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Also how do I find a game in Melbourne?
Check the Pathfinder Society Events page to see if there's anything nearby.
Look your nearest 'Venture-Officer' up on the Pathfinder Society Regional Coordinators page (there are two VOs for Melbourne) and ask them for info on nearby games.
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Ok. In short, additional resources are options available to you outside of the core rulebook. In order to use these additional resources, you must have either a pdf, physical copy, or printed/photocopied relevant pages from the book in question. Here is a link to those additional resources for reference:
http://paizo.com/pathfinderSociety/about/additionalResources
Do you have any other desires in mind for the wizard and cleric?
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Ok, I can work with that. For the cleric, I would suggest a tanky healer if primary healer is the route you want to go. If you would be willing to consider purchasing some product once you find a local PFS game, get blood of angels and advanced player's guide. Running an aasimar life oracle will be a better healer than the cleric ever could be. The reason I say this is because aasimar's get a favored class bonus for oracle that increases 1 class feature by 1/2 level per level. So a channeling breakdown would look like this:
Level 3: cleric channels at 3rd level, oracle at 4th
Level 6: cleric channels ar 6th level, oracle at 9th
Level 10: cleric channels at 10th level, oracle at 15th
So after level 2, the oracle is always a tleast 1 dice ahead of a cleric, and as much as 3 dice ahead by level 10. Hard to beat that for heal boting.
As far as guardian mote, that spell is actually not legal at all. No third party products are legal for PFS. The srd lists a lot of such things, so I would suggest using this site for your PFS needs instead:
http://www.archivesofnethys.com/Default.aspx
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20. It's on page 7 of the GtPFSOP (v4.3):
Step 1: Ability Scores
Pathfinder Society uses the “purchase” system for generating ability scores, as explained on pages 15–16 of the Core Rulebook. Pathfinder Society uses the “High Fantasy” choice of 20 points, allowing you to build a solid PC at 1st level.
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It's a 20pt buy. I don't have the Guide in front of me to find the page number for you, but it's 20pt. :)
EDIT: Relatedly, if you're not sure what stats to buy, you might consider starting with the "Elite" NPC array (15/14/13/12/10/8) and adding 5 more points to get your 20. So you could change the 10 to a 14, or change the 14 to a 16, or change the 15 to a 16 and the 8 to a 10, or change the 15 to a 16 and the 13 to a 14, etc.
Dunno if you're actually new to Pathfinder or just PFS, so thought I'd just throw that out there just in case. :)
Here's the human cleric I made for my current campaign, which is a great "Walking Ambulance" build, I think.
(20 point buy)
Str 12
Dex 12
Con 14
Int 7
Wis 18 (16 as bought +2 human racial)
Cha 14
Domains: Healing and Travel (no deity in the book has this domain combo, so you have to go "domains a la cart" to do this).
I picked Chaotic Good as my alignment, but that's more out of aesthetics than anything else.
At level 1 I took Extra Channel and Improved Initiative. This gives a total of 7 channel energies per day, which is plenty. Added Initiative is nice when casting buff spells.
The Travel domain gives some great stuff. For one, you get an extra 10 feet on your move speed, plus you get the level 1 domain spell "Longstrider" which gives you ANOTHER 10 feet while it lasts, which is 1 hour per level, so by level 6-8 you've got it pretty much all day. Just wear light armor (or Mithral Breast Plate) so you don't lose any mobility from aromr penalties to movement. The Travel domain also gives you the ability to ignore difficult terrain a few times per day, which is nice at lower levels, and at level 8 you get the BEST domain power EVER, Dimensional Hop. Just read Dimensional Hop, it really is that good. Travel also gives your cleric some good utility spells that the wizard won't need to bother learning now, like Fly, Dimension Door, and Teleport.
The Healing domain is also awesome, since it lets you prepare healing spells in your domain slots (freeing up others slots for better stuff) and at level 6 your "Cure" spells get "Empowered" for free (but only when used for healing the living).
According to the book, you'll get (2+Int Mod) skill ranks per level. This combined with your Int mod of -2 adds up to zero, but then there's a rule that says "If this adds up to a number less than 1, you get 1". On top of that you get an extra skill rank at each level for being human and you can put your favored class point into a skill rank if you need it, so you have as many as 3 per level, or you can take 2 and put the favored class thing into Hit Points instead, although with the Con of 14 and the ability to heal yourself, you probably won't need to.
I made this guy with the intention of putting all my level up stat points (at levels 4, 8, etc) into Wisdom. If you're not worried about that, you could make the Con or Cha a 13, then that gives you two points to up the Str and Dex to 13 as well (this would give you Str 13, Dex 13, Con 13, Int 7, Wis 18, Cha 14 for example). That approach gives you the ability to upgrade individual stats at levels 4, 8, and 12 as you like.
So . . any advice for a wizard? And don't clerics get more healing via spells which balances the oracle?
If you've not already reviewed them, I've found some of the fan-created online class guides helpful. Here's a discussion regarding them, Guide to the Class Guides, and here's a webpage that features links to many of the individual guides, The Comprehensive Pathfinder Guides Guide.
As for character build... well, I have this nice Varisian bard lined up.
North_Ranger, I'm interested in hearing more about your character build.
I plan to begin PFS soon, and my primary character concept is a Varisian bard too. I'm going back and forth between a melee or a ranged build, favoring the former for its flavor but concerned that it might be overly feat intensive. I'm old to RPGs but new to PF, so I'm hoping to build a flavorfully, fun, and effective character for PFS.