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See THIS THREAD.
(with a special emphasis on the response by John Compton)
Fair enough. But I was hoping for something more concrete from the PFS powers that be. Unlike a hex, these feats have wording that should be able to be interpreted and applied in a uniform way. A "yes" or "no" from a design team member is all we need here for this to be cleared up. :) BTW: thanks for the link. It was nice to see some straight talk on rules ambiguity. :)
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The "PFS powers that be", including John Compton, are not "Rules Guys", like the ones you would find issuing FAQs in the Rules Forum.
They are two different departments, if you will.
That being said, PFS abides by the Pathfinder rules set (like, 99% of the time). If you have found an ambiguity in the Pathfinder rules, you should make a thread in the Rules Forum and try to get it FAQ'd. PFS will abide by whatever decision is issued over there, because this is the Pathfinder Society.
If you try to do it here, your thread will just get shunted off over there anyways.
I realize people see PFS as the "hardcore RAW of Pathfinder". Every week (if not nearly every day) people post rules questions here in hopes of a "better" answer than they'd get in the Rules Forum. And just as often people post questions in the Rules Forum saying they'd like a PFS answer. The answer will, 99% of the time, be the same.
This forum is for PFS-specific rules questions, including questions about Factions, Prestige, Fame, purchasing gear, Chronicle sheets, running scenarios and modules, the difference between the Seasons, and that sort of thing.
If people came here for general Pathfinder rules questions, there'd be no reason to have a Rules Forum.
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The "PFS powers that be", including John Compton, are not "Rules Guys", like the ones you would find issuing FAQs in the Rules Forum.
They are two different departments, if you will.
That being said, PFS abides by the Pathfinder rules set (like, 99% of the time). If you have found an ambiguity in the Pathfinder rules, you should make a thread in the Rules Forum and try to get it FAQ'd. PFS will abide by whatever decision is issued over there, because this is the Pathfinder Society.
If you try to do it here, your thread will just get shunted off over there anyways.
I realize people see PFS as the "hardcore RAW of Pathfinder". Every week (if not nearly every day) people post rules questions here in hopes of a "better" answer than they'd get in the Rules Forum. And just as often people post questions in the Rules Forum saying they'd like a PFS answer. The answer will, 99% of the time, be the same.
This forum is for PFS-specific rules questions, including questions about Factions, Prestige, Fame, purchasing gear, Chronicle sheets, running scenarios and modules, the difference between the Seasons, and that sort of thing.
If people came here for general Pathfinder rules questions, there'd be no reason to have a Rules Forum.
Thanks. I'll try and pose the question there.
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Hmmm are portfolios the same thing as areas of concern? I have the self improvement channel on my Hermean Travel guide cleric of apsu but it appears that may have been in error..I thought Apsu didn't have Clerics?
ARGH!
1) He's as a legal deity in several additional resources (inner sea world guide for one)
2) Apsu, in other words, grants spells SO HARD that I had to write new rules for granting spells.
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BNW, thanks for that.
Here's a position I've seen GMs take:
I don't think any source claims that Apsu "doesn't have clerics" or "doesn't grant spells." But "Faiths of Purity" does note that clerics of Apsu need to be dragons. In general Pathfinder, this is a restriction. In Pathfinder Society, this is a prohibition.
In the same way, and from the same source, all Torag's paladins have to be dwarves.
A friend of mine wanted to play a paladin of Apsu, and I counselled him that this is a gray area. Some GMs will go with a messageboard post and the inplications that humans can be clerics of Apsu. Other GMs will go with the restriction as written. Most GMs won't have any idea that there's an issue, and might not even know who Apsu is.
He decided to play a character devoted to another god, to avoid that table variation.
-- Chris
who has had GMs ban his human paladin of Torag