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I've never seen a GM take the time to check everyone's purchases. Do any of you actually do that?
Not so far. I've never had a GM verify my purchases, and I've never bothered to verify anyone else's (though if something was suspicious, or if I had an obviously-new player, I would do so).
Heck, when my wizard bought his masterwork amulet, I even asked my GM if he wanted to initial it or anything (since he had to make up the price on the spot), and he declined. Similarly, the first time said wizard captured an enemy spellbook and copied spells from therein, I asked the GM if he wanted to initial anything, and he declined.
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I have no normal purchases initialed by a GM. (I have some non-existant items initialed by a GM for flavor purposes)
I have been helping out at a new location where the organizer has reasonably told everybody to get their purchases initialed because the rules say so. I initial their purchases, since they keep asking me, but there doesn't seem to be much point.
Venture-Captain, California—San Francisco Bay Area South & West
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I've never had a GM verify my purchases, and I've never bothered to verify anyone else's.
Most of the time it's a pretty informal process; at our FLGS (and at the local conventions I've attended) a player will tell a GM, at the start of the session, if they've made any purchases since the last game. I've yet to hear anything other than "That's OK" as a response, but that's because I've never been at a table with anyone buying anything unusual. Those purchases can then be listed on the chronicle (by the player).
Most players aren't cheats - I'm not going to run a table that treats them by default as though they are. I'm not going to audit a character, or check the chronicle sheets myself, unless I've got a reason to do so. So if I were the GM when the shopping list mentioned upthread was presented I'd probably just say "OK" (or maybe say something like "Spring-loaded wrist sheath? That's from the Adventurer's Armory, right?").
Similarly, if somebody turns up at my table with a Nagaji/Tiefling/... 1st-level character I might make sure the player knows they need a boon for that. I generally won't insist on seeing the boon, and for a higher-level character I'm less likely to ask the question in the first place.
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Occasionally, I will ask one of my players how he got a specific total in his to-hit or skill check, if it seems odd. And that applies for too low, as well.
And, recently, I had to explain to a new PFS player that just having all the packages in Hero Lab did not bypass the need to own the Paizo products that he was using things from, as well.
Then again, I have to be careful with that one, myself. I need to buy Faiths of Purity, I think it is, so I can give my wimp-with-Fauchard-and-Improved-Critical the feat Butterfly's Sting, so he can give his criticals to the folk who actually do damage when they crit.
Make an arrangement with another PC with a scythe or other X3 or X4 weapon, and swap over my Fauchard's 15-20 crit range... Ugly.
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Venture-Captain, California—San Francisco Bay Area South & West
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I need to buy Faiths of Purity, I think it is, so I can give my wimp-with-Fauchard-and-Improved-Critical the feat Butterfly's Sting.
Yep - that's in Faiths of Purity (on p24).
I'm pretty careful about only checking off the books that we own in the HeroLab configuration options. But with two people sharing the account and rulebooks (all quite legally - we pay for multiple HeroLab licenses, and Mike Brock has stated that a couple living under the same roof can share one set of Pathfinder books) I do try and make sure that I have the PDF available on the tablet if my wife and I end up at different tables at some time during a convention. There are a few books where we only have the physical copy, and not the PDF (Faiths of Purity and Adventurer's Armory being two of them, as it happens), so we do have to be a little careful about making sure that the right person has the books with them.
That doesn't happen very often, though - we try to play at the same table wherever possible, as we build characters that work well together, and which let us explore using options such as teamwork feats that aren't all that common in PFS play. Most of the time the reason we're at separate tables is because one of us is judging, so the other one can have the additional resources.
