switch to PF2.

UndeadMitch wrote:

I can’t believe it took me this long to think of this, for season 10 I’d like to see another Kyle Baird scenario!

No thank you.

Meh, your opinion. Every scenario the man has written is pretty awesome, if not a classic. His scenarios don’t pull punches, which is really satisfying as both a player and a GM. The Confirmation is still my favorite of the 1-2 scenarios, and the only one of the 1-2 evergreens that I’ve played more than once. Rats of Round Mountain pt1 has one of the most memorable final fights in a 7-11. The Sealed Gate is brutal, but in a satisfying way and features an enemy that I had never actually seen used before or since. The Technic Siege is a fun addition to Season 6, there is a lot of flexibilty in the scenario and has an NPC that uses an archetype that PC’s are prohibited from using, which is cool. Race for the Runecarved Key is kind of meh, and is one of the leading reasons people seem to dislike Sheila Heidmarch, but there’s nothing altogether awful about the multi-table.

I can’t believe it took me this long to think of this, for season 10 I’d like to see another Kyle Baird scenario!

Seeing as how the Society has continued to shift closer and closer towards the good side of the alignment spectrum over the past few years, I don’t think allowing LE would be a very good idea. I would also be inclined to agree with people that would like to see the worship of evil deities removed from OP. While I have partied with people that have been able to RP a worshipper of an evil deity in a reasonable, party-friendly fashion I have seen more people use it as an excuse to act in the most antisocial and disruptive way they could justify.

I was unaware that Yjae was a place but now that I know it's there, checking it out would be pretty rad.

Also, a return to Round Mountain wold be pretty awesome.

Wei Ji the Learner wrote:

Not everyone has their weekends off, and this sometimes gets missed in the RSP calculations.

Are you saying that you don't play at a retail site all? Are all your games home games?

Online play is a thing. There are plenty of people that aren’t able to play PFS in a retail location.

I haven’t played any PFS since October, I've just GM’d an occasional game since then. Since the local scene left me burnt out on PFS to the point of stepping down from being a VO, I had just considered dropping out altogether. But, I’m starting to get the itch again, and I think I’m going to go online to scratch it. I’ve got some boons to burn through, so new characters seem to be coming.

Or, we could just suspend our disbelief and get on with it. Could well be our PFS1 characters are still kicking around, just not right for the new assignments.

Add me in to the awkward agreement pile.

The agreement pile is getting crowded! I’m also in favor of a clean start for PFS2.

That’s a pretty cool idea. I would definitely purchase something that had all of the stuff unique to PFS scenarios.

Aaron, I said as much in the reply I sent to your PM, but if you want or expect any meaningful to happen, you need to come from a position of respect. If you had raised your concerns in a manner that didn't resort to insulting people, I would have more sympathy with your position. But, instead you are calling people idiots and boneheads, which is not going to do you any favors.

Normally, yeah, I’d give him the benefit of the doubt. But, he’s a 3-star GM that has been posting for over two years. I would put forth that in fact he is the one that needs to have some chill, especially since we are talking about PFS race boons and not something of any real importance.

So, either they are putting Aasimar/Tiefling boons back into rotation or whoever thought of voltroning race boons that are 2+ years out of print is an idiot.

This is why we can’t have nice things. Anytime Leadership tries to do something cool, some immediately proceeds to insult them. To top things off you go on to mention that you have two unused Aasimar. Even two years later people still have unused Assimar boons, so it must not be as bad as you are making it out to be.

*Casts Dimensional Lock.*

I voted for Tamrin for a few reasons. The first and foremost is experience. As a Bellflower Tiller he has been fighting the system from the inside for a good while now. Also of note is that he puts further distance between the faction and Maldris’ many misdeeds. Maldris’ skeletons have skeletons in the closet. Lastly, he is a halfing, and halflings are pretty cool.

Mitch Mutrux wrote:

Steven Schopmeyer wrote:

As far as I know, he is stranded and unable to continue.

+1

Isn't there the possibility to run scenario 3 again for him, using the rest of the party (which obviously have played it before) to make the table legal? They won't get any rewards, and their consumables are tracked like normal, but at least this person who missed it might be able to continue with the rest of you guys.

