I'm going to be playing a Samurai in my next campaign and I've notice the information about Honor and gaining and losing Honor. I dont quite understand it. You can have Honor equal to 1/2 you class level (min 1). lets say you are level 10 with 5 honor. What does this mean compared to only having 1 honor? I see no bonus for having high honor. I understand the role play portion of being honorable as a Samurai but do you spend honor on something if not im not sure why having 1,2,3, .....5 honor is better? I notice there is a trait for being able to have a max honor of 2 honor higher than your class level. I see no need in this if just simply having a max honor of your class is sufficient. Hope I haven't confused anyone, Thanks!
Could you quote the rules section that you're mentioning? In looking at the PRD and PFSRD entries for Samurai, I'm not seeing mention of a resource called Honor; there's a base class ability called Honorable Stand and the orders refer to a "sense of honor" but not in the sense of an expendable\gainable resource.
I do believe honor is an optional system that is not used in all cases. It's a purely roleplay mechanic (as far as I know). Must be in ultimate campaign?
Ah, yes - it's an optional system in UCamp. And it actually does have some mechanical benefits:
You can spend honor to have an ally perform a favor for you (such as granting access to a wizard's private library, or writing you a letter of passage to get you through enemy territory); you can ask for a loan or a gift from an NPC (such as loaning you money to buy new magical items or just loaning you a magical item they own); or to grant yourself a +5 to either Intimidate, Bluff, or Diplomacy for the rest of the game session.
You'll need to refer to the Ultimate Campaign book, because the costs on these are variable, and the method of earning them is dependent on the code of honor you choose (in your case, the code of the Samurai most likely).
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Note that if your honor is ever reduced to 0 or below, you take a -2 penalty on Will saves and all CHA-based checks.
Yes, im playing the Nitojutsu Sensei Samurai from the Way of the Samurai supplement. Upon reading the supplement I see nothing stating how I can spend Honor points. Should I abide by the Paizo method of spending Honor? Thanks