Clarify Alchemist crafting for PFS sessions?

[Barnabas Goldfield]

Hey there,

The Pathfinder Society rules say that it's possible for alchemists to craft alchemical items and poison during the course of play. It's a little unclear when during sessions this should be done. Does anyone have a sense of how to handle this?

Is it possible to do this during book keeping (i.e., while doing item buys, I do the Craft roles to see how long it takes to craft the item)? In this case, how would one make sense of the time it takes to craft?

Thanks!

[Chris Kenney]

Barnabas Goldfield wrote:

Hey there,

The Pathfinder Society rules say that it's possible for alchemists to craft alchemical items and poison during the course of play. It's a little unclear when during sessions this should be done. Does anyone have a sense of how to handle this?

Is it possible to do this during book keeping (i.e., while doing item buys, I do the Craft roles to see how long it takes to craft the item)? In this case, how would one make sense of the time it takes to craft?

Thanks!

Between sessions is the assumed time you'll be doing it, actually. Given how the rules are set up, it's not impossible for you to be (in real time) in Taldor(Italy) in the morning, Tian Xia (China) in the afternoon, and then back in Andoran (France) in the evening, time between adventures isn't something that's seriously worth keeping track of. For the moment, just think of the rule as reading "You get a half-price discount on alchemical items if you make the check."

[bdk86]

Chris Kenney wrote:

*snip* Andoran (France)*snip*

Nonsense, Galt is France =D

[Kevin Andrew Murphy]

bdk86 wrote:

Chris Kenney wrote:

*snip* Andoran (France)*snip*

Nonsense, Galt is France =D

Galt is France. Andoran is America around 1812, but mostly New England without ever having to deal with that slavery thing as part of their own country.

Of course there will likely be a war with Katapesh after an Andoran bard publishes his epic abolitionist poem "Aunt Toma's Tent," concerning the eponymous and long-suffering heroine, a saintly half-orc slave living in a highly romanticized Katapesh with her master's sweet-but-doomed aasimar son, Little Evoo (who bears a symbolic olive branch) and the cruel (but extremely hot) Galtan-refugee slavemistress, Simone Legree.

And on meeting the bard years later, the Andoran president will be recorded to say, "And is this the little man who started this big war?"

The bard of course is a halfling who was using the plight of Katapeshi slaves as an overly veiled allusion to the second-class status of halflings in Andoran, a cause which will not be addressed for another few wars.

[Chris Kenney]

Kevin Andrew Murphy wrote:

bdk86 wrote:

Chris Kenney wrote:

*snip* Andoran (France)*snip*

Nonsense, Galt is France =D

Galt is France. Andoran is America around 1812, but mostly New England without ever having to deal with that slavery thing as part of their own country.

Of course there will likely be a war with Katapesh after an Andoran bard publishes his epic abolitionist poem "Aunt Toma's Tent," concerning the eponymous and long-suffering heroine, a saintly half-orc slave living in a highly romanticized Katapesh with her master's sweet-but-doomed aasimar son, Little Evoo (who bears a symbolic olive branch) and the cruel (but extremely hot) Galtan-refugee slavemistress, Simone Legree.

And on meeting the bard years later, the Andoran president will be recorded to say, "And is this the little man who started this big war?"

The bard of course is a halfling who was using the plight of Katapeshi slaves as an overly veiled allusion to the second-class status of halflings in Andoran, a cause which will not be addressed for another few wars.

And I really meant in terms of geography anyway. The cultural references are the same, but except for Taldor the 'wheres' are all messed up by sliding Cheliax in there.