Region of Origin?

[Nylanfs]

This may come out of left field, and my surch fu may be failing me. But is there any guides or restrictions on selecting what geographical region your character is from?

I'm specifically looking for official rules, blogs &/or FREQ's

[BigNorseWolf]

None as far as I know, but if you want the bonus language you have to be from somewhere with a bonus language.

[I'm Hiding In Your Closet]

BigNorseWolf wrote:

None as far as I know, but if you want the bonus language you have to be from somewhere with a bonus language.

The same goes for Regional Traits/Feats.

You can have a "checkered past" - like the Barbarian of someone in my group, whom I've suggested might be a native Galtan who moved to Andoran after the new Final Blade machines cost him most of his work as a headsman, or my renegade Razmiran Priest Sorcerer who also fled to Andoran, but would of course have had to spend quite a few of his early years in Razmir - but among all the places you might have lived, you'd have to single out one region that you spent a significant amount of time in and identify/affiliate with more than any other.

[Nefreet]

Feel free to roleplay whatever you want.

If you claim you're from off world like Akiton you may get some funny looks, though. I wouldn't go too extreme.

What did you have in mind?

[Victor Zajic]

BigNorseWolf wrote:

None as far as I know, but if you want the bonus language you have to be from somewhere with a bonus language.

And be human.

[Nylanfs]

I'm having a disagreement with a rules lawyer. His argument is that if region selection isn't detailed in the GTOP then "being" from those regions isn't valid for PFS play. And my counter argument is that per the AR Inner Sea Primer traits are legal and to select those traits you have to be from (or spend significant time there) a certain region.

[Blackbot]

So...he says everybody has to be from Absalom, even Samurais, Druids, Ninjas and Witches?

[BigNorseWolf]

The guide doesn't detail ANY nations that I know of.

You probably need to be from somewhere in universe. Krynn is probably out.

[Bbauzh ap Aghauzh]

The rules lawyer is wrong.

[Jiggy]

Heck, I'm not even sure you can even call him a Rules Lawyer; don't you have to involve the rules in order to be a "rules" lawyer? Even aside from things like Regional traits, there's also the Additional Resources page which, under Inner Sea World Guide, says:

Inner Sea World Guide wrote:

All human ethnicities are legal except Azlanti, humans begin play knowing all listed languages for their chosen ethnicity as racial languages

This guy's not a rules lawyer, he's just the opposite: some guy who didn't bother to read. :/

[Mahtobedis]

He is what we call a failed rules lawyer. Someone who thinks they know the rules but really doesn't bother to check what he is saying.

[Conman the Bardbarian]

It sounds like he doesn't eat enough fiber to pass the bar.

[Dylos]

Honestly, I wouldn't even see much of a problem with a pathfinder who declared he was from a mysterious land known as Earth.

Aside from the fact that he wouldn't know any Earth languages, since they are not PFS legal.

[Robert Smythe]

I have GM'd for (and played as) characters from Earth.

[David H]

E-arth? Strange place to be from. That somewhere in Ustalav? :P

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