That and 5pp will get you a cup of coffee

[Akeela Valerian, the Wolf]

Have your body recovered by 5 PP
a rescue team

What exactly does this get you? Body only? Presumably stripped of gear, or not? GM discretion based on how you died? (i.e. band of gobbies vs. dead on spikes in a pit trap).

[Skerek]

I would assume a TPK where no one survives to bring your body back

[Mike Lindner]

Assume all the gear is left intact unless the scenario explicitly says the killers will rob the PC(s).

[Akeela Valerian, the Wolf]

Ryan Koetsveld wrote:

I would assume a TPK where no one survives to bring your body back

Sure, unless you were such a tool at the table that your party just left your character for dead and you had to find another ride home.

RAW it looks like you ONLY get a body back. I was just wondering how folks handled stuff like gear.

EDIT: Thanks Mike!

[Todd Lower]

Akeela Valerian, the Wolf wrote:

Sure, unless you were such a tool at the table that your party just left your character for dead and you had to find another ride home.

RAW it looks like you ONLY get a body back. I was just wondering how folks handled stuff like gear.

EDIT: Thanks Mike!

But really, if the character is such a tool, do you want him back? Or do you mean that the player was such a tool that the others at the table left his character? :-)

[bdk86]

Plot Suggestion: Sequels for notoriously deadly modules that re-use the same locales by default give "recover Pathfinder corpse(s)" as the Shadow Lodge faction mission.

(Off topic, I know).

[Jason S]

I would say it includes the body and the recovery of the gear as well (unless it was destroyed for some reason, for example by an ooze). It's quite expensive, 5 PP is at least 1900 gold (per body), so I would expect everything to be retrieved.

Mechanically, the service is there so that PCs can recover from TPKs. It's not meant to be complicated. Before it existed, there was no official way to recover from TPKs and GMs had to adjudicate it on-the-fly.

If the body was recovered without the gear (as you are suggesting), the service would be worthless. In PFS, we're forced to play to our PC level, which assumes we have gear. Having no gear is a downward spiral and would lead to further deaths and TPKs. This gearless PC would be significantly weaker than other PCs of his level, so there would be no point in playing this PC any further.

[Akeela Valerian, the Wolf]

Todd Lower wrote:

Akeela Valerian, the Wolf wrote:

Sure, unless you were such a tool at the table that your party just left your character for dead and you had to find another ride home.

RAW it looks like you ONLY get a body back. I was just wondering how folks handled stuff like gear.

EDIT: Thanks Mike!

But really, if the character is such a tool, do you want him back? Or do you mean that the player was such a tool that the others at the table left his character? :-)

The latter. Tongue firmly planted in cheek. ALthough there was this ten year kid in Living FR one time . . .

[Howie23]

Akeela Valerian, the Wolf wrote:

ALthough there was this ten year kid in Living FR one time . . .

"There's the pitch....a high hanging curve ball over the plate....."

Must. Bite. Tongue.

[Tyrrien]

UPDATE:
There is now a clarification in the Pathfinder Society FAQ that paying the 5 PP price returns your body and all your equipment.

[Castilliano]

bdk86 wrote:

Plot Suggestion: Sequels for notoriously deadly modules that re-use the same locales by default give "recover Pathfinder corpse(s)" as the Shadow Lodge faction mission.

(Off topic, I know).

Pardon me, Mr. Dalsine, Lord, Sir, but me and my friends would like to explore your closets if we may?

[Snorter]

I think he'd need more than one closet.

"I say, that's a very impressive moat you're having built. What are you using for foundations?"