Tar Bombs and its Accessability?

[Cao Phen]

So looking into the Additional Resources page, it states that, within the Pirates of the Inner Sea Companion booklet, items within pages 19-20 are availible for purchases. This excludes the Tar Bomb and Tattoo on page 21. Prices of all items are shown on page 21.

Spoiler:

However, looking into a recent Society Scenario I am about to GM, namely the Cyphermage Delemma (Season 4-15), you gain access to a set of tar bombs within subtier 4-5

With that, I am confused on how that works with the accessability of the Tar Bomb. Is it locked out, Spoiler-situation only, or is there a misconception on the page numbers in the Additional Resources?

[Cao Phen]

I was taking another look at the items available and recalled posting this, so I am reasking this.

[SCPRedMage]

If the Additional Resources page says that only items from pages 19-20 are legal, and Tar Bombs does not appear, in any form, on either of those pages, then they are not generally available.

That said, one of the newer goals they've had for chronicle sheets was to allow access to things you wouldn't otherwise have access to, such as the spoilered chronicle you mentioned. If you have that chronicle, that character can purchase them, up to the limit listed (if any).

As to whether or not they excluded tar bombs from being available on purpose, there's no one to know; Mike Brock HAS stated that they WERE excluding items from availability on purpose, so that they could offer them on chronicles and have it actually MEAN something. Either way, only the items that appear on pages 19-20 are openly available.

[MrSin]

SCPRedMage wrote:

Mike Brock HAS stated that they WERE excluding items from availability on purpose, so that they could offer them on chronicles and have it actually MEAN something. Either way, only the items that appear on pages 19-20 are openly available.

That doesn't actually make them mean more. It means you took an option away and gave it back in a way to make yourself look like a charitable and good person. Did he actually say that?

[Cpt_kirstov]

Mr Sin, that quote sounds worse out of context and reworeded.. it was mostly about things that are rare in Golarion, or found mostly in areas the pathfinder society doesn't frequent. The normal example is some of the wonderous items or special weapons from ultimate equipment, especially ones that seem more like Npc or BBEG weapons,or exotic mounts, because they want some of the fights to be memorable, not just because of tactics, but because they can tell future party members how they found sword X or learned archtype Y. It helps promote roleplay to have the players as inquisitive as their characters on occation

Edit even that isn't as well as mike says it...I will find the quote when I get home

[BigNorseWolf]

Its possible they didn't notice the additional equipment spilling over to the next page, but there's no way of knowing that unless mike or mark chime in themselves.

[Cao Phen]

A bump of a really old thread, but still curious on the ruling of this.