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Thank you all very much for your answers. I'll definitely be giving GMing a PFS game a try as soon as my schedule allows for it.

Hi,

I'm considering getting my feet wet with PFS and GMing my first home game online with friends and family. Unfortunately, I'm pretty confused as to how this would work to ensure that characters would be PFS-legal. I'm uncertain of whether or not I need to run Season 6 scenarios (the Guide to PFS Organized Play has a section on running older scenarios, but at the same time, I've seen mentions on the paizo website's list of what is permissible excluding things like aasimars and tieflings that didn't have xp before August 14th 2014), and of how to handle the "Need to provide hardcopy of books/photocopy to use non-core content in an online game.

I'm also just generally confused as to what boons are, and how they are obtained. Is there an expiration date on boons, or can any character that plays older scenarios that grant boons (if they are granted in this way) obtain a boon, even if from non-season 6 content?

Is there a maximum time limit to play through a scenario during a home game, or is this restricted to conventions where tables need to be cycled through?

Does my becoming a PFS GM force me to run games at a particular frequency, or to play "Pick-up Group" games (where anyone may join), to borrow MMO terminology?

I've looked over GMing 101 and the Guide to PFS Organized Play, but I haven't been able to find (or if present, understand) the information that I'm asking about.

I apologize if there is a relevant sticky or FAQ that addresses these, or if this is not the correct place to ask these questions; I'm unsure of where to even begin to look for these answers.

I'm sure this will be accused of being fluff twice over, but the first page of the feats section has this to say about Pummeling Style:

Pummeling Style: Seemingly wild and powerful haymaker punches and extended kicks are the hallmark of this style. Deeply rooted in its martial philosophy is the concept that landing one powerful strike in the right area will send an opponent painfully sprawling.

Feat Path: Pummeling Style, Pummeling Bully, Pummeling Charge.

I think Pummeling Style is quite clearly intended to only be used in conjunction with unarmed strikes, or such weapons that are described as dealing an unarmed strike in their text entries, such as Brass Knuckles.

Insain Dragoon wrote:

Don't forget that they forgot about daggers too!

The Feat was made with Swashbucklers in mind, and daggers aren't really iconic to that Class. I suspect it's more like they just didn't think of them in the context in question.

Seriously? Swashbucklers have an entire archetype devoted to daggers and starknives in the form of the Flying Blade.

Bizbag wrote:

Ask your DM if you can substitute Suffocate for the domain spell on Madness's list, perhaps? Plenty of crazy people get their choke on (Vader, Xykon, McMurphy...)

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Well, he's crazy because he was the slave of Aboleths for a decade or two and when he escaped his first sight of the stars in the heavens broke him completely. He is technically a Cleric of the Old Ones but serves more as a herald of the doom we are all facing than any devout worshipper. I intend for him to use a lot of spells which mimic the void of space (like Blindness/Deafness) and Suffocation seemed like an ideal fit.

I suspect my GM will allow it, but I was hoping to find a 'legal' way to accomplish the build so that it could be passed along to others.

A herald of the doom that people are facing sounds pretty spot on for a worshipper of the Old Ones, to be fair, especially if focused on Azathoth more so than the other Old Ones.

As far as how to add the spell, got nothing that keeps your character as a cleric, short of asking your GM to put it there. If you're willing to consider playing a witch, they also gain access to Suffocate and Mass Suffocate, and they get a patron, so that seems thematic. The Insanity patron seems particularly fitting, although there are a few others that can be good for the Old Ones. I'm guessing that the cleric part is non-negotiable, though.

I'm thinking of getting a Giant Gecko (Bestiary 3) as an animal companion, but I was wondering about its climb speed. As opposed to the monster version, which does have a 40ft climb speed, the animal companion does not have an outright climb speed in its stat block, but it does get a 20ft one by virtue of its expert climber special ability.

Am I reading the stat block correctly, and a gecko only has a 20ft climb speed?

Conductive revolver? Sounds awesome for the alchemist.

Sorry for the necroposting, but this is relevant to a character I'm working on right now. I don't quite follow how having a conductive weapon would help, since you can only use the conductive weapon property once per round.

If I understand correctly, you should be able to fire delayed bombs, but you can still only shoot one per round, except that now, they each cost you an extra use of bomb to use, and you spent money on a +1 weapon ability.