I understand the 'always available' and the 'buy from chronicles sheet', but very confused on the Fame buying.
A PFS character with 13 Fame can buy up to 3000gp price tag with whatever money he has. IS every item in the PRD Magic Items available? Restrictions?
Wow. (on whoever put that list together)
Thanks RedMage, awesome info - no way could I have figured that out.
Thought I was clear, now I guess I'm not.
Can a 3rd level PFS PC with 13 Fame buy any Wonderous Item under 3000gp if he has enough gold to do so? -say a Bag of Holding or a Bead of Force, neither of which is not on any Chronicle sheets that he has.
A+++ You should have written that PFS guide! Seriously needed that example.
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The Pathfinder Society Field Guide is the current go-to book for most of the specific rules relating to building a PFSoc-legal character, and details the things that PCs can spend their money or Prestige Points on.
Many players accidentaly use the terms Fame and Prestige interchangeably, but the distinction is important.
Fame and Prestige
While Fame and Prestige Points are related, they represent two different things within a faction. Fame is a nonexpendable number that functions similarly to an ability score — the higher your Fame, the greater your renown. Higher Fame scores unlock resources with your faction that can then be purchased with Prestige Points.Since you spend Prestige Points to acquire goods, services, or awards, and since Fame and Prestige Points are gained at the same rate, your total Prestige Points will never exceed your Fame score. You earn Fame by completing missions for your faction—typically, a successful mission awards 1 to 2 points of Fame, increasing your current Fame by that amount. You also earn an equal number of Prestige Points whenever you earn Fame. For example, say Jothalia has a Fame score of 5 and 2 PP with the Andoran faction, then earns 2 Prestige Points from completing her mission. Her Fame increases to 7, and her Prestige Points increase to 4.
Benefits of Fame
A character’s Fame represents her renown and status within her faction. The simplest representation of this is that for every 10 points of Fame, a character gains a cumulative +1 bonus on Diplomacy checks made against members of her faction. Depending on the organization, a character’s Fame might also afford her certain titles and incidental privileges.
In the Pathfinder Society Organized Play program, a character’s Fame score also determines the maximum gp value of any items she can purchase from her faction, as detailed on page 3....While a character’s Fame can provide certain titles and privileges, most tangible benefits of faction membership are listed under the header Prestige Awards in each faction’s section and are acquired by spending Prestige Points on boons, favors, aid, spellcasting, or other services. (See page 3 of this book for a list of generic awards a PC can purchase with Prestige Point from any faction).
A character can spend Prestige Points only when in contact with her faction—most factions tend to have agents, contacts, or headquarters in settlements that are at least the size of a large city. Prestige Point costs increase by 5 in communities smaller than 5,000 people.
A player can spend Prestige Points even if the PC is dead, petrified, or otherwise out of commission. This represents the PC having made prior arrangements with her faction to perform certain actions on her behalf, such as recovering her dead body and returning it to a specific location or having it raised from the dead. In this event, the PC’s actual location does not impact the Prestige Point cost at all.
So, to recap;
You have the option of buying things with actual gold, when you've earned the Fame to have 'unlocked' them (ie, you are famous enough to have gained access to the right contacts/fences/crafters who know where they can find/build what you want). This costs no Prestige, just gold.You also have the option of saving the gold, and spending the actual Prestige Points. This represents calling in a one-off favour, often to get something you could not yet afford.
Common uses for this tactic, is for 1st-level PCs to get their hands on a cure light wounds wand, ASAP. Since you can't buy half-charged wands (except if unlocked on a chronicle sheet), you normally wouldn't be able to buy one until you had achieved 9 Fame. If you fail a mission here or there, that could mean you're waiting quite some time before being able to get your hands on one.
Using this method means one good mission could get you access to this item long before you had scraped together the 750gp (or if you'd rather spend your loot on other things).
The other major use for Prestige, is to be cured of some otherwise-permanent affliction such as blindness (otherwise it carries over to the next scenario), or to be raised from the dead.
Haco,
The Guide to Pathfinder Society Organized Play is the guide that tells what you can or can't buy in basic terms as a Society character. Page 23 discusses the basic sources that are available and refers you to the http://paizo.com/pathfinderSociety/about/additionalResources page for more information regarding additional source legality.
The Pathfinder Society Field Guide is actually a more in depth reference which gives more background information on Society play as well as offers additional items/spells that are available in Society play.
Hopefully this answers your question.