Just a quick question, what are the rules on if you were sent to find a weapon but you don't want to give it back? I'm just starting out playing and I'm unlawful so i figure that it would potentially be alright to just screw over the person.
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Trogdored, it depends on who that person is, and what instructions the Venture Captain has provided.
Generally speaking, this campaign portrays the PCs as agents of the Pathfinder Society. We might be all manner of alignments, and we might have side agendas as well, but the campaign doesn't give us a choice: we're loyal agents. (For example, when we return to the lodge, we always sell all the treasure we've accumulated back to the society for half price, which we always split evenly among the PCs.)
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1) You cannot get more money this way. It doesn't matter if you enslave the entire halfling village with charm spells, have them all carry gold idols back to town with you, and then sell them into slavery. You at best get max gold for a scenario.
2) You can't get free items this way. You can use Desna's star knife of pointyness during the scenario, but one way or another you have to buy it at the end to keep it next time.
3) You'll lose a prestige point, and your party will probably start looking for PVP rule loop holes to do you in. Don't do it.
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In PFS? It would likely mean you fail at your mission and thus don't get the prestige point. Of course that means everyone would fail too - so you would probably be annoying every player at the table. In which case the GM could argue you are breaking the "Don't be a jerk" rule.
But either way, even if you don't return the weapon, your character would not get to have it according to PFS rules without spending the money to buy it (if it was even on the Chronicle sheet). So there is really no incentive out of game to withold the item as you're just screwing yourself (and others).
Thanks for the help I understand how it works now! I would probably more incline to do this with people I know who wouldn't care as much if I were to do this.I would also talk it over with my friends whether it seems fair and worth doing. This would most likely happen for a job that seems a bit suspicious and possibly a scam Buy this would be more for pathfinder RPG, I was just curious on what would occur in PFS. I would definitely not wanted to be deemed as someone who is ruining/sabotaging a quest line for people because thats not something I find fair and right. I am playing as a half-orc barbarian. Thanks for everyone's help for clarifying this for me!
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What you can do since season 5 however, if, in season 0-4 scenarios, the GM gives you faction missions for fun, and your faction mission is to bring your faction head some random item, you can declare that your character doesn't like his faction head and won't deliver the item.
There would be no consequenses for this, neither negative nor positive, other than a fun roleplaying experience.
But if the Venture-Captain asks you to bring him a certain item, it doesn't matter if you're lawful or chaotic. You might want to do what he asks because he is the one who gives you free food and a free room at the lodge. ;)