As written in the season 9 Pathfinder Society Roleplaying Guilde Guide on page 7-8: wrote:

Minimum Legal Table Size: You are permitted to

replay an adventure in order to meet the minimum legal
table size, with the following stipulations.

Notify the GM: You must inform the GM that you have
already played the adventure or run it as a GM. GMs are
encouraged to be as flexible as possible when replaying
an adventure is the only method to run a legal table, but
a GM has the right to deny replaying an adventure to
players if she feels uncomfortable running an adventure
for players who have foreknowledge of the story.

No Spoilers: Spoiling plot points or using insider
knowledge to affect game play is grounds for the GM to
remove players from the table. You should be very careful
about character knowledge versus player knowledge. If
you are concerned about possible spoilers, take the GM
aside and ask her how she would like to handle it.

Rewards: Replaying to make a legal table doesn’t earn
any rewards. The Chronicle sheet for the adventure is
a placeholder. It should note that the scenario has been
replayed for no credit and award no gold, Prestige Points,
Fame, XP, boons, item access, or any other benefits or
disadvantages. You must track consumables, purchases,
and conditions acquired by playing the adventure. This
is the only exception to not having two copies of the same
Chronicle sheet assigned to one character.

Honestly, I would probably let the party do that if that’s what is necessary to keep the group together. What I would definitely have done (I’m not trying to place blame here, so please nobody take it that way) is reschedule the game if one of the players couldn’t make it, especially if it was a legitimate family emergency. This is EotT we’re talking about, after all.

I would require people to have the physical version, like in PFS. The idea is to have something branded out there and displayed, to give SFS a little added visibility.

My -701 is a Lashunta Icon Envoy that happens to be a burgeoning pop star working with the Wayfinders to seek out and establish new venues to perform at. She immediately hated SMC. Needless to say she bought their album.

0)Correct

1) Murky, but my gut reaction is no.

2) Yep, you can use the Rougarou and Naiad boons forthwith.

3) Looks like indefinite.

So has anybody got it yet?

How Deluxe is it?

Is it worth the extra $20?

Mine came in yesterday. It's real pretty. It's worth the extra 20 if this sort of thing appeals to you.

As a regular Gencon T1 GM, I have this to say about Vanara being a quarterly GM boon: excellent! I want more people to have an awesome shiny thing! Exclusivity isn't really a big deal for me, and at any rate T1 GM's still get a stupid amount of cool stuff.

Meh.

A) A typical Arcane Trickster would be taking a hit to spell level anyways, to make the sneak attack req.

B) Optimization isn't really required for PFS play. With the exception of a few outliers, most scenarios aren't especially lethal.

C) I'm good with my choice. There's always something better. There's always a build that will do what your build does, only better. It may be suboptimal to you, but whatever. I'm not trying to win Pathfinder here.

If you have Arcane Anthology player companion, you can make an Eldritch Scoundrel rogue that will get you into Arcane Trickster pretty quickly. If you have the Dirty Tactics Toolbox player companion, you can take Accomplished Sneak Attacker, which gets you in even quicker. I've got a build I'm working on that is going to end up as an Eldritch Scoundrel 4 / Arcane Trickster X. It doesn't qualify for Unchained Rogues, which is not a huge deal as far as I'm concerned.

Mitch Mutrux wrote:

I mean, isn't that why we're Pathfinders?

There's a very big difference between sending a group to investigate an unknown situation and withholding vital information.

Wait, Kalkamedes is your reason for disliking Sheila? (I didn't read your first post)

Also, your underplaying how little information you can get in Shelia's missions. One of her briefings was literally,"Something bad might happen. Not really sure what but go find out."

I mean, isn't that why we're Pathfinders? There are a fair number of scenarios that are like that. I don't really mind too much if we don't have much or any info beforehand. As long as I know what we're supposed to do I don't really care about any beforehand, just point the party in a direction and pull the trigger. I don't have too much of a dog in the fight though, I haven't really cared too strongly about any of the NPC's lately, though I appreciate the direction that they seem to be moving in.

Mitch Mutrux wrote:

You can move the location of the coins to "Dropped to ground" and that will take the weight of the coins off.

the above post has nothing to do with the fact that the advice is coming from a ground dwelling monster that likes to collect treasure. Nope...

