Financial portability


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I have heard it said in my local gaming scene that PFS assumes our money is in the form of various gems and such that make it nice and portable. The phrasing (which I can't recall at the moment) is so common that I assumed it was a quote from the guide, but now I can't find it. Is this the case? I mostly need to know if I should track coin weight on my character sheet. (Not that I usually have huge gold reserves, but hey, you never know.)

Grand Lodge 2/5 RPG Superstar 2015 Top 32, RPG Superstar 2012 Top 32

You can leave unused wealth "back home", so I wouldn't worry too much about it.

Sczarni 3/5

Patrick Harris @ SD wrote:
I have heard it said in my local gaming scene that PFS assumes our money is in the form of various gems and such that make it nice and portable. The phrasing (which I can't recall at the moment) is so common that I assumed it was a quote from the guide, but now I can't find it. Is this the case? I mostly need to know if I should track coin weight on my character sheet. (Not that I usually have huge gold reserves, but hey, you never know.)

I've never heard anything about gems and that's one mechanic that I'd been hoping to learn about. The thing about gems is that they add a whole new swath of mechanics to wealth. They reduce weight, but at the cost of higher-value gems being useless in smaller towns (which can't afford to convert them back to their coin value). Plus, gems actually have a purchase value. Unless that part is being hand-waved (and I haven't heard of it before), they sell to shops for exactly half their value.

I assume that your wealth (all of it) is in gold pieces or platinum pieces. If you're one of those who keep track of weight (I salute you), yes, it's assumed that you have a place to store the bulk of your gold. You can even store some of your items you don't want to carry around with you on your treks. Make sure your GM knows what you've left behind because you don't have any access to it.

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your looking for the trade goods section within the equipment area of the CRB, however from what I recall it only lists metals and not actually gems as hard coded trade goods. These are items that are tradable for other objects without losing value.

Sovereign Court 1/5

idk about PFS but gems & jewelry usually sell at full cost by RAW. See todays blog and preview for Ultimate Equipment.

--Vrockin' the Bling

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Honestly? Don't worry about it :-P By the time your gold is of significant weight, you're probably a high level adventurer with an extra dimensional space. Even so, it doesn't matter if you're storing your cash in diamonds, Abadaran bank notes, pegasus feathers, eyes of newt...but you're probably storing them in some sort of reasonably light and liquid form. You (and your GMs) probably have better things to worry about.*

*These statements have not been evaluated by the Pathfinder Society Campaign Coordinator. This individual in no way represents any official ruling on the part of Paizo Publishing, LLC. or Paizo staff members. Side effects may include occasional GM table variance, forum trolling about how these statements are completely illogical and ruin the game, complete psychotic breakdowns, never playing PFS again and becoming an ascetic, and on rare occasions, interplanetary teleportation.

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Nani Pratt wrote:
*These statements have not been evaluated by the Pathfinder Society Campaign Coordinator. This individual in no way represents any official ruling on the part of Paizo Publishing, LLC. or Paizo staff members. Side effects may include occasional GM table variance, forum trolling about how these statements are completely illogical and ruin the game, complete psychotic breakdowns, never playing PFS again and becoming an ascetic, and on rare occasions, interplanetary teleportation.

This makes me smile.

Sczarni 4/5 RPG Superstar 2014 Top 16

While I have never seen any particular rulings saying that coin weight should not be counted, and therefore it theoretically should be "by the book" and you should track coin weight, I have never seen anyone worry about this at a PFS table.

I think it's one of those intricacies of the rules that is just ignored by general consensus.

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I can live with that.

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We always worked on the assumption that all PC's have accounts at the "Bank of Abadar" and thus could access their coin anywhere in the world if needed but didnt have to worry about lugging it all around with them

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Tamago wrote:

While I have never seen any particular rulings saying that coin weight should not be counted, and therefore it theoretically should be "by the book" and you should track coin weight, I have never seen anyone worry about this at a PFS table.

I think it's one of those intricacies of the rules that is just ignored by general consensus.

I never used to worry about it until I started using Hero Lab and realized how much gold weighs!

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Myron Pauls wrote:
I never used to worry about it until I started using Hero Lab and realized how much gold weighs!

I know, right?! It's blowing my mind.

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