Can you buy a boon?


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Is it possible (and allowed) to buy a race boon from someone for PFS? My friend who got me into PFS was very disappointed when he heard there were no more Goblin Boons out there. I think he would also enjoy a Kitsune.

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It is generally considered poor form to buy/sell chronicle boons. However, players are encouraged to trade them. In fact there are even messageboard threads discussing who has what available and what they are looking for in trade. Kitsune are still available at some conventions, so check the schedule in your area for details.

As far as the goblin boon is concerned, it is a highly restricted boon with only a few dozen released at GenCon last year and that was for a limited number of players from an exclusive, one-time-only event. Goblins are not expected to be made available again in the future.

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There are, to the best of my knowledge, about 20 surviving goblins of the original 37. So he'll want to let that dream go.

As to buying a boon, campaign leadership has said that they don't want people to do so, but they have also said that they can't and/or won't stop eBay auctions of boons. That said, I've had an eBay alert on "pathfinder boon" for quite some time due to an overwhelmingly mischievous sense of curiosity, and I've seen none. Unless there's a sudden surge of them after the big cons this summer, I'm going to assume that the campaign leadership disapproving of the process was sufficient to prevent people from bothering.


One of Paizo's other ventures, Goblinworks, just sold boons for $5. They weren't race boons like you are looking for but yes you can buy boons.

Grand Lodge 5/5

Tim Vincent wrote:
One of Paizo's other ventures, Goblinworks, just sold boons for $5. They weren't race boons like you are looking for but yes you can buy boons.

Well, one at least. And that offer is over.

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Tim Vincent wrote:
One of Paizo's other ventures, Goblinworks, just sold boons for $5. They weren't race boons like you are looking for but yes you can buy boons.

Touché.

Shadow Lodge

Tim Vincent wrote:
One of Paizo's other ventures, Goblinworks, just sold boons for $5. They weren't race boons like you are looking for but yes you can buy boons.

Yeah... no. Goblinworks was raising money for Pathfinder Online, and the Emerald Elixir boon was just one of the rewards for helping to fund it.

It's like getting a free hat or something for subscribing to a magazine. Sure, you might subscribe just to get the hat, but you're not buying the hat; you're buying a subscription, and the hat's a bonus.

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