Underground dwelling monster, thank you very much. As if I'd slum it up there with you surface dwellers...

W. Kristoph Nolen wrote:

INTERESTED IN TRADING PROFESSIONAL ARTWORK FOR YOUR BOON!!

Not to call into question your ability and talent (which is awesome BTW), wouldn't you trading your artistic skills for a boon be the same as you paying for boon with cash?

Not really. I'd look at it the same as people offering to paint minis for boons. The fact that

Generally, unless the module has special rules included with the chronicle download, it plays just like a normal (albeit longer) PFS scenario. Like Starglim mentioned, players get 3xp and 4pp for completing the module. As a general rule, all of the 32 pg modules don't have any special rules attached to them while the 64 pg modules (starting with Dragon's Demand and going forward from there) have extra rules like campaign mode (among others).

necromancying a necromancy thread? UNEXPECTED!

Necromancy thread is a drink. Thread necromancy is a drink. Thread necromancy of a necromancy thread? Finish your drink, then just keep drinking!

Woo, necromancy thread! Everybody drink!

The first issue in particular is not going to go away. If my Pharasmin cleric is sitting at a table and someone else brings an undead pet, one of us is changing characters or leaving the table. If the game is well in progress and someone starts creating undead I will politely ask them to please not do that because I WILL try to kill it. (I hope that doesn't come off as me being a jerk. I have another cleric who would have no qualms about...

So, what exactly gives you the right to dictate how others play the game? I find necromancers distasteful, but I find abandoning one of the core tenets of the society (Cooperate) moreso. The times I found my paladin at the same table as a necromancer, I just got over my hangups and worked with them for the scenario.

MisterSlanky wrote:

The rarest sighting for me are Chained Summoners - and they likely will continue to be rarer and rarer.

They can stay that way! :)

I'll drink to that!

Calybos1 wrote:

Since Occult Adventures came out, I've been seeing more and more groups without a single arcane caster.

Which really screws up a lot of scenarios that depend on identifying items and making Knowledge checks.

My occultist laughs at knowledge checks and identifying items. I take 10 and get 26 + 1d6 (one level of investigator).

My barbarian laughs at knowledge checks and identifying items. I take 10 and get 9.

On a somewhat more on-topic note, I haven't really seen much in the way of dedicated healers around here.

Don't forget abouta certain Master Splinter of TMNT fame. He's from 1984. The idea of rats who are also people is not exactly original and/or groundbreaking. Now, if you'll excuse me, I now have to figure out how to make Splinter for PFS.

There isn't really a need for the AR to call out the heritages in BoG. With the exception of the alternate racial traits (that are already in the AR) heritages don't alter anything mechanically about half-elves or half-orcs. I could get behind a general ruling in the FAQ or the Campaign Clarifications doc that says "No, you can't be half-drow or reskin your elf to look like a drow."

I'd like to see boons that let you get faction specific traits and Prestige Awards from now defunct factions. I know there was Spirit of the Shadow Lodge and the Sczarni equivalent that sort of did the same thing, but these could apply to brand new characters. For example, "Character gets access to Shadow Lodge Prestige Awards, and if applied to a level one PC they may take one of the following traits in place of a trait from their own faction." That's something I'd like to see.

Mimo Tomblebur wrote:

Regarding potential Boons that would motivate me to run more tables, I would love to see small Tieflings and/or small Aasimars finally made legal.

SQUEEEEEEE!

Make it a HIGH level GM Boon, though. Get your full slave labor out of us!

Hmm
(Has images of her gnomish aasimar... All the personality of a gnome with aasimar angstiness... Oh how glorious this would be! Or a gnome with fur and a prehensile tail!)

Not to rain on your guys' parade, but the only way I would ever want to see small Aasimar/Tiefling is through a charity boon. And even then it's not something I would care to see in any sort of numbers.

To reiterate what others have said, check-in for hotel is on Wednesday, check-out is on Monday morning.

Just speculating, but I wouldn't be totally surprised if vanara or ratfolk end up as the next race boon. Either one would be awesome really.

I'm really hoping that Ratfolk is the next seasonal boon. I really enjoyed playing my ratfolk from GM'ing at Gencon a couple of years ago. I really want to make another.

