question on legality

[keaton13]

is the following feat legal in PFS?

Dervish Dance
http://www.d20pfsrd.com/feats/combat-feats/dervish-dance-combat

[Preston Hudson]

After a quick check of the additional resources, yes it is legal as long as you have the book or the PDF with your name watermarked on that PDF.

[RtFM]

This piece of information, and many others like it, are available in the Additional Resources list: http://paizo.com/pathfinderSociety/about/additionalResources

You may also wish to investigate the Guide to Pathfinder Society Organized Play: http://paizo.com/products/btpy84k4

[Bbauzh ap Aghauzh]

And while the d20pfsrd is a nice resource for a Home Game, or to find out what book an item is in when the book itself is not part of the PRD... it should never be used as a resource for PFS.

It has 3rd party stuff, and most of the splat book stuff is renamed to protect copyright.

It just is a horrible source for trying to find something for a PFS character.

[Secane]

I would recommend, Archives of Nethys instead.

www.archivesofnethys.com

It is also a 3rd party website, but unlike d20pfsrd, it actually lets you know what is likely legal or not for PFS
And most importantly, it list the sources, so you can know which books or pdfs you need for your character.

[Funky Badger]

Or, just read the books you own...

[Akerlof]

Funky Badger wrote:

Or, just read the books you own...

I just wish there was an official, well organized source that compiled all the options from the sources I own.

Spoiled for off-topicness:

Spoiler:

I hate bouncing between the CRB, APG and Ultimate Combat to figure out what a feat chain looks like when I'm building a character. One of my characters has the Combat Reflexes -> Bodyguard -> In Harm's Way chain. To see if there's anything else that will synergize with that I have to look through the 4 hardcovers that I own as well as all the splat books. I don't own all that much, but I already own enough that I can't search everything to ensure I'm finding the mechanics to suit the concept I want to create even if I do have access to it. Archetypes can be a pain requiring you to look through multiple books just to find all your class abilities. Finding traits is the winner of the nuisance lettery: They're scattered randomly through the pages of splatbooks, forcing you to read through a bunch of random pages until you find the right thing, assuming you're in the right book. Then you have to check and make sure that the specifc page the trait is on is called out in Additional Resources, which can take a couple read throughs. ("All traits are legal, wait, no, those on these 8 pages, crap was this trait on the right page or was it on a different page? And is it a regional or a religion trait? Crap, it's religion, so it goes or 'Eyes and Ears of the City' goes. Great, I just wasted 30 minutes, but the extra fluff just isn't worth it...")

Even the PRD forces me to bounce back and forth between separate HTML pages. d20pfsrd at least listed everything together, nested by feat chains or similarly organized. Archives of Nethys puts things on one page, but they still aren't nested.

Optimally, I'd like to have something where I can select the resources I own and only see options from them, organized in a way that lets me see what things work together and listing the source and page for everything. I'd settle for an official list of everything together organized more clearly than just alphabetically.

Also, sites like d20pfsrd and Archives of Nethys are great for finding that next purchase you didn't know you needed. I've bought a couple books because I was tooling around d20pfsrd looking for a way to implement a concept, found something cool in a book I didn't even know existed, causing me to look the book up, find out it really is a cool resource and buying it.

[CanisDirus]

Akerlof wrote:

Funky Badger wrote:

Or, just read the books you own...

I just wish there was an official, well organized source that compiled all the options from the sources I own.

Spoiled for off-topicness:
** spoiler omitted **...

On the Archives of Nethys you can click "sources" on the left, and get a list of linked items (sorted by category) from each book. It's still not a legal PFS resource, but I *love* using it to organize which books I need to bring with me to conventions when I plan to be playing.

[pathar]

Akerlof wrote:

Funky Badger wrote:

Or, just read the books you own...

I just wish there was an official, well organized source that compiled all the options from the sources I own.

Spoiled for off-topicness:
** spoiler omitted **...

Hero Lab lets you pick which sources to include, and is even medium-decent at flagging non-PFS-legal options.

[Funky Badger]

The perils of life as a munchkin, I'm afraid. That and light sensitivity.

I've started designed characters to minimise the carrying weight/page-flicakge required to play them...

[Akerlof]

Mike: Thanks, I'll check that out.

Funky Badger wrote:

The perils of life as a munchkin, I'm afraid. That and light sensitivity.

I've started designed characters to minimise the carrying weight/page-flicakge required to play them...

When my girlfriend says "I want to play a spearwoman like Balsa in Moribito," my options are: "That's great, just play a fighter, don't wear armor and carry a shortspear," or "That's great, let's see how to make it work in the framework of Pathfinder so you can do some of the stuff she does in the anime, won't die horribly, and feel like you're contributing in scenarios. While you're at it, I wonder what kind of character I can play that synergizes with her."

If you consider the latter munchkinning, I got no problems being labeled a munchkin. But I need to look through a ton of resources to make it work.

[Fromper]

Funky Badger wrote:

The perils of life as a munchkin, I'm afraid. That and light sensitivity.

I've started designed characters to minimise the carrying weight/page-flicakge required to play them...

Munchkins are light sensitive? Those lollipop guild guys didn't seem to have a problem with the sunlight when they were singing to Dorothy.

As for carrying all the books, that's why I've started buying pdfs and bringing my tablet to game days. I even bought the pdf of the Core Rulebook, so I could leave my hardback copy at home. I still have 7 or 8 splat books I have to carry, because I have PCs using options from them, but other than that, it's just the character folders, tablet, character folio for the reroll, dice, minis, pencils, etc. No more hardback books in the backpack, even I'm even buying the thinner books as pdfs these days.

For stuff that comes up a lot, I'll print the couple of pages from the pdf to keep with the character sheets and chronicles.

[Curaigh]

Funky Badger wrote:

The perils of life as a munchkin, I'm afraid. That and light sensitivity.

I've started designed characters to minimise the carrying weight/page-flicakge required to play them...

Yeah I try and bring only one book to a character (well CRB+1 :). Weight reduction was secondary. Mostly I like to show newbies what you can do with just one or two books.

[Karui Kage]

To all those pimping out the Archives: Thanks! :D Look me up at PaizoCon, I'd be happy to roll some dice with you fine folks.

[CanisDirus]

Gonna be at GenCon perhaps?

[Karui Kage]

Sadly not. Outside the budget this year. :(

[Bigdaddyjug]

At the end of the year I'll be buying all of the books I currently have in hardcover in PDF form just to cut the weight of my backpack from 30 lbs to 10 lbs or so. My back is already thanking me in advance.