Crafting Items With No Intrinsic Value

[Warhaven]

Hi there,

I'm new to Pathfinder Society organized gameplay, and I have a concern. I know that you can't craft items, mundane or otherwise, and that the rules state:

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In Pathfinder Society Organized Play, you may never buy items from, sell items to, or trade items with another player. You may, however, allow another player to borrow an item for the duration of a scenario. You are also permitted to spend your character’s gold to help a party member purchase spellcasting services such as raise dead or remove disease.

My concern is that I'd like my ranger to create what he would call Woodchuck Badges for the other characters. The badges themselves would have no intrinsic value, and he awards them to other players when they succeed on a skill check of some sort -- "Good job on the fire building, Junior Woodchuck! You've earned yourself a badge!" It would purely be a roleplaying gimmick.

But... from the looks of it, it doesn't even look like you can even so much as buy a drink for a fellow adventurer. Or even give a dying comrade one of your healing potions, for that matter...

So, would creating badges and gifting them to other players be a no-no?

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Fixed subject line. Typo.

[KestlerGunner]

This is totally fine and to be encouraged.
The main issue is giving magic items to other players and thus distorting the Wealth-By-Level chart.

[BigNorseWolf]

You can give your comrades potions, scrolls, wands equipment, etc for the adventure, you just have to collect back everything that wasn't used drunk, killed or broken.

If someone has a problem with the merit badges (chuckling at the idea) or for some bizzare reason wants stats for it, try doing it as a mistletoe holy symbol: which have no weight ,no cost, and are thematically close anyway.

[Avatar-1]

Just to give you an idea - one of my characters is a green-skinned half-elf witch.

Half-elves aren't green and there's no good mechanical reason within the rules for her to be (the closest things you'll find are prestidigitation for a temporary effect and a rod of wonder's permanent effect; neither of which fit the background of my character).

Having said that, she's level 10 now and nobody's ever really questioned whether that should be disallowed. It provides her no mechanical benefit, only adding a touch of backstory.

[Mystic Lemur]

Avatar-1 wrote:

Just to give you an idea - one of my characters is a green-skinned half-elf witch.

Hate to be "that guy" (Bluff 23) but re-skinning is actually, specifically, not allowed. Too many people think that yellow tengu (or in your case green witches) are badwrong fun, so now it's verboten.

[KestlerGunner]

*Throws rotten tomato at the Lemur*

BOO! BOO I SAY!

[Matt Goodall]

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