I guess that explains why everyone has Dhampir all of a sudden. Rei, I think the quarters for boon rotation are August-October, Novemeber-January, February-April, May-July. At least, looking back in this thread Dhampir started popping up in November, which makes things fit if the boon rotation starts with the start of the new Season in August.

Mitch Mutrux wrote:

...and this is why necromancy should be banned in PFS.

But only for forum threads.

...sure, yeah. Just for the forums, that's totally what I meant.

*Cue nervous laughter*

...and this is why necromancy should be banned in PFS.

I'd also suggest picking up Horror Realms just for some of the non-rules material. The various locations presented give new light to a lot of areas on Golarion that may (hopefully) show up in PFS in the future!

I swear, I'm not just saying that because I worked on two of the locations...

Wait, people actually read these things for the articles?

andreww wrote:

Amanda Plageman wrote:

I have a local player with this ring. It makes his otherwise 'glass canon' PC nearly untouchable, allowing him to stealthily get to the BBEG (or anything else), get a massive sneak attack off, and (usually) remain nearly un-hittable- at least long enough for him to escape.

I am not clear how he is doing this? Being tiny gives you a big stealth bonus but a tiny creature still needs cover or concealment to stealth at all. Given he also needs to enter his targets square to attack those two things definitely seem rather incompatible.

Sneak up on bad guy

Surprise round: CHARGE thwack. Sneak attack

Win init: Thwack, sneak attack

Have a high ac. Get swung at once.

Flying withdraw, or just have a dex based character mage armor barkskin and a few other goodies.

FWIW, just wanted to mention that withdrawing would still provoke. Since the songbird is tiny he has to be in his opponent's square. So, when he withdraws he is leaving two threatened squares (bad guy's square plus the adjacent square).

OR, the player can say that their character worships ________, and their character can say that they worship ________.

No need for two different terms or clarification.

Then, on top of that, or in place of that, if they wanted, they could also venerate ________, ________, and ________.

And it would be understood what that meant, too.

Easy peasy.

While I can only speak for myself, as a GM I would find it fairly onerous to have to continually ask people if they worship Desna or if they "worship" Desna.

At any rate, there are enough people that disagree with you on this point that it seems likely that there will remain two different terms for whether or not PC's gain mechanical benefits for religous affiliations. So, I see little reason to keep going back and forth on this.

KingOfAnything wrote:

Nefreet wrote:

I feel that people are so hung up on the notion that I could possibly care what your character is about that they're missing a genuine fix to a genuine problem.

Hypothetical: someone wants to worship Cthulhu. Currently, they can't. So people instead choose the option left: veneration. But what they really want to do, is worship Cthulhu.

So let's make that an option.

If you still want to Venerate, that's fine, too.

This is what it sounds like people want. Right? From the very beginning. Why not streamline our current setup to allow it?

Is that really a fix though? Clerics of Cthulhu are insane. If insane characters is not something the Campaign is comfortable with, the solution is to allow characters to venerate Cthulhu, but not allow worship. Then we are back to where we are now.

Characters can worship Cthulhu in every way except for name. So why not call it "worship"?

Campaign Leadership can only be concerned with the mechanical benefits of full on worship.

If they cared about characters acting insane, or however they want to roleplay, then they'd be completely banned.

But we know from Andrew Christian that that isn't the case.

Why not just call it "worship"? Clarity. The difference between venerate and worship should be clear to people that read the guide, the difference being non-mechanical (RP) and mechanical (spells, feats, etc.). I get you don't like the use of the term venerate for worship for no mechanical benefit. But there needs to be distinct terminology to differentiate worship for mechanical benefits vs. veneration for no mechanical benefits.

For PFS, following the strictures of a deity and partaking in all of their rituals for no mechanical benefit is the same as somebody saying a quick prayer to Gozreh before boarding a ship for RP purposes. Does it make sense? Does it really matter if it makes sense? I don't think it does, since it gives us a way to show that the player is doing it for no mechanical benefits. I think the hit to verisimilitude that the usage of venerate creates for some is well worth the clarity it imparts for everyone else.

As far as whether gods not able to be worshipped should be able to be venerated, well, John said that the team is looking into. I think it is alright to venerate a deity that can't legally be worshipped, but we'll just have to see what Leadership has to say about it.