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Scarab Sages

Sounds like the sniping rules say you can choose to make one attack when you choose to snipe, then you immediately roll for stealth again.

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Nefreet wrote:
There is no errata for Racial Heritage in PFS. You simply can't use it, or any other feats/abilities/spells/whatever, to grab goodies from the ARG.

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That sentence seems contradictory to me. Considering the definition of erratum (singular) or errata (plural) is “a list of errors or corrections for a book.” as the rule for it is changed and corrected.

If it were not an errata their would be no need to correct it in a way that made it not work as originally intended which would be a correction or an erratum. To suggest their is not an errata or erratum for this means that it is perfectly fine the way it is and does not need to be corrected at all when regarding PFS in this case.

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Jonathan Cary wrote:

PFS cannot issue errata, nor does the campaign management like issuing rulings that change the way a feature of the game works. This is because one of the basic tenets of PFS is that it adheres to the core rules as closely as possible.

With that in mind, if something is sufficiently out of line or unclear in the core rules, the option to ban it is usually preferred over trying to modify it and change the core rules.

Usually, sometimes it is altered though and makes the subject in question much worse. Take Racial Heritage, a human feat. It is a subject of errata in which normally it would perfectly find to have a Half-Elf take the feat and become a Stonelord Paladin which is Dwarf only. However its been errata-ed so that cannot happen. Its about worse then the (Orc/Elf) Blood racial feature at the moment as one is a racial trait that is free and the other costs you your first feat. When in fact it would be better to just ban the feat but allow anyone with a chronicle sheet that had the feat in question access to it and being able to use it as it was intended.

I don't think Paizo is bad at their job when it comes to balancing certain things for PFS, I just am sometimes caught off guard by sudden ban choices like Blood Transcription that seem to come from out of left field and other choices that I myself would wonder what make certain things ban worthy.

Scarab Sages

You answered your own question.